Excerpt from War in the Pacific National Historical Park: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, Committee on Natural Resources, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session on H. R. 1944; Hearing Held in Washington. DC, May 27, 1993 We would also plan to place other interpretative panels at strate gic sites through the Park. We are planning a video program of the Chamorro experience during the campaign. The General Management Plan for the War in the Pacific Park on Guam does call for the development of a visitors center. Our current estimates are that that visitors center would cost, including design, $11 million. So one of the things we are suggest ing is that the authorization ceiling be changed from $8 million to $11 million to include the most recent estimate. For American Memorial Park on Saipan, the Government of the Northern Marianas is now actually constructing improvements at that Park, including the new pavilion that was done based on sche matic designs done by the National Park Service. They have hired a private architectural firm and are using the Seabees to do construction there at this time, and they expect to have a pavilion, which is Phase I of the construction, done by the commemorative events in 1994. The General Management Plan for American Memorial Park sug gests additional development, a visitors center and a museum, and we are looking at options for the visitors center at this time. My understanding is that in fact again the Government of the Northern Marianas has a private firm engaged to design that visi tors center. Our current estimates for that Park would bring total develop ment ceilings to $19 million. So we suggest again that this bill be amended to bring those figures up to date. Neither of these visitors centers are included in our 1994 budget request, Mr. Chairman, because they do not have sufficient service wide priority. So in our 1994 request we have not included any. That concludes my summary, Mr. Chairman. I would be happy to take any questions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.