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The National Mall and Memorial Parks is enacting a temporary closure of the Parkway Drive Volleyball Courts and Rock Creek Bike Trail within these courts in support of the Volleyball Restoration Project being managed by NPS. These closures started on 03/03/21 and are updated to end on 11/26//21. These dates are subject to change depending on weather conditions. Closure and detour signs will be posted. The closures will not adversely affect the parks' natural, aesthetic, or cultural values; nor require significant modification to the resource management objections; nor is it of a highly controversial nature. Accordingly, the National Park Service determines that publication as rulemaking in the Federal Register is unwarranted Under 36 C.F.R. § l.5(c). This is consistent with hundreds of earlier partial and temporary park closures, the legal opinion of the Office of the Solicitor, and judicial adjudications. Picciotto v. United States, No. 99-2113 (D.D.C.); Picciotto v. United States, No. 94-1935 (D.D.C.); Picciotto v. Lulan, No. 90-1261 (D.D.C.); Picciotto v. Hodel, No. 87-3290 (D.D.C.); Spiegel v. Babbitt, 855 F. Supp. 402 (D.D.C. 1994), affld in part w/o op. 56 F.3d 1531 (D.C. Cir. 1995). Pursuant to 36 C.F.R.§ 1.7, notice of this temporary and partial closure will be made through fencing and posting of signs at conspicuous locations in the affected park area. Finally, pursuant to 36 C.F.R. §1.5(c), this determination is available to the public upon request. Jeffrey P. Reinbold Superintendent, National Mall and Memorial Parks July 8, 2021 
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Last updated: July 9, 2021