28464 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 97 / Monday, May 21, 2007 / Notices 

ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC 

PRESERVATION 

Notice of Army Adoption of Program 

Comments for Cold War Era (1946–

1974) Unaccompanied Personnel 

Housing, World War II and Cold War 

Era (1939–1974) Ammunition Storage 

Facilities, and World War II and Cold 

War Era (1939–1974) Army Ammunition 

Production Facilities and Plants from 

the Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation, and Notice of Availability 

of Final Environmental Assessment 

and Finding of No Significant Impact 

AGENCY: Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation. 

ACTION: Notice of Army Adoption of 

Program Comments for Cold War Era 

(1946–1974) Unaccompanied Personnel 

Housing, World War II and Cold War 

Era (1939–1974) Ammunition Storage 

Facilities, and World War II and Cold 

War Era (1939–1974) Army 

Ammunition Production Facilities and 

Plants from the Advisory Council on 

Historic Preservation, and Notice of 

Availability of Final Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact. 

SUMMARY: This provides notice of the 

Army’s adoption of the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation’s 

Program Comments for Cold War Era 

Unaccompanied Personnel Housing 

(1946–1974), World War II and Cold 

War Era (1939–1974) Ammunition 

Storage Facilities, and World War II and 

Cold War Era (1939–1974) Army 

Ammunition Production Facilities and 

Plants, and the availability of the final 

Environmental Assessment and Finding 

of No Significant Impact for the actions. 

DATES: This Program Comment goes into 

effect on May 21, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: To obtain copies of the 

Program Comments, the final EA and 

signed FONSI, visit Defense 

Environmental Network Information 

eXchange (DENIX) Web site at https:// 

www.denis.osd.mil/ 

ProgramAlternatives. Address all 

comments concerning these Program 

Comments to David Berwick, Army 

Program Manager, Advisory Council on 

Historic Preservation, 1100 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Suite 803, 

Washington, DC 20004. Fax (202) 606–

8672. dberwick@achp.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dave Berwick (202) 606–8505. 

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: Section 106 

of the National Historic Preservation Act 

requires Federal agencies to consider 

the effects of their undertakings on 

historic properties and provide the 

Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation (ACHP) a reasonable 

opportunity to comment with regard to 

such undertakings. ACHP has issued the 

regulations that set forth the process 

through which Federal agencies comply 

with these duties. Those regulations are 

codified under 36 CFR part 800 

‘‘Section 106 regulations’’). 

Under Section 800.14(e) of those 

regulations, agencies can request ACHP 

to provide a ‘‘Program Comment’’ on a 

particular category of undertakings in 

lieu of conducting individual reviews of 

each individual undertaking under such 

category, as set forth in 36 CFR 800.4 

through 800.6. An agency can meet its 

Section 106 responsibilities for those 

undertakings by taking into account 

ACHP’s Program Comment and by 

following the steps set forth in those 

comments. 

On August 18, 2006, the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation 

approved and issued to the Department 

of the Army a Program Comment for 

World War II and Cold War era (1939–

1974) Army Ammunition Production 

Facilities and Plants, and to the 

Department of Defense a Program 

Comment on World War II and Cold 

War era (1939–1974) Ammunition 

Storage Facilities, and a Program 

Comment on Cold War era (1946–1974) 

Unaccompanied Personnel Housing. 

The Program Comments pertain to all 

Army ammunition production facilities 

(Army Real Property category group 

226XX) built between 1939 and 1974, 

all properties built between 1939 and 

1974 at Army Ammunition Plants, all 

buildings and structures designed and 

built as ammunition storage facilities 

(DoD Real Property category group 

42XXXX) within the years 1939–1974, 

and all buildings and structures that 

were designed and built as 

Unaccompanied Personnel Housing 

(DoD Real Property category group 

72XXXX) in the years 1946–1974. The 

Program Comments include treatment 

measures for the following undertakings 

for these four categories of properties: 

ongoing operations, maintenance and 

repair; rehabilitation; renovation; 

mothballing; cessation of maintenance, 

new construction; demolition; 

deconstruction and salvage; remediation 

activities; and transfer, sale, lease, and 

closure of such facilities. The 

Department of the Army has taken into 

account the Advisory Council on 

Historic Preservation’s Program 

Comment for World War II and Cold 

War era (1939–1974) Army Ammunition 

Production Facilities and Plants, the 

Program Comment on World War II and 

Cold War era (1939–1974) Ammunition 

Storage Facilities, and the Program 

Comment on Cold War era (1946–1974) 

Unaccompanied Personnel Housing, 

and accepts and adopts these Program 

Comments. The Department of the Army 

ensures that the effects of these 

undertakings on these categories of 

historic properties is taken into account 

by execution of the steps identified as 

treatment measures in the Program 

Comments, Sections II.A. Treatment 

measures vary by property type. For 

Cold War era Unaccompanied Housing, 

the Army will prepare a publicly 

available version of the existing context 

entitled ‘‘Unaccompanied Personnel 

Housing (UPH) During the Cold War 

(1946–1989).’’ For World War II and 

Cold War era Ammunition Storage 

Facilities, the Army will prepare a 

Historic Context on ammunition storage 

facilities that covers the Cold War era; 

a context entitled ‘‘Army Ammunition 

and Explosive Storage in the United 

States, 1775–1945’’ already exists. The 

Army will also prepare documentation 

of ammunition storage facilities at nine 

installations, six of which have World 

War II-era properties, and three of 

which have Cold War era properties. For 

the World War II and Cold War era 

Army Ammunition Facilities and 

Plants, the Army will prepare a Historic 

Context, and develop documentation of 

selected architecturally significant 

ammunition production facilities and 

Plants at two installations. Finally, the 

Army will prepare a display and 

popular publication on the ammunition 

production process, from production to 

storage. The full text of the Program 

Comments can be found on the DENIX 

Web site at http://www.denix.osd.mil/ 

ProgramAlternatives. 

The Army also announces the 

availability of the final Environmental 

Assessment (EA) and signed Finding of 

No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the 

Program Comment process. Notice of 

the availability of the draft EA and 

FONSI was published in the Federal 

Register on October 26, 2004, Vol. 69, 

No. 206, pp. 62431–62432. The Army 

considered all public comments 

received on the draft before finalizing 

the EA and FONSI. Copies of the final 

EA and FONSI are available at http:// 

www.denix.osd.mil/ 

ProgramAlternatives. 

Authority: 36 CFR 800.14(e) 

Dated: May 16, 2007. 

John M. Fowler, 

Executive Director. 

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