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Mr., from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, submitted the following

together with

ADDITIONAL VIEWS

[To accompany S. 1921]

The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was referred the bill (S. 1921) to amend the American Battlefield Protection Act of 1996 to extend the authorization for that Act, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.

The purpose of S. 1921 is to reauthorize the American Battlefield Protection Act for an additional five years, from 2008 until 2013.

The American Battlefield Protection Program was authorized in 1996 to provide funding for preservation of threatened Civil War battlefields. The program leverages Federal appropriations by requiring matching non-Federal funds. The battlefield protection