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On March 7, 2002, Congressman John Murtha (PA-12) introduced a bill in the United States House of Representatives to establish a National Memorial to be developed by a commission, and ultimately administered by the National Park Service. On April 16, 2002, Senator Arlen Specter (PA) introduced a version of the "Flight 93 National Memorial Act" in the Senate. On September 10, 2002 the bill passed both houses of Congress. The final bill specifically excluded the four hijackers from being memorialized. When signed by President George W. Bush on September 24, 2002, it became Public Law No. 107-226, and the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. By September 2005, the commission was required to send to the Secretary of the Interior and Congress recommendations for the planning, design, construction, and long-term management of a permanent memorial.
The proposed boundaries of the National Memorial extend from Lambertsville Road to U.S. Route 30. It will be about 2,200 acres (890 ha), of which about 1,000 acres (400 ha) will be privately held, but protected through partnership agreements. The memorial itself would be a 400-acre (160 ha) bowl-shaped area, with 1,800 acres (730 ha) surrounding as a buffer.[7] In December 2002, landowner Tim Lambert donated 6 acres (2.4 ha) at the crash site, and entered discussions with the Conservation Fund regarding 160 acres (65 ha) additional.[8] Using some funds donated from receipts for the film United 93, the Families of Flight 93 organization purchased 3 acres (1.2 ha) in the summer of 2006. The organization is also seeking $10 million in federal funding to use for acquiring land.[7] In November 2006, the Conservation Fund acquired 100 acres (40 ha) as buffer land which are to be managed by the Pennsylvania Game Commission.[9] PBS Coals Inc. sold 900 acres (360 ha) to the families' organization in March 2008.[10]
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http://www.wjactv.com/news/19396127/detail.htmlNational Park Service officials said they will begin taking land for the Flight 93 memorial in Somerset County from property owners because negotiations have been unsuccessful.
The service said it will condemn about 500 acres still needed for the memorial to be built in time for the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Randall Musser, who is one of seven landowners affected, said he is surprised by the Park Service's actions but understands the agency must move forward with land acquisition to finish the memorial by 2011.
Park Service representatives said they have been working with landowners for years, but negotiations have not been successful.
Musser said while there have been talks about negotiating, they have never sat down and discussed anything.
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http://www.wtae.com/news/19665762/detail.htmlSOMERSET, Pa. -- The U.S. government will not use eminent domain to seize people's land for a permanent Flight 93 memorial and instead will renew negotiations with landowners near the terrorist crash site in Somerset County.
"The landowners will be treated fairly," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Friday. "There will be fair compensation provided. That's fair compensation based on fair market value."
U.S. Gov't Backs Off Plan To Seize Flight 93 Memorial Land
Until Friday, the National Park Service had planned to seize the remaining land that's needed for a $58 million, 2,200-acre memorial and national park at the crash site -- an extremely rural area 60 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
Slideshow: Pictures Of The Flight 93 Temporary Memorial
U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., accompanied Salazar Friday as they met with families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, fatal hijacking and landowners in Shanksville.
The meeting also focused on what still needs to be done for the memorial to be completed by 2011, in time for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Specter said the "landowners have been good neighbors and there have been some miscommunications. Here and now, we have to recognize the contributions of the landowners."
Salazar told the park service to negotiate with landowners for one more week. Eminent domain will be used as a last resort if no agreement can be reached.
"They, too, were the victims of 9/11, in terms of what happened," Salazar said of the seven property owners, who control about 500 acres. "I do believe we will find a good way and a positive way to move forward."
Two owners account for a majority of the acreage that the park service had hoped to condemn. Svonavec Inc. owns 275 acres -- including the place of impact where the plane hit the ground -- while a family that operates a scrap yard has about 150.
Parks service officials have said they needed to take the land because negotiations with landowners weren't successful, but landowners said those negotiations never took place.
"Every time we've talked to someone, nothing's happened," said Christine Williams, who owns about 6 acres at the site with her husband. "We have had three appraisals. We've never seen them."
"They haven't been informed exactly what was going on -- the procedures which were being followed," said Specter, who chalked it up to miscommunication.
Williams said she believes the announcement will help the process move faster, but it doesn't make giving up the land any easier.
"This was to be a property that we retired to," she said. "We didn't want to leave, and we still don't want to leave."
Current plans for the memorial include a walkway and a wall which would follow the plane's flight path to the crash site. Visitors would also be able to, for the first time, view the crash site from just a few feet away.
United Airlines Flight 93 was traveling from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco when hijackers took control and diverted it, likely hoping to crash into the White House or Capitol. The official 9/11 Commission report said the hijackers took the plane down when passengers tried to gain control of the cockpit.
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