1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Steel Valley National Heritage Area Act . 2. Findings Congress finds as follows: (1) Until the late 1970s, the Mahoning Valley Steelmaking District was one of the five largest steelmaking areas in the world, at times even larger than Pittsburgh, and its mills produced the steel that built America’s cities, supported its infrastructure, and strengthened its war efforts. (2) Jobs in the steel industry attracted immigrants from Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as thousands of African Americans moving North as part of the Great Migration. While these groups have interacted, become neighbors, and intermarried over the decades, ethnic identities remain strong in this area. This has produced both a strong sense of community and divisions that reflect national patterns of conflict over class, race, ethnicity, and religion. (3) The cultural legacy of the steel industry remains long after many of the local mills shut down in the institutions created by both working people and civic and business leaders, ranging from ethnic churches to adult education programs aimed at helping immigrants learn English and gain citizenship to the Butler Institute of America Art, the Youngstown Symphony, several museums focused on the history of the region, and a large city park that offers programming in the arts, history, and outdoor activities. (4) The Mahoning Valley Steelmaking District has a long history of labor and community activism— (A) helping to create the United Steelworkers of America, which enabled many workers to achieve middle-class lives; (B) organizing a significant community-wide effort to keep the steel mills open after shutdowns were announced in the late 1970s