IIB 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 620
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
MARCH 26, 2003
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide supple-
mental funding and other services that are necessary 
to assist the State of California or local educational 
agencies in California in providing educational services 
for students attending schools located within the Park.
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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. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The three elementary schools serving the 
children of employees of Yosemite National Park are 
served by the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary 
School District and the Mariposa Unified School 
District. 
(2) The schools are in remote mountainous 
areas and long distances from other educational and 
administrative facilities of the two local educational 
agencies. 
(3) Because of their remote locations and rel-
atively small number of students, schools serving the 
children of employees of the Park provide fewer 
services in more basic facilities than the educational 
services and facilities provided to students that at-
tend other schools served by the two local edu-
cational agencies. 
(4) Because of the long distances involved and 
adverse weather and road conditions that occur dur-
ing much of the school year, it is impractical for the 
children of employees of the Park who live within or
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near the Park to attend other schools served by the 
two local educational agencies. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to author-
ize the Secretary of the Interior to provide supplemental 
funding and other services that are necessary to assist the 
State of California or local educational agencies in Cali-
fornia in providing educational services for students at-
tending schools located within the Park. 
SEC. 2. PAYMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES. 
(a) AUTHORITY
TO PROVIDE FUNDS.—For fiscal 
years 2003 through 2007, the Secretary may provide 
funds to the Bass Lake Joint Union Elementary School 
District and the Mariposa Unified School District for edu-
cational services to students who are dependents of per-
sons engaged in the administration, operation, and main-
tenance of the Park or students who live at or near the 
Park upon real property of the United States. 
(b) LIMITATION
ON USE
OF FUNDS.—Payments 
made by the Secretary under this section may not be used 
for new construction, construction contracts, or major cap-
ital improvements, and may be used only to pay public 
employees for services otherwise authorized by this Act. 
(c) LIMITATION ON AMOUNT OF FUNDS.—Payments 
made under this section shall not exceed the lesser of 
$400,000 in any fiscal year or the amount necessary to
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provide students described in subsection (a) with edu-
cational services that are normally provided and generally 
available to students who attend public schools elsewhere 
in the State of California. 
(d) ADJUSTMENT OF PAYMENTS.—Subject to sub-
section (c), the Secretary is authorized to adjust payments 
made under this section if the State of California or the 
appropriate local education agencies do not continue to 
provide funding for educational services at Park schools 
at per student levels that are equal to or greater than 
those provided in the fiscal year immediately prior to the 
date of the enactment of this section. 
(e) SOURCE OF PAYMENTS.—
(1) AUTHORIZED
SOURCES.—Except as pro-
vided in paragraph (2), in order to make payments 
under this section, the Secretary may use funds 
available to the National Park Service from appro-
priations, donations, or fees. 
(2) EXCEPTIONS.—Funds from the following 
sources may not be used to make payments under 
this section: 
(A) Fees authorized and collected under 
the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 
1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 et seq.).
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(B) The recreational fee demonstration 
program under section 315 of the Department 
of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 1996 (as contained in section 101(c) 
of Public Law 104–134; 16 U.S.C. 460l–6a 
note). 
(C) The national park passport program 
established under section 602 of the National 
Parks Omnibus Management Act of 1998 (16 
U.S.C. 5992). 
(D) Emergency appropriations for Yosem-
ite flood recovery. 
(f) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this Act, the 
following definitions apply: 
(1) 
LOCAL
EDUCATIONAL
AGENCIES.—The 
term ‘‘local educational agencies’’ has the meaning 
given that term in section 9101(26) of the Elemen-
tary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. 
(2) EDUCATIONAL SERVICES.—The term ‘‘edu-
cational services’’ means services that may include 
maintenance and minor upgrades of facilities and 
transportation to and from school. 
(3) PARK.—The term ‘‘Park’’ means Yosemite 
National Park.
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(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION FOR PARK FACILITIES TO BE LO-
CATED OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARIES OF YO-
SEMITE NATIONAL PARK. 
Section 814(c) of the Omnibus Parks and Public 
Lands Management Act of 1996 (16 U.S.C. 346e) is 
amended—
(1) in the first sentence—
(A) by inserting ‘‘and Yosemite National 
Park’’ after ‘‘Zion National Park’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘transportation systems 
and’’ before ‘‘the establishment of’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘park’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘parks’’.
Passed the House of Representatives March 25, 
2003. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.