Push for Indiana Dunes National Park to continue in new Congress

INDIANAPOLIS — A U.S. House-approved proposal to turn Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore into America's 61st national park, which failed to advance out of a Senate subcommittee, expired Thursday when the two-year term of the 115th Congress came to a close.

But U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky, D-Gary, and other supporters of the plan to establish Indiana's first national park in the Region, are vowing to again push for the change during the 2019-20 federal legislative session.

"As the 116th Congress begins, I will continue my efforts to rename the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as a national park, so that we may further grow our regional economy and provide our lakeshore with the recognition it deserves," Visclosky said.

On Nov. 1, 2017, the U.S. House unanimously approved H.R. 1488, legislation that would have applied the national park moniker to the 15,000 acres of federally held land stretching for 15 miles along the south shore of Lake Michigan.

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