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1 1 HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO.
1 2 BY THOMAS, GRANZOW, FALLON, GREIMANN,
1 3 CHAMBERS, LUKAN, HUTTER, JONES, D. OLSON,
1 4 SWAIM, MERTZ, and FOEGE
1 5 A Concurrent Resolution urging the United States
1 6 Congress to appropriate funding for the federal
1 7 Historic Preservation Fund and the Historic Barn
1 8 Preservation Act.
1 9 WHEREAS, historic preservation provides
1 10 opportunities to rapidly employ persons in diverse
1 11 areas of the economy, revitalize neighborhoods,
1 12 communities, and rural areas, entice nationwide
1 13 private capital investment, and foster heritage
1 14 tourism; and
1 15 WHEREAS, the State Historical Society of Iowa
1 16 implements the National Preservation Program in Iowa
1 17 with moneys provided by the federal Historic
1 18 Preservation Fund; and
1 19 WHEREAS, the federal Historic Preservation Fund is
1 20 the principal source of financing for states to
1 21 provide economic stimulus, streamline review
1 22 processes, provide local government grants, preserve
1 23 American initiatives, and market heritage tourism
1 24 through historic preservation; and
1 25 WHEREAS, historic barns are becoming national
1 26 treasures and rehabilitating and repairing historic
1 27 barns as necessary, to preserve the barns'
1 28 functionality and to preserve the rural landscape,
1 29 provides benefits to farmers, as well as to the
1 30 communities and economic vitality of the areas in
2 1 which the barns are located; and
2 2 WHEREAS, Congress acted in 2002 to establish a
2 3 Historic Barn Preservation Program; NOW THEREFORE,
2 4 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THE
2 5 SENATE CONCURRING, That the Iowa General Assembly
2 6 strongly urges the appropriations committees of the
2 7 Unites States Senate and House of Representatives to
2 8 annually appropriate $50 million to the federal
2 9 Historic Preservation Fund for the state historic
2 10 preservation offices and to annually appropriate $25
2 11 million for federal fiscal years 2003-2004 through
2 12 2005-2006 to implement the federal Historic Barn
2 13 Preservation Program; and
2 14 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this
2 15 resolution be sent by the Chief Clerk of the House of
2 16 Representatives to the Honorable Senator Charles E.
2 17 Grassley and the Honorable Senator Tom Harkin,
2 18 together with Iowa's congressional delegation in the
2 19 House of Representatives; and
2 20 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this
2 21 resolution be sent to the Honorable Senator Ted
2 22 Stevens, Chair of the United States Senate Committee
2 23 on Appropriations, and the Honorable Congressman C. W.
2 24 Bill Young, Chair of the United States House of
2 25 Representatives Committee on Appropriations.
2 26 LSB 6424HH 80
2 27 jp/sh/8
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