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From: "Ernest Everett Blevins" <>
Subject: [SUVCW] Fwd: Save Transportation Funding for Historic Preservation
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:45:25 -0400
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These funds are not always used to save battlefields, however, it is one use
of them. Please read the information and consider clicking the link which
will show a letter (which you can edit yourself) and ask for your name, etc
and will send to your state governor.

Ernie
SUVCW List Adminstrator
Commander, Kennesaw Mountain #3, Georgia
Patriotic Instructor, Elias Moon #2, Georgia


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From: National Trust for Historic Preservation <>
Date: Mar 28, 2007 3:25 PM
Subject: Save Transportation Funding for Historic Preservation
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A Message From The National Trust for Historic
Preservation<http://member.nationaltrust.org/site/R?i=rmsvCINCxNg2VBwsE35GxQ..>;

Save Transportation Enhancements Funding for Historic Preservation



CLICK HERE TO CONTACT YOUR GOVERNOR
TODAY!<http://member.nationaltrust.org/site/R?i=5gMQ2RWIV2gpmsYO-jXRpQ..>;

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*Background*

Transportation Enhancements funding - federal transportation dollars set
aside for local projects - has been a powerful tool for communities to fund
projects that enhance historic places. This program utilizes federal
highway funding for new and non-traditional activities that enhance the
community benefits of transportation investments, and six of the twelve
approved activities involve historic preservation. For 15 years, hundreds
of communities have used the enhancements program for downtown streetscape
projects, visitor centers, historic preservation projects, and hike and bike
trails. *However, the program is in jeopardy.*



*Update*

In 2006, the Federal Highway Administration rescinded a portion of
un-obligated highway funds requiring each state to return part of their
federal transportation funding to the federal government. Many states
adopted a balanced approach to returning the funds, but some chose to do
this in a disproportionate manner by drastically cutting their
Transportation Enhancements funds.

On Monday, March 19, 2007, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued an
order to states requiring them to return an additional $3.47 billion in
transportation money. *Within 30 days*, your governor will decide how to
apply this cut to your state's transportation budget.

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*Action Needed*

*Please personalize the sample email below and urge your governor to
preserve Transportation Enhancements funding. Decisions will be made very
shortly, so a message to your governor before April 4 will have the
strongest impact.
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*CLICK HERE TO SEE A SAMPLE MESSAGE AND CONTACT YOUR GOVERNOR
TODAY!<http://member.nationaltrust.org/site/R?i=ngjNHKvgioU65S1djFiwDA..>;
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>> For more information on the Transportation Enhancements program, please
visit the National Trust website
<http://member.nationaltrust.org/site/R?i=cTLsdGT_TnaVYiycpkSsiQ..>;




*THANK YOU FOR HELPING US tell your governor that transportation
enhancements funding and the community projects it makes possible are worth
saving.*




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--
Ernest Everett Blevins, MFA
Blevins Historical Research
110 Evergreen Way
Villa Rica, Georgia 30180
770-456-1876

Save the Old Villa Rica Library! Write the mayor at
and City officials listed on
http://villarica.org/council_members.php. Tell them the benefits of keeping
National Register Eligible Properties.

Historic Preservation Consultant -- Historical and Architectural Research --
Genealogical (Family) Research -- Preservation Planning and Documentation --
House History

Member: American Planning Association, Ambassador of the New England
Historic Genealogical Society, Historian: Casimir Pulaski SAR, Registrar:
Georgia Society of Founders & Patriots, and member of numerous other
lineage and heritage societies.

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