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Rep. Scott seeks to redesignate Ocmulgee Mounds as Georgia's first national park and preserve
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Summary
Representative Scott discussed legislation (H.R. 2345) to redesignate Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park as Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve, highlighting cultural-resource protection, hunting and fishing access, and land-acquisition limits to willing sellers.
Representative Scott asked the committee to consider legislation to redesignate Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park in Macon, Georgia, as Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve, which he said would become Georgia's first national park.
Scott described the bill's history, cited the 2019 John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act's prior boundary expansion and the 2023 special resource study, and said the current proposal incorporates committee feedback to reduce the preserve boundary and omit co-management language. He emphasized that any land acquisition would be from willing sellers only and that the bill would not authorize eminent domain.
Scott also noted state cooperation to protect hunting and fishing access and described the redesignation's potential to protect Muscogee (Muskogee) Creek cultural resources and preserve compatible land uses near Robins Air Force Base. His testimony was presented during the member-day hearing and did not produce committee action at the session.
