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Version 36 · Passed House amended · Jun 27, 2005
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to authorize the establishment, at a suitable location approved by the Secretary within the boundaries of Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland, of a memorial to the officers and enlisted men of the Fifth, Sixth, and Ninth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry Regiments and the First New Hampshire Light Artillery Battery who fought in the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.
Requires the Secretary to select the persons who will be permitted to establish the memorial.
Makes the size, design, and inscriptions of the memorial subject to the approval of the Secretary.
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Prohibits the expenditure of any federal funds to design, acquire, prepare the site selected for, or install, the memorial.
Requires the selected persons, until the memorial is installed, to submit to the Secretary annual reports of the operations related to fundraising efforts for the memorial and progress on the establishment of such memorial.
Requires the Secretary to assume responsibility for the maintenance of the memorial upon installation. Allows the Secretary to accept contributions for maintaining the memorial from the selected persons and from other persons. Requires that accepted amounts be merged with other funds available to the Secretary for the maintenance of the memorial and credited to a separate account with the National Park Service.
People & committees
Rep. Bradley, Jeb [R-NH-1] · R–NH
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Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-355.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5202)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H5202)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1084.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5202)
Mr. Pearce moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 63.
Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-111.
Reported by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 109-111.
Subcommittee on National Parks Discharged.
Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks.
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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