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Budget Amendments - SB30 (Member Request)

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Chief Patron: Hawkins
Protecting Civil War Sites

Item 370 #4s

Item 370 #4s

First Year - FY2007 Second Year - FY2008
Natural Resources
Historic Resources, Department of FY2007 $5,000,000 FY2008 $0 GF

Language
Page 326, line 35, strike "$4,259,164" and insert "$9,259,164".
Page 328, after line 9, insert:
"I.  Out of the amounts for Historic and Commemorative Attraction Management $5,000,000 the first year from the general fund shall be used to establish the Civil War Historic Site Preservation Fund.  The Department will make grants to private nonprofit organizations to match federal government and other monies for preservation of any endangered Virginia Civil War historic site listed in the "Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields," issued in 1993 by the National Parks Service's Civil War Sites Advisory Commission.  Grants from the Civil War Historic Site Preservation Trust Fund shall not exceed fifty percent of the acquisition price of any single property.  The sources of federal funds shall include the Civil War Battlefields Preservation Program (P.L. 107-359), the Farm and Ranchland Protection Program (P.L. 107-171), or the Transportation Enhancements Program (P.L. 109-59).".


Explanation
(This amendment provides $5.0 million GF to establish a grant program to protect endangered Civil War historic sites. The state funds would be matched by federal dollars or by private nonprofit organizations.)