Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§410jjjj Designation of Pullman National Historical Park

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LIX–HHH — PULLMAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 410jjjj

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Pullman National Monument is redesignated as the Pullman National Historical Park. The monument was created by Proclamation Number 9233 on February 19, 2015; that proclamation is now void. "Historical park" means the Pullman National Historical Park. "Map" means the map called "Pullman National Historical Park Boundary," number 590/125,485, dated November 2021. Any money or legal references that applied to the monument now apply to the historical park. The park must protect and explain Pullman’s important history, including U.S. labor history and the start of Labor Day; the first planned industrial town in the country; its architecture and landscape; the role of Pullman porters in the rise of the African‑American middle class; and other history named in Proclamation 9233. The Secretary will manage the park under this law and the usual National Park System rules. The Secretary may make cooperative agreements with Illinois, local groups, and others to help preserve and interpret non‑Federal sites inside or near the park, and those agreements must allow reasonable public access. Federal money may be used for signs, restoration, help, and interpretation. If a funded property is later used in ways that conflict with the park’s purposes, the United States can be repaid the larger of the amount given or the increase in value caused by the funds. The Secretary may acquire land from willing sellers, and must finish a management plan within 3 fiscal years after money is first available.

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Title 16, §410jjjj

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(a)Definitions
In this section: (1) Historical park
(2)Map
The term “map” means the map entitled “Pullman National Historical Park Boundary”, numbered 590/125,485, and dated November 2021.
(b)Redesignation of Pullman National Monument
(1)In general
The Pullman National Monument, established by Proclamation Number 9233, dated February 19, 2015, is redesignated as the “Pullman National Historical Park”.
(2)Availability of funds
Any funds available for purposes of the Pullman National Monument shall be available for purposes of the historical park.
(3)References
Any references in a law, regulation, document, record, map, or other paper of the United States to the Pullman National Monument shall be considered to be a reference to the historical park.
(4)Proclamation
Proclamation Number 9233, dated February 19, 2015, shall have no force or effect.
(c)Purposes
The purposes of the historical park are to preserve, protect, and interpret Pullman’s nationally significant cultural and historical resources associated with—
(1)the labor history of the United States and creation of a national Labor Day holiday;
(2)the first planned industrial community in the United States;
(3)the architecture and landscape design of the planned community;
(4)the pivotal role of the Pullman porter in the rise of the African-American middle class; and
(5)the entirety of history, culture, and historic figures embodied in Presidential Proclamation Number 9233.
(d)Administration
The Secretary shall administer the land within the boundary of the historical park in accordance with—
(1)this section; and
(2)the laws generally applicable to units of the National Park System, including—
(A)section 100101(a), chapter 1003, and section 100751(a), 100752, 100753 and 102101 of title 54; and
(B)chapter 3201 of title 54.
(e)Cooperative agreements
(1)In general
To further the purposes of this section and notwithstanding chapter 63 of title 31, the Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with the State of Illinois, other public and nonprofit entities, and other interested parties, subject to paragraph (2)—
(A)to support collaborative interpretive and educational programs at non-Federal historic properties within the boundaries of the historical park; and
(B)to identify, interpret, and provide assistance for the preservation of non-Federal land within the boundaries of the historical park and at sites in close proximity to the historical park, but located outside the boundaries of the historical park, including providing for placement of directional and interpretive signage, exhibits, and technology-based interpretive devices.
(2)Public access
A cooperative agreement entered under this subsection shall provide for reasonable public access.
(f)Use of funds
(1)In general
The Secretary may use appropriated funds to mark, interpret, improve, restore, and provide technical assistance with respect to the preservation and interpretation of the properties.
(2)Inconsistent purposes
Any payment made by the Secretary under this subsection shall be subject to an agreement that the conversion, use, or disposal of the project for purposes that are inconsistent with the purposes of this section, as determined by the Secretary, shall result in a right of the United States to reimbursement of the greater of— (A)
(B)an amount equal to the increase in the value of the project that is attributable to the funds, as determined by the Secretary at the time of the conversion, use, or disposal.
(g)Acquisition of land (h) Management plan
The Secretary may acquire for inclusion in the historical park any land (including interests in land), buildings, or structures owned by the State of Illinois, or any other political, private, or nonprofit entity by donation, transfer, exchange, or purchase from a willing seller.

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Proclamation Number 9233 and Presidential Proclamation Number 9233, referred to in subsecs. (b)(1), (4), and (c)(5), is Proc. No. 9233, Feb. 19, 2015, 80 F.R. 10315, which appears in a table under the heading “National Monuments Established Under Presidential Proclamation”, set out as a note under section 320301 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs.

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16 U.S.C. § 410jjjj

Title 16, Conservation

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Sep 22, 2026

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