[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3527 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3527

  To amend the Act entitled ``An Act to establish a national military 
   park at the battle fields of the siege of Petersburg, Virginia'', 
approved July 3, 1926, to limit the authority of the Department of the 
    Interior to impose fees for entrance to the City Point Unit of 
                    Petersburg National Battlefield.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 1998

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Act entitled ``An Act to establish a national military 
   park at the battle fields of the siege of Petersburg, Virginia'', 
approved July 3, 1926, to limit the authority of the Department of the 
    Interior to impose fees for entrance to the City Point Unit of 
                    Petersburg National Battlefield.

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

SECTION 1. LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY TO IMPOSE ENTRANCE FEES FOR CITY 
              POINT UNIT OF PETERSBURG NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD.

    The Act entitled ``An Act to establish a national military park at 
the battle fields of the siege of Petersburg, Virginia'', approved July 
3, 1926 (16 U.S.C. 423 et seq.), is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``Sec. 11. No fee may be imposed by the Department of the Interior 
for entrance to the City Point Unit of Petersburg National Battlefield, 
located in the City of Hopewell, Virginia, unless--
            ``(1) the Secretary of the Interior has reimbursed the City 
        for obligations and expenditures incurred by the City for 
        rehabilitation of National Park Service property located in the 
        Unit adjacent to the James River; or
            ``(2) the fee does not apply to entrance by a resident of 
        the City.''.
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