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U.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-616
VALLEY FORGE PARK REALIGNMENT PERMIT AND
PROMISE ACT
DECEMBER 12, 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. 7952]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 7952) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to issue
a right-of-way permit with respect to a natural gas distribution
pipeline within Valley Forge National Historical Park, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon with an amendment and recommends 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 Valley Forge Park Realignment Permit and Promise
Act.
SEC. 2. RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMIT FOR NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION MAIN SEGMENT AT VALLEY
FORGE NHP.
(a) IN GENERAL.-Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may
issue a right-of-way permit pursuant to part 14 of title 36, Code of Federal Regula-
tions (as in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act), for the covered main
segment if the covered main segment is relocated to a proposed realignment of Val-
ley Forge Park Road and North Gulph Road within the Park.
(b) SCOPE OF AUTHORITY.-The authority to grant a right-of-way permit under
subsection (a) shall apply only to the covered main segment and shall not apply to
any other part of the natural gas distribution main system or any other pipeline
system within the Park.
(c) DEFINITIONS.-In this section:
(1) COVERED MAIN SEGMENT.-The term covered main segment means the
portions of the natural gas distribution main (including all appurtenances used
in the operation of such main) within the Park-
(A) existing on the date of the enactment of this Act; and
(B) that are located under, along, or adjacent to the segments of North
Gulph Road and Valley Forge Park Road (SR3039 and SR0023 respectively,
as those roads were aligned on January 21, 2022) that are between-
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