[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1665 Engrossed in House (EH)]


  1st Session

                               H. R. 1665

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                                 AN ACT

To allow the National Park Service to acquire certain land for addition 
to the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, as previously authorized by 
          law, by purchase or exchange as well as by donation.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1665

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                                 AN ACT


 
To allow the National Park Service to acquire certain land for addition 
to the Wilderness Battlefield in Virginia, as previously authorized by 
          law, by purchase or exchange as well as by donation.

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

SECTION 1. ADDITION TO WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD, VIRGINIA.

    (a) Removal of Condition on Battlefield Addition.--Section 2(a)(2) 
of Public Law 102-541 (16 U.S.C. 425k note; 106 Stat. 3565) is amended 
by striking ``: Provided,'' and all that follows through ``Interior''.
    (b) Authorized Methods of Acquisition.--
            (1) Limitations on acquisition methods.--Section 3(a) of 
        Public Law 101-214 (16 U.S.C. 425l(a)) is amended--
                    (A) by striking ``The Secretary'' and inserting 
                ``(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
                Secretary''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
    ``(2) The lands designated `P04-04' on the map referred to in 
section 2(a) numbered 326-40072E/89/A and dated September 1990 may be 
acquired only by donation, and the lands designated `P04-01', `P04-02', 
and `P04-03' on such map may be acquired only by donation, purchase 
from willing sellers, or exchange.''.
            (2) Removal of restriction on acquisition of addition.--
        Section 2 of Public Law 102-541 (16 U.S.C. 425k note; 106 Stat. 
        3565) is amended by striking subsection (b).
    (c) Technical Correction.--Section 2(a) of Public Law 101-214 (16 
U.S.C. 425k(a)) is amended by striking ``Spotslyvania'' and inserting 
``Spotsylvania''.

            Passed the House of Representatives October 12, 1999.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.