1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Park Act of 2017 . 2. Findings Congress finds that— (1) Fort Sumter National Monument was established by the Joint Resolution entitled Joint Resolution to establish the Fort Sumter National Monument in the State of South Carolina , approved April 28, 1948 ( 16 U.S.C. 450ee ), to commemorate historic events in the vicinity of Fort Sumter, the site of the first engagement of the Civil War on April 12, 1861; (2) Fort Moultrie— (A) was the site of the first defeat of the British in the Revolutionary War on June 28, 1776; and (B) was acquired by the Federal Government from the State of South Carolina in 1960 under the authority of chapter 3201 of title 54, United States Code; (3) since 1960, Fort Moultrie has been administered by the National Park Service as part of the Fort Sumter National Monument without a clear management mandate or established boundary; (4) Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie played important roles in the protection of Charleston Harbor and in the coastal defense system of the United States; (5) Fort Moultrie is the only site in the National Park System that preserves the history of the United States coastal defense system during the period from 1776 through 1947; and (6) Sullivan’s Island Life Saving Station, located adjacent to the Charleston Light— (A) was constructed in 1896