I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 558 
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 
JANUARY 13, 2017 
Mr. LOUDERMILK (for himself, Mr. AUSTIN SCOTT of Georgia, Mr. BISHOP 
of Georgia, Mr. WOODALL, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Mr. CARTER of 
Georgia, Mr. JODY B. HICE of Georgia, and Mr. ALLEN) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
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. 
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 ‘‘Kennesaw Mountain 
National Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield 
Park was authorized as a unit of the National Park 
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System on June 26, 1935. Prior to 1935, parts of 
the park had been acquired and protected by Civil 
War veterans and the War Department. 
(2) Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield 
Park protects Kennesaw Mountain and Kolb’s 
Farm, which are battle sites along the route of Gen-
eral Sherman’s 1864 campaign to take Atlanta. 
(3) Most of the park protects Confederate posi-
tions and strategy. The Wallis House is one of the 
few original structures remaining from the Battle of 
Kennesaw Mountain associated with Union positions 
and strategy. 
(4) The Wallis House is strategically located 
next to a Union signal station at Harriston Hill. 
SEC. 3. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT; LAND ACQUISITION; AD-
MINISTRATION. 
(a) BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.—The boundary of the 
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is modified 
to include the approximately 8 acres identified as ‘‘Wallis 
House and Harriston Hill’’, and generally depicted on the 
map titled ‘‘Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield 
Park, Proposed Boundary Adjustment’’, numbered 325/ 
80,020, and dated February 2010. 
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(b) MAP.—The map referred to in subsection (a) 
shall be on file and available for inspection in the appro-
priate offices of the National Park Service. 
(c) LAND ACQUISITION.—The Secretary of the Inte-
rior is authorized to acquire, from willing owners only, 
land or interests in land described in subsection (a) by 
donation or exchange. 
(d) ADMINISTRATION OF ACQUIRED LANDS.—The 
Secretary of the Interior shall administer land and inter-
ests in land acquired under this section as part of the Ken-
nesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in accordance 
with applicable laws and regulations. 
(e) WRITTEN CONSENT OF OWNER.—No non-Fed-
eral property may be included in the Kennesaw Mountain 
National Battlefield Park without the written consent of 
the owner. This provision shall apply only to those por-
tions of the Park added under subsection (a). 
(f) NO USE OF CONDEMNATION.—The Secretary of 
the Interior may not acquire by condemnation any land 
or interests in land under this Act or for the purposes 
of this Act. 
(g) NO BUFFER ZONE CREATED.—Nothing in this 
Act, the establishment of the Kennesaw Mountain Na-
tional Battlefield Park, or the management plan for the 
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park shall be 
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