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[FR Doc No: 94-21213]
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[Federal Register: August 29, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Proposed 1994 U.S. World Heritage Nominations
AGENCY: National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for public comment.
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SUMMARY: On May 18, 1994, the Department of the Interior, through the
National Park Service, set forth in a public notice the process and
schedule that will be used in calendar year 1994 to identify and
prepare U.S. nominations to the World Heritage List (59 FR 25957). In
addition, the May 18 notice identified the criteria and requirements
that U.S. properties must satisfy before nomination for World Heritage
status, and solicited public comments and suggestions regarding
cultural and natural properties that should be considered as potential
U.S. nominations this year. This notice announces and invites comment
on the proposed 1994 U.S. World Heritage nominations as described
below.
DATES: Written comments or recommendations regarding the properties
listed herein as proposed 1994 U.S. World Heritage Nominations must be
received by September 28, 1994 to ensure full consideration. A decision
on proposed 1994 nominations will be made based on public comment, and
will be published in the Federal Register.
The Federal Interagency Panel for World Heritage will review the
accuracy, completeness, and suitability of draft 1994 nominations'
documentation and will make recommendations to the Assistant Secretary
of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks. The Assistant
Secretary will subsequently transmit any approved nomination on behalf
of the United States to the World Heritage Committee Secretariat,
through the Department of State, by October 1 for evaluation by the
World Heritage Committee in a process that could lead to inscription on
the World Heritage List by fall 1995. Notice of transmittal of U.S.
nominations will be published in the Federal Register.
ADDRESS: Written comments or recommendations should be sent to the
Director, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, P.O.
Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013-7127. Attention: World Heritage
Convention-023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mr. Robert C. Milne, Chief, Office of International Affairs, National
Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, P.O. Box 37127,
Washington, DC 20013-7127, Telephone: (202)-343-7063.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Convention Concerning Protection of the
World Cultural and Natural Heritage, now ratified by the United States
and 135 other countries, has established a system of international
cooperation through which cultural and natural properties of
outstanding universal value to mankind may be recognized and protected.
The Convention seeks to put into place an orderly approach for
coordinated and consistent heritage resource protection and enhancement
throughout the world.
Participating nations identify and nominate their sites for
inclusion on the World Heritage List, which currently includes 411
cultural and natural properties. The World Heritage Committee judges
all nominations against established criteria.
Under the Convention, each participating Nation assumes
responsibility for taking appropriate legal, scientific, technical,
administrative, and financial measures necessary for the
identification, protection, conservation, and rehabilitation of World
Heritage properties situated within its borders.
In the United States, the Department of the Interior is responsible
for directing and coordinating U.S. participation in the World Heritage
Convention. The Department implements its responsibilities under the
Convention in accordance with the statutory mandate contained in Title
IV of the National Historic Preservation Act Amendments of 1980 (P.L.
96-515; 16 U.S.C. 470a-1, a-2). On May 27, 1982, the Interior
Department published in the Federal Register the policies and
procedures which it uses to carry out the legislative mandate (47 FR
23392). The rules contain additional information on the Convention and
its implementation in the United States, and identify the specific
requirements that U.S. properties must satisfy before they can be
nominated for World Heritage status, i.e., the property must have
previously been determined to be of national significance, its owner
must concur in writing to its nominations, and its nomination must
include evidence of such legal protection as may be necessary to ensure
preservation of the property and its environment.
These Regulations, the criteria which cultural or natural
properties must satisfy for World Heritage status, the properties on
the U.S. Indicative Inventory of Potential Future U.S. World Heritage
Nominations, and the 19 U.S. properties inscribed on the World Heritage
List as of January 1, 1994 are available upon request from the National
Park Service.
Proposed 1994 U.S. World Heritage Nominations:
Chihuahuan Desert
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico. This series of
connected caverns, which include the largest underground chambers yet
discovered, have many magnificent and curious cave formations,
including an array of speleothems. Criteria (ii) An outstanding example
of significant geological process, and (iii) contains superlative
natural phenomena, formations, and areas of exceptional beauty.
European Exploration and Colonial Settlement
Savannah Historic District, Georgia. The first settlement in the
English colony of Georgia, which was founded with philanthropic intent.
Savannah has retained much of James Oglethorpe's original city plan and
possesses many structures of architectural merit. Criteria (ii) Has
exerted great influence over a span of time or within a cultural area
of the world on developments in town-planning, and (vi) directly and
tangibly associated with events or with ideas of outstanding universal
significance.
Dated: July 30, 1994.
George T. Frampton, Jr.,
Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
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