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The bill clarifies and fixes a specific land boundary and its governing map to reduce legal ambiguity for local governments and landowners, at the cost of potentially imposing modest financial and property-expectation impacts on nearby owners and local governments.
Local land managers, adjacent property owners, and rural communities get a clearer, updated legal boundary because the bill replaces 'one hundred acres' with the precise '102.18 acres', reducing ambiguity about the parcel extent.
Local governments and landowners benefit from a single, explicit map citation (the January 1992 map), simplifying the legal reference that governs the boundary and lowering the chance of disputes about which map applies.
Nearby landowners, rural communities, and local governments may face changed property expectations and potential administrative or surveying costs to reconcile the 2.18-acre change and the updated map/date, creating modest financial burdens or disputes.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Updates the park's statutory boundary by changing the recorded acreage to 102.18 acres and citing the park map dated January 1992.
Official title: To amend the Act of May 17, 1954, to revise the boundary of Gateway Arch National Park.
Introduced March 9, 2026 by Nikki Budzinski · Last progress March 9, 2026
Revises the statutory boundary description of the Gateway Arch National Park by changing the recorded area from "one hundred acres" to "102.18 acres" and standardizing the map citation to a single date (January 1992). The change updates the legal acreage and map reference used to define the park boundary; it is a narrow, technical land-boundary adjustment with minimal policy or budgetary effects.