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[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2097 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2097

 To modify the boundary of Bandelier National Monument in the State of 
                  New Mexico, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 20, 1996

 Mr. Bingaman (for himself and Mr. Domenici) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL

 
 To modify the boundary of Bandelier National Monument in the State of 
                  New Mexico, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Bandelier National Monument Boundary 
Modification Act of 1996''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
            (1) under the provisions of a special use permit, sewage 
        lagoons for Bandelier National Monument, established by 
        Proclamation No. 1322 (16 U.S.C. 431 note) (referred to in this 
        Act as the ``monument'') are located on land administered by 
        the Secretary of Energy that is adjacent to the monument; and
            (2) modification of the boundary of the monument to include 
        the land on which the sewage lagoons are situated--
                    (A) would facilitate administration of both the 
                monument and the adjacent land that would remain under 
                the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of 
                Energy: and
                    (B) can be accomplished at no cost.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to modify the boundary 
between the monument and adjacent Department of Energy land to 
facilitate management of the monument and Department of Energy lands.

SEC. 3. BOUNDARY MODIFICATION.

    (a) Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction.--The Secretary of 
Energy shall transfer to the Secretary of the Interior administrative 
jurisdiction over the land described in subsection (b).
    (b) Land Description.--The land described in this subsection is the 
land comprising approximately 4.47 acres depicted on map 315/80,051, 
dated March 1995.
    (c) Administration.--Effective as of the date of the transfer under 
subsection (a), the land and interests in land transferred pursuant to 
subsection (a) shall be--
            (1) administered as part of the monument; and
            (2) subject to all laws applicable to the monument and all 
        laws generally applicable to units of the National Park System.
    (d) Public Availability of Map.--The map referred to in subsection 
(b) shall be kept on file and available for public inspection in the 
appropriate offices of the National Park Service of the Department of 
the Interior.
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