In recognition of the significance of route 66 to americas heritage, congress passed an act in 1999 to create the route 66 corridor preservation program

Administered by the national park service, the program is dedicated to preserving the special places and stories of the historic highway.first funded in 2001, the program collaborates with private, nonprofit, and government partners to identify, prioritize, and address priority preservation needs of route 66. The program provides cost-share grants for the preservation of the most significant and representative building, structures, road segments, and cultural landscapes along the length of the route 66 corridor, covering illinois, missouri, kansas, oklahoma, texas, new mexico, arizona, and california. Cost-share grants are also available for planning, research and educational initiatives related to the preservation of route 66. The funding and technical assistance provided by the program empowers and leverages the public to preserve and commemorate the special places and stories of this important ERA of american history. The objectives of this project are to repair and replace the curved, OAK siding of the historic round barn in arcadia, oklahoma. The objectives of this project are to rehabilitate the septic system of the historic roys motel and cafe in amboy, california. The goals of the project are to restore a historic motel and cafe on route 66 as part of a larger national park service mission to partner with private, nonprofit, educational, local state federal tribal agencies to preserve and commemorate the significant sites and stories of the historic route 66 corridor, in order to contribute to the understanding, preservation and revitalization of historic route 66 from chicago to santa monicabeneficiaries include interstate, intrastate, state, local, sponsored organization, public nonprofit institution organization, other public institution organization, individual family, small business, profit organization, private organization, other private institution organization.