(8) Involvement by the Federal Government shall 
serve to enhance the efforts of the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania, local subdivisions of the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania, volunteer organizations, and 
private businesses, to promote the cultural, national, 
and recreational resources of the region in order to 
fulfill their full potential. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to enhance 
a cooperative management framework to assist the Com-
monwealth of Pennsylvania, its units of local government, 
and area citizens in conserving, enhancing, and inter-
preting the significant features of the lands, water, and 
structures of the Oil Region, in a manner consistent with 
compatible economic development for the benefit and inspi-
ration of present and future generations in the Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania and the United States. 
SEC. 3. OIL REGION NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby established the 
Oil Region National Heritage Area. 
(b) BOUNDARIES.—The boundaries of the Heritage 
Area shall include all of those lands depicted on a map enti-
tled ‘‘Oil Region National Heritage Area’’, numbered 
OIRE/20,000 and dated October, 2000. The map shall be 
on file in the appropriate offices of the National Park Serv-
ice. The Secretary of the Interior shall publish in the Fed-
eral Register, as soon as practical after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, a detailed description and map of the 
boundaries established under this subsection. 
(c) MANAGEMENT ENTITY.—The management entity 
for the Heritage Area shall be the Oil Heritage Region, Inc., 
the locally based private, nonprofit management corpora-
tion which shall oversee the development of a management 
plan in accordance with section 5(b). 
SEC. 4. COMPACT. 
To carry out the purposes of this Act, the Secretary 
shall enter into a compact with the management entity. The 
compact shall include information relating to the objectives 
and management of the area, including a discussion of the 
goals and objectives of the Heritage Area, including an ex-
planation of the proposed approach to conservation and in-
terpretation and a general outline of the protection meas-
ures committed to by the Secretary and management entity. 
SEC. 5. AUTHORITIES AND DUTIES OF MANAGEMENT
ENTITY. 
(a) AUTHORITIES OF THE MANAGEMENT ENTITY.—
The management entity may use funds made available 
under this Act for purposes of preparing, updating, and 
implementing the management plan developed under sub-
section (b). Such purposes may include—
(1) making grants to, and entering into coopera-
tive agreements with, States and their political sub-
divisions, private organizations, or any other person; 
(2) hiring and compensating staff; and 
(3) undertaking initiatives that advance the pur-
poses of the Heritage Area. 
(b) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—The management entity 
shall develop a management plan for the Heritage Area 
that—
(1) presents comprehensive strategies and rec-
ommendations for conservation, funding, manage-
ment, and development of the Heritage Area; 
(2) takes into consideration existing State, coun-
ty, and local plans and involves residents, public 
agencies, and private organizations working in the 
Heritage Area; 
(3) includes a description of actions that units 
of government and private organizations have agreed 
to take to protect the resources of the Heritage Area; 
(4) specifies the existing and potential sources of 
funding to protect, manage, and develop the Heritage 
Area; 
(5) includes an inventory of the resources con-
tained in the Heritage Area, including a list of any 
property in the Heritage Area that is related to the
themes of the Heritage Area and that should be pre-
served, restored, managed, developed, or maintained 
because of its natural, cultural, historic, recreational, 
or scenic significance; 
(6) describes a program for implementation of 
the management plan by the management entity, in-
cluding plans for restoration and construction, and 
specific commitments for that implementation that 
have been made by the management entity and any 
other persons for the first 5 years of implementation; 
(7) lists any revisions to the boundaries of the 
Heritage Area proposed by the management entity 
and requested by the affected local government; and 
(8) includes an interpretation plan for the Her-
itage Area. 
(c) DEADLINE; TERMINATION OF FUNDING.—
(1) DEADLINE.—The management entity shall 
submit the management plan to the Secretary within 
2 years after the funds are made available for this 
Act. 
(2) TERMINATION OF FUNDING.—If a manage-
ment plan is not submitted to the Secretary in ac-
cordance with this subsection, the management entity 
shall not qualify for Federal assistance under this 
Act.
(d) DUTIES OF MANAGEMENT ENTITY.—The manage-
ment entity shall—
(1) give priority to implementing actions set 
forth in the compact and management plan; 
(2) assist units of government, regional planning 
organizations, and nonprofit organizations in—
(A) establishing and maintaining interpre-
tive exhibits in the Heritage Area; 
(B) developing recreational resources in the 
Heritage Area; 
(C) increasing public awareness of and ap-
preciation for the natural, historical, and archi-
tectural resources and sites in the Heritage Area; 
(D) the restoration of any historic building 
relating to the themes of the Heritage Area; 
(E) ensuring that clear signs identifying ac-
cess points and sites of interest are put in place 
throughout the Heritage Area; and 
(F) carrying out other actions that the 
management entity determines to be advisable to 
fulfill the purposes of this Act; 
(3) encourage by appropriate means economic 
viability in the Heritage Area consistent with the 
goals of the management plan;
(4) consider the interests of diverse governmental, 
business, and nonprofit groups within the Heritage 
Area; and 
(5) for any year in which Federal funds have 
been provided to implement the management plan 
under subsection (b)—
(A) conduct public meetings at least annu-
ally regarding the implementation of the man-
agement plan; 
(B) submit an annual report to the Sec-
retary setting forth accomplishments, expenses 
and income, and each person to which any grant 
was made by the management entity in the year 
for which the report is made; and 
(C) require, for all agreements entered into 
by the management entity authorizing expendi-
ture of Federal funds by any other person, that 
the person making the expenditure make avail-
able to the management entity for audit all 
records pertaining to the expenditure of such 
funds. 
(e) PROHIBITION
ON
THE ACQUISITION
OF REAL 
PROPERTY.—The management entity may not use Federal 
funds received under this Act to acquire real property or 
an interest in real property.