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Public Law 102–541

To expand the boundaries of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park, Virginia.

Approved October 27, 1992

Statutory text

An Act

To expand the boundaries of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park, Virginia.

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

SECTION 1. FINDING.

Congress finds that the land area near Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park, Virginia, located south and west of the intersection of the Orange Plank Road and Brock Road in Spotsylvania County was strategically significant ground associated with the battle of the Civil War known as the Battle of the Wilderness, and that the tract of land adjacent to such area known as “Longstreet’s Flank Attack” was also strategically significant to that battle.

SEC. 2. ADDITION TO WILDERNESS BATTLEFIELD.

(a)

Section (2) of Public Law 101–214 (16 U.S.C. 425k(a)) is amended—

(1)

by striking “326–40072E/89,”; and

(2)

by striking “1989.” and inserting in lieu thereof “1989, and the map entitled ‘Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park,’ numbered 326–40072E/89/A and dated September 1990.”: Provided, That this subsection shall not

16 USC 425k note.

be effective until the lands included within the proposed new boundaries of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park pursuant to this Act have been donated to the Secretary of the Interior.

(b)

Lands included within the boundaries of the Fredericksburg

16 USC 425k note.

and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park pursuant to this section may be acquired only by donation.

SEC. 3. ADDITION TO APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK.

(a)

Section 308(a) of Public Law 94–578 (16 U.S.C. 450e–1(a)) is amended by striking “numbered 340–20,000A, and dated September 1976,” and inserting in lieu thereof, “numbered 340/80,015 and dated June 1992,”: Provided, That this subsection shall not

16 USC 450e–1 note.

be effective until the lands included within the proposed new boundaries of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park pursuant to this Act have been donated to the Secretary of the Interior.

(b)

Lands included within the boundaries of the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park pursuant to this section may be acquired only by donation.

Approved October 27, 1992.

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