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JAMES B. HUNT, JR.
GOVERNOR
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EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 20
WHEREAS, the State of North Carolina and its citizens have
contributed extensively to all phases of discovery and research relating
to the location, identification, and further examination of the USS Monitor
since the early 1960s; and
WHEREAS, through the cooperative endeavors of the State of
North Carolina, researchers at the Duke University Marine Laboratory at
Beaufort, North Carolina, and other researchers throughout America, the
resting place of the USS Monitor was located in August, 1973; and
WHEREAS, since the time of her discovery the State of North
Carolina has played a leading role in the further study and protection of
the wreck of the USS Monitor by nominating the site off the coast of
North Carolina for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places
and for designation as the nation's first marine sanctuary; and
WHEREAS, in December, 1977, the State of North Carolina con-cluded
a memorandum of agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration of the United States Department of Commerce to establish a
system of technical and professional review of proposals for additional
research in the area of the Monitor Marine Sanctuary; and
WHEREAS, at the same time the State of North Carolina announced
its intentions of preparing a master plan for research in the marine sanctuary,
of collecting all available data on the Monitor , and of convening a national
conference in North Carolina to consider the future of the Monitor; and
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