U.S. Nominations to the World Heritage List; 15-Day Notice of Opportunity for Public Comment
| Published date | 11 January 2021 |
| Citation | 86 FR 1999 |
| Record Number | 2021-00310 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Interior Department,National Park Service |
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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U.S. Nominations to the World Heritage
List; 15-Day Notice of Opportunity for
Public Comment
AGENCY
: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION
: Notice.
SUMMARY
: This notice requests public
comment on the next potential U.S.
nominations from the U.S. World
Heritage Tentative List (‘‘Tentative
List’’) to the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage
List. The public may also make
suggestions for future additions to the
Tentative List. This notice complies
with applicable World Heritage Program
regulations.
DATES
: Comments will be accepted on or
before January 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES
: You may submit comments
by either of the following methods:
•Mail to: Jonathan Putnam, Office of
International Affairs, National Park
Service, 1849 C Street NW, Washington,
DC 20240.
•Email to: jonathan_putnam@
nps.gov. Phone: (202) 354–1809.
Comments will not be accepted in any
way other than those specified above.
Information on the U.S. World
Heritage program can be found 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, 1849 C Street
NW, Room 2415, Washington, DC 20240
(202) 354–1808, or Email: april_brooks@
nps.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
:
Jonathan Putnam, (202) 354–1809.
For the World Heritage nomination
format, see the World Heritage Centre
website 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. 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.
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 may 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 includes the following
properties:
Cultural Sites
Civil Rights Movement Sites, Alabama
[other properties would be added for a
complete nomination]
—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
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
National Marine Sanctuary of American
Samoa (Formerly Fagatele Bay National
Marine Sanctuary, American Samoa)
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge,
Georgia
Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona
White Sands National Monument, New
Mexico
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
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—Point Reyes National Seashore
—Golden Gate National Recreation Area
Big Bend National Park, Texas
Pacific Remote Islands National
Monument, U.S. Territorial Waters
Notes: (1) A nomination for the
Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks was
authorized for preparation in May 2018
by the Department of the Interior and is
now under development. (2) The
Department has requested and is now
awaiting advice from the International
Council on Monuments and Sites
(ICOMOS) on adding other properties to
the proposal for the Civil Rights
Movement Sites and its overall
justification. (3) The government of the
German state of Saxony is proposing an
extension to the World Heritage listing
of Christiansfeld, a Moravian Church
Settlement in Denmark, that would
include Herrnhut in Germany, the
Moravian Bethlehem District in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and
potentially other historic Moravian
settlements in other countries.
Request for Public Comments
Comments on whether to authorize
the preparation of a World Heritage
nomination for any of the properties on
the Tentative List should address 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
website noted in the
FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT
section of this
notice; 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.
Selection and Nomination
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 authorization to prepare a
World Heritage nomination. The
selection may include relevant factors,
such as the likelihood of being able to
complete a satisfactory nomination, and
the fact that the United States is
currently prohibited by law from
providing any funding to UNESCO,
including UNESCO and World Heritage
member dues. Once authorized, the
property owners may prepare a draft
nomination.
The Department does not have a fixed
schedule for completing or submitting
World Heritage nominations. No more
than one nomination from any country
may be submitted per year, per the
UNESCO World Heritage Operational
Guidelines. Completed nominations, if
approved by the Department for
submission, may be submitted to the
UNESCO World Heritage Centre by
February 1 of any year.
Public Availability of Comments
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.
George Wallace,
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and
Parks.
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National Register of Historic Places;
Notification of Pending Nominations
and Related Actions
AGENCY
: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION
: Notice.
SUMMARY
: The National Park Service is
soliciting electronic comments on the
significance of properties nominated
before December 25, 2020, for listing or
related actions in the National Register
of Historic Places.
DATES
: Comments should be submitted
electronically by January 26, 2021.
ADDRESSES
: Comments are encouraged
to be submitted electronically to
National_Register_Submissions@
nps.gov with the subject line ‘‘Public
Comment on property or proposed
district name, (County) State.’’ If you
have no access to email you may send
them via U.S. Postal Service and all
other carriers to the National Register of
Historic Places, National Park Service,
1849 C Street NW, MS 7228,
Washington, DC 20240.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
: The
properties listed in this notice are being
considered for listing or related actions
in the National Register of Historic
Places. Nominations for their
consideration were received by the
National Park Service before December
25, 2020. Pursuant to Section 60.13 of
36 CFR part 60, comments are being
accepted concerning the significance of
the nominated properties under the
National Register criteria for evaluation.
Before including your address, phone
number, email 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.
Nominations submitted by State or
Tribal Historic Preservation Officers:
CALIFORNIA
Orange County
Johnson, Hugh Edgar, House, 444 W.
Brookdale Pl., Fullerton, SG100006089
FLORIDA
Monroe County
Matecumbe Methodist Church Cemetery,
81801 Overseas Hwy., Islamorada,
SG100006117
Pinellas County
House at 827 Mandalay Avenue, 827
Mandalay Ave., Clearwater, SG100006118
Sumter County
Wild Cow Prairie Cemetery, 5822 Cty. Rd.
673, Bushnell vicinity, SG100006119
Volusia County
Wright, James W., Building, 258 West
Voorhis Ave., DeLand, SG100006120
Walton County
Herman Lodge No. 108 Free & Accepted
Masons of Florida, 314 Madison St.,
Freeport, SG100006121
ILLINOIS
Cook County
Irving, James B., House, 2771 Crawford Ave.,
Evanston, SG100006102
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