Leutze park, Washington Navy Yard

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Cannonmn's latest post about the dissolving cannons reminded me of his other post about the same problem at the Washington Naval Yard <a href="http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,183187.0.html ">here [/url] and what could be done about it.
After looking around, I thought the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/history/local-law/nhpa1966.htm "> National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 [/url] may apply because it states Sections 110(a)(1) and (d) of the Act require that Federal agencies assume responsibility for the preservation of their historic properties, and carry out programs which further the purposes of this Act, but after reading it seems to apply to lands and buildings.  Then I found <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org12-7f.htm ">this [/url] having to do with the Navy claiming downed aircraft citing the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. The document states that the Navy is doing this for monetary purposes, but the act clearly states that if the artifact is their property they are responsible for it's preseveration.
Having only seen Cannonmn's posts about Leutze Park, I had a look around and found <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/cannons/cannons.html "> this page[/url]
Pic #8 is missing something, a cannon. Why? because it's being preserved (in 2001) <a href="http://www.history.navy.mil/cannons/cannons57.htm ">click [/url]by The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory.
They did it once, they can do it again. I'm not an attorney but it looks to me like they are legally obligated to finish the job since they own the guns, and by the fact that they did conserve 1 gun they are acknowledging that they know this is an issue,  just need to find the right organization to persuade them.
I don't know if any of this helps, it's just what I found and I found it all quite interesting.
Here are links to the resources I found that may help.
Preservation Action
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Heritage Preservation
AASLH
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Legacy Resource Management Program
Preserve America
Federal Save America’s Treasures program
CACI
Save Our History
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