[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 96 (Wednesday, June 24, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1568]
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                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                            HON. GREG WALDEN

                               of oregon

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 24, 2009

  Mr. WALDEN. Madam Speaker, consistent with the House Republican 
Leadership's policy on earmarks, to the best of my knowledge the 
request I have detailed below is (1) not directed to an entity or 
program that will be named after a sitting Member of Congress; and (2) 
not intended to be used by an entity to secure funds for other entities 
unless the use of funding is consistent with the specified purpose of 
the earmark. As required by earmark standards adopted by the House 
Republican Conference, I submit the following information on a project 
I requested and was included in H.R. 2996--the Interior, Environment, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010.
  Account: National Park Service--Construction
  Project Name: Crater Lake Visitor Education Center, Crater Lake 
National Park, Crater Lake, OR
  Legal Name and Address of Requesting Entity: Crater Lake National 
Park Trust, PO Box 62, Crater Lake, OR 97604
  Project Location: Crater Lake, Oregon
  Description of Project: H.R. 2996 appropriates $350,000 for the 
Crater Lake Visitor Education Center project. According to the 
requesting entity, this funding will be used by Crater Lake National 
Park for construction and renovation of the Crater Lake Visitor 
Education Center. Crater Lake National Park was created by President 
Theodore Roosevelt and is the sixth oldest National Park in America. 
Furthermore, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in America and holds the 
purest water in the world. This is a beneficial use of taxpayer funding 
because the Crater Lake Visitor Center will provide valuable 
educational opportunities for over 2,000 grade school students and 
around 500,000 other visitors who visit Crater Lake from throughout the 
United States and the World each year.

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