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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-490
FREE VETERANS FROM FEES ACT
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020.-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. 1702]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1702) to waive the application fee for any special use per-
mit for veterans demonstrations and special events at war memo-
rials on Federal land, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon with amendments and rec-
ommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Free Veterans from Fees Act.
SEC. 2. WAIVER OF SPECIAL USE PERMIT APPLICATION FEE FOR VETERANS DEMONSTRA-
TIONS AND SPECIAL EVENTS.
(a) WAIVER.-The application fee for any special use permit solely for a veterans'
demonstration or special event at war memorials on land administered by the Na-
tional Park Service in the District of Columbia and its environs shall be waived.
(b) DEFINITIONS.-In this section:
(1) DEMONSTRATION; SPECIAL EVENT.-The terms demonstration and special
events have the meanings given those terms in section 7.96 of title 36, Code
of Federal Regulations.
(2) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND ITS ENVIRONS.-The term the District of Co-
lumbia and its environs has the meaning given that term in section 8902(a)
of title 40, United States Code.
(3) GOLD STAR FAMILY.-The term Gold Star Family includes any individual
described in section 3.2 of Department of Defense Instruction 1348.36.
(4) VETERAN.-The term veteran has the meaning given that term in section
101(2) of title 38, United States Code.
(5) VETERANS DEMONSTRATION OR SPECIAL EVENT.-The term veterans' dem-
onstration or special event means a demonstration or special event whose pri-
mary purpose is to commemorate or honor individuals present at the dem-
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