HR 2217119th CongressIntroduced

Down East Remembrance Act

Introduced: Oct 29, 2025

Environment & Climate

Standard Summary

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The Down East Remembrance Act designates six specific creeks in North Carolina with commemorative names honoring the six individuals who perished in a Carteret County plane crash on February 13, 2022, establishing permanent geographic recognition through precise coordinate specifications and mandating federal document updates to reflect these memorial designations.

Key Points

1The legislation formally renames six distinct creeks in Carteret County using the full names of each plane crash victim with exact latitude and longitude coordinates provided for legal identification.
2All federal laws, regulations, maps, and official documents must subsequently reference these waterways exclusively by their newly designated commemorative names under the mandatory recognition clause.
3The bill serves as a permanent geographic memorial by embedding the victims' names into the national landscape through U.S. Board on Geographic Names implementation and federal record updates.

Impact Areas

Families of the six plane crash victims (Noah Styron, Hunter Parks, Kole McInnis, Stephanie Fulcher, Jacob Taylor, Daily Shepherd)Carteret County residents and North Carolina coastal communities affected by the tragedyFederal mapping agencies and geographic naming authorities implementing the designations

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