Received the following from the National Trust:

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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:31:11 -0500
From: National Trust for Historic    Preservation
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Subject: Homestretch for History Month: The January Race to Save Section
    4(f)

January of 2004 will be a most critical month in our long campaign to save
section 4(f). Toward the end of January and in early February, the Senate
will take up the six year surface transportation reauthorization bill and
at roughly the same time the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
will develop a bill for consideration by the House of Representatives.

Thanks to your letters and calls, the committee bill in the Senate
contains no language to weaken section 4(f).  However, amendments to
weaken section 4(f) will be offered when the bill comes before the full
Senate. When the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee takes
up its version of the six year reauthorization bill, similar amendments
are expected to be offered.

During the month of January, we hope you will contact (or continue to
contact) your Senators and Representative in the House, urging them to
oppose any amendment that weakens section 4(f)’s protections for historic
places.

Organizations representing road builders are vigorously at work gathering
support for the demise of section 4(f) as we know it now – the strongest
bulwark for historic places in all of Federal law.  It is up to us to let
the Senate and House know that abandoning historic places to the road
builders is unconscionable.

Write, call, e-mail, or visit your Senators and House Representative, tell
them how strongly you feel about preserving historic places and urge them
not to weaken section 4(f)’s protections. We don’t want America’s past
paved over.  Please visit
http://capwiz.com/nthp2/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=3916396 for a
legislative update, talking points, and contact information about how you
can help save section 4(f).

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