The Mueller-Keating Memorial Highway Act designates a 26-mile stretch of Interstate 17 in Arizona between New River and Cordes Junction as a memorial to two Arizonans who died fighting against ISIS. Kayla Jean Mueller was a humanitarian worker from Prescott who was kidnapped and killed by ISIS in Syria in 2013, while Chief Petty Officer Charles H. Keating IV was a Navy SEAL from Phoenix who was killed in action in Iraq in 2016. The designation is honorary in nature and will not require changes to existing highway names, maps, or addresses, nor will it require any additional federal funding. The bill allows the Department of Transportation to work with state and local authorities to install memorial signage at a rest area and to record the designation on the Transportation Department's website. This memorial complements Arizona's existing designation of Interstate 17 as the Arizona Veterans Highway.
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