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105TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 3378
To amend the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the establishment of
Fort Clatsop National Memorial in the State of Oregon, and for other
purposes’’, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire additional
lands for Fort Clatsop National Memorial in accordance with the Fort
Clatsop National Memorial’s General Management Plan dated June
1995.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 5, 1998
Ms. FURSE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Resources
A BILL
To amend the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the estab-
lishment of Fort Clatsop National Memorial in the State
of Oregon, and for other purposes’’, to authorize the
Secretary of the Interior to acquire additional lands for
Fort Clatsop National Memorial in accordance with the
Fort Clatsop National Memorial’s General Management
Plan dated June 1995.
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 ‘‘Fort Clatsop National
Memorial Expansion Act of 1998’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) The cross-country expedition of Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark, known as ‘‘The Corps of
Discovery’’, was a very important exploratory jour-
ney in American history that provided invaluable ge-
ographic, scientific, and cultural information.
(2) In 1805, the members of the Lewis and
Clark Expedition built Fort Clatsop at the mouth of
the Columbia River near Astoria, Oregon, where
they spent 106 days waiting for the end of winter
and preparing for their journey home.
(3) As the westernmost point and the second
longest stopover of the expedition, and as the site
where Lewis and Clark edited their journals and
prepared many of their maps, Fort Clatsop is a
uniquely special place in the journey of Lewis and
Clark.
(4) The Fort Clatsop National Memorial was
created by Congress in 1958 for the purpose of com-
memorating the culmination, and the winter en-
campment, of the Lewis and Clark Expedition fol-
lowing its successful crossing of the North American
continent, and is the only National Park Service site
solely dedicated to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
(5) The 1995 General Management Plan for
the Fort Clatsop National Memorial, prepared with
input from the local community, calls for the addi-
tion of lands to the memorial to include the trail
used by expedition members to travel from the fort
to the Pacific Ocean and to include the shore and
forest lands surrounding the fort and trail to protect
their natural settings.
(6) Expansion of the Fort Clatsop National Me-
morial would require Federal legislation because the
size of the memorial is currently limited by statute
to 130 acres.
(7) Congressional action to allow for the expan-
sion of Fort Clatsop would be both timely and ap-
propriate before the start of the national bicenten-
nial celebration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
planned to take place during the years 2004 through
2006.
SEC. 3. ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR FORT CLATSOP NA-
TIONAL MEMORIAL.
The Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the establish-
ment of Fort Clatsop National Memorial in the State of
Oregon, and for other purposes’’, approved May 29, 1958
(Chapter 158; 72 Stat. 153), is amended—
(1) in section 2 (16 U.S.C. 450mm–1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘: Provided,’’ and all that
follows through the end of the sentence and in-
serting a period;
(B) by inserting ‘‘(a)’’ before ‘‘The Sec-
retary of the Interior’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(b) In addition to the land and improvements des-
ignated under subsection (a), the Fort Clatsop National
Memorial shall include land and improvements that are
acquired by the Secretary of the Interior under section
3(b).’’;
(2) in section 3 (16 U.S.C. 450mm–2), by in-
serting ‘‘(a)’’ before ‘‘Within the area’’, and by add-
ing at the end the following:
‘‘(b)(1) In addition to lands acquired under sub-
section (a), the Secretary of the Interior may acquire for
inclusion in the Fort Clatsop National Memorial any land
or improvements located in areas identified on the map
entitled ‘Fort Clatsop Boundary Map’ and numbered 405–
80016–CCO–June 1996 as appropriate to preserve the
historic scene and provide lands for the Lewis and Clark
National Historic Trail.