[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2280 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2280

   To provide for an orderly process to ensure compensation for the 
  termination of an easement or the taking of real property used for 
  public utility purposes at the Manassas National Battlefield Park, 
                   Virginia, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 13 (legislative day, July 11), 1994

 Mr. Robb (for himself and Mr. Warner) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for an orderly process to ensure compensation for the 
  termination of an easement or the taking of real property used for 
  public utility purposes at the Manassas National Battlefield Park, 
                   Virginia, and for other purposes.

    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(b)(2)(C)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
sentence: ``If, pursuant to this paragraph, the United States takes 
property (including taking a property right by terminating an easement) 
used for public utility purposes, the owner of the property or the 
grantee of the easement may, not later than 9 years after the date of 
enactment of the Manassas National Battlefield Park Amendments of 1994, 
initiate a proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction seeking a 
determination of just compensation with respect to the taking of the 
property.''.

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