shall be on file and available for public inspection in the
office of the Director of the National Park Service.
(e) ADMINISTRATION.—The Heritage Area shall be
considered to be part of the American Heritage Areas
Partnership Program and shall be considered for all pur-
poses, including but not limited to the management plan
submission requirement of section 107(c)(1) and the pro-
visions of section 108, to have been designated an Amer-
ican Heritage Area under section 105(d) on the date on
which the Heritage Area is designated under subsection
(c) of this section.
SEC. 203. HUDSON RIVER VALLEY AMERICAN HERITAGE
AREA.
(a) CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.—The Congress finds
that—
(1) the Hudson River Valley between Yonkers,
New York, and Troy, New York, possesses impor-
tant historical, cultural, and natural resources, rep-
resenting themes of settlement and migration, trans-
portation, and commerce;
(2) the Hudson River Valley played an impor-
tant role in the military history of the American
Revolution;
(3) the Hudson River Valley gave birth to im-
portant movements in American art and architecture
through the works of Andrew Jackson Downing, Al-
exander Jackson Davis, Thomas Cole, and their as-
sociates, and played a central role in the recognition
of the esthetic values of landscape and the develop-
ment of an American esthetic ideal;
(4) the Hudson River Valley played an impor-
tant role in the development of the iron, textile, and
collar and cuff industries in the 19th century, exem-
plified in surviving structures such as the Harmony
Mills complex at Cohoes, and in the development of
early men’s and women’s labor and cooperative orga-
nizations, and is home of the first women’s labor
union in the United States and the first women’s
secondary school in the United States;
(5) the Hudson River Valley, in its cities and
towns and its rural landscapes—
(A) displays exceptional surviving physical
resources illustrating these themes and the so-
cial, industrial, and cultural history of the 19th
and early 20th centuries; and
(B) includes numerous national historic
sites and landmarks;
(6) the Hudson River Valley is the home of the
traditions associated with Dutch and Huguenot set-
tlements dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, was
the locus of characteristic American stories such as
‘‘Rip Van Winkle’’ and the ‘‘Legend of Sleepy Hol-
low’’, and retains physical, social, and cultural evi-
dence of these traditions and the traditions of other
more recent ethnic and social groups;
(7) the State of New York has established a
structure, in the Hudson River Greenway Commu-
nities Council and the Greenway Conservancy, for
the Hudson River Valley communities to join to-
gether to preserve, conserve, and manage these re-
sources and to link them through trails and other
means; and
(8) the Heritage Area Committee jointly estab-
lished by the Hudson River Valley Greenway Com-
munities Council and the Greenway Conservancy
(agencies established by the State of New York in its
Hudson River Greenway Act of 1991) is expected to
be the management entity for an American Heritage
Area established in the Hudson River Valley.
(b) STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.—The purposes of this
section are—
(1) to recognize the importance of the history
and resources of the Hudson River Valley to the
Nation;