Sponsored By: Senator Sen. McCormick, David [R-PA]
Introduced
Designates a new National Heritage Area in northeastern Pennsylvania and would set who manages it and how its boundaries and plans are decided.
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This bill would designate the Endless Mountains National Heritage Area in Pennsylvania covering Bradford, Sullivan, Susquehanna, and Wyoming Counties and parts of other counties named in a feasibility study. It would name Endless Mountains Heritage Region, Inc. as the local coordinating entity. That nonprofit would have to submit a management plan to the Interior Secretary for approval within 3 years of enactment. The Interior Secretary would set the final boundaries based on the feasibility study and could provide federal assistance, but that assistance authority would end 15 years after enactment.
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Sen. McCormick, David [R-PA]
PA • R
John Fetterman
PA • D
Sponsored 3/26/2026
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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Appropriations package that would fund Treasury and IRS while imposing rulemaking limits and detailed DC policy constraints, affecting taxpayers, community lenders, and DC residents.
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