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                                                 Union Calendar No. 643
114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 2333

                          [Report No. 114-820]

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain property 
related to the Fort Scott National Historic Site in Fort Scott, Kansas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 14, 2015

Ms. Jenkins of Kansas introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Natural Resources

                           November 14, 2016

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on May 14, 
                                 2015]


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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain property 
related to the Fort Scott National Historic Site in Fort Scott, Kansas.


 


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

SECTION 1. AUTHORIZATION TO ACQUIRE LUNETTE BLAIR.

    The Act entitled ``An Act to authorize establishment of the Fort 
Scott National Historic Site, Kansas, and for other purposes.'', 
approved October 19, 1978 (Public Law 95-484) is amended--
            (1) in the first section, by striking ``: Provided, that 
        the buildings so acquired shall not include the structure known 
        as `Lunette Blair'''; and
            (2) in section 2--
                    (A) by striking ``Sec. 2. When'' and inserting the 
                following:

``SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT.

    ``(a) In General.--When''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Boundary Modification.--The boundary of the Fort Scott 
National Historic Site established under subsection (a) is modified as 
generally depicted on the map referred to as `Fort Scott National 
Historic Site Proposed Boundary Modification', numbered 471/80,057, and 
dated February 2016.
    ``(c) Land Acquisition.--The Secretary of the Interior is 
authorized to acquire land and interests in land within the boundaries 
of the Fort Scott National Historic Site by donation or exchange only. 
The Secretary may not acquire by condemnation any land or interests in 
land within the boundaries of the Fort Scott National Historic Site. No 
private property or non-Federal property shall be included within the 
boundaries of the Fort Scott National Historic Site without the written 
consent of the owner of such property.
    ``(d) No Buffer Zone Created.--Nothing in this Act, the 
establishment of the Fort Scott National Historic Site, or the 
management plan for the Fort Scott National Historic Site, shall be 
construed to create a buffer zone outside of the Fort Scott National 
Historic Site. That activities or uses can be seen, heard or detected 
from areas within the Fort Scott National Historic Site shall not 
preclude, limit, control, regulate, or determine the conduct or 
management of activities or uses outside of the Fort Scott National 
Historic Site.''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 643

114th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 2333

                          [Report No. 114-820]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain property 
related to the Fort Scott National Historic Site in Fort Scott, Kansas.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           November 14, 2016

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed