House Concurrent Resolution 112

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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
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