[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 101 (Wednesday, May 24, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33572-33573]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-13090]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Funding Assistance for Non-Federal Acquisition of Civil War 
Battlefield Land

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.

ACTION: Availability of Funding for Acquisition of Civil War 
Battlefield Land.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of 
funds to assist States and local communities in acquiring for permanent 
protection lands, or interests in lands, at significant Civil War 
battlefield sites.

ADDRESSES: Funding proposals should be mailed to: Hampton Tucker, 
National Park Service, Heritage Preservation Services 1849 C Street, 
NW, NC 200, Washington, DC 20240, telephone (202) 343-3580.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hampton Tucker, National Park Service, 
Heritage Preservation Services, 1849 C Street NW, NC 200, Washington, 
DC 20240; telephone (202) 343-3580.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 1999 Interior Appropriations Act 
(Public Law 105-83), Congress appropriated $8 million from the Land & 
Water Conservation Fund to assist non-Federal efforts to acquire and 
preserve Civil War battlefield lands. The Congress assigned most of 
these funds to specific projects. At this time, it appears that a 
portion of these funds will be left unspent and will be reassigned to 
other worthy projects. NPS seeks proposals from State and local 
governments--or from qualified non-profit historic preservation 
organizations acting through an agency of State or local government--
for the non-federal acquisition of significant Civil War battlefield 
land.
    Project proposals are subject to the following requirements:
    1. The 1999 Appropriations Act requires that these funds be matched 
on a two-for-one basis with non-federal dollars. That is, the federal 
dollars can pay for no more that one-third of the acquisition cost.
    2. The purchase price must be supported by a qualified appraisal 
that has been approved by NPS as meeting the Uniform Appraisal 
Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions.
    3. The battlefield land acquired with the assistance of these funds 
must be permanently protected from inappropriate development either 
through public ownership or through conveyance of a perpetual easement 
to a public historic preservation agency.
    NPS will give priority to acquisition of land, or interests in 
land, within the ``core'' areas of Priority I and Priority II 
battlefields, as identified by the Congressionally-chartered Civil War 
Sites Advisory Commission (see list below). Among potential projects 
NPS will give highest priority to acquisition projects that can be 
completed within the immediate future.
    Proposals should be submitted by July 14, 2000, and must include:
    1. A carefully drawn map (preferably on a U.S.G.S. Quadrangle Map) 
that sets out the boundaries of the battlefield and identifies within 
those boundaries the specific lands to be acquired.
    2. The number of acres of land to be acquired.
    3. A description of the battle-related events that occurred on the 
land.
    4. A statement of whether the owner of the land to be acquired has 
indicated a willingness to sell the land.
    5. A statement of the owner's asking price and/or the estimated 
fair market value of the land to be acquired.
    6. A statement of how much federal assistance from this program the 
applicant is requesting.
    7. A statement of how much matching share is already on hand or 
firmly pledged.

Priority I Civil War Battlefields

    Alabama Mobile Bay (Ft Morgan & Blakeley); Arkansas Prairie Grove; 
Georgia Allatoona, Chickamauga Kennesaw Mountain, Ringgold Gap; 
Kentucky Mill Springs, Perryville; Louisiana Port Hudson; Maryland 
Antietam, Monocacy, South Mountain; Mississippi Brices Cross Roads,

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Chickasaw Bayou, Corinth, Port Gibson, Raymond, Vicksburg; Missouri 
Byram's Ford, Fort Davidson, Newtonia; New Mexico Glorieta, Pass; North 
Carolina Bentonville, Fort Fisher; Oklahoma Honey Springs; Pennsylvania 
Gettysburg; South Carolina Secessionville, Tennessee Chattanooga, Fort 
Donelson, Spring Hill; Virginia Boydton Plank Road, Brandy Station, 
Bristoe Station, Cedar Creek, Chaffin's Farm/New Market Heights, 
Chancellorsville, Cold Harbor, Deep Bottom II, Fisher's Hill, Gaines' 
Mill, Glendale, Kernstown I, Malvern Hill, Manassas, Second Mine Run, 
North Anna, Petersburg, Richmond, Spotsylvania Court House, White Oak 
Road, Wilderness; West Virginia Harpers Ferry, Rich Mountain.

Priority II Civil War Battlefields

    Arkansas Chalk Bluff, Devil's Backbone, Elkin's Ferry, Marks' 
Mills, Prairie D'an; Colorado Sand Creek; Georgia Dalton I, Davis' 
Cross Road, Griswoldville, Kolb's Farm, Lovejoy's Station, New Hope 
Church, Resaca, Rocky Face Ridge; Kentucky Cynthiana, Munfordville, 
Richmond; Louisiana Fort De Russy, Irish Bend, LaFourche Crossing, 
Mansfield, Mansura; Maryland Boonsborough; Mississippi, Big Black River 
Bridge, Champion Hill, Grand Gulf, Okolona, Snyder's Bluff; Missouri 
Carthage, Fredericktown, Lexington, Lone Jack, Newtonia; New Mexico 
Valverde; North Carolina Monroe's Cross Roads, Roanoke Island, Wyse 
Fork; Oklahoma Chustenahlah; South Carolina Grimball's Landing, Honey 
Hill; Tennessee Brentwood, Fair Garden, Murfreesborough, Parker's Cross 
Roads, Thompson's Station; Texas Sabine Pass II; Virginia Aquia Creek, 
Berryville, Buckland Mills, Cedar Mountain, Cool Springs, Cross Keys, 
Cumberland Church, Dinwiddie Courthouse, 1st Deep Bottom, Hampton 
Roads, Hatcher's Run, Haw's Shop, Lewis' Farm, Peebles' Farm, Piedmont, 
Port Republic, Port Walthall Junction, Ream's Station, Rice's Station, 
Sailor's Creek, Saltville, Suffolk (Hill's Point), Sutherland's 
Station, Swift Creek, Tom's Brook, Trevilian Station, Ware Bottom 
Church, White Oak Swamp; West Virginia Hoke's Run, Smithfield Crossing, 
Summit Point.

    Dated: May 19, 2000.
Paul Hawke,
Chief, American Battlefield Protection Program.
[FR Doc. 00-13090 Filed 5-23-00; 8:45 am]
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