NATIONAL PARKS SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING: Misc. National Parks Bills

July 31, 2013
02:30 PM
SD-366 Senate Dirksen Building

The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills:

  • S. 398, to establish the Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum, and for other purposes
  • S. 524, to amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the study of the Pike National Historic Trail
  • S. 618, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain special resource studies
  • S. 702, to designate the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor as “The Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor”
  • S. 781, to modify the boundary of Yosemite National Park, and for other purposes
  • S. 782, to amend Public Law 101-377 to revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train Station, and for other purposes
  • S. 869, to establish the Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area, and for other purposes
  • S. 925, to improve the Lower East Side Tenement National Historic Site, and for other purposes
  • S. 995, to authorize the National Desert Storm Memorial Association to establish the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial as a commemorative work in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes
  • S. 974, to provide for certain land conveyances in the State of Nevada, and for other purposes
  • S. 1044, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to install in the area of the World War II Memorial in the District of Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United States on D-Day, June 6, 1944              
  • S. 1071, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make improvements to support facilities for National Historic Sites operated by the National Park Service, and for other purposes
  • S. 1138, to reauthorize the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area
  • S. 1151, to reauthorize the America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership in the State of Iowa
  • S. 1157, to reauthorize the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area, the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area, the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, and the Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area
  • S. 1186, to reauthorize the Essex National Heritage Area
  • S. 1252, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Missisquoi River and the Trout River in the State of Vermont, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System
  • S. 1253, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the Farmington River and Salmon Brook in the State of Connecticut as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other purposes
  • S. 1328, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the archeological site and surrounding land of the New Philadelphia town site in the State of Illinois, and for other purposes
  • S. 1339, to reauthorize the Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Canalway
  • H.R. 674, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating prehistoric, historic, and limestone forest sites on Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as a unit of the National Park System
  • H.R. 885, to expand the boundary of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, and for other purposes
  • H.R. 1033 and S. 916, to authorize the acquisition and protection of nationally significant battlefields and associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 under the American Battlefield Protection Program
  • H.R. 1158, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the North Cascades National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area

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Member Statements

  • The Honorable Michael Bennett

    U.S. Senator

Witness Panel 1