America's National Churchill Museum National Historic Landmark Act

If this passes: Westminster College gains National Historic Landmark status, which may attract additional tourism and historical researchers; the bill does not immediately require any federal spending or change property management, but commits the Interior Department to a 3-year study. The study may recommend National Park System designation, which would trigger substantive federal involvement in preservation, interpretation, and operation. Precedent: the 1946 Churchill speech site is already significant in U.S.-British relations history; other historic speech sites (e.g., Lincoln sites, Kennedy sites) that received National Park System or Historic Landmark status have experienced increased visitation and preservation funding. If National Park System designation occurs following the study, Fulton would join roughly 400+ other NPS units with associated federal operating budgets and staffing. The bill's explicit preservation of local and private control means impacts are contingent on future decisions and cooperative agreements that have not yet been negotiated.