[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4014 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4014

    To require that new signs installed on Park Service Lands on or 
    adjacent to the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern 
 Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, directing 
 motorists to Ronald Reagan National Airport must comply with the will 
  of Congress, the President, and the American people by prominently 
 including the full name, ``Ronald Reagan National Airport'', and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 5, 1998

 Mr. Young of Alaska (for himself, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Cox of California, 
   and Mr. Barr of Georgia) introduced the following bill; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require that new signs installed on Park Service Lands on or 
    adjacent to the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern 
 Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, directing 
 motorists to Ronald Reagan National Airport must comply with the will 
  of Congress, the President, and the American people by prominently 
 including the full name, ``Ronald Reagan National Airport'', 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 ``Ronald Reagan National Airport 
Preservation and Protection Act of 1998''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) Ronald Reagan is an American hero deserving of 
        recognition;
            (2) the will of the Congress to honor President Reagan was 
        clearly expressed when both Houses overwhelmingly passed 
        legislation changing the name of ``Washington National 
        Airport'' to ``Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport'' on 
        February 4, 1998;
            (3) the will of President Clinton to honor President Ronald 
        Reagan was clearly expressed when he signed such legislation 
        into law on February 6, 1998, the 87th birthday of President 
        Reagan; and
            (4) notwithstanding the fact that the will of the Congress 
        and the President had been clearly expressed through passage of 
        such legislation and signing such legislation into law, the 
        National Park Service (NPS) has recently announced that it 
        intends to erect new signs on the George Washington Memorial 
        Parkway directing motorists to Ronald Reagan National Airport 
        that omit Ronald Reagan's name.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION OF SIGNS OMITTING RONALD REAGAN'S NAME.

    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of the 
National Park Service--
            (1) shall not erect any new signs on, near, or adjacent to 
        the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia, 
        Maryland, the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, displaying 
        the name, ``National Airport'', but omitting the name ``Ronald 
        Reagan'';
            (2) shall, on or before August 5, 1998, replace all signs 
        on, near, or adjacent to the George Washington Memorial Parkway 
        in Northern Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, or 
        elsewhere, displaying the name ``National Airport'' with signs 
        prominently displaying the name ``Ronald Reagan National 
        Airport''; and
            (3) shall fund the replacement pursuant to subsection (2) 
        of any signs that had been erected after February 4, 1998, 
        entirely out of the budget of the Director of the National Park 
        Service.
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