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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:7.5pt;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">National Park Service to award $1.7 million in grants for maritime history education and preservation projects<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The National Park Service, in partnership with the Maritime Administration, announced the availability of approximately $1.7 million in grant funding through its
</span><a href="http://www.nps.gov/maritime/index.htm">Maritime Heritage Program</a><span style="color:black"> for projects that teach about and/or preserve sites and objects related to our nation’s maritime history. Details of the grant program, including
the application process, are available online at </span><a href="http://go.nps.gov/14n1n8">http://go.nps.gov/14n1n8</a><span style="color:black">; grant applications will be accepted through September 23, 2014.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times","serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Style"><span style="color:black;background:white">“From commerce and transportation, to national defense and recreation, America’s maritime resources have always been an important part of our nation’s story,” said National Park Service Director Jonathan
B. Jarvis. “These grants will help preserve these important resources and increase public appreciation for the maritime heritage of the United States.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Style"><span style="color:black;background:white">“Maritime history plays a central role in our national narrative,” said Acting Maritime Administrator Paul N. Jaenichen. “With the restart of this program, we have the opportunity to raise American
awareness and understanding of marine transportation’s pivotal role in our nation’s past, present and future.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Style"><span style="color:black">The grants are available to </span>state, tribal, and local governments, as well as private non-profit organizations for both education and preservation projects. Education projects will be funded in amounts between
$25,000-$50,000; preservation projects will be funded in amounts between $50,000-$200,000.<span style="color:black"> Education grants can be used for programs such as school curriculum, interpretive programs and web pages, and preservation grant projects will
include the restoration of ships and other maritime resources.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The National Maritime Heritage Grant Program is administered by the National Park Service in partnership with the Maritime Administration. The grants are supported by revenue from the scrapping of vessels from
the Maritime Administration’s National Defense Reserve Fleet. These ships are purchased for recycling and the revenue provides assistance for a broad range of maritime education and preservation projects without expending tax dollars, while the metal in the
purchased vessels is used to build new ships. Support for applying and additional information can be found at the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, contact Kuri Gill for information at
<a href="mailto:Kuri.Gill@oregon.gov">Kuri.Gill@oregon.gov</a> or 503-986-0685.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Centaur","serif"">Kuri Gill<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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