HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.
![handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaahl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO
U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
GP
Calendar No. 49
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-35
BLACK HILLS NATIONAL CEMETERY BOUNDARY
EXPANSION ACT
MAY 3, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 35]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to
which was referred the bill (S. 35) to transfer administrative juris-
diction over certain Bureau of Land Management land from the
Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for in-
clusion in the Black Hills National Cemetery, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with
an amendment in the nature of a substitute 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 Black Hills National Cemetery Boundary Expansion
Act.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) CEMETERY.-The term Cemetery means the Black Hills National Ceme-
tery in Sturgis, South Dakota.
(2) FEDERAL LAND.-The term Federal land means the approximately 200
acres of Bureau of Land Management land adjacent to the Cemetery, generally
depicted as Proposed National Cemetery Expansion on the map entitled Pro-
posed Expansion of Black Hills National Cemetery-South Dakota and dated
June 16, 2016.
(3) SECRETARY.-The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior.
SEC. 3. TRANSFER AND WITHDRAWAL OF BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT LAND FOR CEME-
TERY USE.
(a) CONDUCT OF DUE DILIGENCE ACTIVITIES BY THE SECRETARY OF VETERANS AF-
FAIRS.-
69-010](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.congrecreports/crptxaahl0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)