National Park Service Stimulus to Help Historic & Cultural Sites
by National Trust for Historic Preservation on April 23rd, 2009Written by Denise Ryan
The Department of the Interior has announced the National Park Service projects to receive funding from the stimulus bill, better known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. According to the Interior Department, all of the projects receiving funding have been long-standing projects based on its capital planning process.
We are delighted that historic and cultural sites have received funding throughout the park system including Florida’s Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park, New York and New Jersey’s Ellis Island Baggage and Dormitory Building at Statue of Liberty National Park, Arizona’s Casa Grande Ruins. However, we are disappointed the National Park Service did not allocate a larger share of the stimulus funding to help address the deferred maintenance needs of their 27,000 plus historic structures listed on the National Register.
You can see how your favorite National Park unit fared in the stimulus at this web site.
Denise Ryan is the program manager for public lands policy at the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
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