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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 558 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JANUARY 31, 2017 

Received 

FEBRUARY 1, 2017 

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 

AN ACT 

To adjust the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National 

Battlefield Park to include the Wallis House and 

Harriston Hill, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Kennesaw Mountain 

3 National Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

5 The Congress finds the following: 

6 (1) Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield 

7 Park was authorized as a unit of the National Park 

8 System on June 26, 1935. Prior to 1935, parts of 

9 the park had been acquired and protected by Civil 

10 War veterans and the War Department. 

11 (2) Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield 

12 Park protects Kennesaw Mountain and Kolb’s 

13 Farm, which are battle sites along the route of Gen14 eral Sherman’s 1864 campaign to take Atlanta. 

15 (3) Most of the park protects Confederate posi16 tions and strategy. The Wallis House is one of the 

17 few original structures remaining from the Battle of 

18 Kennesaw Mountain associated with Union positions 

19 and strategy. 

20 (4) The Wallis House is strategically located 

21 next to a Union signal station at Harriston Hill. 

22 SEC. 3. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT; LAND ACQUISITION; AD23 MINISTRATION. 

24 (a) BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.—The boundary of the 

25 Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is modified 

26 to include the approximately 8 acres identified as ‘‘Wallis 


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1 House and Harriston Hill’’, and generally depicted on the 

2 map titled ‘‘Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield 

3 Park, Proposed Boundary Adjustment’’, numbered 325/ 

4 80,020, and dated February 2010. 

5 (b) MAP.—The map referred to in subsection (a) 

6 shall be on file and available for inspection in the appro7 priate offices of the National Park Service. 

8 (c) LAND ACQUISITION.—The Secretary of the Inte9 rior is authorized to acquire, from willing owners only, 

10 land or interests in land described in subsection (a) by 

11 donation or exchange. 

12 (d) ADMINISTRATION OF ACQUIRED LANDS.—The 

13 Secretary of the Interior shall administer land and inter14 ests in land acquired under this section as part of the Ken15 nesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in accordance 

16 with applicable laws and regulations. 

17 (e) WRITTEN CONSENT OF OWNER.—No non-Fed18 eral property may be included in the Kennesaw Mountain 

19 National Battlefield Park without the written consent of 

20 the owner. This provision shall apply only to those por21 tions of the Park added under subsection (a). 

22 (f) NO USE OF CONDEMNATION.—The Secretary of 

23 the Interior may not acquire by condemnation any land 

24 or interests in land under this Act or for the purposes 

25 of this Act. 


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1 (g) NO BUFFER ZONE CREATED.—Nothing in this 

2 Act, the establishment of the Kennesaw Mountain Na3 tional Battlefield Park, or the management plan for the 

4 Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park shall be 

5 construed to create buffer zones outside of the Park. That 

6 activities or uses can be seen, heard, or detected from 

7 areas within the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield 

8 Park shall not preclude, limit, control, regulate or deter9 mine the conduct or management of activities or uses out10 side the Park. 

Passed the House of Representatives January 30, 

2017. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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