36 C.F.R. § 401.9 Evaluation criteria.
Title 36 - Parks, Forests, and Public Property
Commission consideration of a request to approve a memorial will include, but not be limited to, evaluation of following criteria:
Title 36: Parks, Forests, and Public Property
PART 401—MONUMENTS AND MEMORIALS
§ 401.9 Evaluation criteria.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Criteria Discussion------------------------------------------------------------------------(a) How long has it been since the Requests made during or immediately events to be honored took place? after an event are not generally subject to approval. The Commission will not approve a memorial until at least 10 years after the officially designated end of the event. It should be noted that this is the same period of time made applicable to the establishment of memorials in the District of Columbia and its environs by the Commemorative Works Act.(b) How will the perpetual Available adequate funding or other maintenance of the memorial be specific arrangements addressing funded? perpetual care are a prerequisite to any approval.(c) Has the host nation consented? Host nation approval is required.(d) Is an overseas site In many circumstances a memorial appropriate for the proposed located within the United States permanent memorial? will be more appropriate.(e) Is the proposed memorial Memorials to elements smaller than a intended to honor an individual division or comparable unit or to or small unit? an individual will not be approved unless the services of such unit or individual clearly were of such distinguished character as to warrant a separate memorial.(f) Is the memorial historically Representations should be supported accurate? by objective authorities.(g) Is the proposed memorial As a general rule, memorials should intended to honor an be erected to organizations rather organizational element of the than to troops from a particular American Armed Forces rather than locality of the United States. soldiers from a geographical area of the United States?(h) Does the contribution of the The commemoration should normally be element to be honored warrant a through a memorial that would have separate memorial? the affect of honoring all of the American Armed Forces personnel who participated rather than a select segment of the organizational participants.------------------------------------------------------------------------
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