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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1 115-1062
OIL REGION NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA
REAUTHORIZATION ACT
DECEMBER 3, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 6507]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6507) to amend the Oil Region National Heritage Area
Act to reauthorize the Oil Region National Heritage Area, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably there-
on without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 6507 is to amend the Oil Region Heritage
Area Act to reauthorize the Oil Region National Heritage Area.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Oil Region National Heritage Area (ORNHA) was designated
in 2004 and encompasses 34 municipalities in 708 square miles in
northwestern Pennsylvania, including all of Venango County.1 The
same acreage was designated as a Pennsylvania Heritage Area in
1994. The ORNHA includes oil artifacts, scenic communities and
farmland, and industrial landscapes to teach visitors about the be-
ginnings of the petroleum industry.
The northwestern region of Pennsylvania is known as the birth-
place of petroleum and as The Valley That Changed the World,
because it was the location of the world's first successful commer-
I Public Law 108-447.
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