(B) ADDITION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY TO
THE
NATIONAL
HERITAGE
AREA.—If at any
time the owner of privately owned property
within the boundary of a National Heritage
Area which has been previously removed from
the National Heritage Area boundary map, sub-
mits a written request to the management en-
tity to be included within the National Heritage
Area, the management entity shall revise the
boundary map to include such property in the
National Heritage Area.
(C) FINALIZATION OF BOUNDARY MAP.—
Exclusion of property under subparagraph (A)
or inclusion of property under subparagraph
(B) shall be final upon the receipt by the man-
agement entity of a written request by the pri-
vate property owner.
SEC. 108. EFFECT ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND OTHER STAND-
ARDS.
(a) RULES, REGULATIONS, STANDARDS, AND PER-
MIT PROCESSES.—No provision of this Act shall be con-
strued to impose any environmental, occupational, safety,
or other rule, regulation, standard, or permit process that
is different from those that would be applicable had a Na-
tional Heritage Area not been established.
(b) WATER STANDARDS.—No provision of this Act
shall be construed to impose any Federal or State water
use designation or water quality standard upon uses of,
or discharges to, waters of a State or waters of the United
States, within or adjacent to a National Heritage Area,
that is different from those that would be applicable had
the National Heritage Area not been established.
(c) WATER FACILITIES.—No provision of this Act
shall be construed to affect the continuing use and oper-
ation, repair, rehabilitation, expansion, or new construc-
tion of water supply facilities, water and wastewater treat-
ment facilities, stormwater facilities, public utilities, and
common carriers.
(d) WATER AND WATER RIGHTS.—No provision of
this Act shall be construed to authorize or imply the res-
ervation or appropriation of water or water rights.
(e) PERMITTING OF FACILITIES.—No provision of
this Act shall be construed to abridge, restrict, or alter
any applicable rule, regulation, standard, or review proce-
dure for the permitting of facilities within or adjacent to
a National Heritage Area.
SEC. 109. MULTIPLE USE SAVINGS CLAUSE.
(a) NO DIMINISHMENT OF STATE AUTHORITY.—No
provision of this Act shall be construed to diminish the
authority of the State containing any National Heritage
Area to manage fish and wildlife, including the regulation
of fishing and hunting within the area.
(b) NO CONDITIONING OF COMPACT AND ASSIST-
ANCE.—The Secretary may not require limitations on any
multiple use on Federal lands (including, but not limited
to, oil and gas, timbering, grazing, mining, irrigation,
recreation, fishing, hunting, and trapping) as a condition
for the signing of a compact, the provision of a grant, or
the determination of eligibility for assistance under this
Act. Neither the Secretary nor any other Federal agency
may require such limitations as a condition for the receipt,
in connection with the National Heritage Area status of
an area, of any other form of assistance from the Sec-
retary or such agencies.
SEC. 110. SAVINGS PROVISION FOR PREVIOUSLY DES-
IGNATED AREAS.
Except as specified in section 112(g), no provision of
this Act shall be construed to expand or diminish any au-
thority contained in any law that designates, before the
date of the enactment of this Act, a heritage area or herit-
age corridor.
SEC. 111. REPORT.
The Secretary shall submit to the Congress, every 5
years, a report on the status and accomplishments of the
National Heritage Areas Partnership Program as a whole
and the condition of National Heritage Areas.
SEC. 112. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—There is authorized to be appro-
priated for grants made and technical assistance provided
under section 103(b), the administration of such grants
and assistance, and the administration of the National
Heritage Areas Partnership Program established by sec-
tion 103(a), annually not more than $10,000,000, to re-
main available until expended.
(b) ANNUAL ALLOCATION FOR GRANTS.—In any fis-
cal year, not less than 70 percent of the funds obligated
under this title shall be used for grants made under sec-
tion 103(b).
(c) LIMITATION ON TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE FUND-
ING.—In any fiscal year, not more than 30 percent of the
funds obligated under this title may be used for technical
assistance provided under section 103(b).
(d) LIMITATION ON PERCENT OF COST.—Federal
funding provided under this title, after the designation of
a National Heritage Area, for any technical assistance or
grant with respect to the area may not exceed 50 percent
of the total cost of the assistance or grant. Federal fund-
ing provided under this title with respect to an area before
the designation of the area as a National Heritage Area
may not exceed an amount proportionate to the level of
local support of and commitment to the designation of the
area.
(e) LIMITATION ON TOTAL FUNDING FOR EACH NA-
TIONAL HERITAGE AREA.—Not more than a total of
$10,000,000 may be made available under this section
with respect to each National Heritage Area.
(f) LIMITATION ON ANNUAL FUNDING FOR EACH
NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA.—Not more than $1,000,000
may be made available under this section with respect to
each National Heritage Area for any fiscal year.
(g) APPLICATION OF FUNDING LIMITS TO EXISTING
AREAS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in any
other title of this Act, the aggregate appropriations,
under this and any other Act for any fiscal year be-
ginning after the date of the enactment of this Act,
to the Secretary (acting through the National Park
Service) for any area designated before such date as
a heritage area or heritage corridor may not exceed
the maximum amount which could have been appro-
priated with respect to the area or corridor under
this section for such fiscal year if the area or cor-
ridor were a National Heritage Area designated
under this title.
(2) APPLICATION OF LIMIT ON TOTAL FUNDING
FOR AREA.—For purposes of paragraph (1) and sub-
section (e), all Federal funding made available (be-
fore, on, or after the date of the enactment of this
Act) by the Secretary (acting through the National
Park Service) with respect to a heritage area or her-
itage corridor described in paragraph (1) shall be
treated as funding made available under this section.
(3) INCLUSION IN LIMIT ON FUNDING UNDER
THIS SECTION.—For purposes of the $10,000,000
limitation contained in subsection (a), all amounts
appropriated to Secretary (acting through the Na-
tional Park Service) after the date of the enactment
of this Act, under this or any other Act, for heritage
areas and heritage corridors described in paragraph
(1) shall be treated as appropriated under such sub-
section.
(h) PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO SUPPLE-
MENT NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM.—No funds authorized to
be appropriated under this title may be used to supple-
ment funding or programs at any unit of the National
Park System.
(i) ALLOCATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, no funds appropriated