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109TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 109-400
VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL VISITOR CENTER
DEADLINE ENFORCEMENT ACT
MARCH 28, 2006.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. POMBO, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 4882]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 4882) to ensure the proper remembrance of Vietnam veterans
and the Vietnam War by providing a deadline for the designation
of a visitor center for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, having con-
sidered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and
recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 4882 is to ensure the proper remembrance
of Vietnam veterans and the Vietnam War by providing a deadline
for the designation of a visitor center for the Vietnam Veterans Me-
morial.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
On November 1, 2003, legislation authorizing the construction of
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Visitor Center was signed into law
by President George W. Bush (Public Law 108-126). Since then,
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) and the National
Park Service (NPS) have worked jointly and extensively to com-
plete a analysis of the site for the visitor center. They have com-
pleted all the necessary evaluations and environmental analysis re-
quired by the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC)
under the Commemorative Works Act. Their work continued
through November 2005, when VVMF and NPS transmitted to
NCPC an extensive traffic analysis in preparation for a December
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