Title: To designate certain Federal land in the District of Columbia under the administrative jurisdiction of the National Park Service as the "Illinois' Bicentennial Grove", and for other purposes.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill designates the River Terrace Area of the Anacostia Park in the District of Columbia as the "Illinois' Bicentennial Grove."
The Department of the Interior shall furnish and place a plaque near the trees planted in the Illinois' Bicentennial Grove in recognition of the trees as a tribute to the bicentennial of the State of Illinois and to Edward Coles, Mary Brown Davis, and Elijah and Owen Lovejoy, who were prominent abolitionists from Illinois.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6904 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6904

To designate certain Federal land in the District of Columbia under the 
    administrative jurisdiction of the National Park Service as the 
       ``Illinois' Bicentennial Grove'', and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 26, 2018

Mr. LaHood (for himself, Mr. Krishnamoorthi, Mr. Shimkus, Mr. Bost, Mr. 
Rodney Davis of Illinois, Mrs. Bustos, Mr. Kinzinger, Mr. Hultgren, Mr. 
Schneider, Mr. Foster, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, 
Mr. Roskam, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Lipinski, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Rush, 
and Mr. Gutierrez) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To designate certain Federal land in the District of Columbia under the 
    administrative jurisdiction of the National Park Service as the 
       ``Illinois' Bicentennial Grove'', and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF ILLINOIS' BICENTENNIAL GROVE.

    (a) Designation.--The Federal land in the District of Columbia 
described as ``United States Reservation 343, Anacostia Park, Section 
F'' and commonly known as the River Terrace Area of Anacostia Park is 
hereby designated as ``Illinois' Bicentennial Grove''.
    (b) Tree Planting; Plaque.--Subject to subsection (c), the 
Secretary of the Interior shall provide and place a plaque near trees 
planted in the Illinois' Bicentennial Grove recognizing the trees as a 
tribute to the bicentennial of the State of Illinois and four prominent 
abolitionists from Illinois, Edward Coles, Mary Brown Davis, and Elijah 
and Owen Lovejoy.
    (c) Additions.--The Secretary shall allow for the planting of 
addition trees and the placement of a commemorative bench in the 
Illinois' Bicentennial Grove--
            (1) at no cost to the Federal Government; and
            (2) on such other terms and conditions that the Secretary 
        determines appropriate.
    (d) Funding.--Subsection (b) shall take effect as soon as 
practicable after non-Federal funds sufficient to cover the cost of the 
activities authorized by subsection (b) have been donated to the United 
States for such purpose.
    (e) CWA.--The activities authorized by this section shall not be 
considered to be a ``commemorative work'' for the purposes of chapter 
89 of title 40, United States Code.
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