The National Park Service, after encountering a lack of support from Congress and the public, has decided to drop plans for an underground visitor's center at the Washington Monument.
After Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, D-N.D., attached an amendment blocking the project's funding to the appropriations bill for the Department of Interior, the project was abandoned.
Dorgan criticized the visitor's center, which would allow the Park Service to screen visitors at a separate building attached to the monument by an underground concourse, as being expensive and not clearly necessary.
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