81_FR_89380 81 FR 89143 - 15-Day Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment on Planned Additions to the U.S. World Heritage Tentative List and Proposed Future U.S. Nominations to the World Heritage List

81 FR 89143 - 15-Day Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment on Planned Additions to the U.S. World Heritage Tentative List and Proposed Future U.S. Nominations to the World Heritage List

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 237 (December 9, 2016)

Page Range89143-89145
FR Document2016-29528

This is a First Notice for the public to comment on the next potential U.S. nominations from the existing U.S. World Heritage Tentative List (``Tentative List'') to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List, and announces additions to the Tentative List. The public may also make suggestions for additions to the Tentative List. This notice complies with Sec. 73.7(c) of the World Heritage Program regulations (36 CFR part 73).

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 237 (Friday, December 9, 2016) 
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-WASO-OIA-22277; PIN00IO14.XI0000]


15-Day Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment on Planned 
Additions to the U.S. World Heritage Tentative List and Proposed Future 
U.S. Nominations to the World Heritage List

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: This is a First Notice for the public to comment on the next 
potential U.S. nominations from the existing U.S. World Heritage 
Tentative List (``Tentative List'') to the United Nations Educational, 
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List, and 
announces additions to the Tentative List. The public may also make 
suggestions for additions to the Tentative List. This notice complies 
with Sec. 73.7(c) of the World Heritage Program regulations (36 CFR 
part 73).

DATES: Comments will be accepted on or before December 27, 2016. There 
have been several opportunities for public comment on this subject in 
past notices, and the National Park Service has also received 
suggestions from the public and through other channels since 2008 and 
throughout the process of revising the Tentative List in 2015 and 2016.

ADDRESSES: Please provide all comments directly to Jonathan Putnam, 
Office of International Affairs, National Park Service, 1201 Eye Street 
NW. (0050), Washington, DC 20005 or by Email to: 
[email protected] . Phone: 202-354-1809. Fax 202-371-1446.
    Comments: Comments on whether to nominate any of the properties on 
the Tentative List must address:
    (i) How well the property(ies) would meet the World Heritage 
nomination criteria, requirements for authenticity, integrity, legal 
protection and management. Information on these criteria and 
requirements can be found on the Web site noted below; and
    (ii) The readiness and ability of the property owner(s) to prepare 
a satisfactory nomination document.
    Suggestions for additions to the Tentative List not previously 
submitted must address:
    (i) How the property(ies) would meet the World Heritage nomination 
criteria, requirements for authenticity, integrity, legal protection 
and management. Information on these criteria and requirements can be 
found on the Web site noted below; and
    (ii) The U.S. legal prerequisites that include the agreement of all 
property owners to the nomination of their property, an official 
determination that the property is nationally significant (such as by 
designation as a National Historic or National Natural Landmark), and 
effective legal protection.
    All previous suggestions for the Tentative List made during 
previous comment periods or otherwise submitted since 2008, have been 
retained and considered and should not be resubmitted at this time.
    All public comments will be summarized and provided to Department 
of the Interior officials, who will obtain the advice of the Federal 
Interagency Panel for World Heritage before making any selection of 
properties for World Heritage nomination. The selection may include the 
following considerations:
    (i) How well the particular type of property (i.e., theme or 
region) is represented on the World Heritage List in both the United 
States and other nations;
    (ii) The balance between cultural and natural properties already on 
the List and those under consideration;
    (iii) Opportunities that the property affords for public 
visitation, interpretation, and education;

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    (iv) Potential threats to the property's integrity or its current 
state of preservation;
    (v) Likelihood of being able to complete a satisfactory nomination; 
and
    (vi) Other relevant factors, including the possible implications of 
the fact that the United States is currently prohibited by law from 
providing any funding to UNESCO, including UNESCO and World Heritage 
member dues.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Putnam, 202-354-1809. General 
information about U.S. participation in the World Heritage Program and 
the process used to develop the Tentative List is posted on the Office 
of International Affairs Web site at: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/internationalcooperation/worldheritage.htm.
    To request a paper copy of the U.S. Tentative List, please contact 
April Brooks, Office of International Affairs, National Park Service, 
1201 Eye Street NW., (0050) Washington, DC 20005. Email: 
[email protected].
    For the World Heritage nomination format, see the World Heritage 
Centre Web site at: http://whc.unesco.org/en/nominations.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Background: The World Heritage List is an international list of 
cultural and natural properties nominated by the signatories to the 
World Heritage Convention (1972), an international treaty for the 
preservation of natural and cultural heritage sites of global 
significance. The United States has served several terms on the elected 
21-nation World Heritage Committee, but is not currently on the 
Committee. There are 1,052 sites in 165 of the 192 signatory countries. 
Currently there are 23 World Heritage Sites in the United States.
    U.S. participation and the roles of the Department of the Interior 
and the National Park Service are authorized by Title IV of the 
Historic Preservation Act Amendments of 1980 and conducted in 
accordance with 36 CFR part 73--World Heritage Convention.
    The National Park Service serves as the principal technical agency 
for the U.S. Government to the Convention and manages all or parts of 
18 of the 23 U.S. World Heritage Sites currently listed.
    A Tentative List is a national list of natural and cultural 
properties appearing to meet the World Heritage Committee eligibility 
criteria for nomination to the World Heritage List. It is a list of 
candidate sites which a country intends to consider for nomination 
within a given time period, but does not guarantee future nomination. 
The World Heritage Committee's Operational Guidelines ask participating 
nations to provide Tentative Lists, which aid in evaluating properties 
for the World Heritage List on a comparative international basis and 
help the Committee to schedule its work over the long term. A country 
cannot nominate a property unless it has been on its Tentative List for 
a minimum of a year. Countries also are limited at this time to 
nominating no more than one site in any given year.
    Neither inclusion in the Tentative List nor inscription as a World 
Heritage Site imposes legal restrictions on owners or neighbors of 
sites, nor does it give the United Nations any management authority or 
ownership rights in U.S. World Heritage Sites, which continue to be 
subject to U.S. laws.
    Current U.S. World Heritage Tentative List: The current U.S. World 
Heritage Tentative List was transmitted to the UNESCO World Heritage 
Centre on January 24, 2008. Since 2008, five properties on the 
Tentative List have been nominated to the World Heritage List: Three 
have been successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, and are 
therefore no longer included on the Tentative List.
    On June 26, 2012, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced in 
the Federal Register (77 FR 38079) that it intended to update the 
Tentative List in 2016. To accomplish this, it made use of an expert 
Working Group established as a sub-committee of the U.S. National 
Commission for UNESCO, a Federal Advisory Committee for the U.S. 
Department of State. The organizations comprising the Working Group 
(see below) were selected to provide expertise in the full range of 
subject areas that can be considered for World Heritage; they also 
included the member agencies of the Federal Interagency Panel on World 
Heritage, which advises the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for 
Fish and Wildlife and Parks. The Working Group completed its work in 
October 2016 and the full U.S. National Commission for UNESCO endorsed 
its recommendations on October 11, 2016 in an open teleconference. On 
October 17, 2016, the Department of State transmitted the 
recommendations to the Department of the Interior.

Agencies and Organizations on the U.S. World Heritage Tentative List 
Working Group

Smithsonian Institution
U.S. National Committee, International Council on Monuments and Sites
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Bureau of Land Management
The International Committee for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage 
(TICCIH)
U.S. National Park Service
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Society of Architectural Historians
American Historical Association
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Geological Society of America
National Geographic Society
U.S. Department of State

    The current Tentative List includes the following properties:

Cultural Sites

Civil Rights Movement Sites, Alabama

Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, Montgomery
Bethel Baptist Church, Birmingham
16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham

Dayton Aviation Sites, Ohio

Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park

Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, Ohio

Fort Ancient State Memorial, Warren County
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, near Chillicothe
Newark Earthworks State Historic Site, Newark and Heath

Jefferson (Thomas) Buildings, Virginia (Proposed Jointly as an 
Extension to the World Heritage Listing of Monticello and the 
University of Virginia Historic District)

Poplar Forest, Bedford County
Virginia State Capitol, Richmond

Mount Vernon, Virginia

Serpent Mound, Ohio

Wright (Frank Lloyd) Buildings [Nominated in 2015; Additional 
Information has Been Requested by the World Heritage Committee]

Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona
Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, California
Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, California
Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, Illinois
Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin
Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House, Madison, Wisconsin

Natural Sites

National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa (Formerly Fagatele Bay 
National

Marine Sanctuary, American Samoa)

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Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia

Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona

White Sands National Monument, New Mexico

Proposed Additions to U.S. World Heritage Tentative List

Cultural Sites

Ellis Island, New Jersey and New York

Chicago Early Skyscrapers, Illinois, Including: [Other Properties May 
Be Added in the Course of Developing a Nomination]

--Rookery
--Auditorium Building
--Monadnock Building
--Ludington Building
--Marquette Building
--Old Colony Building
--Schlesinger & Mayer (Carson, Pirie Scott) Department Store
--Second Leiter Building
--Fisher Building

Central Park, New York

Brooklyn Bridge, New York

Moravian Bethlehem District, Pennsylvania

Natural Sites

Marianas Trench National Monument, U.S. Territory, Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands, Guam

Central California Current, California, Including

--Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
--Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
--Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
--Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge
--Point Reyes National Seashore
--Golden Gate National Recreation Area

Big Bend National Park, Texas

Pacific Remote Islands National Monument, U.S. Territorial Waters

    In developing recommendations for additions to the Tentative List, 
the Working Group considered all the suggestions that had been 
submitted to the Department of the Interior since the current Tentative 
List was developed in 2008, during both formal comment periods and 
through other channels. There were well over 100 of these suggestions, 
including both specific properties and thematic ideas. The Working 
Group also considered additional suggestions contained in the January 
2016 ``U.S. World Heritage Gap Study Report'' by the U.S. national 
committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) 
and a report by an expert from the World Commission on Protected Areas 
on places in the U.S. identified as priorities for global conservation 
and which may have potential for World Heritage listing. The ICOMOS 
international secretariat provided, under contract with the National 
Park Service, preliminary evaluations of a short list of cultural 
candidate sites, which also informed the Working Group's 
recommendations.
    The United States Department of the Interior is now considering 
whether to initiate the preparation of draft nominations for any of the 
remaining properties on the current Tentative List to the World 
Heritage List. Brief descriptions of the properties appear on the 
National Park Service, Office of International Affairs Web site: 
https://www.nps.gov/subjects/internationalcooperation/worldheritage.htm.
    All comments will be a matter of public record. Before including an 
address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying 
information in a comment, members of the public should be aware that 
the entire comment--including personal identifying information--may be 
made public at any time. While commenters can request that personal 
identifying information be withheld from public review, it may not be 
possible to comply with this request.

    Authority: 54 U.S.C. 307101; 36 CFR part 73.

    Dated: November 30, 2016.
Michael J. Bean,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
[FR Doc. 2016-29528 Filed 12-8-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4312-52-P

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 237 / Friday, December 9, 2016 / Notices 89143 DATES: December 9, 2016. plan guidelines and committee and throughout the process of revising ADDRESSES: An electronic copy of the recommendations on commercial dog the Tentative List in 2015 and 2016. Plan/FEIS will be available for public walking limits; on-leash and/or voice ADDRESSES: Please provide all inspection at http:// and sight-control—dog walking in comments directly to Jonathan Putnam, parkplanning.nps.gov/dogplan. A multiple specific areas of the park Office of International Affairs, National limited number of hard copies will be where impacts to sensitive resources Park Service, 1201 Eye Street NW. available at Park Headquarters, Fort and visitor experience were minimized; (0050), Washington, DC 20005 or by Mason, Building 201, San Francisco, CA no dogs in areas of the park where Email to: jonathan_putnam@nps.gov . 94123. impacts would be unacceptable and Phone: 202–354–1809. Fax 202–371– FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: could not be mitigated; a monitoring- 1446. Michael Savidge, Park Headquarters, based management program measuring Comments: Comments on whether to Fort Mason, Building 201, San compliance in on-leash and voice and nominate any of the properties on the Francisco, CA 94123; phone (415) 561– sight-control dog walking areas which Tentative List must address: 4725. will provide information that can result (i) How well the property(ies) would SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Current in a range of management responses as meet the World Heritage nomination dog management in the park is based on needed, including further restrictions, criteria, requirements for authenticity, a number of factors. Areas included in training requirements or temporary or integrity, legal protection and the GGNRA Citizens’ Advisory long-term closures to a use if that use management. Information on these Commission’s 1979 pet policy, followed approaches an unacceptable level; and criteria and requirements can be found by the park for over twenty years, are permit requirements for both private on the Web site noted below; and currently managed in accordance with and commercial dog walkers for more than three dogs, with a maximum of six, (ii) The readiness and ability of the the June 2, 2005, decision by the U.S. property owner(s) to prepare a District Court for the Northern District in limited areas of the park. satisfactory nomination document. of California (U.S. vs. Barley, 405 Dated: December 2, 2016. Suggestions for additions to the F.Supp. 2d 1121 (2005)) which Laura E. Joss, Tentative List not previously submitted prohibited the NPS from enforcing the Regional Director, Pacific West Region. must address: NPS-wide regulation requiring on leash [FR Doc. 2016–29529 Filed 12–8–16; 8:45 am] (i) How the property(ies) would meet walking of pets (36 CFR 2.15(a)(2)) in BILLING CODE 4312–52–P the World Heritage nomination criteria, areas where the park had previously requirements for authenticity, integrity, allowed off leash use until notice and legal protection and management. comment rulemaking under 36 CFR DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Information on these criteria and 1.5(b) is completed. A Notice of requirements can be found on the Web Proposed Rulemaking was published for National Park Service site noted below; and a 90-day notice and public comment (ii) The U.S. legal prerequisites that period on February 24, 2016. A final [NPS–WASO–OIA–22277; include the agreement of all property rule will be published after a 30-day no PIN00IO14.XI0000] owners to the nomination of their action period on the FEIS, and after a property, an official determination that Record of Decision has been signed. 15-Day Notice of Opportunity for the property is nationally significant The purpose of the Plan/FEIS is to Public Comment on Planned Additions (such as by designation as a National determine the manner and extent of dog to the U.S. World Heritage Tentative Historic or National Natural Landmark), use in appropriate areas of the park, List and Proposed Future U.S. and effective legal protection. provide a clear, enforceable dog Nominations to the World Heritage List management policy, preserve and All previous suggestions for the protect natural and cultural resources AGENCY: National Park Service, Tentative List made during previous and natural processes, provide a variety Department of the Interior. comment periods or otherwise of visitor experiences, improve visitor ACTION: Notice and request for submitted since 2008, have been and employee safety, and reduce user comments. retained and considered and should not conflicts. be resubmitted at this time. The Plan/FEIS evaluates the impacts SUMMARY: This is a First Notice for the All public comments will be of six alternatives for dog management public to comment on the next potential summarized and provided to in 22 areas of GGNRA. The range of U.S. nominations from the existing U.S. Department of the Interior officials, who alternatives includes the consensus World Heritage Tentative List will obtain the advice of the Federal recommendations of the GGNRA (‘‘Tentative List’’) to the United Nations Interagency Panel for World Heritage Negotiated Rulemaking Committee for Educational, Scientific and Cultural before making any selection of Dog Management, the 1979 Pet Policy, Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage properties for World Heritage the current NPS policy 36 CFR 2.15, List, and announces additions to the nomination. The selection may include voice and sight-control dog walking and Tentative List. The public may also the following considerations: commercial dog walking. The preferred make suggestions for additions to the (i) How well the particular type of alternative includes site specific Tentative List. This notice complies property (i.e., theme or region) is treatments from multiple action with Sec. 73.7(c) of the World Heritage represented on the World Heritage List alternatives that together allow for a Program regulations (36 CFR part 73). in both the United States and other mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES balanced range of visitor experiences, DATES: Comments will be accepted on or nations; including areas that prohibit dogs, and before December 27, 2016. There have (ii) The balance between cultural and areas that allow on-leash and voice and been several opportunities for public natural properties already on the List sight-control dog walking. It includes comment on this subject in past notices, and those under consideration; the following key elements: The and the National Park Service has also (iii) Opportunities that the property Negotiated Rulemaking Committee’s received suggestions from the public affords for public visitation, consensus agreement on overarching and through other channels since 2008 interpretation, and education; VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:13 Dec 08, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00102 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09DEN1.SGM 09DEN1

89144 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 237 / Friday, December 9, 2016 / Notices (iv) Potential threats to the property’s nomination. The World Heritage The International Committee for the integrity or its current state of Committee’s Operational Guidelines ask Conservation of Industrial Heritage preservation; participating nations to provide (TICCIH) (v) Likelihood of being able to Tentative Lists, which aid in evaluating U.S. National Park Service complete a satisfactory nomination; and properties for the World Heritage List on Advisory Council on Historic (vi) Other relevant factors, including a comparative international basis and Preservation the possible implications of the fact that help the Committee to schedule its work Society of Architectural Historians the United States is currently prohibited over the long term. A country cannot American Historical Association by law from providing any funding to nominate a property unless it has been National Oceanic and Atmospheric UNESCO, including UNESCO and on its Tentative List for a minimum of Administration World Heritage member dues. Geological Society of America a year. Countries also are limited at this National Geographic Society FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: time to nominating no more than one U.S. Department of State Jonathan Putnam, 202–354–1809. site in any given year. The current Tentative List includes General information about U.S. Neither inclusion in the Tentative List the following properties: participation in the World Heritage nor inscription as a World Heritage Site Program and the process used to imposes legal restrictions on owners or Cultural Sites develop the Tentative List is posted on neighbors of sites, nor does it give the Civil Rights Movement Sites, Alabama the Office of International Affairs Web United Nations any management site at: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ authority or ownership rights in U.S. Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist internationalcooperation/ World Heritage Sites, which continue to Church, Montgomery worldheritage.htm. be subject to U.S. laws. Bethel Baptist Church, Birmingham To request a paper copy of the U.S. 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham Current U.S. World Heritage Tentative Tentative List, please contact April List: The current U.S. World Heritage Dayton Aviation Sites, Ohio Brooks, Office of International Affairs, Tentative List was transmitted to the Dayton Aviation Heritage National National Park Service, 1201 Eye Street UNESCO World Heritage Centre on Historical Park NW., (0050) Washington, DC 20005. January 24, 2008. Since 2008, five Email: april_brooks@nps.gov. properties on the Tentative List have Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, Ohio For the World Heritage nomination been nominated to the World Heritage Fort Ancient State Memorial, Warren format, see the World Heritage Centre List: Three have been successfully County Web site at: http://whc.unesco.org/en/ inscribed on the World Heritage List, Hopewell Culture National Historical nominations. and are therefore no longer included on Park, near Chillicothe SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: the Tentative List. Newark Earthworks State Historic Site, Background: The World Heritage List On June 26, 2012, the U.S. Newark and Heath is an international list of cultural and Department of the Interior announced in Jefferson (Thomas) Buildings, Virginia natural properties nominated by the the Federal Register (77 FR 38079) that (Proposed Jointly as an Extension to the signatories to the World Heritage it intended to update the Tentative List World Heritage Listing of Monticello Convention (1972), an international in 2016. To accomplish this, it made use and the University of Virginia Historic treaty for the preservation of natural and of an expert Working Group established District) cultural heritage sites of global as a sub-committee of the U.S. National significance. The United States has Commission for UNESCO, a Federal Poplar Forest, Bedford County Advisory Committee for the U.S. Virginia State Capitol, Richmond served several terms on the elected 21- nation World Heritage Committee, but is Department of State. The organizations Mount Vernon, Virginia not currently on the Committee. There comprising the Working Group (see below) were selected to provide Serpent Mound, Ohio are 1,052 sites in 165 of the 192 signatory countries. Currently there are expertise in the full range of subject Wright (Frank Lloyd) Buildings 23 World Heritage Sites in the United areas that can be considered for World [Nominated in 2015; Additional States. Heritage; they also included the member Information has Been Requested by the U.S. participation and the roles of the agencies of the Federal Interagency World Heritage Committee] Department of the Interior and the Panel on World Heritage, which advises Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona National Park Service are authorized by the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Hollyhock House, Los Angeles, Title IV of the Historic Preservation Act Fish and Wildlife and Parks. The California Amendments of 1980 and conducted in Working Group completed its work in Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, accordance with 36 CFR part 73—World October 2016 and the full U.S. National California Heritage Convention. Commission for UNESCO endorsed its Frederick C. Robie House, Chicago, The National Park Service serves as recommendations on October 11, 2016 Illinois the principal technical agency for the in an open teleconference. On October Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois U.S. Government to the Convention and 17, 2016, the Department of State Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New manages all or parts of 18 of the 23 U.S. transmitted the recommendations to the York, New York World Heritage Sites currently listed. Department of the Interior. Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma A Tentative List is a national list of Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania Agencies and Organizations on the U.S. Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin natural and cultural properties mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES World Heritage Tentative List Working Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House, appearing to meet the World Heritage Group Committee eligibility criteria for Madison, Wisconsin nomination to the World Heritage List. Smithsonian Institution Natural Sites It is a list of candidate sites which a U.S. National Committee, International country intends to consider for Council on Monuments and Sites National Marine Sanctuary of American nomination within a given time period, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Samoa (Formerly Fagatele Bay National but does not guarantee future U.S. Bureau of Land Management Marine Sanctuary, American Samoa) VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:13 Dec 08, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00103 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09DEN1.SGM 09DEN1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 237 / Friday, December 9, 2016 / Notices 89145 Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, committee of the International Council Park Advisory Commission. The Georgia on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and Commission is authorized by the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona a report by an expert from the World Omnibus Public Land Management Act, Commission on Protected Areas on (16 U.S.C. 410lll), ‘‘to advise the White Sands National Monument, New places in the U.S. identified as priorities Secretary in the development and Mexico for global conservation and which may implementation of the management Proposed Additions to U.S. World have potential for World Heritage plan.’’ Agendas for these meetings will Heritage Tentative List listing. The ICOMOS international be provided on the Commission Web secretariat provided, under contract site at http://www.nps.gov/pagr/ Cultural Sites with the National Park Service, parkmgmt/federal-advisory- Ellis Island, New Jersey and New York preliminary evaluations of a short list of commission.htm. cultural candidate sites, which also DATES: The Commission will meet on Chicago Early Skyscrapers, Illinois, informed the Working Group’s Including: [Other Properties May Be the following dates in 2017: recommendations. Added in the Course of Developing a The United States Department of the Thursday, January 12, 2017, 2:00 p.m.– Nomination] Interior is now considering whether to 5:00 p.m. (snow date: Thursday, —Rookery initiate the preparation of draft January 19, 2017, 2:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.) —Auditorium Building nominations for any of the remaining (EASTERN); —Monadnock Building properties on the current Tentative List Thursday, April 13, 2017, 2:00 p.m.– —Ludington Building to the World Heritage List. Brief 5:00 p.m. (EASTERN); —Marquette Building descriptions of the properties appear on Thursday, July 13, 2017, 2:00 p.m.–5:00 —Old Colony Building the National Park Service, Office of p.m. (EASTERN); and —Schlesinger & Mayer (Carson, Pirie International Affairs Web site: https:// Thursday, October 12, 2017, 2:00 p.m.– Scott) Department Store www.nps.gov/subjects/ 5:00 p.m. (EASTERN). —Second Leiter Building internationalcooperation/ ADDRESSES: The January and July —Fisher Building worldheritage.htm. meetings will be held at the Rogers All comments will be a matter of Meeting Center, 32 Spruce Street, Central Park, New York Paterson, NJ 07501; and the April and public record. Before including an Brooklyn Bridge, New York address, phone number, email address, October meetings will be held at The Moravian Bethlehem District, or other personal identifying Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Pennsylvania information in a comment, members of Paterson, NJ 07501. the public should be aware that the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Natural Sites entire comment—including personal Darren Boch, Superintendent and Marianas Trench National Monument, identifying information—may be made Designated Federal Officer, Paterson U.S. Territory, Commonwealth of the public at any time. While commenters Great Falls National Historical Park, 72 Northern Mariana Islands, Guam can request that personal identifying McBride Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07501, information be withheld from public (973) 523–2630, or email darren_boch@ Central California Current, California, review, it may not be possible to comply nps.gov. Including with this request. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Topics to —Cordell Bank National Marine Authority: 54 U.S.C. 307101; 36 CFR part be discussed include updates on the Sanctuary 73. status of the Paterson Great Falls —Monterey Bay National Marine National Historical Park General Dated: November 30, 2016. Sanctuary Management Plan. —Greater Farallones National Marine Michael J. Bean, The meetings will be open to the Sanctuary Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks. public and time will be reserved during —Farallon Islands National Wildlife each meeting for public comment. Oral Refuge [FR Doc. 2016–29528 Filed 12–8–16; 8:45 am] comments will be summarized for the —Point Reyes National Seashore BILLING CODE 4312–52–P record. If individuals wish to have their —Golden Gate National Recreation Area comments recorded verbatim, they must Big Bend National Park, Texas DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR submit them in writing. Written comments and requests for agenda items Pacific Remote Islands National may be sent to: Federal Advisory Monument, U.S. Territorial Waters National Park Service Commission, Paterson Great Falls In developing recommendations for [NPS–NERO–PAGR–22339; National Historical Park, 72 McBride additions to the Tentative List, the PX.PR166532I.00.1] Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07501. Working Group considered all the Before including your address, Notice of the 2017 Meeting Schedule suggestions that had been submitted to telephone number, email address, or for the Paterson Great Falls National the Department of the Interior since the other personal identifying information Historical Park Advisory Commission current Tentative List was developed in in your comment, you should be aware 2008, during both formal comment AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. that your entire comment—including periods and through other channels. your personal identifying information— mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES ACTION: Notice of meetings. There were well over 100 of these may be made publicly available at any suggestions, including both specific SUMMARY: As required by the Federal time. While you may ask us in your properties and thematic ideas. The Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. comment to withhold your personal Working Group also considered Appendix 1–16), the National Park identifying information from public additional suggestions contained in the Service (NPS) is hereby giving notice for review, we cannot guarantee that we January 2016 ‘‘U.S. World Heritage Gap the 2017 meeting schedule for the will be able to do so. All comments will Study Report’’ by the U.S. national Paterson Great Falls National Historical be made part of the public record and VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:13 Dec 08, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00104 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\09DEN1.SGM 09DEN1


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AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice and request for comments.
DatesComments will be accepted on or before December 27, 2016. There have been several opportunities for public comment on this subject in past notices, and the National Park Service has also received suggestions from the public and through other channels since 2008 and throughout the process of revising the Tentative List in 2015 and 2016.
ContactJonathan Putnam, 202-354-1809. General information about U.S. participation in the World Heritage Program and the process used to develop the Tentative List is posted on the Office of International Affairs Web site at: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/ internationalcooperation/worldheritage.htm.
FR Citation81 FR 89143 
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