59–010 

Calendar No. 621 

114TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! SENATE 2d Session 114–346 

DAYTON AVIATION HERITAGE NATIONAL HISTORICAL 

PARK 

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016.—Ordered to be printed 

Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural 

Resources, submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany S. 1007] 

The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was 

referred the bill (S. 1007) to amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage 

Preservation Act of 1992 to rename a site of the Dayton Aviation 

Heritage National Historical Park, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and an amendment to 

the title and recommends that the bill do pass. 

The amendment is as follows: 

1. Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to amend the Dayton 

Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992, and for other purposes.’’. 

PURPOSE

The purpose of S. 1007 is to amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage 

Preservation Act of 1992 to rename a site of the Dayton Aviation 

Heritage National Historical Park. 

BACKGROUND AND NEED

The Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, in Dayton, Ohio, is a cooperative effort between the National Park Service 

and Dayton-based partners Aviation Trail, Inc., Carillon Historical 

Park, the Ohio Historical Society, and Wright-Patterson Air Force 

Base. The historical park commemorates three Dayton men—Wilbur and Orville Wright, inventors of manned powered flight, and 

Paul Laurence Dunbar, childhood friend of the Wright brothers and 

one of America’s greatest African-American poets. 


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There are multiple interpretive sites within the historical park to 

include the John W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center, 

which houses what is believed to be the largest collection of original artifacts associated with the Wright Brothers. Orville Wright 

designed and oversaw the exhibit installation at the site up until 

his death in 1948. The collection includes the original 1905 Wright 

Flyer III, the world’s first practical plane built by the Wright brothers, flown at Huffman Prairie Flying Field, and the only plane to 

earn the title of National Historic Landmark. The center also includes a replica of the Wright Brothers bicycle shop, an original 

Wright brothers’ Van Cleve bicycle, the wind tunnel, and tools the 

brothers built and used to research and invent successful manned 

flight. An object theater and various showcases, including the actual camera that took the historic photograph capturing the first 

successful flight over Kitty Hawk, are also among the many displays at the center. 

The contributions of the Wright Brothers go far beyond Dayton, 

Ohio, as the life and times of these extraordinary individuals 

helped transform the nation as well as the entire world. The name 

change will more accurately reflect the national significance of the 

artifacts, stories, and history of the facility. The John W. Berry, Sr. 

Wright Brothers Aviation Center is privately owned and managed 

by Dayton History, a non-profit NPS-partner organization. Dayton 

History is renaming the site as the ‘‘John W. Barry, Sr. Wright 

Brothers National Museum.’’ S. 1007 simply updates the Dayton 

Aviation Heritage National Historical Park enabling legislation to 

reflect the new name of the museum. 

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

S. 1007 was introduced in the Senate by Senators Portman and 

Brown on April 20, 2015. The Subcommittee on National Parks 

held a hearing on S. 1007 on June 15, 2016. 

In the House of Representatives, Representative Turner introduced similar legislation to S. 1007, H.R. 202, on January 7, 2015. 

The text of S. 1007 was incorporated into H.R. 4909, the National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, which passed the 

House of Representatives on May 18, 2016. 

The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources met in open 

business session on July 13, 2016, and ordered S. 1007 favorably 

reported as amended. 

COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION

The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, in 

open business session on July 13, 2016, by a majority voice vote of 

a quorum present, recommends that the Senate pass S. 1007, if 

amended as described herein. 

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT

During its consideration of S. 1007, the Committee adopted an 

amendment to the title of the bill. 


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SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS

Section 1. Amendment to the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation 

Act of 1992 

Section 1 amends section 101(b)(5) of the Dayton Aviation Preservation Act of 1992 by striking ‘‘Aviation Center’’ and inserting 

‘‘National Museum’’. 

COST AND BUDGETARY CONSIDERATIONS

The following cost estimate of this measure has been provided by 

the Congressional Budget Office. 

U.S. CONGRESS, 

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE, 

Washington, DC, August 29, 2016. 

Hon. LISA MURKOWSKI, 

Chairman, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 

U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. 

DEAR MADAM CHAIRMAN: The Congressional Budget Office has 

prepared the enclosed cost estimate for S. 1007, a bill to amend the 

Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992, and for other 

purposes. 

If you wish further details on this estimate, we will be pleased 

to provide them. The CBO staff contact is Jacob Fabian. 

Sincerely, 

MARK P. HADLEY

(For Keith Hall, Director). 

Enclosure. 

S. 1007—A bill to amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation 

Act of 1992, and for other purposes 

S. 1007 would change the name of the John W. Berry Sr. Wright 

Brothers Aviation Center in Dayton, Ohio, to the John W. Berry Sr. 

Wright Brothers National Museum. Based on information provided 

by the National Park Service, CBO estimates that implementing 

the legislation would have no significant impact on the federal 

budget. CBO expects that the costs associated with replacing or revising signs and interpretive materials to reflect the new name 

would be done in conjunction with scheduled replacement and 

other routine maintenance. Enacting S. 1007 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do 

not apply. 

CBO estimates that enacting S. 1007 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 

10-year periods beginning in 2027. 

S. 1007 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would 

not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments. 

The CBO staff contact for this estimate is Jacob Fabian. The estimate was approved by Theresa Gullo, Assistant Director for Budget 

Analysis. 


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REGULATORY IMPACT EVALUATION

In compliance with paragraph 11(b) of rule XXVI of the Standing 

Rules of the Senate, the Committee makes the following evaluation 

of the regulatory impact which would be incurred in carrying out 

S. 1007. The bill is not a regulatory measure in the sense of imposing Government-established standards or significant economic responsibilities on private individuals and businesses. 

No personal information would be collected in administering the 

program. Therefore, there would be no impact on personal privacy. 

Little, if any, additional paperwork would result from the enactment of S. 1007, as ordered reported. 

CONGRESSIONALLY DIRECTED SPENDING

S. 1007, as ordered reported, does not contain any congressionally directed spending items, limited tax benefits, or limited tariff 

benefits as defined in rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate. 

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS

The testimony provided by the National Park Service at the June 

15, 2016, National Parks Subcommittee hearing on S. 1007 follows: 

STATEMENT OF DR. STEPHANIE TOOTHMAN, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, CULTURAL RESOURCES, PARTNERSHIPS AND

SCIENCE, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF

THE INTERIOR

Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, thank 

you for the opportunity to present the views of the Department of the Interior on S. 1007, a bill to amend the Dayton 

Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 to rename a 

site of the Dayton Heritage National Historical Park. 

The Department does not object to S. 1007. 

This bill would amend the enabling act for the Dayton 

Aviation Heritage National Historical Park (Park), a unit 

of the National Park System, to provide that the Park 

shall include a site known as the ‘‘John W. Berry, Sr. 

Wright Brothers National Museum’’ rather than the ‘‘John 

W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center.’’ 

The John W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center 

is managed by Dayton History, a not-for-profit partner of 

the NPS, as part of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National 

Historical Park. The center’s exhibits focus on the Wright 

brothers’ early printing and bicycle businesses, their family history, and their association with schoolmate, poet and 

author, Paul Laurence Dunbar. The center also houses the 

1905 Wright Flyer III, the only airplane in the United 

States designated as a National Historic Landmark. 

The facility that is the subject of this legislation is a private parcel within the boundary of the Park. It is a major 

attraction within Carillon Historical Park, a larger attraction owned and managed by Dayton History. Dayton History is planning to change the name of the facility from 

the John W. Berry, Sr. Aviation Center to the John W. 


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Berry, Sr. National Museum. This bill would ensure that 

there is consistency between the actual name of the facility 

and the name used to identify it in the Park’s establishing 

legislation, which designates the site within the Park. 

If the committee moves forward with this legislation, the 

Department would recommend amending the title of the 

bill to more accurately reflect the bill’s purpose. The bill 

does not rename the site; rather the bill amends the act 

to reflect the new name of the site that Dayton History 

will be giving it. We recommend the bill be titled ‘‘to 

amend the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 

1992 to reflect the renaming of a site of the park.’’ 

If this bill is enacted, the costs for the National Park 

Service would be minimal. We would need to modify or replace the park entrance sign and update interpretive materials, but these would be made in the course of normal 

replacement and updating of these items. 

Mr. Chairman, this concludes my testimony. I would be 

happy to answer any questions you or other members of 

the subcommittee may have. 

CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW

In compliance with paragraph 12 of rule XXVI of the Standing 

Rules of the Senate, the Committee notes that no changes in existing law are made by the bill as ordered reported. 

In compliance with paragraph 12 of rule XXVI of the Standing 

Rules of the Senate, changes in existing law made by the original 

bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be 

omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in 

italic, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in 

roman): 

DAYTON AVIATION HERITAGE PRESERVATION ACT OF 

1992 

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TITLE I—DAYTON AVIATION HERITAGE 

NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK 

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SEC. 101. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DAYTON AVIATION HERITAGE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK 

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(b) AREAS INCLUDED.— The park shall consist of the following 

sites, as generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Dayton Aviation 

Heritage National Historical Park’’, numbered 362–80,010 and 

dated September 1, 2000: 

(1) A core parcel in Dayton, Ohio, which shall consist of the 

Wright Cycle Company building, Hoover Block, and lands between. 

(2) The Setzer building property (also known as the Aviation 

Trail building property), Dayton, Ohio. 


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(3) The residential properties at 26 South Williams Street 

and at 30 South Williams Street, Dayton, Ohio. 

(4) Huffman Prairie Flying Field, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. 

(5) The Wright 1905 Flyer III and Wright Hall, including 

constructed additions and attached structures, known collectively as the John W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers øAviation 

Center¿ National Museum, Dayton, Ohio. 

(6) The Paul Laurence Dunbar State Memorial, Dayton, 

Ohio. 

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