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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-266
AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD PROTECTION PROGRAM
ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2023
NOVEMBER 3, 2023.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3448]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3448) to amend chapter 3081 of title 54, United States
Code, to enhance the protection and preservation of America's bat-
tlefields, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
with an amendment and recommends that the bill as amended do
pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the American Battlefield Protection Program Enhance-
ment Act of 2023.
SEC. 2. AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD PROTECTION PROGRAM IMPROVEMENTS.
(a) DEFINITIONS.-Section 308101 of title 54, United States Code, is amended to
read as follows:
308101. Definitions
In this chapter:
(1) SECRETARY.-The term 'Secretary' means the Secretary, acting through
the American Battlefield Protection Program.
(2) BATTLEFIELD REPORTS.-The term 'Battlefield Reports' means, collec-
tively-
(A) the document entitled 'Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields',
prepared by the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, and dated July 1993;
and
(B) the document entitled 'Report to Congress on the Historic Preserva-
tion of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 Sites in the United States', pre-
pared by the National Park Service, and dated September 2007..
(b) PRESERVATION ASSISTANCE.-Section 308102(a) of title 54, United States Code,
is amended by striking Federal and all that follows through organizations and
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