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Govs of NY, NJ request US help for 9/11 memorial

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Ribbons of water flow off a mock-up waterfall designed for the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. The 30-foot waterfall will cascade down the sides of the footprints of the destroyed World Trade Center towers, forming reflecting pools surrounded by the terrorist attack victims names. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Ribbons of water flow off a mock-up waterfall designed for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Friday, Jan. 22, 2010, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York. The 30-foot waterfall will cascade down the sides of the footprints of the destroyed World Trade Center towers, forming reflecting pools surrounded by the terrorist attack victims' names. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP Photo)

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Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) - June 16, 2012 (WPVI) -- The governors of New York and New Jersey are asking the National Park Service to take a role in funding and managing the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center site.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Chris Christie sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Saturday saying that Park Service involvement at the site would ensure its long term stability.

Right now the memorial is run by a private foundation, led by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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Work on the memorial's unfinished, underground museum stalled last fall after a funding dispute with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Since then, several groups and agencies have raised concern about its long-term fiscal health.

Any Park Service role would have to be approved by Congress.

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