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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-104
GREAT DISMAL SWAMP NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA ACT
JULY 26, 2021.-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. 1154]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1154) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct
a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating cer-
tain land as the Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1154 is to authorize the Secretary of the In-
terior to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of
designating certain land as the Great Dismal Swamp National Her-
itage Area.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 1154 directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study
assessing the suitability and feasibility of designating the Great
Dismal Swamp and its associated sites in the states of Virginia and
North Carolina as a National Heritage Area. The study area in-
cludes the cities of Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Suffolk,
and the Isle of Wight County in the State of Virginia; and Camden,
Currituck, Gates, and Pasquotank counties in the State of North
Carolina.
The Great Dismal Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge, spans
across Virginia and North Carolina and contains the largest intact
remnant of a vast forest that once covered more than one million
acres. This cultural and ecological landscape is also home to the
ancestral lands of the Nansemond Indian Nation and the historic
lands of the Haliwa-Saponi and Meherrin Tribes; the largest
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