A bill has been submitted to congress that would allow the National Park Service to buy battlefields of the War of 1812. Following is a teaser from an article in the July 22, 2012 edition of the examiner.com.
The House can now vote on a plan to protect battlefields of the American Revolution and the War of 1812. As the nation celebrates the bicentennial of the latter war, the House Committee on Natural Resources officially reported and sent for House consideration the American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act (H.R. 2489), which would allow the National Park Service (NPS) to buy from willing sellers sites where historically significant activities took place during the wars.
Currently, the Battlefield Acquisition Grant Program only applies to Civil War sites.
The committee approved the bill in April but only reported it to the House last week (see stories linked to below).
Read the report at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquery/R?cp112:FLD010:@1%28hr605%29.
