Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 658, and Related Bills ... August 11 and 13, 1970, Volumes 8-14U.S. Government Printing Office, 1971 - 170 pages |
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Page 30 - I will be pleased to try to answer any questions that the members of the committee may have regarding the budget Item or other program concerns.
Page 142 - Congress finds and declares (a) that the spirit and direction of the Nation are founded upon and reflected in its historic past; (b) that the historical and cultural foundations of the Nation should be preserved as a living part of our community life and development in order to give a sense of orientation to the American people...
Page 11 - These amendments delete the prohibition against fees for public day use of the park for recreational purposes. We are unaware of reasons for excepting this area from the general policy established by the Congress (in the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended) with .respect to the charging of user fees at Federal recreation areas.
Page 11 - ... 6, to read as follows : (b) The provisions of the Act of August 1, 1953 (67 Stat. 359), shall be applicable to lands and interests in lands within the boundary of the park.
Page 53 - ... comparison of the purposes to be accomplished by the work when executed. It is, therefore, a pleasing contemplation to those sanguine and patriotic spirits who have so long looked with hope to the completion of this undertaking, that it...
Page 136 - At length, my dear Marquis, I am become a private citizen on the banks of the Potomac; and under the shadow of my own vine and my own fig-tree, free from the bustle of a camp, and the busy scenes of public life...
Page 53 - The project contemplates a conquest over physical nature, such as has never yet been achieved by man. The wonders of the ancient world, the pyramids of Egypt, the Colossus of Rhodes, the temple of Ephesus, the mausoleum of Artemisia, the wall of China, sink into insignificance before it...
Page 142 - State and local efforts to make available and improve open-space land throughout entire urban areas. (c) The Congress further finds that there is a need for timely action to preserve and restore areas, sites, and structures of historic or architectural value in order that these remaining evidences of our history and heritage shall not be lost or destroyed through the expansion and development of the Nation's urban areas.
Page 73 - Thank you very much. The first witness this morning will be Lewis Uhler, State director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Mr. Uhler, do you have a prepared statement ? Mr. FORD. Well, if you have a prepared statement, without objection, we will place it in the record at this point and then you can proceed in any fashion you find convenient to summarize or supplement. Mr. UHLER. All right. We do nqt have any prepared statement as such.
Page 61 - Irrigation District, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of a resolution adopted at a regular meeting of the board of directors of Merced Irrigation District held on the 1st day of June 1954.