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Introduced November 17, 2025 by Riley M. Moore · Last progress November 17, 2025
The bill expands and protects Harpers Ferry parkland while allocating a nearby parcel to CBP for a training center at no purchase cost — trading some local access and recreational impacts and a modest taxpayer opportunity cost for conservation gains and consolidated federal training capacity.
Visitors to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and nearby rural communities: about 71.51 acres will be added to the park and a reversion clause will return unused CBP land to the Park, expanding and protecting public conservation land.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and federal training operations: CBP receives roughly 25 acres for an Advanced Training Center, enabling consolidation of federal training facilities without requiring a land purchase.
Local visitors, municipalities, and rural communities: public access to about 25 acres currently used by the Park could be temporarily lost if repurposed for CBP training.
Park visitors and nearby residents: CBP training activities could lead to noise, security restrictions, or other disruptions that reduce recreational use and visitor experience.
U.S. taxpayers: the federal government forgoes potential monetary compensation by transferring land rather than selling it, representing an opportunity cost to the public.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Conveys ~25 acres in Harpers Ferry to CBP for a training center and conveys ~71.51 acres to the National Historical Park, adjusts boundaries, requires a survey, and sets reversion and acreage‑cap rules.
Transfers two parcels of 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. The bill adjusts park boundaries, requires a land survey from CBP, allows clerical fixes to legal descriptions, imposes no monetary exchange, provides that unused CBP land reverts to the Park, and exempts the transferred (and any reverted) acreage from the Park’s statutory size limit.