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African American Burial Grounds Study Act
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African American Burial Grounds Study Act This bill directs the National Park Service (NPS) to conduct a study of ways to identify, interpret, preserve, and record unmarked, previously abandoned, underserved, or other burial grounds relating to the historic African American experience. In conducting the study, the NPS shall consider ways to engage with descendant, local, and other communities historically associated with identified burial grounds by geography, genealogy, or culture; appropriate processes to identify locations of unmarked and unrecorded African American burial grounds with appropriate consideration for the privacy and safety of the burial grounds; alternatives for providing in a public database the locations of, and information on, recorded and unrecorded African American burial grounds; alternatives for commemorating and interpreting African American burial grounds; and best practices for preserving burial ground landscapes and caring for artifacts.
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2020 · fourth_quarter · Natural Resources
Request Congressional support for HR 1179/S 2827, the African American Burial Grounds Act, a bill to create a network of historic African American Burial Grounds. Request Congressional support for efforts to create the Bronzeville Black Metropolis National Heritage Area, S. 4550.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Held at the desk.
Received in the House.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote. (text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7859)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment and an amendment to the Title by Voice Vote.(text of amendment in the nature of a substitute: CR S7859)
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S7859)
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-367.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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Sources: Congress.gov
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2020 · fourth_quarter · Natural Resources
Support passage of the African American Burial Grounds Network Act (H.R. 1179/S. 2827)
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2020 · third_quarter · Natural Resources
Support passage of the African American Burial Grounds Network Act (H.R. 1179/S. 2827)
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2020 · third_quarter · Natural Resources
Suggest to Congress ways in which the Army Corps of Engineers permitting process could be improved. Request Congressional support for HR 1179/S 2827, the African American Burial Grounds Act, a bill to create a network of historic African American Burial Grounds. Request Congressional support for HR 8281/S 4622, a bill to create a larger network of sites related to the Brown vs. Board of Education case. Discuss the merits of creating a Northern Neck National Heritage area.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2020 · third_quarter · Natural Resources
Suggest to Congress ways in which the Army Corps of Engineers permitting process could be improved. Request Congressional support for HR 1179/S 2827, the African American Burial Grounds Act, a bill to create a network of historic African American Burial Grounds. Request Congressional support for HR 8281/S 4622, a bill to create a larger network of sites related to the Brown vs. Board of Education case. Discuss the merits of creating a Northern Neck National Heritage area.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
2020 · first_quarter · Real Estate/Land Use/Conservation
H.R.1049 - National Heritage Area Act of 2019 H.R.2546 - Colorado Wilderness Act of 2019 H.R.3250 - Julius Rosenwald and the Rosenwald Schools Act of 2019 H.R.3581 - District of Columbia Board of Zoning Adjustment Home Rule Act H.R.5153 - Indian Buffalo Management Act H.R.5989 - Alabama Black Belt National Heritage Area Act S.508 - Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission Reauthorization Act S.2340 - Cahokia Mounds Mississippian Culture National Historical Park Act S.2827 - U.S. African-American Burial Grounds Network Act S.2924 - Bandelier National Park and Preserve Establishment Act S.3119 -Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Modification Act of 2019 S.3121 - Chiricahua National Park Act No Leg Yet Confederate memorials Blackwell School Preserve America CA lands bills discussion Cesar Chavez Park Expansion
Client expense: $193,069 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Interior, Dept of (DOI), SENATE
2020 · first_quarter · Natural Resources
Ask members of Congress to support HR 1179/S 2827, the African American Burial Grounds Network Act, to protect and preserve historic African American burial grounds. Discuss with NPS staff what the potential timeline of implementing the bill would be. Urge members of Congress to support HR 5853, the Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area Act. Request that members of Congress support increased funding for the federal preservation programs including funding for the Historic Preservation Fund and the cultural resources programs at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Ask Congress to exclude from its pandemic response legislation any effort to weaken the provisions of the National Historic Preservation Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, or the U.S. Department of Transportation Act as they pertain to protecting America's cultural resources.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Natl Park Service (NPS), SENATE
2020 · first_quarter · Natural Resources
Support for H.R. 4512 Outdoors for All Act; H.R. 4273/S. 2467 Transit to Trails; H.R.3879 - Simplifying Outdoor Access for Recreation Act; End Speculative Oil and Gas Leasing Act of 2020; Public Land Renewable Energy Act H.R. 3794/S. 2666; H.R. 1373, the Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act; H.R. 5435 American Public Lands and Waters Climate Solution Act of 2019; H.R.2491 - Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2019; H.R. 2250, NW CA Wilderness, Recreation, and Working Forests Act; H.R. 2199, Central Coast Heritage Protection Act; H.R. 2215, the San Gabriel Mountains Foothills and Rivers Protection Act; S.3202 - End Speculative Oil and Gas Leasing Act of 2020; H.R.5598 - Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection and Pollution Prevention Act; S.3127 - Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act; H.R.2546 - Protecting America's Wilderness Act; H.R. 2546 - Colorado Wilderness Act; H.R. 5153, Indian Buffalo Management Act; H.R. 2181/S. 1079 Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act; H.R.5636 - Transparency in Energy Production Act of 2020; S.1386 - Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2019; S.2461 - Arctic Refuge Protection Act of 2019; S.1081/HR 3195 - Land and Water Conservation Fund Permanent Funding Act; H.R.3716 - Small County PILT Parity Act; H.R.4346 - Bonding Reform and Taxpayer Protection Act of 2019; H.R.2711 - Methane Waste Prevention Act of 2019; H.R. 823 - Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act; S. 3320 Sangre de Cristo Wilderness Act; S.3288 - PUBLIC Lands Act; S.3422 - Great American Outdoors Act; S.1765 - Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act; H.R.3681 - Green Spaces, Green Vehicles Act of 2019; S. 1863, Julius Rosenwald and the Rosenwald Schools Act of 2019 (Support); S. 2340, Cahokia Mounds Mississippian Culture National Historical Park Act (Support); S. 2827, African American Burial Grounds Network Act (Support); S. 3331, Rocky Mountain National Park Boundary Modification and Land Exchange Act (Support); S. 2891, the Tribal Wildlife Corridors Act of 2019 (Support); H.R.4364 - Taxpayer Fairness for Resource Development Act of 2019; H.R.5606 - Desert National Wildlife Refuge and Nevada Test and Training Range Withdrawal and Management Act; H.R. 139, the Springfield Race Riot National Historic Monument Act; H.R. 3250, the Julius Rosenwald and the Rosenwald School Act of 2019; and S. 2882 - Wildfire Defense Act. Expressed views on: Potential nomination of William Perry Pendley for BLM Director; S.1317 - American Mineral Security Act; nomination of Katharine MacGregor for DOI Deputy Sec. position; forthcoming legislation on Bonneville Shoreline Trail / Wasatch, UT; H.R.5859 - Trillion Trees Act; and S.2657 - Advanced Geothermal Innovation Leadership Act of 2019.
2019 · fourth_quarter · Natural Resources
Ask members of Congress to support HR 1179/S 2827, the African American Burial Grounds Network Act, to protect and preserve historic African American burial grounds. Express support for HR 3846/S 2165, the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony Act, which would help prevent the overseas sales of illicitly procured tribal objects. Ask Senators to pass S Res 315, to memorialize the discovery of the Clotilda ship. Request that Congress carefully examine the impact that the BLM headquarters move will have on cultural resources work within the agency. Discuss the possibility of protecting sites associated with Brown v Board of Education case. Discuss support for legislation to highlight the history of the Great Dismal Swamp. Urge the ACHP to focus on how it can help improve tribal consultation policies and encourage the use of digitization of cultural resources data.
Client expense: Not reported · Firm income: $10,000
Government targets: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE
Introduced in Senate
| Democratic |
| VA |
| Robert P. Casey, Jr. | Democratic | PA |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | Democratic | RI |
Client expense: $37,000 · Firm income: Not reported
Government targets: HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE