Source: https://www.nps.gov/nama/learn/management/escalatorrod.htm
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 12:29:29+00:00

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The park closure is necessary for the protection of environmental and scenic values and natural and cultural resources. Less restrictive measures will not suffice due to the necessity for the public to be protected from contractor activities to include, but not limited to, heavy equipment and construction personnel. This temporary closure is not of a nature, magnitude and duration that will result in a "significant alteration in the public use pattern". Alternate walks will be c learly identified for pedestrians on signage in the work area. The closure will not adversely affect the park's natural, aesthetic or cultural values; nor require sign ificant modification to the resource management objections; nor is it of a highly controversial nature.
Accordingly, the National Park Service determines publication as rulemaking in the Federal Register is unwarranted Under 36 C.F.R. § l.5(c). This is consistent with hundreds of earlier partial and temporary park closures, the legal opinion of the Office of the Solicitor, and judicial adjudications.
Picciotto v. United States. No. 99-2113 (D.D.C.); Picciotto v. United States, No. 94-1935 (D.D.C.); Picciotto v. Lulan, No. 90-1261 (D.D.C.); Picciotto v. Hodel, No. 87-3290 (D.D.C.); Spiegel v. Babbitt, 855 F.Supp. 402 (D.D.C. 1994), aftld in part w/o op. 56 F.3d 1531 (D.C. Cir. 1995).
Pursuant to 36 C.F.R.§ 1.7, notice of this temporary and pa1tial closure will be made through fencing and posting of signs at conspicuous locations in the affected park area. Finally, pursuant to 36 C.F.R. § 1.5( c), this determination is avai lable to the public upon request.

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