Golden Spike 150th Anniversary Act

To redesignate Golden Spike National Historic Site and to establish the Transcontinental Railroad Network. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Golden Spike 150th Anniversary Act 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Adjacent landowner The term adjacent landowner (2) Historical crossing The term historical crossing (A) that has been used by adjacent landowners in an open manner multiple times in more than 1 of the past 10 years for vehicle, farm machinery, or livestock travel; or (B) where existing utility or pipelines have been placed. (3) Network The term Network (4) Park The term Park (5) Secretary The term Secretary (6) Transcontinental Railroad The term Transcontinental Railroad 3. Redesignation (a) Redesignation The Golden Spike National Historic Site designated April 2, 1957, and placed under the administration of the National Park Service under the Act of July 10, 1965 (79 Stat. 426), shall be known and designated as the Golden Spike National Historical Park (b) References Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the Golden Spike National Historic Site shall be considered a reference to the Golden Spike National Historical Park (c) Network The Park shall be part of the Network. 4. Transcontinental Railroad Network (a) In general The Secretary shall establish, within the National Park Service, the Transcontinental Railroad Network. The Network shall not include properties used in active freight railroad operations (or other ancillary purposes) or reasonably anticipated to be used for freight railroad operations in the future. (b) Study The Secretary shall— (1) inventory National Park Service sites, facilities, and programs; and (2) identify other sites, facilities, and programs, to determine their suitability for inclusion in the Network, as delineated under subsection (e). (c) Duties of the Secretary In carrying out the Network, the Secretary shall— (1) produce and disseminate appropriate education materials relating to the history, construction, and legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad, such as handbooks, maps, interpretive guides, or electronic information; (2) enter into appropriate cooperative agreements and memoranda of understanding to provide technical assistance under subsection (d); and (3) create and adopt an official, uniform symbol or device for the Network and issue guidance for the use of such symbol or device. (d) Elements The Network shall encompass the following elements: (1) All units and programs of the National Park Service that are determined by the Secretary to relate to the history, construction, and legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad. (2) With the consent of each person owning any legal interest in the property, other Federal, State, local, and privately owned properties that have a verifiable connection to the history, construction, and legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad and are included in, or determined by the Secretary to be eligible for inclusion in, the National Register of Historic Places. (3) Other governmental and nongovernmental programs of an educational, research, or interpretive nature that are directly related to the history, construction, and legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad. (e) Cooperative agreements and memoranda of understanding To achieve the purposes of this section and to ensure effective coordination of the Federal and non-Federal elements of the Network described in subsection (d) with National Park System units and programs of the National Park Service, the Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements and memoranda of understanding with, and provide technical assistance to, the heads of other Federal agencies, States, units of local government, regional governmental bodies, and private entities. 5. Agreements affecting certain historical crossings (a) Programmatic agreement No later than 6 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall enter into a Programmatic Agreement with the Utah State Historic Preservation Office and other consulting parties to add certain undertakings in the Park to the list of those eligible for streamlined review under section 106 of the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 ( 54 U.S.C. 306108 (b) Adjacent landowners After the completion of the Programmatic Agreement under subsection (a), an adjacent landowner shall give the Secretary notice of proposed certain undertakings. The Programmatic Agreement shall include provision for a 30-day approval or disapproval process for the proposed certain undertaking. (c) Definition of certain undertakings As used in this section, the term certain undertakings (1) will last less than 1 month and will have limited physical impact on the surface of the historical crossing; (2) have been implemented by an adjacent landowner or other adjacent landowners in the past; or (3) is the subject of a categorical exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 6. Invasive species control At the request of an adjacent landowner, within 30 days of such a request, the Secretary shall authorize the adjacent landowner to participate in the eradication of invasive species in the Park for a period of up to 10 years, subject to renewal. Such an authorization shall provide— (1) that the invasive species proposed for eradication is identified as such by the National Park Service; (2) that the method, timing, and location of the eradication must be approved by the Secretary; and (3) appropriate indemnification of the adjacent landowner. 7. Funding clarification No additional funds are authorized to carry out the requirements of this Act. Such requirements shall be carried out using amounts otherwise authorized. June 25, 2018 Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed

Summary: Golden Spike 150th Anniversary Act This bill redesignates the Golden Spike National Historic Site in Utah as the Golden Spike National Historical Park, and requires&nbsp;the National Park Service to establish the Transcontinental Railroad Network. The park shall become a part of the network.