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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 64
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-51
TO AMEND THE DELAWARE WATER GAP NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
IMPROVEMENT ACT TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO CERTAIN VEHICLES SERV-
ING RESIDENTS OF MUNICIPALITIES ADJACENT TO THE DELAWARE
WATER GAP NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
MAY 9, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 560]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (H.R. 560) to amend the Delaware Water Gap Na-
tional Recreation Area Improvement Act to provide access to cer-
tain vehicles serving residents of municipalities adjacent to the
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with-
out amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of H.R. 560 is to amend the Delaware Water Gap
National Recreation Area Improvement Act to provide access to
certain vehicles serving residents of municipalities adjacent to the
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (Recreation
Area) in Pennsylvania and New Jersey preserves 70,000 acres on
both sides of the Delaware River. Highway 209 spans 21 miles
through the middle of the Recreation Area and served as a major
truck route for many years. In 1981, the section of Highway 209
within the boundaries of the Recreation Area was transferred from
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to the National Park Service
(NPS).
Two years later, a provision of Public Law 98-63, the Fiscal Year
1983 Supplemental Appropriations Act, closed the NPS segment of
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