[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3514 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3514

To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Washington Spy 
         Ring National Historic Trail, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 27, 2017

Mr. Suozzi (for himself and Mr. Zeldin) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Washington Spy 
         Ring National Historic Trail, 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 ``Washington Spy Ring National 
Historic Trail Designation Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Culper Spy Ring was a group of American 
        Revolutionaries who gathered intelligence on British troop 
        movements and fortifications in Manhattan, Long Island, and 
        elsewhere for General George Washington.
            (2) The Culper Spy Ring is credited with uncovering 
        Benedict Arnold's conspiracy to surrender West Point to the 
        British and saving the Franco-American alliance by uncovering 
        plans to ambush the French army in Rhode Island.
            (3) Key locations used by the Culper Spy Ring include--
                    (A) Raynham Hall in Oyster Bay, New York, the home 
                of intelligence operative Robert Townsend;
                    (B) the Arsenal (also known as the Job Sammis 
                House) in Huntington, New York, which was used to store 
                gunpowder during the British occupation of Long Island 
                and the town of Huntington;
                    (C) the Brewster House, a tavern in Setauket, New 
                York, owned by the Brewster family and used to spy on 
                British officers and transfer information to General 
                Washington across the Long Island Sound; and
                    (D) generally, the byways and highways connecting 
                these sites.

SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF THE WASHINGTON SPY RING NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL.

    Section 5(a) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(a)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(_) Washington spy ring national historic trail.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Washington Spy Ring National 
                Historic Trail, a trail of approximately 50 miles of 
                village, town, and city streets and New York Route 25A, 
                from Great Neck, New York, along Long Island's North 
                Shore, through Nassau and Suffolk Counties, to Port 
                Jefferson, New York, following the route generally 
                depicted on the map entitled ___, numbered ___, and 
                dated ___.
                    ``(B) Availability of map.--The map described in 
                subparagraph (A) shall be on file and available for 
                public inspection in the appropriate office of the 
                Secretary.
                    ``(C) Administration.--In cooperation with the 
                Secretary, the Washington Spy Ring National Historic 
                Trail designated by this paragraph shall be 
                administered by the North Shore Promotion Alliance, an 
                organization described in section 501(c)(6) of the 
                Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation 
                under section 501(a) of such Code.''.
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