No new federal agencies will be extablished. Rather the American Heritage Rivers initiative will use existing federal resources more effectively to assist communities. To enhance federal assistance to community-based projects, the federal government will solicit nominations from communities wishing to designate their rivers as American Heritage Rivers. Your support is needed to help make the New River one of the 10 Heritage Rivers.
Time is short.
The deadline is in December. Too much work has gone into protecting the New to deny those efforts this added benefit. The federal government will work to integrate and streamline its approach to providing existing federal services in designated American Heritage River communities in partnership with local leadership.