A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION,  Urging the establishment of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration Commission.

     WHEREAS,  the bicentennial commemoration of the Lewis and Clark expedition will take place from 2004 through 2006 and is expected to attract ten percent of the nation's population; and

     WHEREAS,  the Lewis and Clark Trail follows the Missouri River from its mouth to its source in the Rocky Mountains, to the mouth of the Columbia River, and back again, traveling through the State of South Dakota for approximately three hundred sixty miles; and

     WHEREAS,  the various federal, state, tribal, county, and city agencies within South Dakota must work together to prepare for the expected increased visitation during the bicentennial; and

     WHEREAS,  South Dakota will host the 2001 annual meeting of the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation that will showcase the state's resources to Lewis and Clark followers from across the nation, who will take the story of the state's hospitality and services back home; and

     WHEREAS,  South Dakota is the only state along the trail route that does not have an established Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration Commission, since all work toward

this effort is currently being done by the Department of Tourism:

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED,  by the House of Representatives of the Seventy- sixth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that a Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration Commission be established within the state consisting of members from various federal, state, tribal, county, city, and private entities along the trail that will be impacted.