Adams National Historical Park Act of 1998

Summary: Adams National Historical Park Act of 1998 - Establishes the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, Massachusetts, as a unit of the National Park System. 
Authorizes appropriations.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Adams National Historical Park Act 
of 1998''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
        (1) in 1946, Secretary of the Interior J.A. Krug, by means of 
    the authority granted the Secretary of the Interior under section 2 
    of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935, established the Adams 
    Mansion National Historic Site, located in Quincy, Massachusetts;
        (2) in 1952, Acting Secretary of the Interior Vernon D. 
    Northrup enlarged the site and renamed it the Adams National 
    Historic Site, using the Secretary's authority as provided in the 
    Historic Sites Act;
        (3) in 1972, Congress, through Public Law 92-272, authorized 
    the Secretary of the Interior to add approximately 3.68 acres at 
    Adams National Historic Site;
        (4) in 1978, Congress, through Public Law 95-625, authorized 
    the Secretary of the Interior to accept by conveyance the 
    birthplaces of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, both in Quincy, 
    Massachusetts, to be managed as part of the Adams National Historic 
    Site;
        (5) in 1980, Congress, through Public Law 96-435, authorized 
    the Secretary of the Interior to accept the conveyance of the 
    United First Parish Church in Quincy, Massachusetts, the burial 
    place of John Adams, Abigail Adams, and John Quincy Adams and his 
    wife, to be administered as part of the Adams National Historic 
    Site;
        (6) the actions taken by past Secretaries of the Interior and 
    past Congresses to preserve for the benefit, education and 
    inspiration of present and future generations of Americans the 
    home, property, birthplaces and burial site of John Adams, John 
    Quincy Adams, and Abigail Adams, have resulted in a multi-site unit 
    of the National Park System with no overarching enabling or 
    authorizing legislation; and
        (7) that the sites and resources associated with John Adams, 
    second President of the United States, his wife Abigail Adams, and 
    John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, require 
    recognition as a national historical park in the National Park 
    System.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to establish the Adams 
National Historical Park in the City of Quincy, in the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, to preserve, maintain and interpret the home, property, 
birthplaces, and burial site of John Adams and his wife Abigail, John 
Quincy Adams, and subsequent generations of the Adams family associated 
with the Adams property in Quincy, Massachusetts, for the benefit, 
education and inspiration of present and future generations of 
Americans.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this Act:
        (1) Historical park.--The term ``historical park'' means the 
    Adams National Historical Park established in section 4.
        (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
    the Interior.

SEC. 4. ADAMS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK.

    (a) Establishment.--In order to preserve for the benefit and 
inspiration of the people of the United States as a national historical 
park certain properties in Quincy, Massachusetts, associated with John 
Adams, second President of the United States, his wife, Abigail Adams, 
John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States, and his wife, 
Louisa Adams, there is established the Adams National Historical Park 
as a unit of the National Park System.
    (b) Boundaries.--The historical park shall be comprised of the 
following:
        (1) All property administered by the National Park Service in 
    the Adams National Historic Site as of the date of enactment of 
    this Act, as well as all property previously authorized to be 
    acquired by the Secretary for inclusion in the Adams National 
    Historic Site, as generally depicted on the map entitled ``Adams 
    National Historical Park'', numbered NERO 386/80,000, and dated 
    April 1998.
        (2) All property authorized to be acquired for inclusion in the 
    historical park by this Act or other law enacted after the date of 
    the enactment of this Act.
    (c) Visitor and Administrative Sites.--To preserve the historical 
character and landscape of the main features of the historical park, 
the Secretary may acquire up to 10 acres for the development of 
visitor, administrative, museum, curatorial, and maintenance facilities 
adjacent to or in the general proximity of the property depicted on the 
map identified in subsection (b)(1)(A).
    (d) Map.--The map of the historical park shall be on file and 
available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the 
National Park Service.

SEC. 5. ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) In General.--The park shall be administered by the Secretary in 
accordance with this section and the provisions of law generally 
applicable to units of the National Park System, including the Act 
entitled ``An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other 
purposes'', approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1, 2, 3, 
and 4) and the Act of August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 666; 16 U.S.C. 461-
467), as amended.
    (b) Cooperative Agreements.--(1) The Secretary may consult and 
enter into cooperative agreements with interested entities and 
individuals to provide for the preservation, development, 
interpretation, and use of the park.
    (2) Any payment made by the Secretary pursuant to a cooperative 
agreement under this paragraph shall be subject to an agreement that 
conversion, use, or disposal of the project so assisted for purposes 
contrary to the purposes of this Act, as determined by the Secretary, 
shall result in a right of the United States to reimbursement of all 
funds made available to such a project or the proportion of the 
increased value of the project attributable to such funds as determined 
at the time of such conversion, use, or disposal, whichever is greater.
    (c) Acquisition of Real Property.--For the purposes of the park, 
the Secretary is authorized to acquire real property with appropriated 
or donated funds, by donation, or by exchange, within the boundaries of 
the park.
    (d) Repeal of Superceded Administrative Authorities.--
        (1) Section 312 of the National Parks and Recreation Act of 
    1978 (Public Law 95-625; 92 Stat. 3479) is amended by striking 
    ``(a)'' after ``SEC. 312''; and strike subsection (b) in its 
    entirety.
        (2) The first section of Public Law 96-435 (94 Stat. 1861) is 
    amended by striking ``(a)'' after ``That''; and strike subsection 
    (b) in its entirety.
    (e) References to the Historic Site.--Any reference in any law 
(other than this Act), regulation, document, record, map, or other 
paper of the United States to the Adams National Historic Site shall be 
considered to be a reference to the historical park.

SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this Act.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.