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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2091 
To redesignate the Tyler Bend Visitor Center located on Tyler Bend Road 
in St. Joe, Arkansas, as the Dr. Neil Compton Visitor Center, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 19, 2021 
Mr. HILL (for himself, Mr. WESTERMAN, Mr. WOMACK, and Mr. CRAWFORD) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To redesignate the Tyler Bend Visitor Center located on 
Tyler Bend Road in St. Joe, Arkansas, as the Dr. Neil 
Compton Visitor Center, 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. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Dr. Neil Compton Con-
servation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Dr. Neil Compton, of Benton County, Ar-
kansas, was born on August 1, 1912, in Falling 
Springs Flats. 
(2) Dr. Neil Compton, from 1942 to 1946 
served in the United Sates Naval Reserve with the 
rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade, Medical Corps, 
and retired in 1972 with the rank of Captain. 
(3) Dr. Compton, the Founder of Ozark Soci-
ety, was credited with saving the Buffalo River from 
being dammed in two places by the Army Corps of 
Engineers. 
(4) Dr. Compton received numerous awards for 
his conservation work, including the coveted Amer-
ican Motors Conservation Award on May 20, 1964, 
as well as the Distinguished Arkansas Conserva-
tionist award from the Sears Roebuck Foundation 
and the National and Arkansas Wildlife Federation, 
both of which were presented on November 17, 
1966. 
(5) In l982, Dr. Compton wrote The High 
Ozarks: A Vision of Eden, featuring photographs he 
made during his favorite Ozark explorations. This 
was followed in 1992 by The Battle for the Buffalo 
River: A Conservation Crisis in the Ozarks, published 
by the University of Arkansas Press, which was 
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nominated for the National Book Award, and The 
Buffalo River in Black and White (Ozark Society 
Books, 1997). 
(6) Fifty years ago, Dr. Compton played an in-
tegral part in having the Buffalo National River 
named the first national river in 1972 during the 
91st Congress. 
SEC. 3. REDESIGNATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Tyler Bend Visitor Center lo-
cated on Tyler Bend Road in St. Joe, Arkansas, shall be 
known and redesignated as the ‘‘Dr. Neil Compton Visitor 
Center’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the visitor center referred to in subsection (a) 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the Dr. Neil Compton 
Visitor Center. 
SEC. 4. INFORMATIONAL DISPLAY. 
The Secretary of the Interior may display informa-
tion at the Dr. Neil Compton Visitor Center to educate 
the public about the contributions of Dr. Neil Compton 
to the history of the Buffalo National River. 
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