[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3515 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3515

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to remove the bronze plaque and 
concrete block bearing the name of Francis Newlands from the grounds of 
the memorial fountain located at Chevy Chase Circle in the District of 
                   Columbia, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 18, 2022

 Mr. Van Hollen (for himself and Mr. Cardin) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to remove the bronze plaque and 
concrete block bearing the name of Francis Newlands from the grounds of 
the memorial fountain located at Chevy Chase Circle in the District of 
                   Columbia, 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 ``Francis G. Newlands Memorial Removal 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF PLAQUE AND CONCRETE FROM MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN GROUNDS.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior shall--
            (1) remove the brass plaque bearing the name ``Senator 
        Francis G. Newlands'' from the grounds of the memorial 
        fountain;
            (2) remove from the south end of the memorial fountain's 
        face, the stone, tablet-like projection bearing the name of 
        ``Francis Griffith Newlands'' and a related inscription;
            (3) remove the name ``Newlands Memorial Fountain'' carved 
        into the upper face of the memorial fountain's coping stones; 
        and
            (4) offer the items removed pursuant to paragraphs (1), 
        (2), and (3) to the descendants of Francis Griffith Newlands 
        for a period of 60 days, and if not claimed within that period, 
        direct the items removed pursuant to paragraphs (1), (2), and 
        (3) to be maintained by the National Park Service as Federal 
        property and accessioned into the Rock Creek Park museum 
        collection.
    (b) Memorial Fountain.--For the purposes of this section, the term 
``memorial fountain'' means the memorial fountain located at Chevy 
Chase Circle, Connecticut Avenue and Western Avenue NW, in the District 
of Columbia.
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