Notice2022-06121
Submission of U.S. Nomination to the World Heritage List
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Published
March 23, 2022
Issuing agencies
Interior DepartmentNational Park Service
Abstract
The Department of the Interior has submitted a nomination to the World Heritage List for the "Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks," consisting of eight properties in Ohio, five of which are in Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Ross County: Hopeton Earthworks, Mound City, High Bank Works, Hopewell Mound Group and Seip Earthworks; and three that are National Historic Landmarks: Fort Ancient in Licking County, owned by the State of Ohio, and the Octagon Earthworks and Great Circle Earthworks in Warren County, owned by the state-chartered Ohio History Connection. This is the third notice required by the Department of the Interior's World Heritage Program regulations.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 56 (Wednesday, March 23, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16492-16493]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-06121]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-WASO-OIA-DTS-33245; PPWODIREI0-PIN00IO15.XI0000-223P104215]
Submission of U.S. Nomination to the World Heritage List
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Interior has submitted a nomination to
the World Heritage List for the ``Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks,''
consisting of eight properties in Ohio, five of which are in Hopewell
Culture National Historical Park in Ross County: Hopeton Earthworks,
Mound City, High Bank Works, Hopewell Mound Group and Seip Earthworks;
and three that are National Historic Landmarks: Fort Ancient in Licking
County, owned by the State of Ohio, and the Octagon Earthworks and
Great Circle Earthworks in Warren County, owned by the state-chartered
Ohio History Connection. This is the third notice required by the
Department of the Interior's World Heritage Program regulations.
ADDRESSES: To request paper copies of documents discussed in this
notice, contact April Brooks, Office of International Affairs, National
Park Service, 1849 C St. NW, Room 2415, Washington, DC 20240 (202) 354-
1808, or sending electronic mail (Email) to: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#741504061d182b16061b1b1f07341a04075a131b02"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="93f2e3e1faffccf1e1fcfcf8e0d3fde3e0bdf4fce5">[email protected]</span></a>.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Morris, Chief, Office of
International Affairs at (202) 354-1803 or Jonathan Putnam,
International Cooperation Specialist, at (202) 354-1809. Complete
information about U.S. participation in the World Heritage Program and
the process used to develop the U.S. World Heritage Tentative List is
posted on the National Park Service, Office of International Affairs
website at: <a href="https://www.nps.gov/subjects/internationalcooperation/worldheritage.htm">https://www.nps.gov/subjects/internationalcooperation/worldheritage.htm</a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This constitutes the official notice of the
decision by the United States Department of the Interior to submit a
nomination to the World Heritage List for the ``Hopewell Ceremonial
Earthworks,'' as enumerated in the Summary above, and serves as the
Third Notice referred to in 36 CFR 73.7(j) of the World Heritage
Program regulations (36 CFR part 73).
The nomination was submitted through the U.S. Department of State
to the World Heritage Centre of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for consideration by the
World Heritage Committee, which will likely occur at the Committee's
46th annual session in mid-2023.
This property has been selected from the U.S. World Heritage
Tentative List, which comprises properties that appear to qualify for
World Heritage status and which may be considered for nomination by the
United States to the World Heritage List, as required by the World
Heritage Committee's Operational Guidelines.
The U.S. World Heritage Tentative List appeared in a Federal
Register notice on December 9, 2016 (81FR 89143) with a request for
public comment on possible nominations from the 19 sites on the
Tentative List. A summary of the comments received, the Department of
the Interior's responses to them and the Department's decision to
request preparation of this nomination appeared in a subsequent Federal
Register Notice published on May 25, 2018 (83 FR 24337-24338). These
are the First and Second Notices required by 36 CFR 73.7(c) and (f).
In making the decision to submit this U.S. World Heritage
nomination, pursuant to 36 CFR 73.7(h) and (i), the Department's
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks evaluated the draft
nomination and the recommendations of the Federal Interagency Panel for
World Heritage. She determined that the property meets the
prerequisites for nomination by the United States to the World Heritage
List that are detailed in 36 CFR part 73. The properties are nationally
significant, being part of a unit of the National Park System
established by Act of Congress or having been designated by the
Department of the Interior as individual National Historic Landmarks.
The owners of the properties have concurred in writing with the
nomination, and each property is well protected legally and
functionally as documented in the nomination. It appears to meet two of
the World Heritage criteria for cultural properties.
The ``Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks'' are nominated under World
Heritage cultural criteria (i) and (iii), as provided in 36 CFR
73.9(b)(1), as a group, or ``series,'' that collectively appears to
justify criterion (i) by demonstrating a masterpiece of human creative
genius: A 2,000-year-old series of precise squares, circles, and
octagons and a hilltop sculpted to enclose a vast plaza. They were
built on an enormous scale and the geometric forms are consistently
deployed across great distances and encode alignments with both the
sun's cycles and the far more complex patterns of the moon. The series
also justifies criterion (iii) in providing testimony to its builders,
people now referred to as the Hopewell Culture: Dispersed,
non[hyphen]hierarchical groups whose way of life was transitioning from
foraging to farming. The earthworks were the center of a
continent[hyphen]wide sphere of influence and interaction and have
yielded exceptionally finely crafted ritual objects fashioned from raw
materials obtained from distant places. The properties, both
individually and as a group, also meet the World Heritage requirements
for integrity and authenticity.
The World Heritage List is an international list of cultural and
natural properties nominated by the signatories to the World Heritage
Convention (1972). The World Heritage Committee, composed of
representatives of 21 nations elected as the governing body of the
World Heritage Convention, makes the final decisions on which
nominations to accept on the World Heritage List at its annual meeting
each summer. Although the United States is not a member of UNESCO, it
continues to participate in the World Heritage Convention, which is an
independent treaty. There are 1,154 World Heritage sites in 167 of the
194 signatory countries. The United States has 24 sites inscribed on
the World Heritage List.
U.S. participation and the role of the Department of the Interior
are authorized by title IV of the National Historic Preservation Act
Amendments of 1980, Public Law 96-515, 94 Stat. 2987, 3000, codified as
amended at 54 U.S.C. 307101, and conducted by the Department through
the National Park Service in accordance with the regulations at 36 CFR
part 73 which implement the Convention pursuant to the 1980 Amendments.
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Neither inclusion in the Tentative List nor inscription as a World
Heritage Site imposes legal restrictions on owners or neighbors of
sites, nor do they give the United Nations any management authority or
ownership rights in U.S. World Heritage Sites, which continue to be
subject only to U.S. federal and local laws, as applicable.
Authority: 54 U.S.C. 307101; 36 CFR part 73.
Shannon A. Estenoz,
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
[FR Doc. 2022-06121 Filed 3-22-22; 8:45 am]
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