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                   115TH CONGRESS                                      REPORT
                      2d Session    HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES           115-616





                        GEORGE W. BUSH CHILDHOOD HOME STUDY ACT


                    MARCH 22, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
                                    of the Union and ordered to be printed


                     Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
                                        submitted the following


                                           REPORT

                                         [To accompany H.R. 3008]

                             [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
                     The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
                   bill (H.R. 3008) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct
                   a special resource study of the George W. Bush Childhood Home,
                   located at 1412 West Ohio Avenue, Midland, Texas, and for other
                   purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon
                   without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
                                         PURPOSE OF THE BILL
                     The purpose of H.R. 3008 is to authorize the Secretary of the In-
                   terior to conduct a special resource study of the George W. Bush
                   Childhood Home, located at 1412 West Ohio Avenue, Midland,
                   Texas.
                                BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
                     The George W. Bush Childhood Home is located at 1412 W. Ohio
                   Avenue in Midland, Texas. The home is approximately 1400 square
                   feet and has been left relatively unchanged since 1956.1 The site
                   currently functions as a museum managed by a nonprofit entity,
                   the George W. Bush Childhood Home, Inc. The non-profit recently
                   purchased a neighboring home to function as administrative offices
                   and a gift shop.2
                     President George W. Bush, born on July 6, 1946, in Connecticut,
                   has spent most of his life in Texas. The Bush family lived in the

                     I About  the  Project  The  George  W. Bush  Childhood  Home. http://
                   www.bushchildhoodhome.org/about.
                     2Project  Highlights  The  George  W.  Bush  Childhood  Home.  http://
                   www.bushchildhoodhome.org/highlights.
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