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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-652
CASA GRANDE RUINS NATIONAL MONUMENT BOUNDARY
MODIFICATION ACT OF 2020
DECEMBER 15, 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
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 4840]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4840) to modify the boundary of the Casa Grande Ruins
National Monument, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and rec-
ommends 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 Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary
Modification Act of 2020.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that-
(1) Casa Grande Ruin Reservation was-
(A) set aside on March 2, 1889;
(B) proclaimed as the first archeological preserve in the Untied States on
June 22, 1892; and
(C) redesignated as Casa Grande Ruins National Monument on August
3, 1918;
(2) Casa Grande Ruins National Monument protects one of the finest architec-
tural examples of 14th Century Hohokam culture in the American Southwest
known to early Spanish explorers as the Great House;
(3) Casa Grande is only part of the story of this ancient town that may have
covered 2 square miles; and
(4) recent surveys and research have determined that the area of the Great
House and the village surrounding it extends beyond the existing boundary of
the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) BIA LAND.-The term BIA land means the approximately 7.41 acres of
Federal land administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to be transferred
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