I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3514 
To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Washington 
Spy Ring National Historic Trail, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 27, 2017 
Mr. SUOZZI (for himself and Mr. ZELDIN) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the 
Washington Spy Ring National Historic Trail, 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 ‘‘Washington Spy Ring 
National Historic Trail Designation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Culper Spy Ring was a group of Amer-
ican Revolutionaries who gathered intelligence on 
British troop movements and fortifications in Man-
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hattan, Long Island, and elsewhere for General 
George Washington. 
(2) The Culper Spy Ring is credited with un-
covering Benedict Arnold’s conspiracy to surrender 
West Point to the British and saving the Franco- 
American alliance by uncovering plans to ambush 
the French army in Rhode Island. 
(3) Key locations used by the Culper Spy Ring 
include— 
(A) Raynham Hall in Oyster Bay, New 
York, the home of intelligence operative Robert 
Townsend; 
(B) the Arsenal (also known as the Job 
Sammis House) in Huntington, New York, 
which was used to store gunpowder during the 
British occupation of Long Island and the town 
of Huntington; 
(C) the Brewster House, a tavern in 
Setauket, New York, owned by the Brewster 
family and used to spy on British officers and 
transfer information to General Washington 
across the Long Island Sound; and 
(D) generally, the byways and highways 
connecting these sites. 
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SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF THE WASHINGTON SPY RING NA-
TIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL. 
Section 5(a) of the National Trails System Act (16 
U.S.C. 1244(a)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(l) WASHINGTON SPY RING NATIONAL HIS-
TORIC TRAIL.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Washington Spy 
Ring National Historic Trail, a trail of approxi-
mately 50 miles of village, town, and city 
streets and New York Route 25A, from Great 
Neck, New York, along Long Island’s North 
Shore, through Nassau and Suffolk Counties, to 
Port Jefferson, New York, following the route 
generally depicted on the map entitled lll, 
numbered lll, and dated lll. 
‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY
OF
MAP.—The map 
described in subparagraph (A) shall be on file 
and available for public inspection in the appro-
priate office of the Secretary. 
‘‘(C) ADMINISTRATION.—In cooperation 
with the Secretary, the Washington Spy Ring 
National Historic Trail designated by this para-
graph shall be administered by the North Shore 
Promotion Alliance, an organization described 
in section 501(c)(6) of the Internal Revenue 
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Code of 1986 and exempt from taxation under 
section 501(a) of such Code.’’. 
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