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Week Ending September 29, 2006

H.R.5132 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of including in the National Park System certain sites in Monroe County, Michigan, relating to the Battles of the River Raisin during the War of 1812.

Some battles of the War of 1812 were conducted on January 18^th and 22^nd, 1813 and this bill would authorize a study to determine the national significance of the sites of the battles and the suitability and feasibility of including them in the National Park System.

The sites are on or near the River Raisin in Monroe County, Michigan and would commemorate a site where, in 1813 the British and Native Americans attacked and nearly decimated the American Navy and killing the 60 to 80 prisoners.

The defeat spawned the battle cry “Remember the Raisin”.

Today the site is occupied by an abandoned paper mill that the city cleaned up with a $1 million grant. The National Parks Service says the site has impressive integrity relating to preserved archeological evidence.

Sponsor: Rep. John Dingell (D-MI-15^th)

Vote: Passed House by voice vote September 25, 2006

Cost to the taxpayers: “CBO estimates that implementing the bill would cost less than $500,000 over the 2007-2009 period.”

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