[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 340 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 340

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
 feasibility of designating Camp Security, located in Springettsbury, 
   York County, Pennsylvania, as a unit of the National Park System.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 8, 2009

  Mr. Platts 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 study the suitability and 
 feasibility of designating Camp Security, located in Springettsbury, 
   York County, Pennsylvania, as a unit of the National Park System.

    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 ``Camp Security National Historic Site 
Study Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) Camp Security is believed to be the only undisturbed 
        prisoner-of-war camp from the Revolutionary War remaining in 
        the United States.
            (2) Built at the direction of the Continental Congress, 
        Camp Security housed over 1,000 British prisoners of war 
        between 1781 and 1783.
            (3) The vast majority of British soldiers imprisoned at 
        Camp Security were captured as a result of the Continental 
        Army's pivotal victories at the Battles of Saratoga and 
        Yorktown.
            (4) Large portions of Camp Security were built along a 
        steep hill using terraces, a unique architectural and earthwork 
        feature.
            (5) Upon the 1783 adoption of the Treaty of Paris, Camp 
        Security was closed and those prisoners who did not marry local 
        women and settle in the area returned to their families in 
        Great Britain.
            (6) Recent excavations and surveys of the site identified 
        intact archeological deposits and recovered numerous domestic 
        and military artifacts.

SEC. 3. STUDY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior shall submit to the 
Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a study of the 
suitability and feasibility of designating Camp Security, located in 
Springettsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania, as a unit of the 
National Park System.
    (b) Process.--Section 8(c) of Public Law 91-383 (16 U.S.C. 1a-5(c)) 
shall apply to the conduct of the study required by this section, 
except that the study shall be submitted pursuant to subsection (a) not 
later than 18 months after the date on which funds are first made 
available for the study.
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