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The bill expands protected park acreage and avoids land-purchase costs for a CBP training center, but it simultaneously allocates part of parkland to CBP use that may restrict public access and imposes administrative costs on federal operations.
Local governments and nearby/rural communities gain about 71.5 acres added to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, increasing public recreational and historic preservation space.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection can use roughly 25 acres for an Advanced Training Center without purchasing land, enabling training capacity without new appropriations.
Visitors and local/rural communities may face reduced public access and changes in local land use because CBP will administer the training area, with no requirement to compensate the park or community.
About 25 acres are excluded from Harpers Ferry National Historical Park and thus permanently unavailable to visitors while used by CBP, reducing parkland accessible to the public.
Costs for land reversion and required surveys are assigned to CBP (federal budget/operations), which could shift resources within CBP or require appropriations adjustments that affect taxpayers and federal employees.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Transfers ~25 acres in Harpers Ferry from Interior to CBP for a training center and transfers ~71.51 acres from CBP to Interior for inclusion in the National Historical Park, with survey and reversion terms.
Transfers about 25 acres of federal land in Harpers Ferry, WV from the Department of the Interior to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) so CBP can administer that parcel as part of its Advanced Training Center, and removes that parcel from the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park boundary. At the same time, it transfers three parcels totaling about 71.51 acres from CBP to the Department of the Interior to be administered as part of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. The transfers occur without monetary reimbursement, require CBP to fund and share a boundary survey for the ~25-acre parcel, allow clerical map corrections, and include a reversion rule that returns the ~25-acre parcel to Interior if CBP no longer needs it for the Training Center (without counting against the Park's statutory acreage cap).
Official title: Transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain parcels of Federal land in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and for other purposes.
Introduced July 15, 2025 by James Conley Justice · Last progress May 4, 2026