[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3120 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3120

    To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special 
 resource study of the Stranahan House in Broward County, Florida, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2007

 Ms. Wasserman Schultz (for herself, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Ms. Ros-
 Lehtinen, Mr. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida, Mr. Wexler, Mr. Meek of 
   Florida, Ms. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, Mr. Mack, Mr. Klein of 
    Florida, Ms. Castor, and Mr. Mahoney of Florida) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special 
 resource study of the Stranahan House in Broward County, Florida, 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 ``Stranahan House, Trading Post and 
Campsite Historic Preservation Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) Frank and Ivy Stranahan were among the first permanent 
        non-Indian settlers to establish a home and business in 
        southeast Florida and are considered the founding family of 
        Fort Lauderdale, and have had a river, street, school, and 
        subdivision named after them;
            (2) Frank Stranahan was one of the founders and earliest 
        elected officials in Fort Lauderdale and Broward County, 
        Florida, one of the nation's fastest growing metropolitan areas 
        with a population today of nearly 2 million people;
            (3) Frank and Ivy Stranahan were named Great Floridians by 
        the Florida Legislature in 2000 and former Interior Secretary 
        Stewart Udall once honored Ivy Stranahan as the ``first lady of 
        Fort Lauderdale'';
            (4) the Stranahan House historical and archaeological site, 
        which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is 
        one of the only Seminole trading post structures that remains 
        preserved today in Florida;
            (5) the Stranahan House, trading post and campsite located 
        at 335 S.E. 6th Avenue and 500 East Las Olas Boulevard has been 
        designated by the Fort Lauderdale city commission as a historic 
        landmark site; and
            (6) the Stranahan House, trading post and campsite, which 
        also contains prehistoric Tequesta and later historic period 
        archaeological remains, presents a valuable new opportunity to 
        learn more about the historical development of South Florida 
        and Everglades reclamation.

SEC. 3. STUDY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior (hereafter in this 
Act referred to as the ``Secretary'') shall conduct a special resource 
study of the Stranahan House, trading post and camp historical and 
archaeological site in Broward County, Florida. The site studied shall 
include both the property on which the Stranahan House is located at 
335 S.E. 6th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301, as well as the 
adjacent property, at 500 East Las Olas Boulevard, where portions of 
the trading post and the campsite were located.
    (b) Criteria.--The Secretary shall conduct the study under 
subsection (a) in accordance with section 8(c) of Public Law 91-383 (16 
U.S.C. 1a-5(c)).
    (c) Report.--Not later than 3 years after the date funds are made 
available for the study under this section, the Secretary shall submit 
to the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
the United States Senate a report on the findings, conclusions, and 
recommendations of the study.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary 
to carry out the provisions of this Act.
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