Welcome to the project website for the Environmental Impact Statement & Section 106 for the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture.
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The Final EIS is now available! To download a copy of the FEIS document (6.5MB) and appendix, please click here. The Notice of Availability for the FEIS was published in the Federal Register on June 27, 2008. To download the pdf file, click here. Please note that the end of the 30-day wait period is on July 28, 2008. Comments will be accepted until then.
The action to be analyzed in this Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which is being prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and implementing regulations, is the construction and operation of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) within the Smithsonian Institution on the Monument Site, a 217,800 square foot (SF) or five acre site bounded by Constitution Avenue, Madison Drive, 14th and 15th Streets NW on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. By preparing this EIS, the Smithsonian Institution is fulfilling its obligation at an early planning stage to consider the environmental impacts of the NMAAHC and initiating consultation under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) on the effects of the NMAAHC upon historic resources on or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places.