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The bill clarifies and adjusts Harpers Ferry park boundaries and enables CBP training expansion—improving management and security—while shifting costs to taxpayers and reducing a small amount of protected parkland.
Border communities and CBP will gain expanded training capacity because CBP can use ~25 acres for an Advanced Training Center, supporting border security training and operational readiness.
Local communities, park visitors, and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park will have clearer land administration and improved preservation/visitor access because the Park will administer ~71.5 acres.
State and local governments (and the Park Service) get clearer property-transfer clarity and fewer future boundary disputes due to a required survey and allowance for clerical map corrections.
Federal taxpayers may bear the cost of the required survey and any CBP development on the ~25-acre parcel, increasing federal spending.
The land transfers occur without monetary reimbursement to the Interior, likely shifting maintenance and management costs for the added park acreage to the National Park Service and taxpayers.
Removing ~25 acres from the park boundary reduces protected parkland and could limit public access or conservation in that area.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Transfers ~25 acres to CBP for its Advanced Training Center and ~71.51 acres to the National Historical Park; requires a CBP-paid survey, allows map fixes, and no money changes hands.
Introduced July 15, 2025 by James Conley Justice · Last progress April 29, 2026
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 it as part of its Advanced Training Center, and 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. Requires CBP to pay for and deliver a boundary survey and allows minor clerical map corrections; the transfers involve no monetary reimbursement and include a provision letting CBP return the ~25-acre parcel to the park without counting against an existing park acreage limit if it is no longer needed.