[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1237 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1237

To designate certain lands in the Valley Forge National Historical Park 
                 as the Valley Forge National Cemetery.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 27, 2001

  Mr. Hoeffel (for himself, Mr. Brady of Pennsylvania, Mr. Pitts, Mr. 
  Doyle, Mr. Gekas, Mr. Kanjorski, Mr. Peterson of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
Fattah, Mr. Toomey, Mr. English, Mr. Holden, Ms. Hart, Mr. Platts, Mr. 
   Mascara, Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania, Mr. Borski, Mr. Murtha, Mr. 
Greenwood, Mr. Sherwood, and Mr. Coyne) introduced the following bill; 
 which was referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to 
  the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To designate certain lands in the Valley Forge National Historical Park 
                 as the Valley Forge National Cemetery.

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

SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF LANDS AS VALLEY FORGE NATIONAL CEMETERY.

    (a) In General.--Not more than 200 acres of land located within the 
Valley Forge National Historical Park on the day before the date of the 
enactment of this Act are hereby designated as the Valley Forge 
National Cemetery. Administrative jurisdiction over such lands is 
hereby transferred to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and such lands 
shall be administered as a national cemetery in accordance with chapter 
24 of title 38, United States Code (relating to national cemeteries and 
memorials).
    (b) Adjustment of Park Boundaries.--Subsection (b) of section 2 of 
the Act entitled ``An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
establish the Valley Forge National Historical Park in the Commonwealth 
of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes'' (16 U.S.C. 410aa-1) is 
amended by striking ``map entitled `Valley Forge National Historical 
Park', dated June 1979, and numbered VF-91,001'' and inserting ``map 
entitled `Valley Forge National Historical Park', dated ____, and 
numbered ____''.
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