[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 36 (Tuesday, February 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9253-9254]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-4563]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
Notice of Meeting
AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: Announcement of a public meeting to receive testimony
concerning planning for how and where in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Memorial, Washington, D.C., permanent recognition of President
Roosevelt's disability should be achieved.
DATES: March 9, 1998, 10:00 am.
ADDRESSES: National Capital Planning Commission, 801 Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW., Third Floor, Washington, D.C.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. John G. Parsons, Associate
Superintendent, Stewardship and Partnerships, National Capital Region,
at 202-619-7025. Written comments can be addressed to Mr. Parsons at
National Park Service, National Capital Region, 1100 Ohio Drive, SW.,
Room 220, Washington, DC 20242. Comments must be received by March 27,
1998.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to Public Law 105-29, the Franklin
D. Roosevelt Memorial Committee and the National Park Service will
conduct a public meeting to receive testimony on an addition to the
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial to recognize President Roosevelt's
disability. On July 24, 1997, President William Clinton signed into law
a Joint Resolution which directs the Secretary of the Interior to
``plan for the design and construction of an addition of a permanent
statue, bas-relief, or other similar structure to the [Franklin Delano
Roosevelt Memorial] to provide recognition of the fact that President
Roosevelt's leadership in the struggle by the United States for peace,
well-being, and human dignity was provided while the president used a
wheelchair.'' The National Park System Advisory Board established the
Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Committee to help the Board advise the
Secretary on achieving appropriate recognition. The Franklin D.
Roosevelt Memorial Committee will make its recommendations to the full
Board, which will then provide the advice the Secretary has requested.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Committee is chaired by Dr.
Holly A. Robinson, Historian and Vice Chair of the National Park System
Advisory Board. The other members of the Committee are: Hugh Gallagher,
author of FDR's Splendid Deception and noted disability rights
activist; Karl Komatsu, historic architect and board member of the
National Trust for Historic Preservation; Laurie D. Olin, landscape
architect and Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania; Michael R.
Deland, Vice Chairman of American Flywheel Systems, Inc., and Chairman
of the Board of the National Organization on Disability; David Dillon,
author, architecture critic and Loeb Fellow at Harvard University; and
James Roosevelt, Jr., public policy leader and grandson of President
Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Committee has met on three
occasions with the memorial designer, Mr. Lawrence Halprin, to become
familiar with the memorial and his design philosophy. As a result of
these deliberations toward integrating an addition into the highly
acclaimed memorial design, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Committee
and the National Park Service have determined that the next step in the
planning process is to seek public opinion concerning the placement of
an addition at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial which will
recognize President Roosevelt's disability.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Committee and the National Park
Service will conduct a public meeting on March 9, 1998, in the
Commission Meeting Room at the National Capital Planning Commission,
Third Floor, 801 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, D.C. beginning
at 10:00 am.
The intent of the meeting is to receive public testimony concerning
how and where in the existing memorial recognition of President
Roosevelt's disability should occur. Those who wish to register in
advance to speak can do so by calling the Office of Stewardship and
Partnerships of the National Capital Region of the National Park
Service at 202-619-7025 until 4:00 on Friday, March 6, 1998. Those who
register in advance will be called to testify at the meeting in the
order of their registration. Those who register at the meeting will be
called in turn in the order of their registration. Speakers are
requested to limit their remarks to a 3-minute time period. Written
testimony will be accepted at the meeting. For further information
contact Mr. John G. Parsons, Associate Superintendent, Stewardship and
Partnerships, National Capital Region, at 202-619-7025. Written
comments can be addressed to Mr. Parsons at National Park Service,
National Capital Region, 1100 Ohio Drive, SW., Room 220, Washington, DC
20242. Comments must be received by March 27, 1998.
Dated: February 17, 1998.
John G. Parsons,
Associate Superintendent, Stewardship and Partnerships, National
Capital Region.
[FR Doc. 98-4563 Filed 2-23-98; 8:45 am]
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