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       MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT ACT OF 2023

  The bill (S. 1277) to modify the boundary of the Mammoth Cave 
National Park in the State of Kentucky, and for other purposes, which 
had been reported from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 
was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, was read the third 
time, and passed as follows:

                                S. 1277

       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 ``Mammoth Cave National Park 
     Boundary Adjustment Act of 2023''.

     SEC. 2. MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY MODIFICATION.

       Section 11 of the Act of June 5, 1942 (56 Stat. 319, 
     chapter 341; 16 U.S.C. 404c-11), is amended--
       (1) in the second paragraph, by striking ``the sum of not 
     to exceed'' in the first sentence and all that follows 
     through the period at the end of the paragraph and inserting 
     ``such sums as are necessary.''; and
       (2) by inserting after the second paragraph the following:
       ``The Secretary of the Interior may acquire approximately 
     980 acres of the land and any interests in the land generally 
     depicted on the map entitled `Mammoth Cave National Park 
     Proposed Southern Boundary Expansion Edmonson and Barren 
     Counties, Kentucky', numbered 135/177, 967, and dated April 
     28, 2022, for inclusion in the Mammoth Cave National Park.''.

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