[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4293 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4293

    To modify the boundary of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House 
      National Historic Site in Washington, District of Columbia.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 5, 2004

  Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To modify the boundary of the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House 
      National Historic Site in Washington, District of Columbia.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This section may be cited as the ``Mary McLeod Bethune Council 
House National Historic Site Boundary Adjustment Act''.

SEC. 2. BOUNDARY MODIFICATION.

    Section 2 of the Act entitled ``An Act to authorize the National 
Park Service to acquire and manage the Mary McLeod Bethune Council 
House National Historic Site, and for other purposes'', approved 
December 11, 1991 (105 Stat. 1652), is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``The Secretary''; and
            (2) by adding after subsection (a) (as so designated by 
        paragraph 1 of this section) the following new subsection:
    ``(b) The Secretary may acquire, with the consent of the owner 
thereof, by donation or by purchase with donated or appropriated funds, 
the abutting property located at 1320 Vermont Avenue Northwest, 
Washington, District of Columbia, and generally depicted on the map 
entitled `Mary McLead Bethune Council Proposed Boundary Adjustment', 
numbered 021/80,006, and dated February 2004, to be used for visitor 
orientation, administrative purposes, archival storage, facilities for 
researchers, and accessibility for handicapped persons.''.
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