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Letter to the NCPC: National Park Service Must Address All Impacts and Alternatives Before Starting Tidal Basin Seawall Project

  • Sep - 05 - 2023

September 5, 2023

Via E-Mail

Kym Hall, Director, National Capital Region
National Park Service
1100 Ohio Drive, SW
Washington, DC 20024


Teri Hawks Goodmann, Chair
National Capital Planning Commission
401 9th Street, NW, Suite 500N
Washington, DC 20004

Re: National Park Service Must Address All Impacts and Alternatives Before Starting Tidal Basin Seawall Project

Dear Director Hall and Chair Hawks Goodmann:

In light of the upcoming National Capital Planning Commission meeting on September 7, 2023, at which the National Park Service (“NPS”) will request final approval for the pending project: “Rehabilitation of the Tidal Basin and West Potomac Park Seawalls Project (“Project”), the FDR Memorial Legacy Committee (“FDR Committee”) submits this letter for your review, consideration and hopeful action.


As well documented, the FDR Committee has expressed its concern for the project. This letter seeks to enumerate once again those concerns in consideration of the potential violations of the National Environmental Protection Act (“NEPA”) and Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”).

For the full letter, please click here

Attachments to the letter can be found here