# Plain Language Summary: César E. Chávez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park Act

This bill creates a new national historical park dedicated to César Chávez and the farmworker movement, spreading across California and Arizona. The park will include three main sites: the Forty Acres in Delano, California (a historic gathering place for farmworkers), the César E. Chávez National Monument in Keene, California (which includes Chávez's home and the headquarters of the United Farm Workers union), and the Santa Rita Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The bill also allows for a fourth site—McDonnell Hall in San Jose, California—to be added if the property owner agrees. This means the federal government will protect and manage these locations as historical sites, similar to other national parks, so future generations can learn about this important chapter of American labor history.

Beyond just protecting buildings and land, the bill directs the National Park Service to develop educational programs and interpretation materials about Chávez's life and the farmworker movement's achievements. The park will work with local organizations, state governments, and private groups to tell this story across multiple sites. Within three years, park officials must create a detailed management plan that will determine whether other significant farmworker-related sites in California, Arizona, or elsewhere in the country should be added to the park system and connected through educational programs.

The bill also officially designates the "Farmworker Peregrinación National Historic Trail," which marks the 300-mile route that farmworkers walked from Delano to Sacramento, California in 1966 during a famous protest march. This trail will be managed by the National Park Service and can include interpretive signs and educational materials along the route, though the government won't forcibly acquire private land to create it—landowners must agree to participate. Essentially, this bill transforms scattered historical sites into a connected network that tells the story of farmworker activism and labor rights in America.

César E. Chávez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park Act

C&eacute;sar E. Ch&aacute;vez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park Act This bill establishes, as a unit of the National Park System, the C&eacute;sar E. Ch&aacute;vez and the Farmworker Movement National Historical Park in California and Arizona. It also establishes the Farmworker Peregrinaci&oacute;n National Historic Trail in California. The boundary of the historical park shall include <ul> <li>The Forty Acres in Delano, California;</li> <li> the C&eacute;sar E. Ch&aacute;vez National Monument, including Nuestra Se&ntilde;ora Reina de la Paz, in Keene, California; and </li> <li>the Santa Rita Center in Phoenix, Arizona.</li> </ul> The Department of the Interior may acquire land and interests in land that are within the boundary of the park by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange. The C&eacute;sar E. Ch&aacute;vez National Monument shall continue to be administered as a distinct and identifiable unit of the National Park System. Interior may provide public interpretation of historic sites, museums, and resources on land not administered by Interior related to the life of C&eacute;sar E. Ch&aacute;vez and the history of the farmworker movement. Interior must prepare a general management plan for the park. The Farmworker Peregrinaci&oacute;n National Historic Trail is added to the National Trails System. The federal government shall not acquire for the trail any land or interest in land outside the exterior boundary of any federally managed area without the owner's consent.