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U.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-363
CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL
PARK COMMISSION EXTENSION ACT
JANUARY 30, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 1727]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1727) to amend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Develop-
ment Act to extend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National His-
torical Park Commission, having considered the same, reports fa-
vorably 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 Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical
Park Commission Extension Act.
SEC. 2. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK COMMISSION.
Section 6(g) of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Development Act (16 U.S.C. 410y-
4(g)) is amended by striking 40 and all that follows through the period at the end
and inserting on October 1, 2031..
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 1727 is to amend the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal Development Act to extend the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
National Historical Park Commission.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 1727 would renew the federal advisory commission for the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park (C&O Canal).
The C&O Canal stretches over 184.5 miles from Georgetown in
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