National Capital Region Parks; Special Regulations

This final rule amends the National Capital Region Parks regulations to limit sales on Federal park land to books, newspapers, leaflets, pamphlets, buttons and bumper stickers, and to set standards for sites, stands and structures used in such sales. By this amendment, the National Park Service (NPS) also rescinds a sales enforcement guideline that allowed the sales of T-shirts that contained a message directly related to a cause or activity. This final rule is adopted because such sales have adversely impacted Federal park land in ways described further below, resulting in discordant commercialism and creating a ``flea market'' atmosphere in the National Parks of the National Capital Region. Finally, pursuant to Public Law 103-279, the NPS no longer has operating responsibilities for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Accordingly, this final rule removes reference to the Center from the sales regulation.