Senator Bennet seeks funding for Amache National Historic Site in Colorado

DENVER, Colo. (KRDO) -- Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet has sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations requesting funding for the Amache National Historic Site.

Earlier this year, President Joe Biden signed into law the Amache National Historic Site Act, which established the site as part of the National Park System.

Decades earlier, the site outside of Granada, Colorado was used as a Japanese American incarceration facility.

In his letter to the committee, Bennet requested more than $500,000 in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill to support operations at the site for the upcoming year.

“Robust funding for the Amache National Historic Site in its inaugural year will ensure future generations have the opportunity to learn about what happened at Amache and the Americans who were interned there. We have a responsibility to carry their legacy forward,” the senator wrote in his letter.

Learn more about the historic site here: Amache National Historic Site