Funding opportunity number: P24AS00251IN 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 public purpose of the grant is to engage and support the public and private sectors to preserve historic route 66, an icon of america in the 20TH century. As per public law 106-45, the program supports efforts of local and state agencies, public and private persons, nonprofits, american indian tribes, and other entities in the states for the preservation of the route 66 corridor by providing technical assistance and cost-share grants. The cost-share grants make a direct impact to the road by providing resources to those in the best position to revitalize the infrastructure of the route, i.e., the managers, stewards and owners of sites and businesses along the route. The specific purpose of the award is to rehabilitate a historic route 66 property. The specific project activities include repair restoration of the windows, roof, paint, electrical, plumbing and septic systems of the historic california information bureau building in daggett, california. The goals of the project are to restore a historic fueling station 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 monica. The beneficiaries of the project are the traveling and general public and residents of daggett, california.