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Union Calendar No. 532 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5003 

[Report No. 113–701] 

To adjust the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park 

to include the Wallis House and Harriston Hill, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 26, 2014 

Mr. GINGREY of Georgia (for himself, Mr. LEWIS, and Mr. WESTMORELAND) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 

Natural Resources 

DECEMBER 22, 2014 

Additional sponsor: Mr. PRICE of Georgia 

DECEMBER 22, 2014 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on June 26, 2014] 


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A BILL 

To adjust the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National 

Battlefield Park to include the Wallis House and 

Harriston Hill, and for other purposes. 


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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Kennesaw Mountain Na5 tional Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2014’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 The Congress finds the following: 

8 (1) Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield 

9 Park was authorized as a unit of the National Park 

10 System on June 26, 1935. Prior to 1935, parts of the 

11 park had been acquired and protected by Civil War 

12 veterans and the War Department. 

13 (2) Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield 

14 Park protects Kennesaw Mountain and Kolb’s Farm, 

15 which are battle sites along the route of General Sher16 man’s 1864 campaign to take Atlanta. 

17 (3) Most of the park protects Confederate posi18 tions and strategy. The Wallis House is one of the few 

19 original structures remaining from the Battle of Ken20 nesaw Mountain associated with Union positions and 

21 strategy. 

22 (4) The Wallis House is strategically located next 

23 to a Union signal station at Harriston Hill. 


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1 SEC. 3. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT; LAND ACQUISITION; AD2 MINISTRATION. 

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

4 Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is modified 

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

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

7 map titled ‘‘Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, 

8 Proposed Boundary Adjustment’’, numbered 325/80,020, 

9 and dated February 2010. 

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

11 be on file and available for inspection in the appropriate 

12 offices of the National Park Service. 

13 (c) LAND ACQUISITION.—The Secretary of the Interior 

14 is authorized to acquire, from willing owners only, land or 

15 interests in land described in subsection (a) by donation 

16 or exchange. 

17 (d) ADMINISTRATION OF ACQUIRED LANDS.—The Sec18 retary of the Interior shall administer land and interests 

19 in land acquired under this section as part of the Kennesaw 

20 Mountain National Battlefield Park in accordance with ap21 plicable laws and regulations. 

22 (e) WRITTEN CONSENT OF OWNER.—No non-Federal 

23 property may be included in the Kennesaw Mountain Na24 tional Battlefield Park without the written consent of the 

25 owner. This provision shall apply only to those portions 

26 of the Park added under subsection (a). 


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

2 Interior may not acquire by condemnation any land or in3 terests in land under this Act or for the purposes of this 

4 Act. 

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

6 Act, the establishment of the Kennesaw Mountain National 

7 Battlefield Park, or the management plan for the Kennesaw 

8 Mountain National Battlefield Park shall be construed to 

9 create buffer zones outside of the Park. That activities or 

10 uses can be seen, heard, or detected from areas within the 

11 Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park shall not 

12 preclude, limit, control, regulate or determine the conduct 

13 or management of activities or uses outside the Park. 


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Union Calendar No. 532 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5003 

[Report No. 113–701] 

A BILL 

To adjust the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain 

poses. House and Harriston Hill, and for other purNational Battlefield Park to include the Wallis 

DECEMBER 22, 2014 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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