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>Subject: Re: correction - golden fleece award
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>Couldn't post this to HISTARCH without changing my email settings, 
>but thought you might be interested:
>
>Yes, he did target historical archaeology, at least once, when the 
>Lamberton Interceptor in Trenton, NJ won in 1980. A historic brick 
>vault sewer was identified and determined National Register-eligible 
>and the route of the new sewer was modified to avoid a portion of 
>it. Proxmire claimed this would waste about a million dollars. For a 
>different opinion, see this:
>
>http://www.sia-web.org/sian/images/sianv9/sianv93pg1.pdf
>
>The relevant quote is: "The facts surrounding the Lamberton Street 
>sewer project, however, simply do not support Proxmire's conclusion 
>of wasted federal dollars. The increased project costs purported to 
>be a consequence of overzealous historic  preservation are, rather, 
>the result of cost escalation due to shifts in the alignment of the 
>new sewer designed, in part, to avoid the right of way of a proposed 
>freeway. The historic sewer issue is being used by city engineers to 
>cover up "foot dragging" in the development of engineering plans 
>long after the formal historic preservation process was resolved"
>
>
>
>T. Cregg Madrigal, Ph.D.
>Principal Environmental Specialist - Archaeology
>New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection
>Municipal Finance and Construction Element
>Office of Technical Services
>PO Box 425
>Trenton, NJ, 08625-0425
>(609) 633-1170
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> >>> [log in to unmask] 3/12/2010 4:23 PM >>>
>Senator Edward William Proxmire was the senator (1957-1989) from
>Wisconsin, not Rhode Island, as a colleague just pointed out to me.
>His "Golden Fleece Awards" were the center of great controversy,
>especially his attacks on the NSF, space exploration and other projects.
>I do not know if he ever targeted archaeology, not to mention
>Historical Archaeology.
>
>Robert L. Schuyler
>University of Pennsylvania Museum
>3260 South Street
>Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324

Robert L. Schuyler
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Philadelphia, PA l9l04-6324

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