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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-292
TO RENAME THE HOMESTEAD NATIONAL MONUMENT OF
AMERICA NEAR BEATRICE, NEBRASKA, AS THE HOME-
STEAD NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
NOVEMBER 15, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1472]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1472) to rename the Homestead National Monument of
America near Beatrice, Nebraska, as the Homestead National His-
torical Park, having considered the same, report favorably thereon
without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1472 is to rename the Homestead National
Monument of America near Beatrice, Nebraska, as the Homestead
National Historical Park.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Homestead Act of 1862 1 enticed Americans to move west by
granting 160 acres of land to claimants in exchange for a small fee
and five years of either continuous residence or cultivating and im-
proving the land. Congress authorized the Homestead National
Monument of America2 in 1936 following the acquisition of the
'Act of May 20, 1862, ch. 75, 12 Stat. 392, https://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=
12&page=392.
2Act of Mar. 19, 1936, Pub. L. No. 74-480, 49 Stat. 1184, https://uscode.house.gov/
statviewer.htm?volume=49&page= 1184 (codified at 16 U.S.C. § 450u).
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