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S. Rept. 115-223 1 (2018-04-10)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxabex0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Op Calendar No. 371 115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT 2d Session J SENATE1 115-223 ROBERT EMMET PARK ACT OF 2017 APRIL 10, 2018.-Ordered to be printed Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 1500] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was referred the bill (H.R. 1500) to redesignate the small triangular property located in Washington, DC, and designated by the Na- tional Park Service as reservation 302 as Robert Emmet Park, and for other purposes, having considered the same, reports favor- ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE The purpose of H.R. 1500 is to redesignate the small triangular property located in Washington, DC, and designated by the Na- tional Park Service as reservation 302, as Robert Emmet Park. BACKGROUND AND NEED U.S. reservation 302 is a triangle park in the Northwestern por- tion of the District of Columbia along Massachusetts Avenue N.W., between 24th and S Streets, which is part of Rock Creek Park. The triangle park contains an historic sculpture of Robert Emmet that was created by the artist Jerome Connor in 1916. Robert Emmet (1778-1803) is considered an Irish nationalist leader, and often remembered as a romantic hero of Irish lost causes. Mr. Emmet played a prominent role in the Irish Rebellion, and attempted to escape to the United States before being cap- tured, tried for treason, and hanged. Although Mr. Emmet's at- 79-010