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<meta><dc:title>Public Law 118–163: To amend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Development Act to extend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Commission.</dc:title>
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<citableAs>Public Law 118–163</citableAs><citableAs>138 Stat. 2578</citableAs>
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<dc:date>2024-12-23</dc:date>
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<preface><centerRunningHead>PUBLIC LAW 118–163—DEC. 23, 2024</centerRunningHead>
<page identifier="/us/stat/138/2578">138 STAT. 2578</page>
<dc:type>Public Law</dc:type><docNumber>118–163</docNumber>
<congress value="118">118th Congress</congress>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize12" style="-uslm-lc:I658005">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I658011">To amend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Development Act to extend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Commission.<sidenote><p class="centered fontsize8" id="xa372ab9d-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076"><approvedDate date="2024-12-23">Dec. 23, 2024</approvedDate></p><p class="centered fontsize8" id="xa372ab9e-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658076">[<ref href="/us/bill/118/hr/1727">H.R. 1727</ref>]<?GPOvSpace 08?></p></sidenote></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I658120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xa372d2af-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658180">Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Commission Extension Act.</p></sidenote>
<section id="d39333e88" identifier="/us/pl/118/163/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I658146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><sidenote><p class="leftAlign firstIndent0 fontsize8" id="xa372d2b0-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658180"><ref href="/us/usc/t16/s410y">16 USC 410y note</ref>.</p></sidenote><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Commission Extension Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d39333e103" identifier="/us/pl/118/163/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I658141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK COMMISSION.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I658120">  Section 6(g) of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Development Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t16/s410y–4/g">16 U.S.C. 410y–4(g)</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>40</quotedText>” and all that follows through the period at the end and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>on October 1, 2031.</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<actionDescription style="-uslm-lc:I658030">Approved</actionDescription> <date date="2024-12-23">December 23, 2024</date>.</action>
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658031"><inline class="underline">LEGISLATIVE HISTORY</inline>—<ref href="/us/bill/118/hr/1727">H.R. 1727</ref> (<ref href="/us/bill/118/s/924">S. 924</ref>):</heading>
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<headingText style="-uslm-lc:I658032">HOUSE REPORTS:</headingText> ┐No. <ref href="/us/hrpt/118/363">118–363</ref> (<committee>Comm. on Natural Resources</committee>).
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<headingText style="-uslm-lc:I658032">SENATE REPORTS:</headingText> ┐No. <ref href="/us/srpt/118/143">118–143</ref> (<committee>Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources</committee>) accompanying <ref href="/us/bill/118/s/924">S. 924</ref>.
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<heading style="-uslm-lc:I658032">CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 170 (2024):</heading>
<p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="xa372d2b1-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">Feb. 5, 6, considered and passed House.</p><p class="indentUp4 firstIndent-1" id="xa372d2b2-e80f-11f0-bc57-ad3ac4b1618c" style="-uslm-lc:I658035">Dec. 17, considered and passed Senate.</p></note>
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