[Geysers] National Park quarters

[Tamsen Leigh Hert]

Here is the response I received from Senator Barrasso:


August 7, 2009













Dear Tamsen,



Thank you for contacting me about S. 3290, the "America's Beautiful National Parks Coin Act of 2008."  It is good to hear from you.

Last year, I introduced S. 3290 <javascript:>  <javascript:>  during the 110th Congress to create a quarter dollar coin series celebrating America's national parks.  I believe these coins will increase awareness and promote efforts to preserve America's national treasures for generations to come.  The house version of the bill was passed and signed into law on December 23, 2008.



The National Park Quarters Program will feature quarters with designs of national parks or other national sites emblematic to each state and territory of the United States.  As the nation's first national park, it is only fitting that Yellowstone, as a part of Wyoming's unique heritage, is commemorated in the first series of quarters.



Thank you for taking the time to pass your comments along.  I look forward to hearing from you in the future.





John Barrasso, M.D.
United States Senator



Tamsen Emerson Hert, MLS, MA
Head of Special Collections
University of Wyoming Libraries
Dept. 3334
1000 East University Avenue
Laramie, WY  82071
phone:  307-766-6245
email: thert at uwyo.edu
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From: geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of JOHN WARNOCK
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 1:32 PM
To: geyser observation reports
Subject: RE: [Geysers] National Park quarters

A "WELL DONE" for Senator Barrasso!!!  Thanks for the link Tamsen.

John Warnock

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From: THert at uwyo.edu
To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:28:30 -0600
Subject: RE: [Geysers] National Park quarters
Here is a link from Senator Barrasso's website.
It states that the first quarter will be Yellowstone.

http://barrasso.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Search.Results&keywords=national+park+quarters

Tamsen Hert

Tamsen Emerson Hert, MLS, MA
Head of Special Collections
University of Wyoming Libraries
Dept. 3334
1000 East University Avenue
Laramie, WY  82071
phone:  307-766-6245
email: thert at uwyo.edu
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From: geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of TSBryan at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2009 2:10 PM
To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
Subject: [Geysers] National Park quarters

At some point while I was in Yellowstone I mentioned to somebody that the national parks are to be the subjects of the next series of U.S. quarters. Nobody else seemed to have heard about the program. It's sorta hard to imagine that YNP won't be #1, but that ain't necessarily so. Easy enough to get info from the US Mint website, but here's the intro page.

Scott Bryan
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America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008
Beginning in 2010, the United States Mint will issue coins featuring national parks and other national sites with new quarter-dollars minted and issued in accordance with the "America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008" (Act). Thanks to this innovative multi-year program, approximately every 10 weeks you will see a new design emblematic of a national site depicted on the reverse of the quarter. The sites selected for this series of quarters will come from each of 56 host jurisdictions comprising the 50 States, the District of Columbia and each U.S. territory (the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). A portrait of George Washington will remain on the obverse of all of the quarters.
The Act, signed into law as Public Law 110-456 on December 23, 2008, requires that within 270 days of enactment (about Sept. 19, 2009), the Secretary of the Treasury must select the national park or national site to be honored with a coin in each of the 56 host jurisdictions. Under the provisions of the site selection process<http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/NSQuartersProgram/index.cfm?action=siteSelection>, the Secretary will consult with the Secretary of the Interior and the governor or other chief executive of each host jurisdiction. After a site list has been approved, the law requires the United States Mint to design, mint and issue the new quarters in the order in which each site was first established as a national site.
The proposed design selection<http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/NSQuartersProgram/index.cfm?action=designSelection> process and site and design selection criteria<http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/NSQuartersProgram/index.cfm?action=siteDesignCriteria> closely emulate the processes that the United States Mint successfully used to develop and select designs for the 50 State Quarters(r) and 2009 District of Columbia and U.S. Territories Quarters Programs.
Please check here regularly for updates on the "America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008" coins as the site and design selection processes unfold this year.

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