An Act to provide for the establishment of the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site and the Johnstown Flood National Memorial in the State of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes
PL 88-546 (H.R.931), enacted 08/31/1964

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PUBLIC LAW 88-546-AUG. 31, 1964 
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STAT. 
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Approved August 31, 1964. 
August 31, 1964 
[H. R. 931] 
Public Law 88-546 
AN ACT 
To provide for the establishment of the Allegheny Portage Railroad National 
Historic Site and the Johnstown Flood National Memorial in the State of 
Pennsylvania, and for other purposes. 
Allegheny Poi^ 
tage Railroad 
National Historic 
Site; Johnstown 
Flood National 
Memorial. 
Establishment. 
Publication in 
Federal Register. 
16 u s e 1 et 
seq. 
16 u s e 461-467. 
Appropriation. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Re'presentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized to establish, as herein provided, the 
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site and the Johns-
town Flood National Memorial in the State of Pennsylvania. 
For 
this purpose the Secretary may designate up to nine hundred and 
fifty acres of land that may, in his discretion, include portions of the 
Pennsylvania Canal, the Lemon House, the summit of the Allegheny 
Portage Railroad, the Skew Arch Bridge, incline planes numbered 
6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 and the levels between them, the Portage Railroad 
tunnel, and such other land and historic features as may be necessary 
to illustrate the significant role of the Allegheny Portage Railroad 
and the Pennsylvania Canal in the Nation's history; and he may 
designate up to fifty-five acres in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, for 
use in commemorating the tragic Johnstown flood of May 31, 1889. 
SEC, 2. Within the areas designated pursuant to section 1, the Sec-
retary is authorized to acquire lands and interests in lands by 
purchase, donation, purchase with donated funds, or otherwise. 
SEC. 3. When the Secretary of the Interior has acquired sufficient 
lands to form administrable park units, he shall publish notice of 
that fact in the Federal Register and the areas designated pursuant 
to section 1 shall thereafter be known as the Allegheny Portage 
Railroad National Historic Site and the Johnstown Flood National 
Memorial and shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior 
pursuant to the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to establish 
the National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved August 
25,1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended and supplemented. 
SEC. 4. To provide for the preservation and interpretation of the 
remaining portions of the Allegheny Portage Railroad route not 
included within the national historic site, and to further commem-
orate the Johnstown flood, the Secretary is authorized to enter into 
cooperative agreements with the State of Pennsylvania, political 
subdivisions thereof, corporations, associations, or individuals, and 
to erect and maintain tablets or markers in accordance with^ the 
provisions contained in the Act approved August 21, 1935, entitled 
"An Act to provide for the preservation of historic American sites, 
buildings, objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for 
other purposes" (49 Stat. 666). 
SEC. 5. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums, but not 
more than $2,000,000, for land acquisition and development, as may 
be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
Approved August 31, 1964.