[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 56 (Tuesday, March 24, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15627-15628]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-06663]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-OIA-17652; PIN00IO14.XI0000]
Submission of U.S. Nomination to the World Heritage List
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Interior is submitting a nomination to
the World Heritage List for the ``Key Works of Modern Architecture by
Frank Lloyd Wright,'' consisting of 10 separate properties, located in
seven states: Unity Temple, Oak Park, Illinois; Frederick C. Robie
House, Chicago, Illinois; Taliesin, Spring Green, Wisconsin; Hollyhock
House, Los Angeles, California; Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania;
Herbert and Katherine Jacobs House, Madison, Wisconsin; Taliesin West,
Scottsdale, Arizona; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York;
Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma; and the Marin County Civic Center,
San Rafael, California. This is the third notice required by the
Department of the Interior's World Heritage Program regulations.
DATES: The World Heritage Committee will likely consider the nomination
at its 40th annual session in mid-2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Morris, Chief, Office of
International Affairs at 202-354-1803 or Jonathan Putnam, International
Cooperation Specialist at 202-354-1809. Complete information about U.S.
participation in the World Heritage Program and the process used to
develop the U.S. World Heritage Tentative List is posted on the
National Park Service, Office of International Affairs Web site at:
http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/worldheritage/worldheritage.htm.
To request paper copies of documents discussed in this notice,
please contact April Brooks, Office of International Affairs, National
Park Service, 1201 Eye Street NW., (0050) Washington, DC 20005; Email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This constitutes the official notice of the
decision by the United States Department of the Interior to submit on
behalf of the United States, a nomination to the World Heritage List
for the ``Key Works of Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright,'' as
enumerated in the Summary above, and it is a component of the Third
Notice referred to in 36 CFR 73.7(j) of the World Heritage Program
regulations (36 CFR part 73).
The nomination is being submitted through the U.S. Department of
State to the World Heritage Centre of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for consideration by the
World Heritage Committee, which will likely occur at the Committee's
40th annual session in mid-2016.
This serial nomination has been selected from the U.S. World
Heritage Tentative List, where it was listed as ``Frank Lloyd Wright
Buildings.'' 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 Frank
Lloyd Wright Buildings nomination on the Tentative List was
subsequently amended in July 2011 to add the Herbert and Katherine
Jacobs House to the group. Although the S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.,
Administration Building and Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, are
also included on the Tentative List under ``Frank Lloyd Wright
Buildings,'' they are not being nominated at this time, but may be in
the future.
The U.S. World Heritage Tentative List appeared in a Federal
Register notice on December 14, 2010 (73 FR 77901-77903, December 14,
2010), with a request for public comment on possible nominations from
the then-13 properties on the Tentative List. A summary of the comments
received, the Department of the Interior's responses to them and the
Department's decision to request preparation of this nomination
appeared in a subsequent Federal Register Notice published on July 14,
2011 (76 FR 41517-41521). These are the First and Second Notices
required by 36 CFR 73.7(c) and (f).
In making the decision to submit this U.S. World Heritage
nomination, pursuant to 36 CFR 73.7(h) and (i), the Department's
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks
evaluated the draft nomination and the recommendations of the Federal
Interagency Panel for World Heritage. He determined that the property
meets the prerequisites for nomination by the United States to the
World Heritage List that are detailed in 36 CFR part 73. Each property
is nationally significant, having been designated by the Department of
the Interior as an individual National Historic Landmark. The owners of
the properties have concurred in writing with the nomination, and the
legal and other protections for each property are documented in the
nomination. This nomination appears to meet two of the World Heritage
criteria for cultural properties.
The ``Key Works of Modern Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright'' is
nominated under World Heritage cultural criteria (i) and (ii), as
provided in 36 CFR 73.9(b)(1), as containing many of the most iconic,
fully realized, and innovative of the buildings designed by Wright
(1867-1959). Located in seven states across the continental United
States of America, they respond to more than fifty years of dramatic
cultural and technological change with distinctive and highly original
modern forms. Designed for a range of urban, suburban, and rural
environments and for clients from all backgrounds and walks of life,
these works, which include a variety of building types, embody a
single-minded vision of architecture as space created for human use,
rich in emotion and sensitive to their surroundings. These masterworks,
particular to Wright's vision, fused a variety of influences in a way
that made a powerful impact on global architecture in the 20th century.
The properties, both individually and as a group, also meet the
World Heritage requirements for integrity and authenticity and have
been determined to possess adequate legal and management mechanisms to
ensure their conservation pursuant to 36 CFR 73.9(b)(2).
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
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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. The World Heritage 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 for inclusion on the World Heritage List at its
annual meeting each summer. The United States has served four terms on
the World Heritage Committee, but is not currently a member.
There are 1,007 World Heritage sites in 161 of the 191 signatory
countries. The United States has 22 sites inscribed on the World
Heritage List.
U.S. participation and the role of the Department of the Interior
are authorized by Section 401 of Title IV of the Historic Preservation
Act Amendments of 1980, (now codified at 54 U.S.C. 307101), and
conducted by the Department through the National Park Service in
accordance with the regulations at 36 CFR part 73 which implement the
Convention pursuant to this law. The Department of the Interior has the
lead role for the U.S. Government in the implementation of the
Convention; the National Park Service serves as the principal technical
agency within the Department for World Heritage matters and manages all
or parts of 19 of the 22 U.S. World Heritage Sites.
The World Heritage Committee's Operational Guidelines require
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. The
current U.S. Tentative List was transmitted to the UNESCO World
Heritage Centre on January 24, 2008.
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 only to U.S. federal and local laws, as applicable.
Dated: March 3, 2015.
Michael J. Bean,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
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