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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-1081
NATIONAL MONUMENT CREATION AND PROTECTION ACT
DECEMBER 19, 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
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 3990]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3990) to amend title 54, United States Code, to reform
the Antiquities Act of 1906, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment and
recommend 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 National Monument Creation and Protection Act
or the National Monument CAP Act.
SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON SIZE; CLARIFICATION OF ELIGIBLE OBJECTS.
Section 320301 of title 54, United States Code, is amended-
(1) in subsection (a), by striking historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric
structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest and inserting ob-
ject or objects of antiquity;
(2) in subsection (b), by striking confined to the smallest area compatible
with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected and insert-
ing in accordance with the limitations outlined in subsections (e), (f), (g), and
(h); and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
(e) LIMITATION ON SIZE OF NATIONAL MONUMENTS.-Except as provided by sub-
sections (f), (g), and (h), after the date of the enactment of this subsection, land may
not be declared under this section in a configuration that would create a national
monument-
(1) that is more than 640 acres; and
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