Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘America’s Beautiful 
National Parks Quarter Dollar Coin Act of 2008’’. 
TITLE I—NATIONAL SITE 
QUARTER DOLLARS 
SEC. 101. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) Yellowstone National Park was established 
by an Act signed by President Ulysses S. Grant on 
March 1, 1872, as the Nation’s first national park. 
(2) The summer and autumn of 1890 saw the 
establishment of a number of national sites: 
(A) August 19: Chickamauga and Chat-
tanooga established as national military parks 
in Georgia and Tennessee. 
(B) August 30: Antietam established as a 
national battlefield site in Maryland. 
(C) September 25: Sequoia National Park 
established in California. 
(D) September 27: Rock Creek Park estab-
lished in the District of Columbia. 
(E) October 1: General Grant National 
Park established in California (and subse-
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quently incorporated in Kings Canyon National 
Park). 
(F) October 1: Yosemite National Park es-
tablished in California. 
(3) Theodore Roosevelt was this nation’s 26th 
President and is considered by many to be our 
‘‘Conservationist President’’. 
(4) As a frequent visitor to the West, Theodore 
Roosevelt witnessed the virtual destruction of some 
big game species and the overgrazing that destroyed 
the grasslands and with them the habitats for small 
mammals and songbirds and conservation increas-
ingly became one of his major concerns. 
(5) When he became President in 1901, Roo-
sevelt pursued this interest in conservation by estab-
lishing the first 51 Bird Reserves, 4 Game Pre-
serves, and 150 National Forests. 
(6) He also established the United States For-
est Service, signed into law the creation of 5 Na-
tional Parks, and signed the Act for the Preserva-
tion of American Antiquities in 1906 under which he 
proclaimed 18 national monuments. 
(7) Approximately 230,000,000 acres of area 
within the United States was placed under public 
protection by Theodore Roosevelt. 
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(8) Theodore Roosevelt said that nothing short 
of defending this country in wartime ‘‘compares in 
importance with the great central task of leaving 
this land even a better land for our descendants 
than it is for us’’. 
(9) The National Park Service was created by 
an Act signed by President Woodrow Wilson on Au-
gust 25, 1916. 
(10) The National Park System comprises 391 
areas covering more than 84,000,000 acres in every 
State (except Delaware), the District of Columbia, 
American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Vir-
gin Islands. 
(11) The sites or areas within the National 
Park System vary widely in size and type from vast 
natural wilderness to birthplaces of Presidents to 
world heritage archaeology sites to an African burial 
ground memorial in Manhattan and include national 
parks, monuments, battlefields, military parks, his-
torical parks, historic sites, lakeshores, seashores, 
recreation areas, scenic rivers and trails, and the 
White House. 
(12) In addition to the sites within the National 
Park System, the United States has placed numer-
ous other types of sites under various forms of con-
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servancy, such as the national forests and sites with-
in the National Wildlife Refuge System and on the 
National Register of Historic Places. 
SEC. 102. ISSUANCE OF REDESIGNED QUARTER DOLLARS 
EMBLEMATIC 
OF 
NATIONAL 
PARKS 
OR 
OTHER NATIONAL SITES IN EACH STATE, THE 
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AND EACH TERRI-
TORY. 
Section 5112 of title 31, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(t) REDESIGN AND ISSUANCE OF QUARTER DOL-
LARS EMBLEMATIC OF NATIONAL SITES IN EACH STATE, 
THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, AND EACH TERRITORY.— 
‘‘(1) REDESIGN BEGINNING UPON COMPLETION 
OF PRIOR PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding the 
fourth sentence of subsection (d)(1) and sub-
section (d)(2), quarter dollars issued beginning 
in 2010 shall have designs on the reverse se-
lected in accordance with this subsection which 
are emblematic of the national sites in the 
States, the District of Columbia and the terri-
tories of the United States. 
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‘‘(B) FLEXIBILITY
WITH
REGARD
TO 
PLACEMENT
OF
INSCRIPTIONS.—Notwith-
standing subsection (d)(1), the Secretary may 
select a design for quarter dollars referred to in 
subparagraph (A) in which— 
‘‘(i) the inscription described in the 
second sentence of subsection (d)(1) ap-
pears on the reverse side of any such quar-
ter dollars; and 
‘‘(ii) any inscription described in the 
third sentence of subsection (d)(1) or the 
designation of the value of the coin ap-
pears on the obverse side of any such quar-
ter dollars. 
‘‘(C) INCLUSION OF DISTRICT OF COLUM-
BIA, AND TERRITORIES.—For purposes of this 
subsection, the term ‘State’ has the same mean-
ing as in section 3(a)(3) of the Federal Deposit 
Insurance Act. 
‘‘(2) SINGLE SITE IN EACH STATE.—The design 
on the reverse side of each quarter dollar issued dur-
ing the period of issuance under this subsection shall 
be emblematic of 1 national site in each State. 
‘‘(3) SELECTION OF SITE AND DESIGN.— 
‘‘(A) SITE.— 
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