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19 March 2008
[Federal Register: March 19, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 54)]
[Notices]
[Page 14835-14838]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Publication of the New U.S. World Heritage Tentative List: 15-Day
Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment on Proposed Initial U.S.
Nominations to the World Heritage List
AGENCY: Department of the Interior, National Park Service.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: This notice constitutes the official publication of the new
U.S. World Heritage Tentative List and provides a First Notice for the
public to comment on proposed initial U.S. nominations from the new
Tentative List to the UNESCO World Heritage List. This notice complies
with Sec. 73.7(c) of the World Heritage Program regulations (36 CFR
part 73).
The new Tentative List (formerly referred to as the Indicative
Inventory) appears at the end of this notice. The Tentative List
consists of properties that appear to qualify for World Heritage status
and which may be considered for nomination by the United States to the
World Heritage List. The new U.S. Tentative List was transmitted to the
UNESCO World Heritage Centre on January 24, 2008.
The preparation of the Tentative List provided multiple
opportunities for the public to comment on which sites to include, as
part of a process that also included recommendations by the U.S.
National Commission for UNESCO, a Federal Advisory Commission to the
U.S. Department of State.
The United States is now considering whether to nominate any of the
properties on the Tentative List to the World Heritage List. The U.S.
is considering proposing two properties, the Papahanaumokuakea Marine
National Monument, Hawaii, and Mount Vernon, Virginia, as the initial
U.S. sites to be drawn from the new Tentative List for nomination to
the World Heritage List. The Department will consider both public
comments received during this comment period and the advice of the
Federal Interagency Panel for World Heritage in making a final decision
on the initial U.S. World Heritage nominations, if any.
DATES: Comments upon whether to nominate any of the properties on the
new Tentative List, including Papahanaumokuakea Marine National
Monument and Mount Vernon, will be accepted on or before fifteen days
from the date of publication of this notice in the Federal Register.
If selected, the owners of sites proposed for nomination will be
responsible, in cooperation with the National Park Service, for
preparing the draft nomination in the nomination Format required by the
World Heritage Committee and for gathering documentation in support of
it. Any such nominations must be received from the preparers by the
National Park Service in substantially complete draft form by July 1,
2008. Such draft nominations will be reviewed, amended if necessary,
and provided to the World Heritage Centre for initial review no later
than September 30, 2008. The Centre is to provide comments by November
14, 2008, with final submittal to the World Heritage Centre by the
Department of the Interior through the Department of State required by
January 30, 2009. Protective measures must be in place before a
property may be nominated. If a nomination cannot be completed in
accordance with this timeline, work may continue into the following
year for subsequent submission to UNESCO.
ADDRESSES: Please provide all comments directly to Jonathan Putnam,
Office of International Affairs, National
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Park Service, 1201 Eye Street, NW., (0050) Washington, DC 20005 or by
E-mail to: jonathan_putnam@nps.gov. Phone: 202-354-1809. Fax 202-371-
1446. All comments will be a matter of public record. Before including
your address, phone number, e-mail address, or other personal
identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your
entire comment--including your personal identifying information--may be
made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your
comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public
review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
NPS specifically requests comments on whether to nominate any of
the properties on the new Tentative List, and specifically whether to
nominate Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument and/or Mount
Vernon. Comments should address the qualifications of the properties
proposed for nomination by the United States to the World Heritage
List. In formulating your comments, you may wish to take account of the
evaluations in the final U.S. Tentative List report referenced below.
The World Heritage nomination criteria can be found on the National
Park Service Office of International Affairs Web site http://
www.nps.gov/oia.
All public comments are welcomed and will be summarized and
provided to the Department of the Interior officials who will select
the initial U.S. World Heritage nominations.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan Putnam, 202-354-1809 or April
Brooks, 202-354-1808. 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: http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/worldheritage/tentativelist.htm.
Only the 14 properties included in U.S. Tentative List are eligible
to be considered for nomination by the United States to the World
Heritage List. Brief descriptions of them appear in a copy of the press
release announcing the Tentative List, which is linked to the site just
noted. The U.S. Tentative List report on the 14 sites in the form
submitted to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre on January 24, 2008,
appears in its entirety on the Internet at http://www.nps.gov/oia/
topics/worldheritage/tentativelist/WHTentList.doc. (For additional
information, the earlier National Park Service staff report, including
summaries of information on all 35 sites for which Applications were
filed, is posted on the Internet at http://www.nps.gov/oia/
TLEssayFinal.pdf. If you would like to review the full Applications
submitted to the National Park Service for any candidate sites, please
go to http://www.nps.gov/oia/NewWebpages/ApplicantsTentativeList.html.)
To request a paper copy of the new U.S. Tentative List report
submitted to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, please contact April
Brooks, Office of International Affairs, National Park Service, 1201
Eye Street, NW., (0050) Washington, DC 20005. E-mail: april--
brooks@nps.gov .
For the World Heritage nomination Format, see the World Heritage
Centre Web site at http://whc.unesco.org/en/nominationform.
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). The United States was the prime architect of the
Convention, an international treaty for the preservation of natural and
cultural heritage sites of global significance proposed by President
Richard M. Nixon in 1972, and the U.S. was the first nation to ratify
it. In 2005, the United States was elected to a fourth term on the
World Heritage Committee and will serve until 2009. There are 851 sites
in 140 of the 184 signatory countries. Currently there are 20 World
Heritage Sites in the United States already listed.
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 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
17 of the 20 U.S. World Heritage Sites currently listed, including
Yellowstone National Park, the Everglades, and the Statue of Liberty.
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. A country cannot nominate a property unless
it has been on its Tentative List for a minimum of a year. Countries
also are limited to nominating no more than two sites 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
fully subject to U.S. law. Inclusion in the Tentative List merely
indicates that the property may be further examined for possible World
Heritage nomination in the future.
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. The Guidelines recommend that a nation review its
Tentative List at least once every decade. The new Tentative List
replaces the original U.S. Tentative List (formerly Indicative
Inventory) that was published by NPS in the Federal Register on May 6,
1982 (FR 47, 88: 19648-19655) and amended with one additional site in
1983 and one other in 1990.
In order to guide the U.S. World Heritage Program effectively and
in a timely manner, NPS prepared and submitted (through the Secretary
of the Interior and the Secretary of State) to the World Heritage
Centre of UNESCO on January 24, 2008, the previously referenced
Tentative List of properties that appear to meet the criteria for
nomination and are eligible for nomination during the next decade
(2009-2019), starting on or after January 30, 2009. Submittal of
nominations must be made no later than that date for the World Heritage
Committee's consideration in 2010.
In order to be included, a proposed site had to meet several U.S.
prerequisites in addition to appearing to meet the stringent World
Heritage criteria of international importance.
The U.S. prerequisites included the written agreement of all
property owners to the nomination of their property, general support
from stakeholders, including elected officials, and a prior official
determination that the property was nationally important (such as by
designation as a National Historic or National Natural Landmark).
Process for Developing the U.S. World Heritage Tentative List
The Tentative List was developed using an Application approved by
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on August 29, 2006 (OMB
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Control No. 1024-0250), pursuant to a 30-Day Notice of Request for
Clearance of Collection of Information to the Office of Management and
Budget published by NPS in the Federal Register on July 27, 2006 (FR
71, 144:42664-42665).
The National Park Service Office of International Affairs provided
the Application form in August 2006 for voluntary applications to a new
U.S. World Heritage Tentative List by governmental and private property
owners. It was intended that preparers use the Application to
demonstrate that the property meets the criteria established by the
World Heritage Committee for inclusion in the World Heritage List and
other requirements, including those of U.S. domestic law (16 U.S.C. 470
a-1, a-2, d) and the program regulations (36 CFR 73-World Heritage
Convention).
Thirty-seven (37) Applications were received by the April 1, 2007
deadline. Two were subsequently withdrawn. The National Park Service
made recommendations based on staff review of the Applications by the
Office of International Affairs, in consultation with National Park
Service subject matter experts and external reviewers for cultural and
natural resources who are knowledgeable about the World Heritage
Committee's policies, practices and precedents. Additional
correspondence and/or Addenda containing revised or expanded material
was received from most applicants in response to written reviews that
were provided to them; all of this material was carefully considered.
Results of Review
NPS staff recommendations were provided to the World Heritage
Tentative List Subcommittee of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO
for review.
The Office of International Affairs recommended 19 sites for a new
Tentative List. These included three natural properties, fifteen
cultural properties (two of which are extensions to currently inscribed
World Heritage Sites), and one mixed natural and cultural property. The
staff review recommended four additional sites for future
consideration.
Review by U.S. National Commission for UNESCO
The staff recommendations for the draft Tentative List were
reviewed by a subcommittee of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO--
which included Federal agency representatives drawn from the Federal
Interagency Panel on World Heritage--on September 27, 2007. The
subcommittee presented its recommendations to the full Commission in a
conference call on October 4, 2007, in which the public participated.
The recommendations by the National Commission, including those which
differ from the NPS staff recommendations were published for comment in
the Federal Register on October 31, 2007 (FR 72, 210: 61664-61666) and
also posted on the National Commission's Web site where they may be
consulted at: http://www.state.gov/p/io/unesco.
Nearly all the comments received from Federal, State, and local
government executive and legislative officials, and other stakeholders
supported the inclusion of sites in their States and communities.
Final Approval and Transmittal to the World Heritage Centre
With the benefit of the National Commission's advice and the
additional public comments, the final Tentative List was approved by
the Secretary of the Interior, and transmitted to the World Heritage
Centre by the Department of State on January 24, 2008. This submittal
complied with the required timeline for Tentative List submittal at
least one year prior to the final submittal of any nominations of sites
from the Tentative List by January 30, 2009.
Conclusion
Because UNESCO asks countries to wait a year before submitting
nominations from their tentative lists, the first time that any U.S.
World Heritage nominations drawn from the new List can go forward will
be at the beginning of 2009 with consideration by the World Heritage
Committee no earlier than the summer of 2010. The Committee, composed
of representatives of 21 nations elected as the governing body of the
World Heritage Convention, makes the final decisions on which
nominations to accept on the World Heritage List at its annual meeting
each summer.
U.S. World Heritage Tentative List 2008
Cultural Sites (9)
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, including:
--Huffman Prairie.
--Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
--Wright Cycle Company and Wright & Wright Printing, Dayton.
--Wright Hall (including Wright Flyer III), Dayton.
Hawthorn Hill, Dayton.
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, including:
--Wright Earthworks.
--The Octagon Earthworks.
--Great Circle Earthworks.
Jefferson (Thomas) Buildings, Virginia
Poplar Forest, Bedford County.
Virginia State Capitol, Richmond.
(Proposed jointly as an extension to the World Heritage listing of
Monticello and the University of Virginia Historic District.)
Mount Vernon, Virginia
Poverty Point National Monument and State Historic Site, Louisiana
San Antonio Franciscan Missions, Texas
Mission San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo).
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, including:
--Mission Concepcion.
--Mission San Jose.
--Mission San Juan.
--Mission Espada (including Rancho de las Cabras).
Serpent Mound, Ohio
Wright (Frank Lloyd) Buildings
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.
S. C. Johnson and Son, Inc., Administration Building and Research.
Tower, Racine, Wisconsin.
Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin.
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Mixed Natural and Cultural Site (1)
Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Hawaii
Natural Sites (4)
Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, American Samoa
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
White Sands National Monument, New Mexico
(Authority: 16 U.S.C. 470 a-1, a-2, d; 36 CFR 73)
Dated: March 6, 2008.
Lyle Laverty,
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
[FR Doc. E8-5499 Filed 3-18-08; 8:45 am]
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