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Union Calendar No. 253 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4192 
[Report No. 111–437] 
To designate the Stornetta Public Lands 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 
DECEMBER 3, 2009 
Mr. THOMPSON of California introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Natural Resources 
MARCH 11, 2010 
Additional sponsor: Ms. WOOLSEY 
MARCH 11, 2010 
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 December 3, 2009] 
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A BILL 
To designate the Stornetta Public Lands as an Outstanding 
Natural Area to be administered as a part of the Na-
tional Landscape Conservation System, 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; DEFINITIONS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Stornetta Outstanding Natural Area Act of 2010’’. 
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
(1) 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)). 
(2) OUTSTANDING
NATURAL
AREA.—The term 
‘‘Outstanding Natural Area’’ means the Stornetta 
Outstanding Natural Area established under section 
2. 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
(4) STORNETTA
PUBLIC
LANDS.—The term 
‘‘Stornetta Public Lands’’ means the lands designated 
as such on the map referred to in section 2(b). 
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF THE STORNETTA OUTSTANDING 
NATURAL AREA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In order to protect, conserve, and 
enhance for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future 
generations the unique and nationally important historical, 
natural, cultural, scientific, educational, scenic, and rec-
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reational values of certain lands in and around the 
Stornetta Public Lands, in Mendocino County, California, 
while allowing certain recreational and research activities 
to continue, there is established, subject to valid existing 
rights, the Stornetta Outstanding Natural Area. 
(b) MAP.—The Outstanding Natural Area shall consist 
of the lands generally depicted as the Stornetta Outstanding 
Natural Area on the map titled ‘‘Stornetta Outstanding 
Natural Area’’ and dated December 3, 2009. The map 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 fur-
ther the purposes for the establishment of the Outstanding 
Natural Area, the Federal Land Policy and Management 
Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and other applicable 
laws. 
(d) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 
the Federal lands and interests in lands included within 
the Outstanding Natural Area are hereby withdrawn 
from— 
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(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. 3. MANAGEMENT OF THE STORNETTA OUTSTANDING 
NATURAL AREA. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall manage the 
Outstanding Natural Area in a manner that conserves, pro-
tects, and enhances the unique and nationally important 
historical, natural, cultural, scientific, educational, scenic, 
and recreational values of that area, consistent with the re-
quirements section of 2(c). 
(b) USES.—Subject to valid existing rights, the Sec-
retary shall only allow such uses of the Outstanding Nat-
ural Area as the Secretary finds are likely to further the 
purposes for which the Outstanding Natural Area is estab-
lished as set forth in section 2(a). 
(c) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—Not later than 3 years after 
funds are made available for this purpose, the Secretary 
shall complete a comprehensive management plan con-
sistent with the requirements of section 202 of the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712) 
to provide long-term management guidance for the public 
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lands within the Outstanding Natural Area and fulfill the 
purposes for which it is established, as set forth in section 
2(a). The management plan shall be developed in consulta-
tion with appropriate Federal, State, and local government 
agencies, with full public participation, and shall include— 
(1) provisions designed to ensure the protection 
of the resources and values described in section 2(a); 
(2) a proposal for minimal administrative and 
public facilities to be developed or improved at a level 
compatible with achieving the resources objectives for 
the Outstanding Natural Area as described in sub-
section (a) and with other proposed management ac-
tivities to accommodate visitors and researchers to the 
Outstanding Natural Area; and 
(3) cultural resources management strategies for 
the Outstanding Natural Area, prepared in consulta-
tion with appropriate departments of the State of 
California, with emphasis on the preservation of the 
resources of the Outstanding Natural Area and the 
interpretive, education, and long-term scientific uses 
of the resources, giving priority to the enforcement of 
the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 
(16 U.S.C. 470aa et seq.) and the National Historic 
Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.) within the 
Outstanding Natural Area. 
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(d) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—In order to better 
implement the management plan and to continue the suc-
cessful partnerships with local communities, the California 
Coastal National Monument and Manchester State Park, 
administered by the California Department of Parks and 
Recreation, the Secretary may enter into cooperative agree-
ments with the appropriate Federal, State, and local agen-
cies pursuant to section 307(b) of the Federal Land Man-
agement Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
1737(b)). 
(e) RESEARCH ACTIVITIES.—In order to continue the 
successful partnership with research organizations and 
agencies and to assist in the development and implementa-
tion of the management plan, the Secretary may authorize 
within the Outstanding Natural Area appropriate research 
activities for the purposes identified in section 2(a) and 
pursuant to section 307(a) of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1737(a)). 
(f) ACQUISITION.—State and privately held lands or 
interests in lands adjacent to the Outstanding Natural Area 
and identified as appropriate for acquisition in the man-
agement plan may be acquired by the Secretary as part 
of the Outstanding Natural Area only by— 
(1) donation; 
(2) exchange with a willing party; or 
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(3) purchase from a willing seller. 
(g) ADDITIONS
TO
THE
OUTSTANDING
NATURAL 
AREA.—Any lands or interest in lands adjacent to the Out-
standing Natural Area acquired by the United States after 
the date of the enactment of this Act shall be added to and 
administered as part of the Outstanding Natural Area. 
(h) OVERFLIGHTS.—Nothing in this Act or the man-
agement plan shall be construed to— 
(1) restrict or preclude overflights, including low- 
level overflights, military, commercial, and general 
aviation overflights that can be seen or heard within 
the Outstanding Natural Area; 
(2) restrict or preclude the designation or cre-
ation of new units of special use airspace or the estab-
lishment of military flight training routes over the 
Outstanding Natural Area; or 
(3) modify regulations governing low-level over-
flights above the adjacent Gulf of the Farallones Na-
tional Marine Sanctuary. 
(i) LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES.—Nothing in this 
Act shall be construed to preclude or otherwise affect coastal 
border security operations or other law enforcement activi-
ties by the Coast Guard or other agencies within the De-
partment of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, 
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or any other Federal, State, and local law enforcement 
agencies within the Outstanding Natural Area. 
(j) NATIVE AMERICAN USES AND INTERESTS.—In rec-
ognition of the past use of the Outstanding Natural Area 
by Indians and Indian tribes for traditional cultural and 
religious purposes, the Secretary shall ensure reasonable ac-
cess to the Outstanding Natural Area by Indians and In-
dian tribes for such traditional cultural and religious pur-
poses. In implementing this section, the Secretary, upon the 
request of a federally recognized Indian tribe or Indian reli-
gious community, may temporarily close to the general pub-
lic use of one or more specific portions of the Outstanding 
Natural Area in order to protect the privacy of traditional 
cultural and religious activities in such areas by the feder-
ally recognized Indian tribe or Indian religious commu-
nity. Any such closure shall be made to affect the smallest 
practicable area for the minimum period necessary for such 
purposes. Such access shall be consistent with the purpose 
and intent of Public Law 95–341 (42 U.S.C. 1996 et seq.; 
commonly referred to as the ‘‘American Indian Religious 
Freedom Act’’). 
(k) NO BUFFER ZONES.—The designation of the Out-
standing Natural Area is not intended to lead to the cre-
ation of protective perimeters or buffer zones around the 
area. The fact that activities outside the Outstanding Nat-
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ural Area and not consistent with the purposes of this Act 
can be seen or heard within the Outstanding Natural Area 
shall not, of itself, preclude such activities or uses up to 
the boundary of the Outstanding Natural Area. 
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