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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-835
SALEM MARITIME NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
REDESIGNATION AND BOUNDARY STUDY ACT
DECEMBER 10, 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
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1647]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1647) to redesignate the Salem Maritime National His-
toric Site as the Salem Maritime National Historical Park, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 1647 is to redesignate the Salem Maritime
National Historic Site as the Salem Maritime National Historical
Park, and for the purposes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
In 1938, the Secretary of the Interior established the Salem Mar-
itime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts, as the first-
ever national historic site in the country to conserve and interpret
the 600-year maritime history of New England. This site, which is
managed by the National Park Service (NPS), celebrates the impor-
tance of colonial-era trade, the role of privateers during the Revolu-
tionary War, and the postwar global trade that helped the U.S. es-
tablish economic independence. The 9-acre site along the Salem
waterfront consists of twelve historic structures, a downtown vis-
itor center, and the Friendship of Salem, a replica of a famous sail-
ing ship built in 1797.
H.R. 1647 would redesignate the site as the Salem Maritime
National Historical Park. This is a more appropriate designation
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