Title: Claude Moore Farm Land Conveyance Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Claude Moore Farm Land Conveyance Act
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey to the Friends of the Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run, Inc., approximately 69 acres of land identified as the Claude Moore Colonial Farm Land Assignment for use as an 18th century living history museum that shall be open to the public, if the Friends request such a conveyance.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6678 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6678

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain National Park 
Service land in Fairfax County, Virginia, to the Friends of the Claude 
                              Moore Farm.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 24, 2018

Mrs. Comstock introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain National Park 
Service land in Fairfax County, Virginia, to the Friends of the Claude 
                              Moore Farm.

    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 ``Claude Moore Farm Land Conveyance 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Friends.--The term ``Friends'' means the Friends of the 
        Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run, Inc.
            (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.

SEC. 3. LAND CONVEYANCE.

    (a) Conveyance Required.--Subject to valid existing rights, if not 
later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Friends 
submit to the Secretary in writing a request for the conveyance of the 
National Park Service land described in subsection (b)(1) for use as an 
18th Century living history museum open to the public, the Secretary 
shall convey to the Friends, without consideration and all right, 
title, and interest of the United States in and to the parcel of 
National Park Service land described in subsection (b)(1), including 
any improvements thereon.
    (b) Description of Land.--
            (1) In general.--The National Park Service land is the 
        approximately 69-acres generally depicted as ``Claude Moore 
        Colonial Farm Land Assignment'' on the map entitled ``George 
        Washington Memorial Parkway, Claude Moore Colonial Farm Land 
        Assignment, McLean, Virginia'' numbered 850_146239, and dated 
        June 2018.
            (2) Map.--The map referenced in paragraph (1) shall be on 
        file and available for public inspection in the appropriate 
        office of the National Park Service. The Secretary may correct 
        minor errors in the map.
    (c) Costs of Conveyance.--As a condition of the conveyance under 
subsection (a), all costs associated with the conveyance under 
subsection (a) shall be paid by the Friends.
    (d) Time for Completion of Conveyance.--Not later than 1 year after 
the date on which the Friends submit the written request described in 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall complete the conveyance under that 
subsection.
    (e) Reversion.--If the land conveyed to the Friends under 
subsection (a) ceases to be used as an 18th Century living history 
museum open to the public, the land shall, at the discretion of the 
Secretary, revert to the United States.
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