§410xxx Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park

Summary

Creates the Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park in Missouri to protect and explain the area's French settlement, local building styles, town layout, and frontier farming for current and future visitors. Definitions: Historic District — the Ste. Genevieve Historic District National Historic Landmark shown on the Map. Historical Park — the new park. Map — "Ste. Genevieve National Historical Park Proposed Boundary Addition", no. 571/177,464, dated September 2021. Secretary — the Secretary of the Interior. Special resource study — "Ste. Genevieve Final Special Resources Study and Environmental Assessment, Missouri", dated May 2016. State — Missouri. The park only starts once the Secretary finds enough land has been bought to make a manageable unit and signs a written agreement saying State, City, or other owners in the Historic District will manage their land to meet the park’s goals. The park boundary is shown on the Map, which is on file and open to the public, and the Secretary can fix clerical errors. The Secretary may acquire land or land interests inside the boundary or nationally significant properties in the Historic District by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, and must expand the park boundary to include acquired property. The Secretary may take the city visitor center land shown on the Map and may buy or accept up to 20 acres nearby for park offices from willing sellers. The Secretary will run the park under this law and other National Park Service laws, must write a general management plan no later than 3 years after funds are made available to prepare it, and must send the plan to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate. The Secretary may help and make agreements with owners of important properties for marking, interpreting, improving, and restoring them, with NPS access for tours. Federal funds can pay no more than 50 percent of costs; non-Federal partners may give money, property, goods, or services. Changes to agreed projects need both parties’ approval, and if a property is later used against the park’s purposes the United States can be repaid the greater of the money it provided or the value increase tied to that funding. The Secretary must not take on full financial responsibility for running or maintaining the Historic District.