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Volume 76

Public Law 87–628

To change the names of the Edison Home National Historic Site and the Edison Laboratory National Monument, to authorize the acceptance of donations, and for other purposes.

Approved September 5, 1962

Statutory text

AN ACT

To change the names of the Edison Home National Historic Site and the Edison Laboratory National Monument, to authorize the acceptance of donations, and for other purposes.

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

That the Edison Home National Historic Site and the Edison Laboratory National Monument, together with adjacent parcels aggregating approximately seventy-one one-hundredths of an acre which have been donated to the United States for addition to the monument, are designated the Edison National Historic Site.

Sec. 2.

The Secretary of the Interior may accept the donation of such lands and interests in lands, for addition to the site, as he determines will further the preservation of the Edison National Historic Site and its enjoyment by the public.

Sec. 3.

The Edison National Historic Site shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service and for other purposes,” approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1, 2, 3), as amended and supplemented.

Approved September 5, 1962.

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