Senate Subcommittee to Consider Bills for Georgia’s First National Park and New Monuments in New York, Oklahoma.

A Senate Energy and Natural Resources subcommittee is set to consider bills that would create the 64th national park in Georgia and create two new national monuments in New York and Oklahoma. The proposed legislation includes S. 4216, which would establish Ocmulgee Mounds National Park and Preserve in Georgia, making it the first national park there. The National Park Service would co-manage the park with citizens of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, whose ancestors were forced to leave their land in Georgia more than 200 years ago.