“A bill to close and dispose of Federal ownership of the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument in the State of California, and for other purposes.”
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This section terminates the César E. Chávez National Monument in California, established by Presidential Proclamation 8884 (i.e., 113 acres preserving sites associated with labor leader César Chávez, including his home, office, gravesite, and memorial garden). It (1) closes all federal property in the monument to public access effective on enactment, (2) nullifies the proclamation effective on enactment, (3) strikes references to the monument in federal laws and documents, (4) prohibits additional federal appropriations for the monument, (5) directs the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service, to dispose of all federal lands and contents in the monument for fair market value within 90 days of enactment, and (6) transfers any unobligated prior appropriations for the monument and disposal proceeds to the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (i.e., grants to state and local forensic laboratories to reduce DNA analysis backlogs).