3.0.0 3399 2022-02-03T05:53:17Z 2022-02-03T05:53:17Z Senate S S 2012-07-18 112 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2012-07-18T20:46:07Z National Park Service Study Act of 2012 112 6175 HR 2012-07-26 Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands. Related bill CRS 2012-07-18 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2012-07-18 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5136-5138) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2012-07-18 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS Y Public Lands and Natural Resources Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas Colorado Congressional oversight Detention of persons Florida Georgia Government studies and investigations Hawaii Historic sites and heritage areas Lakes and rivers Military history Military personnel and dependents Mining Nevada New Mexico New York State Northern Mariana Islands Palau Parks, recreation areas, trails Racial and ethnic relations Television and film Texas U.S. history Utah Wyoming Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2012-07-18 Introduced in Senate 2012-09-18T14:50:43Z National Park Service Study Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct special resource studies of: (1) the Kau coast, on the island of Hawaii; (2) on request, the island of Rota in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; (3) sites in Alaska associated with the forced abandonment of the Aleut villages of Makushin, Kashega, and Biorka around Unalaska Island and Attu on Attu Island during World War II; (4) the five relocation sites in Alaska at Funter Bay, Burnett Inlet, Killisnoo, Ward Lake and the Wrangell Institute; (5) specified World War II Japanese American Relocation Center sites; (6) American Latino sites in the San Luis Valley and Central Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Colorado and New Mexico; (7) the town of Goldfield and outlying mining sites in Nevada; (8) the Hudson River Valley in New York; (9) the Norman Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, at which African-American casts and crews were used in the production of silent films; (10) the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta in Alabama; and (11) Galveston Bay in Texas.

Requires updates of: (1) the study authorized by the National Park Service Studies Act of 1999 relating to World War II sites, Republic of Palau; and (2) the 1979 study entitled "Vermejo Ranch, New Mexico/Colorado: Study of Management Options."

Directs the Secretary to: (1) study alternatives for commemorating and interpreting the role of the Buffalo Soldiers in the early years of the National Parks, (2) conduct a national historic landmark theme study to identify sites and resources in the southern United States that are significant to the Reconstruction era, and (3) study the feasibility of including 45 miles of the Chattahoochee River and land along the river corridor within the boundary of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area located in Georgia.

]]> National Park Service Study Act of 2012 Short Titles as Introduced National Park Service Study Act of 2012 Display Title National Park Service Study Act of 2012 Official Title as Introduced A bill to authorize studies of certain areas for possible inclusion in the National Park System, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2012-07-18T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s3399is/xml/BILLS-112s3399is.xml 2012-07-18 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.