This bill designates America’s National Churchill Museum as a National Historic Landmark, focusing on preservation, education, and interpretation. It allows the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements and provide assistance. The designation does not restrict property owners' actions. The bill also mandates a special study to evaluate the Landmark's significance and feasibility of its designation as a unit of the National Park System. The study will consider alternatives and estimate associated costs. A report on the study's results and recommendations will be submitted to the Senate and House Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and on Natural Resources.
America's National Churchill Museum National Historic Landmark Act
This bill designates the America’s National Churchill Museum, including the Winston Churchill Memorial, located at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, as the America’s National Churchill Museum National Historic Landmark. (Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a speech titled The Sinews of Peace, also widely known as the Iron Curtain Speech, at the college in 1946.)
The bill permits the Department of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with public and private entities for the purposes of protecting historic resources at the landmark and providing educational and interpretive facilities for the public. Interior may provide technical and financial assistance to partner entities.
The bill also directs Interior to conduct a special resource study to evaluate the national significance of the landmark and to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System. The study must consider alternatives to that designation for the preservation, protection, and interpretation of the landmark, and must include cost estimates associated with identified alternatives.