Rob Portman: “Let me say that if this private sector group were to move forward without additional technical assistance and without…”

“Let me say that if this private sector group were to move forward without additional technical assistance and without additional guidance from the Park Service, then the very goals that are outlined in that report might not be followed as closely as the gentleman might like or I might like. I think this is a way, in fact, to bring to fruition the kinds of things that the gentleman has been supporting. All it says is that there will be an affiliate status with the Park Service. There is no money in the bill. It is an authorization to allow the Park Service to enter into some sort of a technical assistance, some sort of a guidance relationship with this group in Cincinnati that has done so much work. Again, it is a national group. If you look at the members of the board, they are a national advisory group. This is a group that was brought together, academic experts and so on. I think what is going to happen is they are going to go ahead. They are going to move ahead. They have already raised over $400,000.”