SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Wilson’s Creek National 
Battlefield Boundary Adjustment Act of 2004’’. 
SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF BOUNDARIES, WILSON’S CREEK NA-
TIONAL BATTLEFIELD, MISSOURI. 
(a) BOUNDARY EXPANSION; PRIVATE PROPERTY PRO-
TECTIONS.—The first section of Public Law 86–434 (16 
U.S.C. 430kk) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘That the Secretary’’ and insert-
ing the following: 
‘‘SECTION 1. WILSON’S CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD: ES-
TABLISHMENT AND ACQUISITION OF LANDS. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT, INITIAL BOUNDARIES.—The 
Secretary’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
sections: 
‘‘(b) EXPANSION OF BOUNDARIES.—(1) The bound-
aries of the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield are revised 
to include lands and interests therein consisting of six par-
cels totaling 615 acres and identified as parcels ‘1, 2, 3, 
4, 5, and 6’ on the map entitled ‘Wilson’s Creek National 
Battlefield Proposed Boundary’, numbered 410/80,037 and 
dated January 27, 2004. The map shall be on file and 
available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of 
the National Park Service.
‘‘(2) The Secretary is authorized to acquire the lands 
referred to in paragraph (1) by donation, by purchase from 
willing sellers with donated or appropriated funds, or by 
exchange. The Secretary may acquire by the same methods 
personal property associated with, and appropriate for, in-
terpretation of the park. 
‘‘(c) ACCESS TO PRIVATE PROPERTY.—Nothing in this 
Act shall be construed to—
‘‘(1) require any private property owner to allow 
public access (including Federal, State, or local gov-
ernment access) to such private property; or 
‘‘(2) modify any provision of Federal, State, or 
local law with regard to public access to or use of pri-
vate property. 
‘‘(d) LIABILITY.—The revision of the boundaries of the 
Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield by subsection (b) shall 
not be considered to create any liability for, or to have any 
effect on any liability under any other law of, any owner 
of private property with respect to any person injured on 
that private property. 
‘‘(e) RECOGNITION OF AUTHORITY TO CONTROL LAND 
USE.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed to modify the 
authority of Federal, State, or local governments to regulate 
land use.
‘‘(f) PARTICIPATION
OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWN-
ERS.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed to require the 
owner of any private property located within the bound-
aries of the Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield to partici-
pate in, or be associated with, the National Battlefield. 
‘‘(g) EFFECT OF EXPANSION.—The boundaries of the 
Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, as revised by subsection 
(b), represent the area within which Federal funds appro-
priated for the purpose of this Act may be expended. The 
boundary revision shall not be construed to provide any 
nonexisting regulatory authority on land use within the 
National Battlefield or its viewshed by the Secretary or the 
National Park Service.’’. 
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section 3 
of such Act (16 U.S.C. 430mm) is amended by adding at 
the end the following new sentence: ‘‘There are authorized 
to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out section 1(b).’’.
Union Calendar No. 395
108TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4481
[Report No. 108–651] 
A BILL 
To amend Public Law 86–434 establishing Wilson’s 
Creek National Battlefield in the State of Mis-
souri to expand the boundaries of the park, and 
for other purposes. 
SEPTEMBER 7, 2004
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed