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U.S. Senate committee OKs effort to expand Gettysburg National Military Park

The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee has approved a resolution that would revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park.

New boundaries would include the Gettysburg Train Station and land along Plum Run in Cumberland Township.

The Department of Interior is to acquire publicly owned property within the area by buying from willing sellers only, if efforts to acquire that property without cost have been exhausted. The government cannot exercise eminent domain....
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