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Union Calendar No. 309 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1708 
[Report No. 116–386] 
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 
MARCH 13, 2019 
Mr. SCHIFF (for himself, Ms. BROWNLEY of California, Mr. CA´RDENAS, Ms. 
JUDY CHU of California, Mr. GOMEZ, Mr. TED LIEU of California, Mrs. 
NAPOLITANO, Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. BARRAGA´N, Ms. HILL of California, 
and Mr. LOWENTHAL) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Natural Resources 
FEBRUARY 4, 2020 
Additional sponsors: Mr. DESAULNIER, Ms. BASS, Ms. ESHOO, Mr. ROUDA, 
Mr. CISNEROS, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, and Ms. SA´NCHEZ 
FEBRUARY 4, 2020 
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 March 13, 2019] 
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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. 
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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 ‘‘Rim of the Valley Cor-
ridor Preservation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT; LAND ACQUISITION; AD-
MINISTRATION. 
(a) BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.—Section 507(c)(1) of 
the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 
460kk(c)(1)) is amended in the first sentence by striking 
‘‘, which shall’’ and inserting ‘‘and generally depicted as 
‘Rim of the Valley Unit Proposed Addition’ on the map 
entitled ‘Rim of the Valley Unit—Santa Monica Mountains 
National Recreation Area’, numbered 638/147,723, and 
dated September 2018. Both maps shall’’. 
(b) RIM OF THE VALLEY UNIT.—Section 507 of the 
National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 
460kk) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(u) RIM OF THE VALLEY UNIT.—(1) Not later than 
3 years after the date of the enactment of this subsection, 
the Secretary shall update the general management plan for 
the recreation area to reflect the boundaries designated on 
the map referred to in subsection (c)(1) as the ‘Rim of the 
Valley Unit’ (hereafter in the subsection referred to as the 
‘Rim of the Valley Unit’). Subject to valid existing rights, 
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the Secretary shall administer the Rim of the Valley Unit 
and any land or interest in land acquired by the United 
States and located within the boundaries of the Rim of the 
Valley Unit, as part of the recreation area in accordance 
with the provisions of this section and applicable laws and 
regulations. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary may acquire non-Federal land 
within the boundaries of the Rim of the Valley Unit only 
through exchange, donation, or purchase from a willing sell-
er. Nothing in this subsection authorizes the use of eminent 
domain to acquire land or interests in land. 
‘‘(3) Nothing in this subsection or the application of 
the management plan for the Rim of the Valley Unit shall 
be construed to— 
‘‘(A) modify any provision of Federal, State, or 
local law with respect to public access to or use of 
non-Federal land; 
‘‘(B) create any liability, or affect any liability 
under any other law, of any private property owner 
or other owner of non-Federal land with respect to 
any person injured on private property or other non- 
Federal land; 
‘‘(C) affect the ownership, management, or other 
rights relating to any non-Federal land (including 
any interest in any non-Federal land); 
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‘‘(D) require any local government to participate 
in any program administered by the Secretary; 
‘‘(E) alter, modify, or diminish any right, re-
sponsibility, power, authority, jurisdiction, or entitle-
ment of the State, any political subdivision of the 
State, or any State or local agency under existing 
Federal, State, and local law (including regulations); 
‘‘(F) require the creation of protective perimeters 
or buffer zones and the fact that certain activities or 
land can be seen or heard from within the Rim of the 
Valley Unit shall not, of itself, preclude the activities 
or land uses up to the boundary of the Rim of the 
Valley Unit; 
‘‘(G) require or promote use of, or encourage 
trespass on, lands, facilities, and rights-of-way owned 
by non-Federal entities, including water resource fa-
cilities and public utilities, without the written con-
sent of the owner; 
‘‘(H) affect the operation, maintenance, modi-
fication, construction, or expansion of any water re-
source facility or utility facility located within or ad-
jacent to the Rim of the Valley Unit; 
‘‘(I) terminate the fee title to lands or customary 
operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement ac-
tivities on or under such lands granted to public 
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agencies that are authorized pursuant to Federal or 
State statute; 
‘‘(J) interfere with, obstruct, hinder, or delay the 
exercise of any right to, or access to any water re-
source facility or other facility or property necessary 
or useful to access any water right to operate any 
public water or utility system; 
‘‘(K) require initiation or reinitiation of con-
sultation with the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service under, or the application of provisions of, the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
seq.), the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), or division A of subtitle III 
of title 54, United States Code, concerning any action 
or activity affecting water, water rights or water 
management or water resource facilities within the 
Rim of the Valley Unit; or 
‘‘(L) limit the Secretary’s ability to update ap-
plicable fire management plan, which may consider 
fuels management strategies including managed nat-
ural fire, prescribed fires, non-fire mechanical haz-
ardous fuel reduction activities, or post-fire remedi-
ation of damage to natural and cultural resources. 
‘‘(4) The activities of a utility facility or water re-
source facility shall take into consideration ways to reason-
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ably avoid or reduce the impact on the resources of the Rim 
of the Valley Unit. 
‘‘(5) For the purpose of paragraph (4)— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘utility facility’ means electric 
substations, communication facilities, towers, poles, 
and lines, ground wires, communications circuits, 
and other structures, and related infrastructure; and 
‘‘(B) the term ‘water resource facility’ means ir-
rigation and pumping facilities; dams and reservoirs; 
flood control facilities; water conservation works, in-
cluding debris protection facilities, sediment place-
ment sites, rain gages, and stream gauges; water 
quality, recycled water, and pumping facilities; con-
veyance distribution systems; water treatment facili-
ties; aqueducts; canals; ditches; pipelines; wells; hy-
dropower projects; transmission facilities; and other 
ancillary facilities, groundwater recharge facilities, 
water conservation, water filtration plants, and other 
water diversion, conservation, groundwater recharge, 
storage, and carriage structures.’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 309 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1708 
[Report No. 116–386] 
A BILL 
To adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica Moun-
tains National Recreation Area to include the 
Rim of the Valley Corridor, and for other pur-
poses. 
FEBRUARY 4, 2020 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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