[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 268 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 268

   To provide for the boundary of the Palo Alto Battlefield National 
Historic Park to be adjusted, to authorize the donation of land to the 
    United States for addition to that historic park, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 11, 2021

   Mr. Vela introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for the boundary of the Palo Alto Battlefield National 
Historic Park to be adjusted, to authorize the donation of land to the 
    United States for addition to that historic park, 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. BOUNDARY; LEGAL DESCRIPTION.

    (a) Boundary.--Section 3(b)(2) of the Palo Alto Battlefield 
National Historic Site Act of 1991 (16 U.S.C. 410nnn-1(b)(2)) is 
amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)--
                    (A) by striking ``consist of approximately'' and 
                inserting the following: ``consist of--
                            ``(i) the approximately'';
                    (B) by striking the period at the end and inserting 
                ``; and''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                            ``(ii) on the date that such land is 
                        donated to the United States, the approximately 
                        166.44 acres of land generally depicted on the 
                        map entitled `PALO ALTO BATTLEFIELD NATIONAL 
                        HISTORICAL PARK Proposed Boundary Addition, 
                        Fort Brown Unit', numbered 469/143,589, and 
                        dated April 2018.''; and
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``map'' and inserting 
        ``maps''.
    (b) Legal Description.--Section 3(b)(3) of the Palo Alto 
Battlefield National Historic Site Act of 1991 (16 U.S.C. 410nnn-
1(b)(3)) is amended by striking ``after'' and all that follows through 
``Secretary of the Interior'' and inserting ``after the addition of 
lands to the historic park boundary, the Secretary of the Interior''.
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