Record of Determination for a temporary restriction of public access to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial associated with Secret Service Activity at the National Building Museum.

Pursuant to 36 C.F.R. § 1.5, on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, the National Park Service is imposing a temporary restriction of public access to the National Law Enforcement Memorial. The restricted area is indicated on the enclosed map.Specifically, there will be temporary closures to the public of the following locations from approximately 5:00 p.m. to approximately 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8, 2025:

• National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial

These closures and restrictions come at the request of the United States Secret Service (Secret Service) and are necessary to provide a secure perimeter with sufficient stand-off distance to protect the safety of the President of the United States of America. The temporary restrictions are also necessary to permit the Secret Service to perform security sweeps of the area and facilitate the arrival and departure of the motorcade. The temporary restriction times may be adjusted based on unforeseen schedule changes and will be lifted as soon as possible upon notice from the Secret Service that they are no longer necessary.

Less restrictive measures will not suffice due to the Secret Service’s security-based assessment that this park area needs to be kept clear. A copy of the Secret Service’s letter and map dated April 5, 2025, is attached and incorporated by reference.

This temporary public use limit is not of a nature, magnitude and duration that will result in a “significant alteration in the public use pattern.” Further, the closure will not adversely affect the park’s natural, aesthetic or cultural values, does not require a long-term or significant modification in resource management objectives, and is not of a highly controversial nature. Rather, this closure is limited temporally and geographically to the time and place that the Secret Service has advised is necessary for it to fulfill its mission, which is only for a matter of hours in the evening. Closures such as these are commonplace for these types of public events that the President of the United States attends when the Secret Service deems protective closures necessary.

Accordingly, the National Park Service determines publication as rulemaking in the Federal Register is unwarranted under 36 C.F.R. § 1.5(b). This is consistent with hundreds of earlier partial and temporary park closures or public use limitations, the legal opinion of the Office of the Solicitor, and judicial adjudications. Mahoney v. Norton, No. 02-1715 (D.D.C. August 29, 2002), plaintiff’s emergency motion for injunction pending appeal denied Mahoney v. Norton, No. 02- 5275 (D.C. Cir. September 9, 2002) (per curiam); Picciotto v. United States, No. 99-2113 (D.D.C. August 6, 1999); Picciotto v. United States, No. 94-1935 (D.D.C. September 9, 1994); Picciotto v. Lujan, No. 90-1261 (D.D.C. May 30, 1990); Picciotto v. Hodel, No. 87-3290 (D.D.C. January 26, 1988); Spiegel v. Babbitt, 855 F.Supp. 402 (D.D.C. 1994), aff'd in part w/o op. 56 F.3d 1531 (D.C. Cir. 1995), reported in full, 1995 US App. Lexis 15200 (D.C. Cir. May 31, 1995).

Pursuant to 36 C.F.R. § 1.7, notice of this temporary and partial closure and public use limit will be made through media advisories, maps, fencing, and by posting at conspicuous locations in the affected park areas. Finally, pursuant to 36 C.F.R. § 1.5(c), this determination is available to the public upon request.

/s/
Kevin Griess
Superintendent, National Mall and Memorial Parks