Scoping Meeting: NASM Construct Integrated Bezos Learning Center

The Smithsonian Institution (SI) and the National Capital Planning Commission announce the opportunity to provide public comment and to attend an online public scoping meeting as part of the initiation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process for the Construct Integrated Bezos Learning Center project, an addition to the east end of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), on the National Mall in Washington D.C. SI and NCPC invite you to attend an online joint NEPA Public Scoping/Section 106 Consulting Parties Meeting #2 that will include a brief presentation about the project, a discussion of the project’s purpose and need, proposed project alternatives under consideration, and issues to be analyzed in the EA. Attendees must register in advance at for the combined meeting. Those registered for Consulting Parties Meeting #2 do not need to complete an additional registration.

The purpose of the proposed project is to build and operate a world class center for education based at NASM. The new Bezos Learning Center will fulfill the need for: a pan-Institutional resource overseen by NASM that will engage all students and teachers, with a particular focus on under-resourced communities in Washington, DC and across the nation, both at the National Mall site of the new facility and virtually through remote capabilities; a 600- to 700-seat restaurant accessible from the Museum’s main level; a public Astronomy Park; and a permanent location for the Phoebe Waterman Haas Observatory on the East Terrace.

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