[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4435 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4435

 To provide for the orderly termination of easements and property used 
 for public utility purposes at the Manassas National Battlefield Park.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 1994

   Mr. Wolf introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the orderly termination of easements and property used 
 for public utility purposes at the Manassas National Battlefield Park.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Manassas National Battlefield Park 
Amendments of 1994''.

SEC. 2. ORDERLY TERMINATION.

    Subsection (b)(2)(C) of the first section of the Act entitled ``An 
Act to preserve within Manassas National Battlefield Park, Virginia the 
most important historic properties relating to the battle of Manassas, 
and for other purposes'', approved April 17, 1954 (16 U.S.C. 429b), is 
amended by adding at the end the following: ``The owner of any easement 
or property used for public utility purposes which are taken pursuant 
to this paragraph may initiate a proceeding in a court of competent 
jurisdiction seeking a determination of just compensation with respect 
to the taking of such property at any time within nine years after the 
date of enactment of the Manassas National Battlefield Park Amendments 
of 1988.''.

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