Evaluating Lynching Locations (ELL) for National Park Sites Act

United States117th CongressHR-7912House of Representatives
Updated: Jul 14, 2022

Summary

Evaluating Lynching Locations (ELL) for National Park Sites Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of sites within approximately 100 miles of Memphis, Tennessee, at which lynchings took place. In conducting the special resource study, Interior shall (1) evaluate the national significance of such study area, and (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the study area as a unit of the National Park System.

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  1. Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

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  2. Introduced in House

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.

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