[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5129 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5129

 To modify the boundary of the Mammoth Cave National Park in the State 
                  of Kentucky, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 17, 2022

 Mr. McConnell introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To modify the boundary of the Mammoth Cave National Park in the State 
                  of Kentucky, 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 ``Mammoth Cave National Park Boundary 
Adjustment Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY MODIFICATION.

    Section 11 of the Act of June 5, 1942 (56 Stat. 319, chapter 341; 
16 U.S.C. 404c-11), is amended--
            (1) in the second paragraph, by striking ``the sum of not 
        to exceed'' in the first sentence and all that follows through 
        the period at the end of the paragraph and inserting ``such 
        sums as are necessary.''; and
            (2) by inserting after the second paragraph the following:
    ``The Secretary of the Interior may acquire approximately 980 acres 
of the land and any interests in the land generally depicted on the map 
entitled `Mammoth Cave National Park Proposed Southern Boundary 
Expansion Edmonson and Barren Counties, Kentucky', numbered 135/177, 
967, and dated April 28, 2022, for inclusion in the Mammoth Cave 
National Park.''.
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