Thank you for that clarification.

This is not a Memorial to the Peace Corps itself or even the individual volunteers who served in the Peace Corps.

Those are legitimate concerns the Park Service has expressed and this is a very important Memorial as we heard from Senator Inouye and we are going to continue to work to figure out the right way to do this.

I would like to clarify one issue in your testimony.

But that is an important starting point, thank you for that.

I understand the Army's mission ended last month at Fort Monroe and that several parcels within the fort boundary will convey to the Commonwealth of Virginia.

As this moves forward, we may need to continue the conversation based on what additional feedback we hear from the participants and these 2 studies.

I am not a lawyer so I can ask questions I do not know the answer to.

That Authority has Gubernatorial Appointees, it has legislators who represent the Fort Monroe area and it has representatives from the city of Hampton.

Your testimony indicated that the service estimates initial capital investments will total around 5 million dollars.

Yes, you can clearly see from the maps in the photographs that this spit of land performs multiple functions.

What kind of timeframe do you anticipate it will take to get the Fort open to the public once it is designated as a National Historical Park?

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Good afternoon. The Subcommittee on National Parks will come to order.

Specifically we're here to review a report that the Park Service issued last month entitled, A Call to Action: Preparing for a Second Century of Stewardship and Engagement.