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SEC. 2403. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) DISTRICT.—The term ‘‘District’’ means the
Great Falls Historic District established by section
2404.
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means
the Secretary of the Interior.
SEC. 2404. GREAT FALLS HISTORIC DISTRICT.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established the Great
Falls Historic District in the city of Paterson, in Passaic
County, New Jersey.
(b) BOUNDARIES.—The boundaries of the District shall
be the boundaries specified for the Great Falls Historic Dis-
trict listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
SEC. 2405. DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
(a) GRANTS AND COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The
Secretary may make grants and enter into cooperative
agreements with the State of New Jersey, local governments,
and private nonprofit entities under which the Secretary
agrees to pay not more than 50 percent of the costs of—
(1) preparation of a plan for the development of
historic, architectural, natural, cultural, and inter-
pretive resources within the District; and
(2) implementation of projects approved by the
Secretary under the development plan.
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(b) CONTENTS OF PLAN.—The development plan shall
include—
(1) an evaluation of—
(A) the physical condition of historic and
architectural resources; and
(B) the environmental and flood hazard
conditions within the District; and
(2) recommendations for—
(A) 
rehabilitating, 
reconstructing, 
and
adaptively reusing the historic and architectural
resources;
(B) preserving viewsheds, focal points, and
streetscapes;
(C) establishing gateways to the District;
(D) establishing and maintaining parks
and public spaces;
(E) developing public parking areas;
(F) improving pedestrian and vehicular cir-
culation within the District;
(G) improving security within the District,
with an emphasis on preserving historically sig-
nificant structures from arson; and
(H) establishing a visitors’ center.
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SEC. 2406. RESTORATION, PRESERVATION, AND INTERPRE-
TATION OF PROPERTIES.
(a) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The Secretary may
enter into cooperative agreements with the owners of prop-
erties within the District that the Secretary determines to
be of historical or cultural significance, under which the
Secretary may—
(1) pay not more than 50 percent of the cost of
restoring and improving the properties;
(2) provide technical assistance with respect to
the preservation and interpretation of the properties;
and
(3) mark and provide interpretation of the prop-
erties.
(b) PROVISIONS.—A cooperative agreement under sub-
section (a) shall provide that—
(1) the Secretary shall have the right of access at
reasonable times to public portions of the property for
interpretive and other purposes;
(2) no change or alteration may be made in the
property except with the agreement of the property
owner, the Secretary, and any Federal agency that
may have regulatory jurisdiction over the property;
and
(3) if at any time the property is converted,
used, or disposed of in a manner that is contrary to
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the purposes of this Act, as determined by the Sec-
retary, the property owner shall be liable to the Sec-
retary for the greater of—
(A) the amount of assistance provided by
the Secretary for the property; or
(B) the portion of the increased value of the
property that is attributable to that assistance,
determined as of the date of the conversion, use,
or disposal.
(c) APPLICATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—A property owner that desires
to enter into a cooperative agreement under sub-
section (a) shall submit to the Secretary an applica-
tion describing how the project proposed to be funded
will further the purposes of the District.
(2) CONSIDERATION.—In making such funds
available under this section, the Secretary shall give
consideration to projects that provide a greater lever-
age of Federal funds.
SEC. 2407. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There are authorized to be appropriated to the Sec-
retary to carry out this title—
(1) $250,000 for grants and cooperative agree-
ments for the development plan under section 2405;
and
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(2) $50,000 for the provision of technical assist-
ance and $3,000,000 for the provision of other assist-
ance under cooperative agreements under section
2406.
TITLE XXV—RIO PUERCO WATERSHED
SEC. 2501. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that—
(1) over time, extensive ecological changes have
occurred in the Rio Puerco watershed, including—
(A) erosion of agricultural and range lands;
(B) impairment of waters due to heavy
sedimentations;
(C) reduced productivity of renewable re-
sources;
(D) loss of biological diversity;
(E) loss of functioning riparian areas; and
(F) loss of available surface water;
(2) damage to the watershed has seriously af-
fected the economic and cultural well-being of its in-
habitants, including—
(A) loss of communities that were based on
the land and were self-sustaining; and
(B) adverse effects on the traditions, cus-
toms, and cultures of the affected communities;