[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 30, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H5125-H5129]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
ROUTE 66 CORRIDOR ACT
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Stearns). Pursuant to House Resolution
230 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of
the Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the
bill, H.R. 66.
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In the Committee of the Whole
Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the
Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill
(H.R. 66) to preserve the cultural resources of the Route 66 corridor
and to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance,
with Mr. Bonilla in the chair.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as having
been read the first time.
Under the rule, the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Hansen) and the
gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Udall) will each control 30 minutes.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Hansen).
Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
Mr. Chairman, H.R. 66, introduced by the gentlewoman from New Mexico
(Mrs. Wilson), will preserve the cultural resources of the Route 66
corridor.
Route 66 was a nationally significant part of American history, and
was foremost among the early highways that helped change and shape
America throughout the early and mid 20th century.
Extending from Chicago to Los Angeles, Route 66 was nonetheless
important to the entire country. It enabled American businesses to move
goods, individuals to seek better lives, and the government to move
troops and war supplies. It also opened up the West to tourism, and
allowed the post-war migration of families to the booming job market of
California.
Route 66 has become an enduring part of America's culture through
books, television, songs, and movies. As Americans became increasingly
mobile, the two-lane roadway known as Route 66 could not handle the
increased traffic volume. The Interstate Highway system came into
existence, new roads were built, and traffic was diverted away from the
former route.
Route 66 eventually became so fragmented and confusing that in 1979
it lost its official U.S. Highway Route 66 designation. The remaining
portions of the former Route 66 have been incorporated into State and
local highway systems.
H.R. 66 would preserve the cultural resources along the historic
Route 66 by allowing the Secretary of the Interior to support and
collaborate with State, local, and private institutions to preserve
these resources.
The preservation of Route 66 would include the preservation or
restoration of portions of the highway, businesses and sites of
interest and other contributing resources along the highway. The
Secretary could provide cost-share grants, information services, and
technical assistance to local entities.
H.R. 66 would also authorize the appropriation of $10 million for the
period of fiscal years 2000 through 2009 to carry out the purposes of
the bill. Mr. Chairman, this is a good piece of legislation, and I urge
my colleagues to support H.R. 66.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
(Mr. UDALL of New Mexico asked and was given permission to revise and
extend his remarks.)
Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. Mr. Chairman, I congratulate the gentleman
from Utah (Mr. Hansen) and thank him for all the hard work he has done
on the Committee on this bill, and I really appreciate very much the
time and attention the gentleman has given to this.
I would also like to thank the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Mrs.
Wilson) for her leadership and hard work on this bill. I can tell the
Members, I am very proud to be an original cosponsor of this
legislation.
Route 66 began in the early 1920s as a vision, a paved highway that
would link the great American heartland with the Pacific Ocean.
Starting in Chicago, Route 66 winds its way through eight States,
Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and
California, before ending at Santa Monica, California.
At a time when most roads were unpaved, not to mention unpassable in
inclement weather conditions, Route 66 stretched 2,400 miles and was
one of the country's first paved interstate highways. In New Mexico,
Route 66 wound its way through the towns of Tucumcari, which is located
in my district, Santa Rosa, Albuquerque, Grants, and Gallup, which is
also in my district.
Also during the early 1920s, the automobile was gaining in
popularity. Prompted by lower prices as a result of Henry Ford's
innovative assembly line manufacturing, the automobile was in reach of
many Americans. Farmers and ranchers no longer lived in isolation for
long periods of time, as they could now drive to town and still tend to
their fields and animals all in the same day. Workers in urban areas
could now live outside the cities and commute to work. American life
was changing, and Route 66 chronicled these changes.
Michael Wallace wrote a book called ``Route 66, the Mother Road,''
and I would recommend to any of the Members or any of the public this
book. It is an excellent history of Route 66.
He wrote in the book, ``Route 66 was the road of dreamers and
ramblers, drifters and writers, the road of John Steinbeck, Woody
Guthrie, and Jack Kerouac. A ribbon of American highway that
transported the Oklahomans driven from their land as storms of dust
swept across their farms to the promise of California. It was also the
highway of commerce--of automated
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ice cream stands and old `no-tell' motels, salty truck stops, and the
neon alure.''
H.R. 66 authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide
assistance to preserve or restore historic sites along the route; to
cooperate with public and private entities in developing local
preservation plans; to develop a technical assistance program in the
preservation of Route 66; to coordinate a program of historic research,
curation, and preservation; to make available cost-share grants; and to
provide information about existing cost-share opportunities.
Route 66 started out as a vision. Today it is a fond memory, an
important piece of Americana that should be preserved for current and
future generations. This legislation will enable the preservation of
this historic landmark, and will also provide a lift to the economies
of every community along its route.
Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Chairman, I thank my friend, the gentleman from New
Mexico, for his kind words, and I yield 10 minutes to the gentlewoman
from New Mexico (Mrs. Wilson), the author of this piece of legislation,
who has done a substantially great job in getting to this point.
Mrs. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding time to
me.
I would like to thank the gentleman from Alaska (Chairman Young), the
ranking member, the gentleman from California (Mr. Miller), the
gentleman from Utah (Chairman Hansen), and the ranking member, the
gentleman from Puerto Rico (Mr. Romero-Barcelo) for their support of
H.R. 66.
I would also like to commend the staff who have worked so hard on
this, Allen Freemyer and Gary Griffith, David Watkins and Rick Healy.
I would also like to recognize the hard work of Mrs. Susie McComb,
the President of the New Mexico Route 66 Association, and Mr. David
Knudson, who is the executive director of the National Historic Route
66 Federation, for their support of this bill.
Mr. Chairman, H.R. 66, a bill to preserve and protect the cultural
resources of the Route 66 corridor, is important to my State and to
many others. The gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Watkins), the gentleman
from New Mexico (Mr. Skeen), and Senators Domenici and Bingaman of New
Mexico and others who live along this historic route have been working
on it for more than 5 years now.
I would also like it thank my colleague, the gentleman from northern
New Mexico (Mr. Udall) for his joining on as an original cosponsor of
H.R. 66 this year.
This version of H.R. 66 addresses the concerns raised by both the
majority and the minority on the Committee on Resources. It passed by
voice vote in both the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands
and on the full Committee on Resources.
At a March 11, 1999, subcommittee hearing, the administration
testified in support of the bill. H.R. 66 is substantially similar to a
bill that the House considered on the floor last year in the waning
days of the 105th Congress. The Senate companion to my bill, which was
H.R. 4513, garnered a majority of support, but there were some
objections because it did not go through the normal hearing process.
The bill is supported by the National Parks and Conservation
Association and the National Park Service, and enjoys bipartisan
support in both the House and Senate.
H.R. 66 authorizes the National Park Service to support efforts of
State and local, public and private persons, nonprofit Route 66
associations, Indian tribes, State historic preservation offices, and
others for the preservation or restoration of structures or other
cultural resources, of businesses and sites of interest along Route 66.
The Park Service would act as a clearinghouse for communication among
Federal, State, and local agencies, as well as nonprofit entities, and
would participate in cost-sharing programs and make grants not to
exceed $10 million over 10 years. That is what the bill is about. I
think it is more important what Route 66 is about.
Route 66 is 2,448 miles long. It crosses eight States and three time
zones stretching from Chicago all the way to L.A. It is firmly rooted
in Americana.
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Almost every child in America who studies English in high school
reads ``The Grapes of Wrath'', where John Steinbeck writes, ``Highway
66 is the migrant road. 66--the long concrete path across the country,
waving gently up and down on the map, from the Mississippi to
Bakersfield--over the red lands and the gray lands, twisting up into
the mountains, crossing the Divide and down into the bright and
terrible desert, and across the desert to the mountains again, and into
the rich California valleys.
``66 is the path of a people in flight, refugees from dust and
shrinking land, from the thunder of tractors and shrinking ownership,
from the desert's slow northward invasion, from the twisting winds that
howl up out of Texas, from the floods that bring no richness to the
land and steal what little richness is there. From all of these the
people are in flight, and they come into 66 from the tributary side
roads, from the wagon tracks and the rutted country roads, 66 is the
mother road, the road of flight.
``Two hundred and fifty thousand people over the road. Fifty thousand
old cars--fifty thousand wounded, steaming. Wrecks along the road,
abandoned. Well, what happened to them? What happened to the folks in
that car? Did they walk? Where does the courage come from? Where does
the terrible faith come from?
``The people in flight from the terror behind--strange things happen
to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is
refired forever.''
Route 66 is a part of our history and a part of our literature and a
part of our culture. Even though it was decommissioned in 1985, it
continues to be a part of our lives from Chicago to L.A.
There are Route 66 associations in almost every State. In New Mexico,
the Route 66 Association is alive and well and a strong supporter of
this bill.
There is a little elementary school in Moriarty, New Mexico, in the
East Mountains of my district. It is called Route 66 Elementary School.
Last year, I showed the House a hubcap that the students of Route 66
Elementary School had given to me. After that speech, I received
several letters from the students who were at Route 66 Elementary
School about their school and how it is designed around the Route 66
theme.
I would like to read one of those letters from Kelsey Byrne in Ms.
Trujillo's fourth grade class. It says, ``Honorable Congresswoman
Wilson, our principal told us about the hubcap. It is an honor to have
had you show it on television. I am very glad to get part of my
education here at Route 66. It is historical, you know. I believe that
this school will go on for generations. People use their school
education all the time, even us kids. That is why I think everyone
deserves a good education. Route 66 is very important to me. It is old,
but it is in very good shape. I would like to thank you for supporting
us and good luck.''
Unlike today's interstate highways, Route 66 is a collection of roads
tied together by highway signs. It is a collection of stories, stories
about migration and war and the automobile and the Depression and the
Dust Bowl. But it is also a story about dreams and about courage and
about strength and sadness and faith.
It is a means to an end and an end in itself. It is now
decommissioned, but it remains a preferred means of travel for those
who want to get off the beaten path.
When America entered World War II, traffic on Route 66 slowed to a
trickle because of gas rationing. Military convoys began to travel
across the highways with men and machines, renewing the need for a
fast, complete corridor from the heart of the country to the coast.
It starts in the home of the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago, Illinois;
passes the Chain of Rocks Bridge in Missouri; the Jesse James Wax
Museum in Missouri; in Galena, Kansas, the site of the 1935 United Mine
Workers strike that erupted into violence; the Will Rogers Museum in
Oklahoma and on into Texas; and then of course into New Mexico through
Tucumcari and Santa Rosa to Moriarty, the home of Route 66 Elementary
School, and into Albuquerque, my hometown, where Route 66 is no Central
Avenue.
One can drive it from one end to the other looking at old motor
courts and
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the curio shops, most of which still operate, and have lunch at the
Route 66 Diner.
Finally, it goes on into California, the home of Ray Crock's first
McDonald's in San Bernardino, and then on down the long route to
Pasadena along the route of the Tournament of Roses Parade.
The year 2000 will mark the 75th anniversary of Route 66.
H.R. 66 will help all the States through which Route 66 passes to
celebrate this anniversary, to preserve its unique culture, and to
preserve this corridor that is so much a part of America and American
history.
Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I
may consume.
Mr. Speaker, I just want to make a couple of additional points. First
of all, on the point of bipartisanship, the reason that we have reached
this point in terms of legislation and having it here on the floor is
the Democrats and Republicans have signed onto this bill, Democrats and
Republicans have worked in the subcommittee, in the full Committee on
Resources, to make sure that this bill was fully heard. I think this
bill is a good example of how the Congress should work in a bipartisan
way to bring forward legislation that we all agree on and that we can
move forward with. So I would like to thank all sides for doing that.
Secondly, this legislation is very important to business owners. I
just wanted to pick one example, because there is a wonderful man in
New Mexico by the name of Armand Ortega. He grew up with my father over
in a small little town called Saint John's, Arizona, which is near the
Arizona-New Mexico border.
Mr. Ortega owns a wonderful place along Route 66 called the El Rancho
Hotel, and that hotel used to be a hotel where movie stars would come
and stay. As a result of that, he has captured on that idea, and he has
on each of the doors on his hotel the name of the movie stars. Ronald
Reagan, many others are listed on the doors of that motel.
Now, as a result of this bill, this business owner, Mr. Ortega, will
be able to apply for a grant, will be able to restore and make sure
that the El Rancho Hotel is a place that is there for future Americans
to see and it will be there for a future part of our history for all to
observe.
In concluding here, I would just like to thank all of the Members of
the Committee on Resources that have worked so hard on this, especially
on the Democratic side.
The gentleman from Puerto Rico (Mr. Romero-Barcelo), our ranking
member, has done a great deal to see that this legislation has come to
the point it has today.
We have had other hard-working staff members on the Committee on
Resources' side, Rick Healy, Dave Watkins, and also my staff member Bob
Scruggs.
Mr. DREIER. Mr. Chairman, as a representative of Route 66, and as a
Member privileged to represent a district which exists only because of
the growth that Route 66 made possible, I rise in support of this
legislation, which recognizes the central role that Route 66 played at
a critical point in American history.
Mr. Chairman, the foothill communities of the San Gabriel Valley
which I represent grew up in the post-World War II era, and are
populated by the families of tens of thousands of people who came to
Southern California on Route 66. My district is home to Monrovia's
famed Aztec Hotel, a well-known symbol of the architectural
distinctness of many landmarks along Route 66. I have had the pleasure
of participating in the City of Duarte's annual parade in salute to
Route 66, which travels down a stretch of this famous road. This unique
heritage is a major reason that Route 66 has been immortalized in
writing and in song.
Although we all recognize the importance of interstate highways
today, the significance of a highway link to California was initially
shown by the First Transcontinental Motor Convoy of 1919, which
included then-Lieutenant Colonel Dwight David Eisenhower. As President,
of course, Eisenhower oversaw the creation of the modern interstate
highway system. The Convoy which took two months to travel from
Washington to San Francisco and encountered numerous problems along the
way, demonstrated the inadequacy of existing surface roads to
California. It made clear that it would be essentially impossible to
supply the West Coast overland from the East in wartime. Even more
important at that time and in the decades to follow, it highlighted the
difficulty in moving soldiers and materiel from the West to the East in
times of war. Considering the central role that California's defense
industry would come to play in our national defense in World War II, it
was critical to address this weakness.
Besides enhanced national security, the creation of Route 66 is a
watershed in American history for a number of reasons. For Salinas,
California's John Steinbeck for example, Route 66 was the ``Mother
Road''--it enabled more than 200,000 Americans to escape the despair of
the Dust Bowl and seek better fortunes in California. The migration to
California that began during the Great Depression along Route 66 was to
continue for decades.
Route 66 was key to the expansion of international commerce as well.
By linking the port cities of Los Angeles and Chicago with points
throughout Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, Route 66 linked the
heartland to America's major ports, helping to make the breadbasket of
America the breadbasket of the world as well.
Route 66 permitted the greatest wartime manpower mobilization in
United States history. Between 1941 and 1945 the government invested
about $70 billion in capital projects in California, a large portion of
this in the defense sector in and around Los Angeles and San Diego.
This enormous capital outlay created new industries and thousands of
new jobs. With the end of the Cold War, as employment in defense has
declined in California, the advanced technologies and skilled workforce
that were developed in California along with the defense sector have
been an essential contributor to the development of California as the
world's leader in high-technology products.
Perhaps most importantly, by making the onset of the automobile era,
the designation of Route 66 in 1926 symbolizes the mobility revolution
that enables Americans to go where they want, when they want. Route 66,
and other highways such as the Lincoln and the Dixie created at the
same time, mark the beginning of a national effort to enable people to
move quickly and efficiently around this vast country. This
unparalleled ease with which we move people and goods across this
country is central to our flexible and vibrant economy. I believe it
has been absolutely essential to empowering Americans to pursue their
dreams.
Mr. Chairman, I ask all my colleagues to join me in support of this
important legislation.
Mr. BLUNT. Mr. Chairman, I rise today to call the attention of my
colleagues to the special connection that the Seventh District of
Missouri, and especially Springfield has to a highway known both as the
Main Street of America and as The Mother Road--Route 66. We will be
voting later today on an act to preserve portions of this unique part
of our history.
Traversing almost 2,500 miles, 8 states and three time zones from the
windswept shores of Chicago on the north and east to the sun drenched
shores of Santa Monica on the south and west, route 66 cut across
America's heartland beginning an era of transcontinental automobile and
truck travel that has continued for 75 years.
Although conceived by Congress with legislative action in 1925 as a
national highway and commissioned in 1926, Route 66 began with only 800
miles of paved road. Almost 1,700 miles of the trip was over gravel and
dirt roads. It was not until 11 years later that paving was completed.
Route 66's connection to Southwest Missouri is far more than it's
strategic geographic placement across the breadth of the district. It
is far more than linking this strong agricultural market in the 1920's
and 30's with expanded outlets throughout the nation.
The dream of an inter-regional link between Chicago and Los Angeles
is ascribed to Cyrus Avery of Tulsa Oklahoma and John Woodruff of
Springfield Missouri. These two men understood the importance of
transportation of this country and were willing to invest of themselves
in this effort. Historians say that as result of Woodruff's work the
decision to name this new route--Route 66 was actually made in a
meeting in Springfield. Woodruff later served two terms as President of
the Route 66 association.
Woodruff was also a promoter of Springfield and the Ozarks who
understood the importance of public and private partnerships. He raised
funds to buy the land so that the state of Missouri would create what
is now Southwest Missouri State University. He traveled to New York
City and secured a grant from Andrew Carnegie to help fund Drury
College. Years later he also raised funds to purchase the land for the
U.S. Federal Medical Center. And the former railroad attorney was
instrumental in getting the city's first airport.
Route 66 is not just a story of creating a unified ribbon of concrete
and asphalt from one great metropolitan center to another. It is the
story of linking urban, suburban and rural together. It is the story of
making travel accessible to millions. It is the story of what we
sometimes refer to as an American dream--a country where two men with a
vision and who
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worked hard enough, can literally change the course of a country.
Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of
H.R. 66, the Route 66 Preservation Act. Mr. Chairman, Route 66 is the
premier historic trail of the automobile age. The automobile has
changed America forever and Route 66 played a large role in this
revolution of mobility. Route 66 ran over 2,000 miles from Chicago to
Los Angeles, linking the east and the west in our great Nation more
closely than ever before.
Barstow, California, in my own 40th District, is an original stop on
the crossroads of opportunity known as Route 66. In fact, Route 66
traces a path through my District all the way from Needles on the
Colorado River to San Bernardino, California. Route 66 served as the
crossroads of opportunity for the great flow of traffic across the
broad middle of our Nation and into America's land of promise,
California.
This legislation before us today will ensure that the contributions
of Route 66 to American history will not be forgotten. Mr. Chairman, I
urge all my colleagues to vote yes on H.R. 66 and vote to preserve the
cultural resources of historic Route 66.
Mr. UDALL of New Mexico. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my
time.
Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Chairman, I rise again in strong support of this
legislation and appreciate the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Mrs.
Wilson) and her inspired remarks.
Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
The CHAIRMAN. All time for general debate has expired. Pursuant to
the rule, the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute printed
in the bill shall be considered by section as an original bill for the
purpose of amendment, and each section is considered read.
During consideration of the bill for amendment, the Chair may accord
priority in recognition to a Member offering an amendment that he has
printed in the designated place in the Congressional Record. Those
amendments will be considered read.
The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may postpone a request for
a recorded vote on any amendment and may reduce to a minimum of 5
minutes the time for voting on any postponed question that immediately
follows another vote, provided that the time for voting on the first
question shall be a minimum of 15 minutes.
The Clerk will designate section 1.
The text of section 1 is as follows:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act, the following definitions apply:
(1) Route 66 corridor.--The term ``Route 66 corridor''
means structures and other cultural resources described in
paragraph (3), including--
(A) lands owned by the Federal Government and lands owned
by a State or local government within the immediate vicinity
of those portions of the highway formerly designated as
United States Route 66; and
(B) private land within that immediate vicinity that is
owned by persons or entities that are willing to participate
in the programs authorized by this Act.
(2) Cultural resource programs.--The term ``Cultural
Resource Programs'' means the programs established and
administered by the National Park Service for the benefit of
and in support of preservation of the Route 66 corridor,
either directly or indirectly.
(3) Preservation of the route 66 corridor.--The term
``preservation of the Route 66 corridor'' means the
preservation or restoration of structures or other cultural
resources of businesses, sites of interest, and other
contributing resources that--
(A) are located within the land described in paragraph (1);
(B) existed during the route's period of outstanding
historic significance (principally between 1926 and 1970), as
defined by the study prepared by the National Park Service
and entitled ``Special Resource Study of Route 66'', dated
July 1995; and
(C) remain in existence as of the date of enactment of this
Act.
(4) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary
of the Interior, acting through the Cultural Resource
Programs at the National Park Service.
(5) State.--The term ``State'' means a State in which a
portion of the Route 66 corridor is located.
The CHAIRMAN. Are there any amendments to section 1?
The Clerk will designate section 2.
The text of section 2 is as follows:
SEC. 2. MANAGEMENT.
(a) In General.--The Secretary, in collaboration with the
entities described in subsection (c), shall facilitate the
development of guidelines and a program of technical
assistance and grants that will set priorities for the
preservation of the Route 66 corridor.
(b) Designation of Officials.--The Secretary shall
designate officials of the National Park Service stationed at
locations convenient to the States to perform the functions
of the Cultural Resource Programs under this Act.
(c) General Functions.--The Secretary shall--
(1) support efforts of State and local public and private
persons, nonprofit Route 66 preservation entities, Indian
tribes, State Historic Preservation Offices, and entities in
the States for the preservation of the Route 66 corridor by
providing technical assistance, participating in cost-sharing
programs, and making grants;
(2) act as a clearinghouse for communication among Federal,
State, and local agencies, nonprofit Route 66 preservation
entities, Indian tribes, State historic preservation offices,
and private persons and entities interested in the
preservation of the Route 66 corridor; and
(3) assist the States in determining the appropriate form
of and establishing and supporting a non-Federal entity or
entities to perform the functions of the Cultural Resource
Programs after those programs are terminated.
(d) Authorities.--In carrying out this Act, the Secretary
may--
(1) enter into cooperative agreements, including (but not
limited to) cooperative agreements for study, planning,
preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration related to the
Route 66 corridor;
(2) accept donations of funds, equipment, supplies, and
services as appropriate;
(3) provide cost-share grants for projects for the
preservation of the Route 66 corridor (but not to exceed 50
percent of total project costs) and information about
existing cost-share opportunities;
(4) provide technical assistance in historic preservation
and interpretation of the Route 66 corridor; and
(5) coordinate, promote, and stimulate research by other
persons and entities regarding the Route 66 corridor.
(e) Preservation Assistance.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary shall provide assistance in
the preservation of the Route 66 corridor in a manner that is
compatible with the idiosyncratic nature of the Route 66
corridor.
(2) Planning.--The Secretary shall not prepare or require
preparation of an overall management plan for the Route 66
corridor, but shall cooperate with the States and local
public and private persons and entities, State historic
preservation offices, nonprofit Route 66 preservation
entities, and Indian tribes in developing local preservation
plans to guide efforts to protect the most important or
representative resources of the Route 66 corridor.
The CHAIRMAN. Are there any amendments to section 2?
The Clerk will designate section 3.
The text of section 3 is as follows:
SEC. 3. RESOURCE TREATMENT.
(a) Technical Assistance Program.--
(1) Program required.--The Secretary shall develop a
program of technical assistance in the preservation of the
Route 66 corridor and interpretation of the Route 66
corridor.
(2) Program guidelines.--As part of the technical
assistance program under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall
establish guidelines for setting priorities for preservation
needs for the Route 66 corridor. The Secretary shall base the
guidelines on the Secretary's standards for historic
preservation.
(b) Program for Coordination of Activities.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary shall coordinate a program
of historic research, curation, preservation strategies, and
the collection of oral and video histories of events that
occurred along the Route 66 corridor.
(2) Design.--The program under paragraph (1) shall be
designed for continuing use and implementation by other
organizations after the Cultural Resource Programs are
terminated.
The CHAIRMAN. Are there any amendments to section 3?
The Clerk will designate section 4.
The text of section 4 is as follows:
SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated $10,000,000 for the
period of fiscal years 2000 through 2009 to carry out the
purposes of this Act.
The CHAIRMAN. Are there any amendments to section 4?
If not, the question is on the committee amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute was agreed to.
Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr.
Stearns) having assumed the chair, Mr. Bonilla, Chairman of the
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, reported that
that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 66) to
preserve the cultural resources of the Route 66 corridor and to
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance, pursuant
to House Resolution 230, he reported the bill back to the House with an
amendment adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is
ordered.
The question is on the amendment in the nature of a substitute.
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The amendment in the nature of a substitute was agreed to.
The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, was read
the third time, and passed, and a motion to reconsider was laid on the
table.
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