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INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-600
DEARFIELD STUDY ACT
DECEMBER 7, 2022.-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. 6438]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6438) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct
a special resource study of the site known as Dearfield in the
State of Colorado, 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. 6438 is to authorize the Secretary of the In-
terior to conduct a special resource study of the site known as
Dearfield in the State of Colorado.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 6438 would require the U.S. Department of the Interior
(DOI) to conduct a special resource study of the site known as
Dearfield in Weld County, Colorado, which was a historically Black
agricultural settlement founded by Oliver Toussaint Jackson in
1910. While the Homestead Act of 1862 offered the chance for
Black Americans to own land in the West, the predominant history
of homesteading in this country has been a conspicuously white
history.
According to Colorado Public Radio, Jackson's goal in estab-
lishing the community was to foster middle-class self-sufficiency for
the Black community on the Eastern Plains, as inspired by Booker
T. Washington. His original plan was to expand the farming com-
munity and build a sanatorium, because many such facilities at the
time did not accept Black patients, or potentially an educational in-
stitution, but over time the land remained a thriving farming
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