This bill would make the General George C. Marshall House in Leesburg an affiliated area of the National Park System. The affiliated area is the property shown on a map numbered 999/189,974 dated September 2023. The bill says the site must be managed consistently with this section and laws that apply to National Park System units. The George C. Marshall International Center is named as the management entity.
The Secretary of the Interior may give technical help and enter cooperative agreements with the management entity. Those agreements can include financial help for marketing, marking, interpretation, and preservation. The Secretary must enter into an agreement with the management entity that explains each party's roles and responsibilities and follows applicable National Park System policies and standards. The Secretary is not allowed to acquire property at the site or take on overall financial responsibility for its operation, maintenance, or management.
If you visit or live near the site, the designation could lead to coordinated marking, interpretation (signs or exhibits), and preservation work carried out by the named management entity with technical or limited financial help from the Secretary. The site will be managed under an agreement that describes who does what. The federal government is not authorized to buy the property or to fully fund its ongoing operation.
The bill allows the Secretary to provide financial assistance through cooperative agreements, for activities such as marketing, marking, interpretation, and preservation. The bill does not set or authorize specific amounts of funding. The bill also states that the Secretary may not assume overall financial responsibility for operating, maintaining, or managing the site. No publicly available information on exact costs or funding amounts is provided in the bill text.
The bill states its purpose is to promote public appreciation of the historic contributions made by George C. Marshall.
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