IIA
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1305
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 20 (legislative day, JUNE 30), 1993
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources
AN ACT
To make boundary adjustments and other miscellaneous
changes to authorities and programs of the National
Park Service.
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 Ad-
justments and Miscellaneous Park Amendments Act of
1993’’.
TITLE I—MINOR BOUNDARY
ADJUSTMENTS
SEC. 101. YUCCA HOUSE NATIONAL MONUMENT BOUNDARY
ADJUSTMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The boundaries of Yucca House
National Monument are revised to include the approxi-
mately 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) Within the
lands described in subsection (a), the Secretary of the
Interior may acquire lands and interests in lands by
donation.
(2) The Secretary of the Interior may pay adminis-
trative costs arising out of any donation described in para-
graph (1) with appropriated funds.
SEC. 102. ZION NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.
(a) ACQUISITION
AND BOUNDARY CHANGE.—The
Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire by ex-
change approximately 5.48 acres located in the SW1⁄4 of
Section 28, Township 41 South, Range 10 West, Salt
Lake Base and Meridian. In exchange therefor the Sec-
retary is authorized to convey all right, title, and interest
of the United States in and to approximately 5.51 acres
in Lot 2 of Section 5, Township 41 South, Range 11 West,
both parcels of land being in Washington County, Utah.
Upon completion of such exchange, the Secretary is au-
thorized to revise the boundary of Zion National Park to
add the 5.48 acres in Section 28 to the park and to ex-
clude the 5.51 acres in Section 5 from the park. Land
added to the park 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 two years after the date of the enactment
of this Act.
SEC. 
103. 
PICTURED 
ROCKS 
NATIONAL 
LAKESHORE
BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.
The boundary of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
is hereby modified as depicted on a 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 Philadel-
phia, Pennsylvania, is hereby modified as generally de-
picted 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 inspection in the Office of the National Park Serv-
ice, Department of the Interior. The Secretary of the Inte-
rior is authorized to accept and transfer jurisdiction over
property in accord 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 Craters
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 ‘‘Craters
of the Moon National Monument, Idaho, Proposed 1987
Boundary Adjustment’’, numbered 131–80,008, and dated
October 1987, which map shall be on file and available
for public inspection in the Office of the National Park
Service, Department of the Interior.
(b) ADMINISTRATION; ACQUISITION.—Federal lands,
waters, and interests therein deleted from the boundary
of the national monument by this section shall be adminis-
tered by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau
of Land Management in accordance with the Federal
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C.
1701 et seq.), and Federal lands, waters, and interests
therein added to the national monument by this section
shall be administered by the Secretary as part of the na-
tional monument, subject to the laws and regulations ap-
plicable 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
when acquired they shall be administered by the Secretary
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 the follow-
ing new subsection:
‘‘(d) To further the purposes of the monument, the
Secretary is also authorized to acquire from willing sellers
only, by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated
funds, or exchange not to exceed 65 acres outside the
boundary depicted on the map referred to in section 301
and develop and operate thereon research, information, in-
terpretive, and administrative facilities. Lands acquired
and facilities developed pursuant to this subsection shall
be administered by the Secretary as part of the monu-
ment. The boundary of the monument shall be modified
to include the lands added under this subsection as a non-
contiguous parcel.’’.
SEC. 107. WUPATKI NATIONAL MONUMENT BOUNDARY AD-
JUSTMENT.
The boundary of the Wupatki National Monument,
Arizona, is hereby revised to include the lands and inter-
ests in lands within the area generally depicted as ‘‘Pro-
posed Addition 168.89 Acres’’ on the map entitled
‘‘Boundary—Wupatki and Sunset Crater National Monu-
ments, Arizona’’, 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, De-
partment 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 jurisdiction of the National Park Service,
to be administered as part of the monument in accordance
with the laws and regulations applicable thereto.
TITLE II—MISCELLANEOUS
SPECIFIC PARK AMENDMENTS
SEC. 201. ADVISORY COMMISSIONS.
(a) KALOKO-HONOKOHAU NATIONAL HISTORICAL
PARK, HI.—Section 505(f)(7) of the National Parks and
Recreation Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 396d(f)(7)), is amend-
ed by striking out ‘‘ten years’’ and inserting in lieu thereof
‘‘twenty years’’.
(b) WOMEN’S RIGHTS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK,
NY.—Section 1601(h)(5) of the Act of December 28,
1980 (16 U.S.C. 410ll(h)(5)), is amended by striking ‘‘ten
years’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘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 out ‘‘: Provided,
That’’ and all that follows and inserting in lieu thereof
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 insert-
ing ‘‘(1)’’ before the first sentence thereof and by adding
the following at the end thereof:
‘‘(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 park and to the
Freedom Trail.’’.
TITLE III—GENERAL
AUTHORIZATIONS AND
REPEALERS
SEC. 301. 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, DEPART-
MENT OF THE INTERIOR’’, which appears under the head-
ing ‘‘UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTE-
RIOR’’, as contained in the first section of the Act of Au-
gust 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 460), as amended (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:
‘‘(j) Provide 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 thereof
the following: ‘‘Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to
limit the authority of the Secretary in the management
of units of the National Park System, and the Secretary
may, without regard either to the provisions of this Act,
or section 47(a) of title 18, United States Code, use motor
vehicles, fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, or contract
for such use, in furtherance of the management of the Na-
tional Park System, and the provisions of section 47(a)
of title 18, United States Code, shall not be applicable to
such use.’’.
SEC. 304. AUTHORITIES OF THE SECRETARY OF THE INTE-
RIOR RELATING TO MUSEUMS.
(a) FUNCTIONS.—The Act entitled ‘‘An Act to in-
crease the public benefits from the National Park System
by facilitating the management of museum properties re-
lating thereto, and for other purposes’’ approved July 1,
1955 (16 U.S.C. 18f), is amended—
(1) in paragraph (b) of the first section, by
striking out ‘‘from such donations and bequests of
money’’; and
(2) by adding at the end thereof the following:
‘‘SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS.
‘‘(a) In addition to the functions specified in the first
section of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may per-
form 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 inter-
pret 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 Federal agency may transfer, without reim-
bursement, museum objects and museum collections
directly to the administrative jurisdiction of the Sec-
retary of the Interior for the purposes of this Act.
‘‘(2) Convey museum objects and museum col-
lections 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 institu-
tions exempt from Federal taxation under section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and
to non-Federal governmental entities if the Secretary
determines that the recipient is dedicated to the
preservation and interpretation of natural or cultural
heritage and is qualified to manage the property,
prior to any conveyance under this subsection.
‘‘(3) Destroy or cause to be destroyed museum
objects and museum collections that the Secretary
determines to have no scientific, cultural, historic,
educational, esthetic, or monetary value.
‘‘(b) The Secretary shall ensure that museum objects
and museum collections are treated in a careful and delib-
erate manner that protects the public interest. Prior to
taking any action under subsection (a), the Secretary shall
establish a systematic review and approval process, includ-
ing consultation with appropriate experts, that meets the
highest standards of the museum profession for all actions
taken under this section.’’.
(b) APPLICATION AND DEFINITIONS.—The Act enti-
tled ‘‘An Act to increase the public benefits from the Na-
tional Park System by facilitating the management of mu-
seum properties relating thereto, and for other purposes’’
approved July 1, 1955 (16 U.S.C. 18f), as amended by
subsection (a), is further amended by adding the following: