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Attachment No. 10

NATIONAL CAPITAL PLANNING COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20576

NCPC File No. 0715
S.3206, A BILL "TO APPROPRIATE A SITE FOR A MUSEUM OF MAN FOR THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION"

[[underlined]]Report of the Federal Planning and Projects Committee[[/underlined]]

April 2, 1970

The Committee recommends that the Commission report favorably to the Bureau of the Budget and to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration on the proposed legislation, submitted by the Smithsonian Institution, to appropriate a site for a Museum of Man on that portion of the Mall bounded by Third Street, Maryland Avenue, Fourth Street and Jefferson Drive, S.W.

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The Committee has reviewed S.3206, a legislative proposal of the Smithsonian Institution which would appropriate to the Smithsonian Institution a site on the Mall bounded by Third Street, Maryland Avenue, Fourth Street and Jefferson Drive, S.W., for the National Museum of Man.

The General Development Plan for the Mall, as submitted by the National Park Service and endorsed in concept by the Commission on September 15, 1966, indicated this site as part of the park-like open space on the Mall rather than as a future building site.

However, in view of the Addition to the National Gallery of Art to be located directly across the Mall from this site and the modification to the Mall Plan approved by the Commission on July 10, 1969, to incorporate the Addition, the Committee believes that:

1. The prepared Museum use for the site is in keeping with existing types or uses along the Mall and is considered appropriate, and