103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H.R. 2947
AN ACT
To amend the Commemorative Works Act, and for
other purposes.
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H.R. 2947
AN ACT
To amend the Commemorative Works Act, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF LEGISLATIVE AUTHORITY FOR
MEMORIAL ESTABLISHMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The legislative authority for each
of the following groups to establish a commemorative work
(as defined by Public Law 99–652, as amended) shall ex-
pire at the end of the 10-year period beginning on the
date of enactment of such authority for the respective
commemorative work, notwithstanding the time period
limitation specified in section 10(b) of that Public Law:
(1) The Black Revolutionary War Patriots
Foundation.
(2) The Women in Military Service for America
Memorial Foundation.
(3) The National Peace Garden.
(b) NAME CHANGE.—(1) The Congress finds that the
Peace Garden Project, Incorporated, has changed its name
to the National Peace Garden.
(2) Any reference in a law, map, regulation, docu-
ment, paper, or other record of the United States to the
entity referred to in paragraph (1) shall be deemed to be
a reference to the National Peace Garden.
SEC. 2. COMMEMORATIVE WORKS ACT AMENDMENTS.
(a) DEFINITIONS.—(1) Section 2(c) of the Act enti-
tled ‘‘An Act to provide standards for placement of com-
memorative works on certain Federal lands in the District
of Columbia and its environs, and for other purposes’’ (40
U.S.C. 1002(c)) is amended—
(A) by inserting ‘‘plaque, inscription,’’ after
‘‘memorial,’’;
(B) by striking out ‘‘a person’’ and inserting in
lieu thereof ‘‘an individual’’; and
(C) by inserting ‘‘American’’ before ‘‘history’’.
(2) Section 2(d) of such Act (40 U.S.C. 1002(d)) is
amended by striking ‘‘an individual, group or organiza-
tion’’ and inserting ‘‘a public agency, and an individual,
group or organization that is described in section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and ex-
empt from tax under section 501(a) of such Code, and
which is’’.
(b) AUTHORIZATION.—Section 3 of such Act (40
U.S.C. 1003) is amended as follows:
(1) In subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘on Federal
lands referred to in section 1(d)’’ after ‘‘estab-
lished’’.
(2) By redesignating subsection (b) as sub-
section (d) and inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing new subsections:
‘‘(b) A military commemorative work may be author-
ized only to commemorate a war or similar major military
conflict or to commemorate any branch of the Armed
Forces. No commemorative work commemorating a lesser
conflict or a unit of an Armed Force shall be authorized.
Commemorative works to a war or similar major military
conflict shall not be authorized until at least 10 years after
the officially designated end of the event.
‘‘(c) A commemorative work commemorating an
event, individual, or group of individuals, other than a
military commemorative work as described in subsection
(b) of this section, shall not be authorized until after the
25th anniversary of the event, death of the individual, or
death of the last surviving member of the group.’’.
(c) SPECIFIC CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO AREAS I
AND II.—Section 6 of such Act (40 U.S.C. 1006) is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘SPECIFIC CONDITIONS APPLICABLE TO AREA I AND
AREA II
‘‘SEC. 6. (a) AREA I.—The Secretary or Adminis-
trator (as appropriate) may, after seeking the advice of
the National Capital Memorial Commission, recommend
the location of a commemorative work in Area I only if
the Secretary or Administrator (as appropriate) deter-
mines that the subject of the commemorative work is of
preeminent historical and lasting significance to the Na-
tion. The Secretary or Administrator (as appropriate)
shall notify the National Capital Memorial Commission
and the committees of Congress specified in section 3(b)
of the recommendation by the Secretary or Administrator
(as appropriate) that a commemorative work should be lo-
cated in Area I. The location of a commemorative work
in Area I shall be deemed not authorized, unless, not later
than 150 calendar days after such notification, the rec-
ommendation is approved by law.
‘‘(b) AREA II.—Commemorative works of subjects of
lasting historical significance to the American people may
be located in Area II.’’.