Title: Fort Scott National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Fort Scott National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act
This bill allows the Department of the Interior to acquire by purchase from willing sellers with donated or appropriated funds, by donation (as under current law), or by exchange the lands and interests in land, together with buildings and improvements, known as Fort Scott in the city of Fort Scott in Bourbon County, Kansas, and the land to be added to the Fort Scott National Historic Site as a result of the modification of the site's boundary according to this bill.
The proviso that the buildings so acquired shall not include the structure known as "Lunette Blair" is repealed.
The boundary of the Fort Scott National Historic Site in Kansas shall be modified as generally depicted on the map entitled "Fort Scott National Historic Site Proposed Boundary Modification," dated February 2016.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 189 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 189

To modify the boundary of the Fort Scott National Historic Site in the 
                State of Kansas, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 23, 2017

   Mr. Moran introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To modify the boundary of the Fort Scott National Historic Site in the 
                State of Kansas, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fort Scott National Historic Site 
Boundary Modification Act''.

SEC. 2. FORT SCOTT NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE.

    (a) In General.--Public Law 95-484 (92 Stat. 1610) is amended--
            (1) in the first section--
                    (A) by inserting ``, by purchase from willing 
                sellers with donated or appropriated funds, or by 
                exchange'' after ``donation''; and
                    (B) by striking ``Kansas: Provided'' and all that 
                follows through the period and inserting the following: 
                ``Kansas, and the land to be added to the Fort Scott 
                National Historic Site under section 2(b).''; and
            (2) in section 2--
                    (A) by striking ``Sec. 2. When'' and inserting the 
                following:

``SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT.

    ``(a) In General.--When''; and
                    (B) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Boundary Modification.--The boundary of the Fort Scott 
National Historic Site established under subsection (a) is modified as 
generally depicted on the map entitled `Fort Scott National Historic 
Site Proposed Boundary Modification', numbered 471/80,057, and dated 
February 2016.''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out the amendments 
made by subsection (a).
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