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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 72, No. 97 

Monday, May 21, 2007 

ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC 

PRESERVATION 

Notice of Department of the Air Force 

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 

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 Department of the Air 

Force 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 

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 

Air Force’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 the availability of 

the final Environment 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.denix.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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY 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 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 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 two 

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 Air Force has taken 

into account the Advisory Council on 

Historic Preservation’s 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 Air 

Force 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.B. Treatment 

measures vary by property type. For 

Cold War era Unaccompanied Housing, 

the Department of the Air Force will 

prepare a supplemental context study 

that will be an appendix to the Army’s 

existing study, ‘‘Unaccompanied 

Personnel Housing (UPH) During the 

Cold War (1946–1989).’’ For World War 

II and Cold War era Ammunition 

Storage Facilities, the Department of the 

Air Force will prepare a supplemental 

historic context study that will be an 

appendix to the Army’s existing context 

study, ‘‘Army Ammunition and 

Explosives Storage in the United States, 

1775–1945’’. The Department of the Air 

Force will also document a 

representative sampling of the basic 

types of above-ground and earth covered 

ammunition storage facilities at three 

geographically dispersed locations that 

offer the greatest number and variety of 

resources constructed during the cold 

war. The Department of the Air Force 

will also prepare documentation of Cold 

War era Unaccompanied Personnel 

Housing at three geographically 

dispersed locations that offer the 

greatest number and variety of resources 

constructed during the Cold War. The 

full text of the Program Comments can 

be found on the DENIX Web site at 

https://www.denix.osd.mil/ 

ProgramAlternatives. 

The Department of the Air Force 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. With the Army as lead agency, 

the Department of the Air Force 

considered all public comments 


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received on the draft before finalizing 

the EA and FONSI. 

Authority: 36 CFR 800.14(e) 

Dated: May 16, 2007. 

John M. Fowler, 

Executive Director. 

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ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC 

PRESERVATION 

Notice of Department of Navy 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 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 Department of Navy 

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 

from the Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation, and Notice of Availability 

of Final Environmental Assessment and 

Finding of No Significant Impact. 

SUMMARY: This provide notice of the 

Navy’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 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.denix.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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY 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 review 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 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 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 two 

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 Navy has taken into 

account the Advisory Council on 

Historic Preservation’s Program 

Comment on World War II and Cold 

War era (1939–1974) Ammunition 

Storage Facilities, and the Program 

Comment on Cold War ear (1946–1974) 

Unaccompanied Personnel Housing, 

and accepts and adopts these Program 

Comments. The Department of the Navy 

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.B. Treatment 

measures vary by property type. For 

Cold War era Unaccompanied Housing, 

the Department of the Navy will prepare 

a supplemental context study that will 

be an appendix to the Army’s existing 

study, ‘‘Unaccompanied Personnel 

Housing (UPH) During the Cold War 

(1946–1989).’’ For World War II and 

Cold War era Ammunition Storage 

Facilities, the Department of the Navy 

will prepare a supplemental historic 

context study that will an appendix to 

the Army’s existing context study, 

‘‘Army Ammunition and Explosives 

Storage in the United States. 1775–

1945’’. The Department of the Navy will 

also prepare documentation of 

ammunition storage facilities at four 

installations, to include three Navy 

installations and one Marine Corps 

installations. The Department of the 

Navy will also prepare documentation 

of Cold War era Unaccompanied 

Personnel Housing at four installations, 

to include three Navy installations and 

one Marine Corps installation. The full 

text of the Program Comments can be 

found on the DENIX Web site at 

https://denix.osd.mil/ 

programAlaternatives. 

The Department of the Navy 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. With the Army as lead agency, 

the Department of the Navy considered 

all public comments received on the 

draft before finalizing the EA and 

FONSI. 

Authority: 36 CFR 800.14(e) 

Dated: May 16, 2007 

John M. Fowler, 

Executive Director. 

[FR Doc. 07–2505 Filed 5–18–07; 8:45 am] 

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