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Calendar No. 303
104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 562
[Report No. 104–199]
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
MARCH 15, 1995
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources
DECEMBER 22, 1995
Reported by Mr. MURKOWSKI, without amendment
AN ACT
To modify the boundaries of Walnut Canyon National
Monument in the State of Arizona.
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 ‘‘Walnut Canyon
National Monument Boundary Modification Act of 1995’’.
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that:
(1) Walnut Canyon National Monument was es-
tablished for the preservation and interpretation of
certain settlements and land use patterns associated
with the prehistoric Sinaguan culture of northern
Arizona.
(2) Major cultural resources associated with the
purposes of Walnut Canyon National Monument are
near the boundary and are currently managed under
multiple-use objectives of the adjacent national for-
est. These concentrations of cultural resources, often
referred to as ‘‘forts’’, would be more effectively
managed as part of the National Park System.
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to modify
the boundaries of the Walnut Canyon National Monument
(hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘national monu-
ment’’) to improve management of the national monument
and associated resources.
SEC. 3. BOUNDARY MODIFICATION.
Effective on the date of enactment of this Act, the
boundaries of the national monument shall be modified as
depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Boundary Proposal—Wal-
nut Canyon National Monument, Coconino County, Ari-
zona’’, numbered 360/80,010, and dated September 1994.
Such map shall be on file and available for public inspec-
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tion in the offices of the Director of the National Park
Service, Department of the Interior. The Secretary of the
Interior, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture,
is authorized to make technical and clerical corrections to
such map.
SEC. 4. ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF PROPERTY.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire
lands and interest in lands within the national monument,
by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds,
or exchange. Federal property within the boundaries of the
national monument (as modified by this Act) is hereby
transferred to the administrative jurisdiction of the Sec-
retary of the Interior for management as part of the na-
tional monument. Federal property excluded from the
monument pursuant to the boundary modification under
section 3 is hereby transferred to the administrative juris-
diction of the Secretary of Agriculture to be managed as
a part of the Coconino National Forest.
SEC. 5. ADMINISTRATION.
The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Di-
rector of the National Park Service, shall manage the na-
tional monument in accordance with this Act and the pro-
visions of law generally applicable to units of the National
Park Service, including ‘‘An Act to establish a National
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Park Service, and for other purposes’’ approved August
25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1, 2–4).
SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such
sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
Passed the House of Representatives March 14,
1995.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.