Exhibit 4

COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004

Memorandum




To: Members of Council

From: Phyllis Jones, Secretary to the Council

Date: June 8, 1995

Subject: Referral of Proposed Legislation

Notice is given that the attached proposed legislation was introduced in the Legislative Meeting on June 6, 1995. Copies are available in Room 28, Legislative Services Division.

TITLE: Closure of Pennsylvania Avenue Resolution of 1995, PR 11-172

INTRODUCED BY: Chairman Clarke and Councilmember Smith

The Chairman is referring this proposed legislation to the Committee on Housing and Urban Affairs.

cc: General Council
Legislative Services Division

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Chairman David A. Clarke

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Councilmember Frank Smith, Jr.

A PROPOSED RESOLUTION

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IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

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To recognize the heightened concern about the safety of the President of the United States following the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma andthe growth of the rightwing militia and terrorist organizations in the United States, adn to call upon the federal government to undertake and pay for an environmental impact statement onthe federal government's closure of streets adjacent to the White House and to pay for all measures necessary to eliminate or mitigate all adverse impacts identified by the environmental impact statement.

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the "Closure of Pennsylvania Avenue Resolution of 1995".

Sec. 2. The Council of the District of Columbia makes the following findings and recommendations regarding the federal government's vehicular closure of Pennsylvania Avenue

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between 15th and 17th Streets, N.W., and of other streets adjacent to the White House complex ("street closure"):

(1) The Council and all well-meaning persons affirm their concern for the safety of the President of the United States and all other federal protectees following the tragic bombing ofthe federal building in Oklahoma City andt he growth of the right-wing militia and terrorist organizations if the United States.

(2) On the basis of information available to the Council, the Council is not in a position to question the view of the President ofthe United States that the street closure is currently necessary to protect the security of the President of the United States that the street closure is currently necessary to protect the security of the President of the United States, the White House complex, and those who live, work and visit in its environs.

(3) This street closure has resulted and will result in significant adverse impacts upon residents, businesses, and visitors in the District of Columbia, including but not limited to adverse traffic impacts (including vehicular circulation, parking availablility, and commercial loading and unloading), economic impacts (both direct and indirect impacts upon businesses and upon short-term and long-term costs and foregone revenues to be borne by the District government), and historic preservation and environmental impacts.

(4)) The federal government should immediately undertake and pay for the entire cost of a full environmental impact statement and study ("EIS"), as defined in the National Environmental Protection Act of 1969 and implementing federal regulations, in order to provide an opportunity for public and governmental (federal and District)) participation in the identification, study, and cost of every short-term and long-term adverse impact resluting from the street closure, the identification, study, and cost of alternatives (including the "no action"

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alternative) to the street closure, and the identification, study, and cost of each action necessary to eliminate or mitigate every adverse impact of the street closure.

(5) The federal government should immediately undertake and pay for the entire cost of a review of the street closure's effect on historic resources, pursuant to procedures set forth in the National Historic Preservation Act ("NHPA") of 1966 as amended.

(6) The federal government should pay for the entire cost of eliminating or mitigating every adverse impact resulting from the street closure, with federal funds which are not part of the annual Federal Payment to the District government nor part of any other federal funds which would otherwise be provided to the District Government, and without regard to any expenditure limitation to which the District government is subject.

(7) The federal government shouldensure that the area of the street closure be designed in an aesthetically pleasing manner which maximizes pedestrian and bisual accessibility and which recognizes the temporary nature of the street closure, such as by retaining some type of paving along Pennsylvania Avenue and by neither planting trees nor constructing permanent structures on Pennsylvania Avenue.

(8) This temporary street closure by the federal government should not be considered a precedent for similar future actions by the federal government.

Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia requests appropriate representatives of the executive and legislative branches of the federal government to enter into a written Memorandum of Understanding with the Mayor of the District of Columbia which memorializes the principles and procedures set for in this resolution for the street closure.

Sec. 4. The Secretary of the Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit copies of

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this resolution upon its adoption to the President of the United States, the Mayor of the District of Columbia, the District of Columbia Delegate to the United States Congress, the chairpersons of the committees of the United States Congress with oversight and budgetary jurisdiction over the District of Columbia, the Chair of the District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority, the Secretary of the United States Department of the Treasury, the Secretary of the United States General Services Adiminstration, the Secretary of the United States Department of Transportation, the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior, the Chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, the City Administrator, the Assistant City Administrator for Economic Development, the Director of the District of Columbia Department of Public Works, and the Director of the District of Columbia Office of Planning.

Sec. 5. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon the first date of publication in the either the District of Columbia Register, the District of Columbia Statutes-at-Large, or the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations.

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