SHANKSVILLE, Pa. — The federal government says today is the deadline to get land needed for the Flight 93 National Memorial in western Pennsylvania without using eminent domain.
National Park Service acting director Dan Wenk said land owners and the government have been working together all week to get the transaction done without seizing the land.
Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the government would use eminent domain if deals aren’t worked out by today. Land value would then be decided in court.
Flight 93 was hijacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, and crashed in rural Somerset County, about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.
The government and the victims’ families want the memorial in place for the tenth anniversary of the attacks.
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