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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 353 

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide supplemental funding 

and other services that are necessary to assist certain local school districts in the State of California in providing educational services for 

students attending schools located within Yosemite National Park, to 

authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundaries of the 

Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JANUARY 25, 2005 

Mr. RADANOVICH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Education 

and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 

Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within 

the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide supplemental funding and other services that are necessary 

to assist certain local school districts in the State of 

California in providing educational services for students 

attending schools located within Yosemite National Park, 

to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the 

boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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1 SECTION 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 

2 The table of contents of this Act is as follows: 

Sec. 1. Table of contents. 

TITLE I—YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK AUTHORIZED PAYMENTS 

Sec. 102. Payments for educational services. 

Sec. 103. Authorization for park facilities to be located outside the boundaries 

of Yosemite National Park. 

TITLE II—RANCHO CORRAL DE TIERRA GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL 

RECREATION AREA BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT 

Sec. 201. Short title. 

Sec. 202. Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. 

3 TITLE I—YOSEMITE NATIONAL 

4 PARK AUTHORIZED PAYMENTS 

5 SEC. 101. PAYMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—(1) For fiscal years 2006 through 

7 2009, the Secretary of the Interior may provide funds to 

8 the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary School District 

9 and the Mariposa Unified School District in the State of 

10 California for educational services to students— 

11 (A) who are dependents of persons engaged in 

12 the administration, operation, and maintenance of 

13 Yosemite National Park; or 

14 (B) who live within or near the park upon real 

15 property owned by the United States. 

16 (2) The Secretary’s authority to make payments 

17 under this section shall terminate if the State of California 

18 or local education agencies do not continue to provide 

19 funding to the schools referred to in subsection (a) at per 
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1 student levels that are no less than the amount provided 

2 in fiscal year 2005. 

3 (b) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—Payments 

4 made under this section shall only be used to pay public 

5 employees for educational services provided in accordance 

6 with subsection (a). Payments may not be used for con7 struction, construction contracts, or major capital im8 provements. 

9 (c) LIMITATION ON AMOUNT OF FUNDS.—Payments 

10 made under this section shall not exceed the lesser of— 

11 (1) $400,000 in any fiscal year; or 

12 (2) the amount necessary to provide students 

13 described in subsection (a) with educational services 

14 that are normally provided and generally available to 

15 students who attend public schools elsewhere in the 

16 State of California. 

17 (d) SOURCE OF PAYMENTS.—(1) Except as otherwise 

18 provided in this subsection, the Secretary may use funds 

19 available to the National Park Service from appropria20 tions, donations, or fees. 

21 (2) Funds from the following sources shall not be 

22 used to make payments under this section: 

23 (A) Any law authorizing the collection or ex24 penditure of entrance or use fees at units of the Na25 tional Park System, including the Land and Water 
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1 Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 

2 et seq.); the recreational fee demonstration program 

3 established under section 315 of the Department of 

4 the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations 

5 Act, 1996 (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a note); and the Na6 tional Park Passport Program established under sec7 tion 602 of the National Parks Omnibus Manage8 ment Act of 1998 (16 U.S.C. 5992). 

9 (B) Emergency appropriations for flood recov10 ery at Yosemite National Park. 

11 (3)(A) The Secretary may use an authorized funding 

12 source to make payments under this section only if the 

13 funding available to Yosemite National Park from such 

14 source (after subtracting any payments to the school dis15 tricts authorized under this section) is greater than or 

16 equal to the amount made available to the park for the 

17 prior fiscal year, or in fiscal year 2005, whichever is great18 er. 

19 (B) It is the sense of Congress that any payments 

20 made under this section should not result in a reduction 

21 of funds to Yosemite National Park from any specific 

22 funding source, and that with respect to appropriated 

23 funds, funding levels should reflect annual increases in the 

24 park’s operating base funds that are generally made to 

25 units of the National Park System. 
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1 SEC. 102. AUTHORIZATION FOR PARK FACILITIES TO BE 

2 LOCATED OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARIES OF YO3 SEMITE NATIONAL PARK. 

4 (a) FUNDING AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORTATION

5 SYSTEMS AND EXTERNAL FACILITIES.—Section 814(c) of 

6 the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act 

7 of 1996 (16 U.S.C. 346e) is amended— 

8 (1) in the heading by inserting ‘‘AND YOSEM9 ITE NATIONAL PARK’’ after ‘‘ZION NATIONAL

10 PARK’’; 

11 (2) in the first sentence— 

12 (A) by inserting ‘‘and Yosemite National 

13 Park’’ after ‘‘Zion National Park’’; and 

14 (B) by inserting ‘‘for transportation sys15 tems or’’ after ‘‘appropriated funds’’; and 

16 (3) in the second sentence by striking ‘‘facili17 ties’’ and inserting ‘‘systems or facilities’’. 

18 (b) CLARIFYING AMENDMENT FOR TRANSPORTATION

19 FEE AUTHORITY.—Section 501 of the National Parks 

20 Omnibus Management Act of 1998 (16 U.S.C. 5981) is 

21 amended in the first sentence by striking ‘‘service con22 tract’’ and inserting ‘‘service contract, cooperative agree23 ment, or other contractual arrangement’’. 
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1 TITLE II—RANCHO CORRAL DE 

2 TIERRA GOLDEN GATE NA3 TIONAL RECREATION AREA 

4 BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT 

5 SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE. 

6 This title may be cited as the ‘‘Rancho Corral de 

7 Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary 

8 Adjustment Act’’. 

9 SEC. 202. GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, 

10 CALIFORNIA. 

11 (a) Section 2(a) of Public Law 92–589 (16 U.S.C. 

12 460bb–1(a)) is amended— 

13 (1) by striking ‘‘The recreation area shall com14 prise’’ and inserting the following: 

15 ‘‘(1) INITIAL LANDS.—The recreation area shall 

16 comprise’’; and 

17 (2) by striking ‘‘The following additional lands 

18 are also’’ and all that follows through the period at 

19 the end of the subsection and inserting the following 

20 new paragraphs: 

21 ‘‘(2) ADDITIONAL LANDS.—In addition to the 

22 lands described in paragraph (1), the recreation area 

23 shall include the following: 

24 ‘‘(A) The parcels numbered by the Asses25 sor of Marin County, California, 119–040–04, 
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1 119–040–05, 119–040–18, 166–202–03, 166– 

2 010–06, 166–010–07, 166–010–24, 166–010– 

3 25, 119–240–19, 166–010–10, 166–010–22, 

4 119–240–03, 119–240–51, 119–240–52, 119– 

5 240–54, 166–010–12, 166–010–13, and 119– 

6 235–10. 

7 ‘‘(B) Lands and waters in San Mateo 

8 County generally depicted on the map entitled 

9 ‘Sweeney Ridge Addition, Golden Gate National 

10 Recreation Area’, numbered NRA GG–80,000– 

11 A, and dated May 1980. 

12 ‘‘(C) Lands acquired under the Golden 

13 Gate National Recreation Area Addition Act of 

14 1992 (16 U.S.C. 460bb–1 note; Public Law 

15 102–299). 

16 ‘‘(D) Lands generally depicted on the map 

17 entitled ‘Additions to Golden Gate National 

18 Recreation Area’, numbered NPS–80–076, and 

19 dated July 2000/PWR–PLRPC. 

20 ‘‘(E) Lands generally depicted on the map 

21 entitled ‘Rancho Corral de Tierra Additions to 

22 the Golden Gate National Recreation Area’, 

23 numbered NPS–80,079E, and dated March 

24 2004. 
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1 ‘‘(3) ACQUISITION LIMITATION.—The Secretary 

2 may acquire land described in paragraph (2)(E) only 

3 from a willing seller.’’. 

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