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Union Calendar No. 32
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 694
[Report No. 104–59]
Entitled the ‘‘Minor Boundary Adjustments and Miscellaneous Park
Amendments Act of 1995’’.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 26, 1995
Mr. HANSEN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources
FEBRUARY 28, 1995
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 26, 1995]
A BILL
Entitled the ‘‘Minor Boundary Adjustments and
Miscellaneous Park Amendments Act of 1995’’.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Minor Boundary Adjust-
ments and Miscellaneous Park Amendments Act of 1995’’.
TITLE I—MINOR BOUNDARY
ADJUSTMENTS
SEC. 101. YUCCA HOUSE NATIONAL MONUMENT BOUNDARY
ADJUSTMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The boundaries of Yucca House Na-
tional Monument are revised to include the approximately
24.27 acres of land generally depicted on the map entitled
‘‘Boundary—Yucca House National Monument, Colorado’’,
numbered 318/80,001–B, and dated February 1990.
(b) MAP.—The map referred to in subsection (a) shall
be on file and available for public inspection in appropriate
offices of the National Park Service of the Department of
the Interior.
(c) ACQUISITION BY DONATION.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Within the boundaries de-
scribed in subsection (a), the Secretary of the Interior
may acquire lands and interests in lands by dona-
tion.
(2) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—The Secretary of
the Interior may pay administrative costs arising out
of any donation described in paragraph (1) with ap-
propriated funds.
SEC. 102. ZION NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.
(a) ACQUISITION AND BOUNDARY CHANGE.—The Sec-
retary of the Interior is authorized to acquire by exchange
approximately 5.48 acres, in Washington County, Utah,
that are located in the SW1⁄4 of Section 28, Township 41
South, Range 10 West, Salt Lake Base and Meridian. In
exchange therefor the Secretary is authorized to convey all
right, title, and interest of the United States in and to ap-
proximately 5.51 acres, in Washington County, Utah, that
are located in Lot 2 of Section 5, Township 41 South,
Range 11 West. Upon completion of the exchange, the Sec-
retary is authorized to revise the boundary of Zion National
Park to add to the park the approximately 5.48 acres ac-
quired by the Secretary under this subsection and to delete
from the park the approximately 5.51 acres conveyed by
the Secretary under this subsection. Land added to the park
under this subsection shall be administered as part of the
park in accordance with the laws and regulations applica-
ble thereto.
(b) EXPIRATION.—The authority granted by this sec-
tion shall expire upon the expiration of the two-year period
beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.
SEC. 103. PICTURED ROCKS NATIONAL LAKESHORE BOUND-
ARY ADJUSTMENT.
The boundary of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
is hereby modified as depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Area
Proposed for Addition to Pictured Rocks National Lake-
shore,’’ numbered 625–80, 043A, and dated July 1992.
SEC. 104. INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.
The administrative boundary between Independence
National Historical Park and the United States Customs
House along the Moravian Street Walkway in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, is hereby modified as generally depicted on
the drawing entitled ‘‘Exhibit 1, Independence National
Historical Park, Boundary Adjustment’’, and dated May
1987, which shall be on file and available for public inspec-
tion in the Office of the National Park Service, Department
of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized
to accept and transfer jurisdiction over property in accord-
ance with such administrative boundary, as modified by
this section.
SEC. 105. CRATERS OF THE MOON NATIONAL MONUMENT
BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.
(a) BOUNDARY REVISION.—The boundary of the Cra-
ters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho, is revised to
add approximately 210 acres and to delete approximately
315 acres as generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Cra-
ters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho, Proposed 1987
Boundary Adjustment’’, numbered 131–80,008, and dated
October 1987. The map shall be on file and available for
public inspection in the Office of the National Park Service,
Department of the Interior.
(b) ADMINISTRATION
AND
ACQUISITION.—Federal
lands, waters, and interests therein deleted from the bound-
ary of the Craters of the Moon National Monument by this
section shall be administered by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior through the Bureau of Land Management in accord-
ance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.). Federal lands, waters, and
interests therein added to the national monument by this
section shall be administered by the Secretary as part of
the national monument, subject to the laws and regulations
applicable thereto. The Secretary is authorized to acquire
private lands, waters, and interests therein within the
boundary of the national monument by donation, purchase
with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, and shall
administer such acquired lands, waters, and interests there-
in as part of the national monument, subject to the laws
and regulations applicable thereto.
SEC. 106. HAGERMAN FOSSIL BEDS NATIONAL MONUMENT
BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.
Section 302 of the Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act of
1988 (102 Stat. 4576) is amended by adding at the end
the following new subsection:
‘‘(d) To further the purposes of the monument, the Sec-
retary is authorized to acquire by donation or, from willing
sellers only, by purchase with donated or appropriated
funds or by exchange not more than 65 acres outside the
boundary depicted on the map referred to in section 301
and to develop and operate, on such acres, research, infor-
mation, interpretive, and administrative facilities. Lands
acquired and facilities developed under this subsection shall
be administered by the Secretary as part of the monument.
The boundary of the monument shall be modified to include
the lands added under this subsection as a noncontiguous
parcel.’’.
SEC. 107. WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT BOUNDARY AD-
JUSTMENT.
The boundary of the Wupatki National Monument, Ar-
izona, is hereby revised to include the lands and interests
in lands within the area generally depicted as ‘‘Proposed
Addition 168.89 Acres’’ on the map entitled ‘‘Boundary—
Wupatki and Sunset Crater National Monuments, Ari-
zona’’, numbered 322–80,021, and dated April 1989. The
map shall be on file and available for public inspection in
the Office of the National Park Service, Department of the
Interior. Subject to valid existing rights, Federal lands and
interests therein within the area added to the monument
by this section are hereby transferred without monetary
consideration or reimbursement to the administrative juris-
diction of the National Park Service and shall be adminis-
tered as part of the monument in accordance with the laws
and regulations applicable thereto.
TITLE II—MISCELLANEOUS
SPECIFIC PARK AMENDMENTS
SEC. 
201. 
ADVISORY 
COMMISSION 
FOR 
KALOKO-
HONOKOHAU NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK.
Section 505(f)(7) of the National Parks and Recreation
Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 396d(f)(7)), is amended by striking
‘‘ten years’’ and inserting ‘‘twenty-five years’’.
SEC. 202. FORT PULASKI NATIONAL MONUMENT, GA.
Section 4 of the Act of June 26, 1936 (ch. 844; 49 Stat.
1979), is amended by striking ‘‘: Provided, That’’ and all
that follows and inserting a period.
SEC. 203. AMENDMENT OF BOSTON NATIONAL HISTORIC
PARK ACT.
Section 3(b) of the Boston National Historical Park
Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 410z–1(b)) is amended by inserting
‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘(b)’’ and by adding at the end the following
new paragraph:
‘‘(2) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to
enter into a cooperative agreement with the Boston Public
Library to provide for the distribution of informational and
interpretive materials relating to the Boston National His-
torical Park and to the Freedom Trail.’’.
TITLE III—GENERAL
AUTHORIZATIONS AND
REPEALERS
SEC. 301. REPEAL OF LIMITATION ON PARK BUILDINGS.
The 10th undesignated paragraph (relating to a limi-
tation on the expenditure of funds for park buildings) under
the heading ‘‘MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, DEPARTMENT OF
THE INTERIOR’’, under the heading ‘‘UNDER THE DE-
PARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR’’, in the first section
of the Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 460; 16 U.S.C. 451),
is hereby repealed.
SEC. 302. APPROPRIATIONS FOR TRANSPORTATION OF
CHILDREN.
The first section of the Act of August 7, 1946 (16
U.S.C. 17j–2), is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing new subsection:
‘‘(j) Provision of transportation for children in nearby
communities to and from any unit of the National Park
System used in connection with organized recreation and
interpretive programs of the National Park Service.’’.
SEC. 303. FERAL BURROS AND HORSES.
Section 9 of the Act of December 15, 1971 (16 U.S.C.
1338a), is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘No
provision of this Act shall be construed to limit the author-
ity of the Secretary of the Interior to manage units of the
National Park System. No provision of this Act shall be
construed to diminish the authority of the Secretary of the
Interior to use motor vehicles, fixed-wing aircraft, or heli-
copters, or to contract for such use, in furtherance of the
management of the National Park System, and section
47(a) of title 18, United States Code, shall not apply to
such use, or the contracting for such use, by the Secretary
of the Interior in furtherance of such management.’’.
SEC. 304. AUTHORITIES OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTE-
RIOR RELATING TO MUSEUMS.
(a) FUNCTIONS.—The Act entitled ‘‘An Act to increase
the public benefits from the National Park System by facili-
tating the management of museum properties relating
thereto, and for other purposes’’, approved July 1, 1955 (16
U.S.C. 18f), is amended—
(1) in subsection (b) of the first section, by strik-
ing ‘‘from such donations and bequests of money’’;
and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sec-
tion:
‘‘SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS.
‘‘(a) TRANSFER, CONVEYANCE, AND DESTRUCTION.—
In addition to the functions specified in the first section
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may perform the
following functions in such manner as he shall consider to
be in the public interest:
‘‘(1) Transfer museum objects and museum col-
lections that the Secretary determines are no longer
needed for museum purposes to qualified Federal
agencies that have programs to preserve and interpret
cultural or natural heritage, and accept the transfer
of museum objects and museum collections for the
purposes of this Act from any other Federal agency,
without reimbursement. The head of any other Fed-
eral agency may transfer, without reimbursement,
museum objects and museum collections directly to
the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the
Interior for the purposes of this Act.
‘‘(2) Convey museum objects and museum collec-
tions that the Secretary determines are no longer
needed for museum purposes, without monetary con-
sideration but subject to such terms and conditions as
the Secretary deems necessary, to private institutions
exempt from Federal taxation under section 501(c)(3)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C.
501(c)(3)) and to non-Federal governmental entities if
the Secretary determines, prior to any conveyance
under this subsection, that the private or non-Federal
recipient is dedicated to the preservation and inter-
pretation of natural or cultural heritage and is quali-
fied to manage the objects or collections, as the case
may be.
‘‘(3) Destroy or cause to be destroyed museum
objects and museum collections that the Secretary de-
termines to have no scientific, cultural, historic, edu-
cational, esthetic, or monetary value.
‘‘(b) CARE, DELIBERATION, AND REVIEW.—The Sec-
retary shall ensure that museum objects and museum collec-
tions are treated in a careful and deliberate manner that
protects the public interest. Prior to taking any action
under subsection (a), the Secretary shall establish a system-
atic review and approval process, including consultation
with appropriate experts, that meets the highest standards
of the museum profession and applies to all actions taken
under this section.’’.
(b) APPLICATION AND DEFINITIONS.—The Act entitled
‘‘An Act to increase the public benefits from the National
Park System by facilitating the management of museum
properties relating thereto, and for other purposes’’, ap-
proved July 1, 1955 (16 U.S.C. 18f), as amended by sub-
section (a), is further amended by adding at the end the
following new section:
‘‘SEC. 3. APPLICATION AND DEFINITIONS.
‘‘(a) APPLICATION.—Authorities granted to the Sec-
retary of the Interior by this Act shall be available to the
Secretary only with regard to—
‘‘(1) museum objects and museum collections that
were under the administrative jurisdiction of the Sec-
retary for purposes of the National Park System on
the day before the date of the enactment of this sec-
tion; and
‘‘(2) museum objects and museum collections that
the Secretary acquires on or after such date.
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this Act, the
terms ‘museum objects’ and ‘museum collections’ mean ob-
jects that are eligible to be or are made part of a museum,
library, or archive collection through a formal procedure,
such as accessioning. Such objects are usually movable and
include but are not limited to prehistoric and historic arti-
facts, works of art, books, documents, photographs, and nat-
ural history specimens.’’.
SEC. 305. VOLUNTEERS IN THE PARKS INCREASE.
Section 4 of the Volunteers in the Parks Act of 1969
(16 U.S.C. 18j) is amended by striking all that follows
‘‘Act’’ and inserting a period.
SEC. 306. COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS FOR RESEARCH PUR-
POSES.
Section 3 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to improve the
administration of the national park system by the Sec-
retary of the Interior, and to clarify the authorities applica-
ble to the system, and for other purposes’’, approved August
18, 1970 (16 U.S.C. 1a–2), is amended—
(1) in subsection (i), by striking the period at
the end and inserting a semicolon; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(j) enter into cooperative agreements with pub-
lic or private educational institutions, States, and
their political subdivisions, for the purpose of develop-
ing adequate, coordinated, cooperative research and
training programs concerning the resources of the Na-
tional Park System, and, pursuant to any such agree-
ment, to accept from and make available to the co-
operator the technical and support staff, financial as-
sistance, supplies and equipment, facilities, and ad-
ministrative services, relating to cooperative research
units, that the Secretary determines to be appro-
priate; except that no provision of this subsection
shall be construed to waive any requirement with re-
spect to research projects that are subject to the Fed-
eral procurement regulations.’’.