[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2240 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2240

 To authorize the exchange of land or interest in land between Lowell 
National Historical Park and the city of Lowell in the Commonwealth of 
                 Massachusetts, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 16, 2011

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the exchange of land or interest in land between Lowell 
National Historical Park and the city of Lowell in the Commonwealth of 
                 Massachusetts, 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 ``Lowell National Historical Park Land 
Exchange Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS.

    The Act entitled ``An act to provide for the establishment of the 
Lowell National Historical Park in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
and for other purposes'' approved June 5, 1978 (Public Law 95-290; 16 
U.S.C. 410cc et seq.), is amended--
            (1) in section 202, by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d)(1) The Secretary may exchange any land or interest in land 
within the boundaries of the park for any land or interest in land 
owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the city of Lowell, or the 
University of Massachusetts Building Authority.
    ``(2) Except as provided in paragraph (3), an exchange under this 
subsection shall be subject to the laws, regulations, and policies 
applicable to exchanges of land administered by the National Park 
Service and any other terms and conditions that the Secretary 
determines to be necessary to protect the interests of the United 
States.
    ``(3) Where facilities or infrastructure required for the 
management and operation of the Lowell National Historical Park exists 
on the Federal land to be exchanged, and the non-Federal land or 
interest in land to be exchanged is not of equal value, the values 
shall be equalized by the payment of cash to the Secretary, which shall 
be credited to a special account established in the Treasury and 
retained, without further appropriation, for the purpose of replacing 
the facilities and infrastructure. The Secretary shall not be required 
to equalize the values of any exchange conducted under this subsection 
if the land or interest in land received by the Federal Government 
exceeds the value of the Federal land or interest in land exchanged.''; 
and
            (2) in section 303(a)(1), by striking ``thirty-five years'' 
        and inserting ``sixty years''.
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