To revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train Station, and for other purposes.

Requires the inclusion of the land and interests commonly known as Gettysburg Train Station and its immediate surroundings in the Borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and the land and interests located along Plum Run in Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania, in Gettysburg National Military Park if the owner of the property has provided written consent for its inclusion.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire publicly or privately owned property within the area of the Train Station by purchase, from willing sellers only, if efforts to acquire such property without cost have been exhausted. Prohibits the acquisition of property within the areas of the Train Station and along Plum Run by eminent domain.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1335 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1335

 To revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to 
     include the Gettysburg Train Station, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 2011

  Mr. Platts introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to 
     include the Gettysburg Train Station, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. GETTYSBURG NATIONAL MILITARY PARK BOUNDARY REVISION.

    Section 1 of the Act titled ``An Act to revise the boundary of the 
Gettysburg National Military Park in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 
and for other purposes'', approved August 17, 1990 (16 U.S.C. 430g-4), 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Additional Land.--In addition to the land identified in 
subsections (a) and (b), the park shall include the following, as 
depicted on the map titled `Gettysburg National Military Park Proposed 
Boundary Addition', numbered 305/80,045 and dated January 2010:
            ``(1) The land and interests in land commonly known as the 
        `Gettysburg Train Station' and its immediate surroundings in 
        the Borough of Gettysburg.
            ``(2) The land and interests in land located along Plum Run 
        in Cumberland Township.''.

SEC. 2. ACQUISITION AND DISPOSAL OF LAND.

    Section 2 of that Act (16 U.S.C. 430g-5) is amended by adding at 
the end of subsection (a) the following: ``The Secretary is also 
authorized to acquire publicly owned property within the area defined 
in section 1(d)(1) by purchase, from willing sellers only, if efforts 
to acquire that property without cost have been exhausted. The 
Secretary may not acquire property within the area defined in section 
1(d) by eminent domain.''.
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