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The bill expands and protects Harpers Ferry parkland while enabling CBP to establish a nearby training center without purchase costs, trading some local public access and potential revenue for operational efficiencies in federal training.
Visitors, local communities, and the public: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park gains ~71.51 acres of protected land and the bill requires that any CBP-allocated land not used for training reverts to the Park, expanding and protecting public parkland and historic resources.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and federal training operations: CBP receives ~25 acres to establish an Advanced Training Center without purchase costs, consolidating training facilities and improving training efficiency and interagency coordination.
Park visitors and local residents: up to ~25 acres of Park land may be repurposed for CBP training, causing temporary or ongoing loss of public access to that portion of the Park.
Park visitors and nearby communities: CBP training activities on the allocated land could restrict nearby park uses and degrade visitor experience through increased noise, security restrictions, or limited recreational access.
Taxpayers/national budget: the federal government foregoes monetary compensation for the land transfer, shifting opportunity costs to taxpayers rather than recouping value through sale or lease.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Conveys ~25 acres to CBP for a training center and ~71.51 acres to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, updates boundaries, requires a land survey, and sets reversion rules.
Transfers two parcels of federal land in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia between the National Park Service and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. About 25 acres move from the Park to CBP for use as an Advanced Training Center, and about 71.51 acres move from CBP into Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, with accompanying boundary changes, survey requirements, and reversion rules. The bill requires CBP to provide a land survey, allows clerical corrections to legal descriptions, makes the land exchanges without monetary reimbursement, exempts the exchanged (and any reverted) land from the park’s statutory acreage cap, and provides definitions for terms used in the transfers.
Official title: To transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain parcels of federal land in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and for other purposes.
Introduced November 17, 2025 by Riley M. Moore · Last progress November 17, 2025