[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 38 (Friday, February 26, 2010)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 8806-8807]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-3337]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

36 CFR Part 7

[Docket No. E8-27047J]
RIN 1024-AD71


Special Regulation: Areas of the National Park System, National 
Capital Region; Correction

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Correcting amendments.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS) published the final rule 
governing viewing of the Inaugural Parade by the Presidential Inaugural 
Committee in the Federal Register on November 17, 2008. That document 
inadvertently left out text that was intended to be retained from the 
previous regulation. That document also retained a paragraph that 
should have been removed. This document makes correcting amendments 
restoring the missing text to the appropriate paragraph, and removing 
the unnecessary paragraph.

DATES: Effective Date: February 26, 2010.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: National Park Service, Regional 
Director of the National Capital Region, 1100 Ohio Drive, SW., Room 
336, Washington, DC 20242.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    On November 17, 2008 (73 FR 67739), the National Park Service 
published a final rule to revise the special regulations for the 
National Capital Parks in Washington, DC. The purposes of the revision 
were to: (1) Clarify the regulations on issuance of permits for events 
in National Capital Parks, (2) respond to a decision of the U.S. 
District Court for the District of Columbia related to practice and 
procedure of permit application processing for the Presidential 
Inaugural Committee, and (3) provide more public access to park areas 
along the inaugural parade route. The paragraph revised was entitled 
``Permit processing''.
    Through a formatting error, the portion of the paragraph that 
notified the public of conditions under which a permit could be denied 
was omitted. That same formatting error resulted in a duplicate 
paragraph. Paragraph (g)(5)(iv) was revised and redesignated 
(g)(4)(vi), but the old paragraph (g)(5)(iv) was retained in error. 
This correction restores the omitted language, unchanged in wording or 
content, to the paragraph on permit processing, removes the old 
duplicate paragraph, and redesignates the sections after it to restore 
correct numbering.

Need for Correction

    As published and codified, the regulation omitted important 
information that the public needs in order to plan a demonstration in a 
time, place, and manner that will increase the chances of approval of 
the permit by the National Park Service. It also contained a duplicate 
paragraph that could cause confusion in interpretation of the 
regulation.

List of Subjects in 36 CFR Part 7

    District of Columbia, National parks, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements.

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In consideration of the reasons stated in the preamble, the National 
Park Service makes the following correcting amendments to 36 CFR part 
7:

[[Page 8807]]

PART 7--SPECIAL REGULATIONS, AREAS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

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1. The authority citation for Part 7 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1, 3, 9a, 462(k); Sec. 7.96 also issued 
under D.C. Code 10-137(2001) and D.C. Code 50-2201 (2001).


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2. In section 7.96:
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a. Add paragraph (g)(4)(vii);
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b. Remove paragraph (g)(5)(iv); and
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c. Redesignate paragraphs (g)(5)(v) through (g)(5)(xiv) as paragraphs 
(g)(5)(iv) through (g)(5)(xiii), respectively.
    The addition reads as follows:


Sec.  7.96  National Capital Region.

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    (g) * * *
    (4) * * *
    (vii) A permit may be denied in writing by the Regional Director 
upon the following grounds:
    (A) A fully executed prior application for the same time and place 
has been received, and a permit has been or will be granted authorizing 
activities which do not reasonably permit multiple occupancy of the 
particular area; in that event, an alternate site, if available for the 
activity, will be proposed by the Regional Director to the applicant.
    (B) It reasonably appears that the proposed demonstration or 
special event will present a clear and present danger to the public 
safety, good order, or health.
    (C) The proposed demonstration or special event is of such a nature 
or duration that it cannot reasonably be accommodated in the particular 
area applied for; in that event, the Regional Director shall propose an 
alternate site to the applicant, if available for the activity; in this 
connection, the Regional Director shall reasonably take into account 
possible damage to the park, including trees, shrubbery, other 
plantings, park installations and statues.
    (D) The application proposes activities contrary to any of the 
provisions of this section or other applicable law or regulation.
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    Dated: January 20, 2010.
Thomas L. Strickland,
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
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