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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1846 
To amend the Act establishing the Lower East Side Tenement National 
Historic Site, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 7, 2013 
Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To amend the Act establishing the Lower East Side 
Tenement National Historic Site, 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 ‘‘Lower East Side Tene-
ment National Historic Site Amendments Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Lower East Side Tenement Museum 
was founded in 1988 and has, for the past 25 years, 
preserved and interpreted the history of immigration 
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through the personal experiences of generations of 
newcomers who settled in and built lives on Manhat-
tan’s Lower East Side, America’s iconic immigrant 
neighborhood. 
(2)(A) The Director of the National Park Serv-
ice found the Lower East Side Tenement at 97 Or-
chard Street to be nationally significant. 
(B) On April 19, 1994, the Secretary of the In-
terior declared the Lower East Side Tenement a Na-
tional Historic Landmark. 
(C) The Director of the National Park Service, 
through a special resource study, found the Lower 
East Side Tenement suitable and feasible for inclu-
sion in the National Park System. 
(D) On November 12, 1998, the historic site 
was designated as an affiliated site of the National 
Park System pursuant to Public Law 105–378. 
(3)(A) In 2006, the Secretary of the Interior, 
together with the National Park Service, compiled a 
general management plan for the site. 
(B) The plan recognized the need for space for 
administrative functions, collections storage, and vis-
itor services, including orientation and additional ex-
hibits. 
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(C) The plan expressly specified that a bound-
ary adjustment to the National Historic Site might 
be considered if the museum was able to obtain 
property and the resources— 
(i) included significant features related of 
the primary purposes of the site; 
(ii) addressed operational issues including 
access; or 
(iii) protected resources critical to the 
site’s purposes. 
(4) The Museum obtained a neighboring 1888 
tenement, 103 Orchard Street, which was restored 
and renovated to serve as a visitor and education 
center. 
(5) 103 Orchard Street was declared a contrib-
uting property in the Lower East Side National His-
toric District, listed on both the National and New 
York State Registers of Historic Places. 
SEC. 3. AMENDMENTS. 
Public Law 105–378 is amended— 
(1) in section 101(a)— 
(A) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘the 
Lower East Side Tenement at 97 Orchard 
Street in New York City is an outstanding sur-
vivor’’ and inserting ‘‘the Lower East Side Ten-
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ements at 97 and 103 Orchard Street in New 
York City are outstanding survivors’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘the 
Lower East Side Tenement is’’ and inserting 
‘‘the Lower East Side Tenements are’’; 
(2) in section 102— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Lower 
East Side Tenement found at 97 Orchard 
Street’’ and inserting ‘‘Lower East Side Tene-
ments found at 97 and 103 Orchard Street’’; 
and 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘which 
owns and operates the tenement building at 97 
Orchard Street’’ and inserting ‘‘which owns and 
operates the tenement buildings at 97 and 103 
Orchard Street’’; 
(3) in section 103(a), by striking ‘‘the Lower 
East Side Tenement at 97 Orchard Street, in the 
City of New York, State of New York, is des-
ignated’’ and inserting ‘‘the Lower East Side Tene-
ments at 97 and 103 Orchard Street, in the City of 
New York, State of New York, are designated’’; and 
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(4) in section 104(d), by striking ‘‘the property 
at 97 Orchard Street’’ and inserting ‘‘the properties 
at 97 and 103 Orchard Street’’. 
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