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                                                       Calendar No. 643
119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2801

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess 
 the suitability and feasibility of designating the Canterbury Shaker 
        Village National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 15, 2025

Ms. Hassan (for herself and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

                           September 17, 2026

                 Reported by Mr. Lee, with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess 
 the suitability and feasibility of designating the Canterbury Shaker 
        Village National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``Canterbury Shaker Village 
National Heritage Area Study Authorization Act''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. FINDINGS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Congress finds that--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) Canterbury Shaker Village, which was 
        established in 1792, has played a prominent role in the history 
        of the United Society of Believers, commonly known as the 
        ``Shakers'', which was the longest-lived and most successful of 
        the several utopian experiments of the 19th century in the 
        United States;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) the advent and growth of the Shaker movement 
        was a significant component of a transformational religious and 
        social fervor in the United States--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) which is known as the ``Second Great 
                Awakening''; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) that led to the development of a 
                number of churches and sects that diversified and 
                enriched the society of the United States;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) the Shakers--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) were a communal and celibate religious 
                group that saw work, music, and dance as 
                worship;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) practiced equality of the sexes, 
                pacifism, and technological invention; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) by withdrawing from the larger 
                society, developed a refined and aesthetically 
                significant expression of architecture, decorative 
                arts, and utilitarian objects that are now known and 
                studied throughout the world;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) Canterbury Shaker Village played an 
        increasingly important role in the Shaker movement, eventually 
        becoming the home of the Shaker Central Ministry, which 
        supervised the consolidation at Canterbury Shaker Village of 
        other Shaker settlements as the other settlements declined and 
        closed during the 20th century, preserving and distilling 
        remnants of the societies at a single site;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) Canterbury Shaker Village was the only Shaker 
        community to deliberately transform the community from a 
        religious society to a nonprofit museum, Canterbury Shaker 
        Village, Inc., to which, in 1969, Canterbury Shaker Village 
        conveyed the land, buildings, furnishings, and archives of 
        Canterbury Shaker Village as an intact legacy;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) in 1992, in recognition of the historical 
        significance and physical integrity of Canterbury Shaker 
        Village, Canterbury Shaker Village was designated as a National 
        Historic Landmark;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (7) as of the date of enactment of this Act, 
        Canterbury Shaker Village includes--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) approximately 700 acres of 
                land;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) 25 buildings; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) extensive and verified archaeological 
                resources, gardens, orchards, a community cemetery, 
                miles of roadways, stone culverts and walls, and a 
                chain of manmade ponds that have powered a range of 
                industries, including some industries that derived from 
                the inventions of the Shakers; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (8) Canterbury Shaker Village has been the 
        beneficiary of years of concentrated surveying, mapping, 
        photographic recordation, archaeological investigation, and 
        documentary research and writing that--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) reflect a fascination on the part of 
                the outside world with Canterbury Shaker Village that 
                began in the early 1800s;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) are scholarly and popular in nature; 
                and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) have defined a cultural landscape and 
                a historical legacy that is of national significance 
                and high educational and aesthetic value to the people 
                of the United States.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    In this Act:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the 
        Secretary of the Interior.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) State.--The term ``State'' means the State of 
        New Hampshire.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) Study area.--The term ``study area'' means the 
        geographic boundaries of the Canterbury Shaker Village National 
        Historic Landmark located in Merrimack County, New 
        Hampshire.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 4. CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA 
              STUDY.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    The Secretary, in consultation with State and local 
historic preservation officers, State and local historical societies, 
State and local tourism offices, and other appropriate organizations 
and governmental agencies and in accordance with section 120103(a) of 
title 54, United States Code, shall conduct a study to assess the 
suitability and feasibility of designating the study area as a National 
Heritage Area, to be known as the ``Canterbury Shaker Village National 
Heritage Area''.</DELETED>

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Canterbury Shaker Village National 
Heritage Area Study Authorization Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.
            (2) State.--The term ``State'' means the State of New 
        Hampshire.
            (3) Study area.--The term ``study area'' means the 
        geographic boundaries of the Canterbury Shaker Village National 
        Historic Landmark located in Merrimack County, New Hampshire.

SEC. 3. CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA STUDY.

    The Secretary, in consultation with State and local historic 
preservation officers, State and local historical societies, State and 
local tourism offices, and other appropriate organizations and 
governmental agencies and in accordance with section 120103(a) of title 
54, United States Code, shall conduct a study to assess the suitability 
and feasibility of designating the study area as a National Heritage 
Area, to be known as the ``Canterbury Shaker Village National Heritage 
Area''.
                                                       Calendar No. 643

119th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 2801

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess 
 the suitability and feasibility of designating the Canterbury Shaker 
        Village National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 17, 2026

                       Reported with an amendment