Hinchliffe Stadium Heritage Act

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on May 6, 2014. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Hinchliffe Stadium Heritage Act - Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to include within the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park, New Jersey, approximately six acres of land containing Hinchliffe Stadium. Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from acquiring fee title to the Stadium, but authorizes the Secretary to acquire a preservation easement if doing so will facilitate resource protection of the Stadium.

Prohibits the Secretary, in administering such land, from: (1) including non-federal property within the six acres as part of the Park without the written consent of the owner, (2) acquiring by condemnation any land or interests in land within the six acres, or (3) construing this Act to create buffer zones outside the boundaries of the Park.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2430 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2430

 To adjust the boundaries of Paterson Great Falls National Historical 
      Park to include Hinchliffe Stadium, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 19, 2013

Mr. Pascrell (for himself, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Frelinghuysen, Mr. Garrett, 
Mr. Holt, Mr. Lance, Mr. LoBiondo, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Payne, Mr. Runyan, 
Mr. Sires, and Mr. Smith of New Jersey) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To adjust the boundaries of Paterson Great Falls National Historical 
      Park to include Hinchliffe Stadium, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Hinchliffe Stadium Heritage Act of 
2013''.

SEC. 2. PATERSON GREAT FALLS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK BOUNDARY 
              ADJUSTMENT.

    Section 7001 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (16 
U.S.C. 410lll) is amended as follows:
            (1) In subsection (b)(3)--
                    (A) by striking ``The Park shall'' and inserting 
                ``(A) The Park shall'';
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (G) 
                as clauses (i) through (vii), respectively; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) In addition to the lands described in 
                subparagraph (A), the Park shall include the 
                approximately 6 acres of land containing Hinchliffe 
                Stadium and generally depicted as the `Boundary 
                Modification Area' on the map entitled `Paterson Great 
                Falls National Historical Park', numbered T03/120,155, 
                and dated March 2013, which shall be administered as 
                part of the Park in accordance with subsection 
                (c)(1).''.
            (2) In subsection (b)(4), by striking ``The Map'' and 
        inserting ``The Map and the map referred to in paragraph 
        (3)(B)''.
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