William R. Richardson: “H.R. 694 is a noncontroversial housekeeping bill that makes minor boundary adjustments and other miscellaneous changes…”

“H.R. 694 is a noncontroversial housekeeping bill that makes minor boundary adjustments and other miscellaneous changes in programs and authorities of the National Park Service. The bill, as reported by the Resources Committee, contains an amendment that reflects appropriate changes to this noncontroversial bill and will make the amended bill consistent with previous action on this and related measures in the last Congress. The deletion of the proposed extension of the Advisory Commission at Women's Rights National Historical Park mirrors the action the Resources Committee took on a measure--H.R. 359--dealing with the Women's Rights Park in the 103d Congress. Likewise, the amendment corrects a mistake in the introduced bill dealing with museum properties. The amended bill language will now accurately reflect the agreement worked out in the last Congress with the former Government Operations Committee and which also passed the House. The last change made by the amendment was technical to make sure that the bill did not inadvertantly undercut competitive bidding of research projects. These are all good changes that improved the bill. I support HR 694, as amended, and recommend its adoption by the House.”