I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3534 
To designate the Piedras Blancas Light Station and the surrounding public 
land as an Outstanding Natural Area to be administered as a part 
of the National Landscape Conservation System, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 28, 2005 
Mrs. CAPPS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Resources 
A BILL 
To designate the Piedras Blancas Light Station and the 
surrounding public land as an Outstanding Natural Area 
to be administered as a part of the National Landscape 
Conservation System, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; DEFINITIONS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station Outstanding 
Natural Area Act of 2005’’. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this Act, the 
following definitions apply:
(1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
(2) LIGHT
STATION.—The term ‘‘Light Sta-
tion’’ means Piedras Blancas Light Station. 
(3) PUBLIC LANDS.—The term ‘‘public lands’’ 
has the meaning stated in section 103(e) of the Fed-
eral Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
U.S.C. 1703(e)). 
(4) OUTSTANDING NATURAL AREA.—The term 
‘‘Outstanding Natural Area’’ means the Piedras 
Blancas Historic Light Station Outstanding Natural 
Area established pursuant to section 3. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds as follows: 
(1) The publicly owned Piedras Blancas Light 
Station has nationally recognized historical struc-
tures that should be preserved for present and fu-
ture generations. 
(2) The coastline adjacent to the Light Station 
is internationally recognized as having significant 
wildlife and marine habitat that provides critical in-
formation to research institutions throughout the 
world. 
(3) The Light Station tells an important story 
about California’s coastal prehistory and history in
the context of the surrounding region and commu-
nities. 
(4) The coastal area surrounding the Light Sta-
tion was traditionally used by Indian people, includ-
ing the Chumash and Salinan Indian tribes. 
(5) The Light Station is historically associated 
with the nearby world-famous Hearst Castle (Hearst 
San Simeon State Historical Monument), now ad-
ministered by the State of California. 
(6) The Light Station represents a model part-
nership where future management can be success-
fully accomplished among the Federal Government, 
the State of California, San Luis Obispo County, 
local communities, and private groups. 
(7) Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station 
Outstanding Natural Area would make a significant 
addition to the National Landscape Conservation 
System administered by the Department of the Inte-
rior’s Bureau of Land Management. 
(8) Statutory protection is needed for the Light 
Station and its surrounding Federal lands to ensure 
that it remains a part of our historic, cultural, and 
natural heritage and to be a source of inspiration for 
the people of the United States.
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF THE PIEDRAS BLANCAS HISTORIC 
LIGHT 
STATION 
OUTSTANDING 
NATURAL 
AREA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In order to protect, conserve, and 
enhance for the benefit and enjoyment of present and fu-
ture generations the unique and nationally important his-
torical, natural, cultural, scientific, educational, scenic, 
and recreational values of certain lands in and around the 
Piedras Blancas Light Station, in San Luis Obispo Coun-
ty, California, while allowing certain recreational and re-
search activities to continue, there is established, subject 
to valid existing rights, the Piedras Blancas Historic Light 
Station Outstanding Natural Area. 
(b) MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.—The bound-
aries of the Outstanding Natural Area as those shown on 
the map entitled ‘‘Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station: 
Outstanding Natural Area’’, dated May 5, 2004, which 
shall be on file and available for public inspection in the 
Office of the Director, Bureau of Land Management, 
United States Department of the Interior, and the State 
office of the Bureau of Land Management in the State 
of California. 
(c) BASIS OF MANAGEMENT.—The Secretary shall 
manage the Outstanding Natural Area as part of the Na-
tional Landscape Conservation System to protect the re-
sources of the area, and shall allow only those uses that
further the purposes for the establishment of the Out-
standing Natural Area, the Federal Land Policy and Man-
agement Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and other 
applicable laws. 
(d) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 
and in accordance with the existing withdrawal as set 
forth in Public Land Order 7501 (Oct. 12, 2001, Vol. 66, 
No. 198, Federal Register 52149), the Federal lands and 
interests in lands included within the Outstanding Natural 
Area are hereby withdrawn from— 
(1) all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal 
under the public land laws; 
(2) location, entry, and patent under the public 
land mining laws; and 
(3) operation of the mineral leasing and geo-
thermal leasing laws and the mineral materials laws. 
SEC. 4. MANAGEMENT OF THE PIEDRAS BLANCAS HIS-
TORIC LIGHT STATION OUTSTANDING NAT-
URAL AREA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall manage the 
Outstanding Natural Area in a manner that conserves, 
protects, and enhances the unique and nationally impor-
tant historical, natural, cultural, scientific, educational, 
scenic, and recreational values of that area, including an