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Union Calendar No. 60 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 319 
[Report No. 110–95] 
To establish the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 5, 2007 
Mr. WOLF (for himself, Mr. CANTOR, Mrs. JO ANN DAVIS of Virginia, Mr. 
TOM DAVIS of Virginia, Mrs. CAPITO, Mr. SCOTT of Virginia, Mr. 
PLATTS, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, and Mr. MCCRERY) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
APRIL 17, 2007 
Additional sponsors: Mr. BOUCHER, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. WYNN, 
Mr. SAXTON, Mr. SOUDER, Mr. POE, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, Mr. BAKER, 
Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. SARBANES, and Ms. SCHWARTZ 
APRIL 17, 2007 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 5, 2007] 
A BILL 
To establish the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National 
Heritage Area, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage 
Area Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
Sec. 3. Purposes. 
Sec. 4. Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area. 
Sec. 5. Authorities and duties of management entity. 
Sec. 6. Approval or disapproval of management plan. 
Sec. 7. Provision of financial and technical assistance. 
Sec. 8. Duties of other Federal entities. 
Sec. 9. Sunset for grants and other assistance. 
Sec. 10. Private property and regulatory protections. 
Sec. 11. Use of Federal funds from other sources. 
Sec. 12. Authorization of appropriations. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) HERITAGE
AREA.—The term ‘‘Heritage 
Area’’ means the Journey Through Hallowed Ground 
National Heritage Area. 
(2) MANAGEMENT ENTITY.—The term ‘‘manage-
ment entity’’ means The Journey Through Hallowed 
Ground Partnership, a Virginia nonprofit corpora-
tion referred to in section 4(c), or its successor entity. 
(3) MANAGEMENT
PLAN.—The term ‘‘manage-
ment plan’’ means the management plan for the Her-
itage Area. 
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(4) PARTNER.—The term ‘‘partner’’ means— 
(A) a Federal, State, or local governmental 
entity; and 
(B) an organization, private industry, or 
individual involved in promoting the conserva-
tion and preservation of the historical, cultural, 
and recreational resources of the Heritage Area. 
(5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 3. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of the Journey Through Hallowed 
Ground National Heritage Area include— 
(1) to preserve, support, conserve, and interpret 
the legacy of the American history created along the 
Heritage Area; 
(2) to promote heritage, cultural and rec-
reational tourism and to develop educational and cul-
tural programs for visitors and the general public; 
(3) to recognize and interpret important events 
and geographic locations representing key develop-
ments in the creation of America, including Native 
American, Colonial American, European American, 
and African American heritage; 
(4) to recognize and interpret the effect of the 
Civil War on the civilian population of the Heritage 
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Area during the war and post-war reconstruction pe-
riod; 
(5) to enhance a cooperative management frame-
work to assist the Commonwealth of Virginia, the 
State of Maryland, the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania, the State of West Virginia, and their units of 
local government, the private sector, and citizens re-
siding in the Heritage Area in conserving, sup-
porting, enhancing, and interpreting the significant 
historic, cultural and recreational sites in the Herit-
age Area; and 
(6) to provide appropriate linkages among units 
of the National Park System within and surrounding 
the Heritage Area, to protect, enhance, and interpret 
resources outside of park boundaries. 
SEC. 4. JOURNEY THROUGH HALLOWED GROUND NA-
TIONAL HERITAGE AREA. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established the 
Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage 
Area. 
(b) BOUNDARIES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Heritage Area shall con-
sist of the 175-mile region generally following the 
Route 15 corridor and surrounding areas from 
Adams County, Pennsylvania, through Frederick 
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County, Maryland, including the Heart of the Civil 
War Maryland State Heritage Area, looping through 
Brunswick, Maryland, to Harpers Ferry, West Vir-
ginia, back through Loudoun County, Virginia, to the 
Route 15 corridor and surrounding areas encom-
passing portions of Loudoun and Prince William 
Counties, Virginia, then Fauquier County, Virginia, 
portions of Spotsylvania and Madison Counties, Vir-
ginia, and Culpepper, Rappahannock, Orange, and 
Albemarle Counties, Virginia. The boundaries of the 
Heritage Area shall include all of those lands and in-
terests as generally depicted on the map titled ‘‘Jour-
ney Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage 
Area’’, numbered P90/80,000, and dated October 
2006. 
(2) MAP.—The map referred to in paragraph (1) 
shall be on file in the appropriate offices of the Na-
tional Park Service. 
(c) MANAGEMENT ENTITY.—The management entity 
for the Heritage Area shall be The Journey Through Hal-
lowed Ground Partnership, a Virginia nonprofit corpora-
tion. 
(d) BOARD OF TRUSTEES.—The board of trustees of 
the management entity shall include representatives from 
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