[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 199 (Friday, October 13, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60973-60974]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26347]


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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, 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 November 15, 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, 
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,

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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: October 10, 2000.
Paul Hawke,
Chief, American Battlefield Protection Program.
[FR Doc. 00-26347 Filed 10-12-00; 8:45 am]
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