Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park Expansion Act
Bill: S.1718 | Sponsor: Sen. Padilla, Alex (D-CA)
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park Expansion Act
This bill adds Nystrom Elementary School to the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park in California.
The Department of the Interior may also add certain other areas to the park. Such other areas must
Interior may enter into cooperative agreements with the West Contra Costa Unified School District and other appropriate public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions to carry out the purposes of this bill.
Interior shall coordinate visitor interpretation of the Nystrom Elementary School site with the West Contra Costa Unified School District.

To amend the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National 
  Historical Park Establishment Act of 2000 to provide for additional 
         areas to be added to the park, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. ROSIE THE RIVETER/WORLD WAR II HOME FRONT NATIONAL 
              HISTORICAL PARK ADDITIONS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Rosie the 
Riveter National Historic Site Expansion Act''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Additions.--The Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home 
Front National Historical Park Establishment Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 
410ggg et seq.) is amended as follows:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) In section 2(b), by adding at the end the 
        following: ``Not later than 180 days after areas are added to 
        the park administratively or by Federal law, the Secretary 
        shall update the map to include the added areas.''.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) By adding at the end of section 2, the 
        following:</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(c) Additional Areas Included.--In addition to areas 
included under subsection (b), the park shall include the 
following:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(1) The Nystrom Elementary School-The Maritime 
        Building, as listed on the National Register of Historic 
        Places.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(2) Such other areas as the Secretary deems 
        appropriate.''.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) By amending section 3(e)(2) to read as 
        follows:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(2) Other property.--Within the boundaries of 
        the park, the Secretary may acquire lands, improvements, 
        waters, or interests therein, by donation, purchase, exchange 
        or transfer. Any lands, or interests therein, owned by the 
        State of California or any political subdivision thereof, may 
        be acquired only by donation. When any tract of land is only 
        partly within such boundaries, the Secretary may acquire all or 
        any portion of the land outside of such boundaries in order to 
        minimize the payment of severance costs. Land so acquired 
        outside of the boundaries may be exchanged by the Secretary for 
        non-Federal lands within the boundaries. Any portion of land 
        acquired outside the boundaries and not used for exchange shall 
        be reported to the General Services Administration for disposal 
        for not less than fair market value under chapter 1 of title 
        40, United States Code.''.</DELETED>

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rosie the Riveter National 
Historical Park Expansion Act''.

SEC. 2. NYSTROM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ADDITION.

    Section 2 of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National 
Historical Park Establishment Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 410ggg) is amended 
by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following:
    ``(b) Areas Included.--
            ``(1) In general.--The boundaries of the park shall 
        include--
                    ``(A)(i) the areas generally depicted on the map 
                entitled `Proposed Boundary Map, Rosie the Riveter/
                World War II Home Front National Historical Park', 
                numbered 963/80,000, and dated May 2000; and
                    ``(ii) the areas depicted as the `Proposed Boundary 
                Addition' on the map entitled `Rosie the Riveter/World 
                War II Home Front National Historical Park Proposed 
                Boundary Addition', numbered 499/168,353, and dated May 
                2020; and
                    ``(B) any other historic properties identified by 
                the Secretary as appropriate for addition to the park, 
                subject to the requirement that a historic property 
                proposed for addition to the park shall--
                            ``(i) be determined to be eligible for 
                        listing in the National Register of Historic 
                        Places;
                            ``(ii) have a direct connection to World 
                        War II home front themes in Richmond, 
                        California; and
                            ``(iii) relate to the purpose, 
                        significance, and interpretive themes of the 
                        park.
            ``(2) Availability of maps.--The maps referred to in 
        paragraph (1) shall be on file and available for public 
        inspection in the appropriate offices of the National Park 
        Service.''.

SEC. 3. ADMINISTRATION.

    Section 3(a) of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front 
National Historical Park Establishment Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 410ggg-
1(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) Nystrom elementary school.--Nothing in this Act 
        affects the authority of the West Contra Costa Unified School 
        District to administer Nystrom Elementary School.''.

SEC. 4. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.

    Section 3(b) of the Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front 
National Historical Park Establishment Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 410ggg-
1(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) West contra costa unified school district.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary may enter into 
                cooperative agreements with the West Contra Costa 
                Unified School District and other appropriate public 
                and private agencies, organizations, and institutions 
                to carry out the purposes of this Act.
                    ``(B) Visitor interpretation.--The Secretary shall 
                coordinate visitor interpretation of the Nystrom 
                Elementary School site with the West Contra Costa 
                Unified School District.''.
                                                       Calendar No. 531

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 1718

                          [Report No. 117-180]

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