A House Natural Resources panel will take up a slate of bills to designate monuments or transfer public land.
The Federal Lands Subcommittee, led by Chair Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.), will consider H.R.1584, the “Plum Island National Monument Act,” from Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.).
The bill would turn the site off the coast of Long Island a national monument for ecological conservation and historical preservation. The plan currently has five co-sponsors from both sides of the aisle.
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For years, Plum Island housed a government animal disease testing facility. After the facility relocated, conservationists and East Coast lawmakers pushed for protecting rather than selling the land.
