Norton Calls on NPS to Resolve Annual Fort Reno Summer Concert Series Permitting Issue

WASHINGTON, DC -- The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today released a letter from Norton to the National Park Service (NPS) urging NPS to resolve the Fort Reno annual summer concert series permitting issue at its Monday meeting with the concert organizer.

Norton's full letter follows.

June 27, 2014

Tara D. Morrison

Superintendent

National Park Service

3545 Williamsburg Lane NW

Washington, DC 20008

Dear Superintendent Morrison,

I understand that a permitting issue has caused the organizer of the Fort Reno annual summer concert series to cancel this year's series. The series has provided free entertainment to hundreds of music lovers and families in the District of Columbia and the region since 1968.

Apparently for the first time the National Park Service (NPS) has required the organizer to pay for a full-time U.S. Park Police officer to be in attendance throughout the concert series in order for her to receive the permit. I appreciate that NPS has now scheduled a meeting with the series organizer, Amanda McKay, on Monday.

Time is of the essence. I urge you to resolve this matter at your Monday meeting.

Sincerely,

Eleanor Holmes Norton