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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 5881 

To adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation 

Area to include the Rim of the Valley Corridor, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 3, 2023 

Mr. SCHIFF (for himself, Ms. BROWNLEY, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. 

LIEU, Ms. CHU, Ms. BARRAGA ́N, and Mr. LEVIN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains 

National Recreation Area to include the Rim of the 

Valley Corridor, 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, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Rim of the Valley Cor5 ridor Preservation Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds as follows: 


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1 (1) The Santa Monica Mountains National 

2 Recreation Area was authorized as a unit of the Na3 tional Park System on November 10, 1978. 

4 (2) The Santa Monica Mountains and the Rim 

5 of the Valley Corridor include— 

6 (A) nationally significant resources— 

7 (i) outstanding examples of geologic 

8 history, including the evolution of the 

9 Transverse Ranges Province; 

10 (ii) a diversity of well-preserved ma11 rine and terrestrial paleontological re12 sources; and 

13 (iii) high biodiversity, including out14 standing examples of native grasslands, 

15 coastal sage scrub, chaparral, dry conif16 erous forests, and alluvian fan sage scrub; 

17 and 

18 (B) nationally significant cultural re19 sources that represent a wide range of themes 

20 related to human use and settlement in the re21 gion— 

22 (i) high concentrations of archeo23 logical resources that provide insight into 

24 more than 10,000 years of Native Amer25 ican history; and 


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1 (ii) landmarks that represent topics 

2 such as architecture, recreation, and space 

3 exploration. 

4 (3) Expanding the Santa Monica Mountains 

5 National Recreation Area would provide new oppor6 tunities for the National Park Service to serve a 

7 broad range of urban communities, including many 

8 that are underrepresented in national parks and un9 derserved by State and local parks. 

10 SEC. 3. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT. 

11 (a) BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.—Section 507(c) of the 

12 National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 

13 460kk(c)) is amended by striking paragraph (1) and in14 serting the following: 

15 ‘‘(1) BOUNDARY.— 

16 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The recreation area 

17 shall consist of— 

18 ‘‘(i) the land, water, and interests in 

19 land and water generally depicted as the 

20 recreation area on the map entitled ‘Santa 

21 Monica Mountains National Recreation 

22 Area and Santa Monica Mountains Zone, 

23 California, Boundary Map’, numbered 

24 80,047–C, and dated August 2001; and 


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1 ‘‘(ii) the land, water, and interests in 

2 land and water, as generally depicted as 

3 ‘Proposed Addition’ on the map entitled 

4 ‘Rim of the Valley Unit—Santa Monica 

5 Mountains National Recreation Area’, 

6 numbered 638/147,723, and dated April 

7 2023. 

8 ‘‘(B) AVAILABILITY OF MAPS.—The maps 

9 described in subparagraph (A) shall be on file 

10 and available for public inspection in the appro11 priate offices of the National Park Service. 

12 ‘‘(C) REVISIONS.—After advising the Com13 mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 

14 Senate and the Committee on Natural Re15 sources of the House of Representatives, in 

16 writing, of the proposed revision, the Secretary 

17 may make minor revisions to the boundaries of 

18 the recreation area by publication of a revised 

19 drawing or other boundary description in the 

20 Federal Register.’’. 

21 SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATION. 

22 Any land or interest in land acquired by the Secretary 

23 of the Interior within the Rim of the Valley Unit shall 

24 be administered as part of the Santa Monica Mountains 

25 National Recreation Area (referred to in this Act as the 


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1 ‘‘National Recreation Area’’) in accordance with the laws 

2 (including regulations) applicable to the National Recre3 ation Area. 

4 SEC. 5. UTILITIES AND WATER RESOURCE FACILITIES. 

5 The addition of the Rim of the Valley Unit to the 

6 National Recreation Area shall not affect the operation, 

7 maintenance, or modification of water resource facilities 

8 or public utilities within the Rim of the Valley Unit, except 

9 that any utility or water resource facility activities in the 

10 Rim of the Valley Unit shall be conducted in a manner 

11 that reasonably avoids or reduces the impact of the activi12 ties on resources of the Rim of the Valley Unit. 

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