Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve Establishment Act

This bill renames the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park in Georgia as the Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and creates a new Ocmulgee Mounds National Preserve, to be managed together as one unit of the National Park System. The Secretary of the Interior could add land to both areas only by purchase from willing sellers, donation, or exchange, not by eminent domain. Hunting would be allowed in the preserve and fishing in the park and preserve, under federal and state law. The bill creates a 7-member advisory council that includes 3 representatives of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, requires a management plan within 3 years, sets a hiring preference for Tribe members, and takes about 126 acres of Tribe-owned land into federal trust for the Tribe.

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Sponsors

• Jon Ossoff Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors