[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 70 (Wednesday, June 8, 1994)]
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       NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION TO MEET IN BOSTON

                                 ______


                        HON. JOHN JOSEPH MOAKLEY

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 8, 1994

  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to share with my colleagues that 
the National Trust for Historic Preservation has chosen to hold its 
annual conference in Boston this year. They couldn't have made a better 
choice. It would be next to impossible to find a city richer in this 
Nation's history or more well versed in the methodologies of 
preservation.
  Boston stands as one of the Nation's preservation pioneers. The city 
has taken great pains to ensure that the character and history of 
Boston are maintained and strengthened.
  The story of preservation in America is one marked by historic firsts 
in Boston. Many of the first antidemolition campaigns were waged in 
Boston. Additionally, Boston also became the first American city to 
excel at treating historic buildings as essential elements of urban 
design.
  We, the people of Boston, are proud to be recognized for our work, 
and are honored that the National Trust for historic Preservation has 
chosen Boston as its conference city. I thought members would be 
interested in the following article from the June/July 1994 issue of 
Historic Preservation News, the newspaper of the National Trust for 
Historic Preservations.

      Boston: A City of Firsts That Still Makes Preservation Sense

                           (By Arnold Berke)

       Boston stands as one of the nation's preservation pioneers, 
     and those who travel there this fall for the national 
     preservation conference will find out--more likely, 
     reconfirm--how much preservation in the broad sense has 
     molded the New England capital.
       Each year the conference city exhibits its unique blend of 
     history and architecture and the ways that they have been 
     shaped by preservation. Boston's own mix derives partly from 
     the fact that it offers one of America's oldest urban 
     environments. But, more significant, Boston has taken pains 
     to build on that endowment. It is a city where a local 
     preservation movement--as well as a distinct preservation 
     sensibility--long ago began to influence how the city would 
     grow and look. As a result Boston scored many firsts--
     innovations that shaped its cityscape and then went on to 
     become standard operating practice for the preservation 
     movement at large.
       The story of preservation in America is cluttered with 
     Boston firsts. Some of the earliest antidemolition campaigns 
     were waged there with the rescue of the Old South Meeting 
     House in 1876 and of the Old State House in 1881. One of the 
     nation's first regional preservation organizations, the 
     Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities 
     (SPNEA), was born in Boston in 1910. Its founder, William 
     Sumner Appleton, earned a secure place in the preservation 
     pantheon by expanding SPNEA, by pushing for the preservation 
     of architectural as well as historic landmarks, and by 
     promoting the concept of continued or adaptive use. This 
     early flowering in Boston paved the way for later milestones, 
     among them, the 1955 designation of Beacon Hill as a historic 
     district and the 1966 creation of the Back Bay Architectural 
     Commission.
       Boston also became the first American metropolis to excel 
     at treating historic buildings as essential elements of urban 
     design, by preserving buildings from destruction as well as 
     by designing neighboring structures in a sympathetic manner 
     and scale. The adaptive use of landmarks was virtually born 
     and bred in Boston. Before the federal rehabilitation tax 
     credits generated the renewal of thousands of buildings 
     nationwide Boston was writing the rehab book by renovating 
     old buildings for new life. Moreover, the mid-1970s 
     adaptation of the old Quincy Market buildings into Faneuil 
     Hall Marketplace became the national model for the festival 
     marketplace. Bostonians continued to expand preservation's 
     boundaries--in education (launching Boston University's 
     preservation program), commercial archaeology (saving the 
     Citgo sign), tourism (creating the Freedom Trail), and 
     activism (defeating Interstate 95).
       Of course, mistakes were made along the way. Landmarks were 
     lost. Whole neighborhoods--the West End is the saddest 
     example--were destroyed by the same grand-gesture planning 
     that ravaged other American cities. The 1950s also brought 
     the Central Artery's downtown gash. But preservation 
     continued to grow and toughen, partly as fallout from those 
     blunders. At some point, perhaps during the 1970s, it became 
     apparent that preservation had woven itself well into the way 
     Boston planned, designed, and built. And even thought. 
     Indeed, as in very few American cities, preservation in 
     Boston has become one of the assumptions of life there.
       The innovation continues. The Boston Landmarks Commission, 
     for example, should be applauded for its activist role in 
     calling for six areas of city-government action that would 
     bolster both preservation and economic-development goals. 
     Once again, Boston looks back and then pushes forward.
  


                       SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

  Title IV of Senate Resolution 4, agreed to by the Senate on February 
4, 1977, calls for establishment of a system for a computerized 
schedule of all meetings and hearings of Senate committees, 
subcommittees, joint committees, and committees of conference. This 
title requires all such committees to notify the Office of the Senate 
Daily Digest--designated by the Rules Committee--of the time, place, 
and purpose of the meetings, when scheduled, and any cancellations or 
changes in the meetings as they occur.
  As an additional procedure along with the computerization of this 
information, the Office of the Senate Daily Digest will prepare this 
information for printing in the Extensions of Remarks section of the 
Congressional Record on Monday and Wednesday of each week.
  Meetings scheduled for Thursday, June 9, 1994, may be found in the 
Daily Digest of today's Record.

                           MEETINGS SCHEDULED

                                JUNE 10
     9:00 a.m.
       Armed Services
         To continue closed markup of a proposed National Defense 
           Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, S. 2082, to 
           authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1995 for the 
           intelligence activities of the United States 
           Government, and other pending legislation.
                                                            SR-222
     9:30 a.m.
       Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
       Nutrition and Investigations Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on S. 1614, authorizing funds through 
           fiscal year 1998 for programs of the Child Nutrition 
           Act and the National School Lunch Act.
                                                            SD-562
       Indian Affairs
         To hold oversight hearings on activities of off-
           reservation boarding schools.
                                                            SR-485
     10:00 a.m.
       Finance
       Health for Families and the Uninsured Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine health care for early 
           retirees.
                                                            SD-215
     10:30 a.m.
       Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Briefing 
           on crime and corruption in Russia.
                                             2212 Rayburn Building

                                JUNE 13
     3:00 p.m.
       Appropriations
       VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal 
           year 1995 for the Corporation for National and 
           Community Service.
                                                            SD-138

                                JUNE 14
     9:00 a.m.
       Environment and Public Works
       Superfund, Recycling, and Solid Waste Management 
           Subcommittee
         Business meeting, to mark up proposed legislation 
           authorizing funds for Superfund programs.
                                                            SD-406
     10:00 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings on weather satellite convergence.
                                                            SR-253
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings on the nominations of Patricia Fry 
           Godley, of Texas, to be Assistant Secretary for Fossil 
           Energy, and Joseph F. Vivona, to be Chief Financial 
           Officer, both of the Department of Energy.
                                                            SD-366
       Judiciary
       Constitution Subcommittee
         To resume hearings on S. 1882, to amend title 18, United 
           States Code, to promote the safe use of guns and to 
           reduce gun violence.
                                                            SD-226
       Small Business
         Business meeting, to mark up S. 1830, to authorize 
           funding for the small business defense conversion 
           program of the Small Business Administration, and H.R. 
           4322, to revise the Small Business Act to increase the 
           authorization for the development company program.
                                                           SR-428A
     2:30 p.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
       Surface Transportation Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
           funds for rail safety programs.
                                                            SR-253
     4:00 p.m.
       Select on Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings on intelligence matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                JUNE 15
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         Business meeting, to consider pending calendar business.
                                                            SD-366
       Environment and Public Works
       Clean Water, Fisheries and Wildlife Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
           funds for programs of the Endangered Species Act, 
           focusing on science and history of the endangered 
           species conservation.
                                                            SD-406
       Governmental Affairs
       Federal Services, Post Office, and Civil Service 
           Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the licensing process of the 
           Departments of State and Commerce for the commercial 
           export of arms.
                                                            SD-342
       Indian Affairs
         To hold hearings on S. 2036, to specify the terms of 
           contracts entered into by the United States and Indian 
           tribal organizations under the Indian Self-
           Determination and Education Assistance Act.
                                                            SR-485
     10:00 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
           funds for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
           Administration, Department of Commerce.
                                                            SR-253
       Finance
         To hold hearings on S. 1780, to revise the Employee 
           Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal 
           Revenue Code of 1986, to provide security for workers, 
           to improve pension plan funding, to limit growth in 
           insurance exposure, and to protect the single-employer 
           plan termination insurance program.
                                                            SD-215
       Foreign Relations
       International Economic Policy, Trade, Oceans and 
           Environment Subcommittee
         Business meeting, to mark up proposed legislation 
           authorizing funds for fiscal year 1995 for foreign 
           assistance programs.
                                                            SD-419
       Judiciary
       Constitution Subcommittee
         To hold hearings to examine the President's 
           constitutional authority with the use of the line item 
           veto.
                                                            SD-226

                                JUNE 16
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings on implementation of the Department of 
           Energy's alternative fuel vehicle and fleet programs.
                                                            SD-366
       Rules and Administration
         To hold hearings on S. Res. 69, to require that an 
           evaluation of the financial impact that any Federal 
           mandates would have on State and local governments be 
           included in the committee report accompanying each bill 
           or resolution containing such mandates, S. Res. 157, to 
           require a supermajority for committee approval of bills 
           containing unfunded Federal mandates, and S. Res. 158, 
           to require a supermajority for Senate approval of bills 
           or amendments containing unfunded Federal mandates.
                                                            SR-301
     10:00 a.m.
       Commerce, Science, and Transportation
         To hold hearings to examine the results of the Uruguay 
           Round of Trade Negotiations.
                                                            SR-253
       Governmental Affairs
         Business meeting, to consider pending legislation and 
           nominations.
                                                            SD-342
       Judiciary
       Constitution Subcommittee
         To hold hearings on proposed legislation authorizing 
           funds for the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
                                                            SD-226
     2:00 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold hearings on proposed legislation regarding 
           Hawaiian homelands.
                                                            SD-366
     2:30 p.m.
       Select on Intelligence
         To hold closed hearings on intelligence matters.
                                                            SH-219

                                JUNE 23
     9:30 a.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
         To hold oversight hearings to examine the scientific and 
           technological basis for radon policy.
                                                            SD-366
       Rules and Administration
         To hold hearings on the nominations of Lee Ann Elliott, 
           of Virginia, and Danny Lee McDonald, of Oklahoma, each 
           to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission.
                                                            SR-301
     10:30 a.m.
       Rules and Administration
         To hold oversight hearings on the operations of the 
           Office of the Architect of the Capitol.
                                                            SR-301
     2:00 p.m.
       Energy and Natural Resources
       Water and Power Subcommittee
         To hold oversight hearings on the implementation of the 
           Central Valley Project Improvement Act and the 
           coordination of these actions with other Federal 
           protection and restoration efforts in the San Francisco 
           Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
                                                            SD-366

                             CANCELLATIONS

                                JUNE 15
     2:30 p.m.
       Indian Affairs
         To resume hearings on S. 1021, to protect and preserve 
           the rights of Native Americans to express and exercise 
           their traditional religious beliefs, focusing on an 
           amendment in the nature of a substitute.
                                                            SR-485