spectively. The golf course was named for John Mer-
cer Langston, the first African-American Congress-
man from Virginia, elected in 1888. 
(5) Unlike other National Park Service facili-
ties, golf courses require unique capital investments 
to keep them maintained and operational. 
(6) The National Park Service has continuously 
struggled to manage and maintain each of these 
three courses. 
(7) Concession restrictions do not generate suf-
ficient revenue for the National Park Service or con-
cessionaires to provide affordable recreation while 
properly maintaining and making the capital invest-
ments required for golf courses today. 
(8) Each of the three courses contains valuable 
historic components that must be maintained. 
(9) Concessions restrictions will continue to 
cause deterioration, disrepair, and limited public use, 
reducing the quality of play and jeopardizing the 
historic preservation of the courses. 
(10) These courses together constitute an un-
dervalued and underused asset that can be main-
tained and modernized as affordable facilities for use 
by the general public if an appropriate lease ar-
rangement is used that encourages private invest-
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ment in keeping with the existing Federal proce-
dures. 
(11) The National Park Service recently issued 
a request for bids for continued concession operation 
of the Langston and Rock Creek Golf Courses under 
one concession contract for seven years; however, the 
capital improvement necessary to maintain and mod-
ernize the courses and to prevent their deterioration 
is not possible using a traditional concession con-
tract. 
(12) A long-term lease for the three courses to-
gether, designed outside of the constraints of conces-
sion law, will encourage private investment in these 
courses, improve and modernize the courses, ensure 
affordable play, and preserve the historic nature of 
them. 
SEC. 3. MANAGEMENT OF GOLF COURSES. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section, 
the following apply: 
(1) ROCK
CREEK.—The term ‘‘Rock Creek’’ 
means the federally owned golf course and related 
facilities located at 16th and Rittenhouse NW, 
Washington, DC 20011, within the boundaries of 
16th Street, NW to the East; Military Road, NW to 
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the South; Beach Drive NW to the West; and 
Sherrill Drive, NW to the North. 
(2) LANGSTON.—The term ‘‘Langston’’ means 
the federally owned golf course and related facilities 
located at 26th and Benning Road NE, Washington, 
DC 20002, within the boundaries of Anacostia River 
to the East; Hickory Hill Road to the Northeast; 
Valley Road NE to the Northeast; Azalea Road NE 
to the North; Ellipse Road NE to the West; M 
Street NE to the North; Marlyand Avenue NE to 
the Northwest; 22nd Street NE to the West; 26th 
Street to the West; and Benning Road NE to the 
South. 
(3) EAST
POTOMAC.—The term ‘‘East Poto-
mac’’ means the federally owned golf course and re-
lated facilities located at 972 Ohio Drive SW, Wash-
ington DC 20024, within the boundaries of Ohio 
Drive to the East, South, and West; and Buckeye 
Drive SW to the North. 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Di-
rector of the National Park Service. 
(b) CONTINUED LEASES.—The Secretary shall en-
sure, to the extent practicable, that month-to-month con-
cessions contracts are continued for the operation and 
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maintenance of Rock Creek and Langston until the lease 
in force on the date of the enactment of this Act for East 
Potomac expires, at which time the lease referred to in 
subsection (c) shall commence. 
(c) LEASE.—The lease referred to in subsection (d) 
is a lease for the continued operation and maintenance 
of Rock Creek, Langston, and East Potomac as golf 
courses. A lease entered into under this section shall in-
clude the 3 golf courses in one lease agreement and re-
quire that the golf courses be operated and maintained 
in a manner that— 
(1) retains the historic nature of the courses; 
(2) at least 2 of the 3 courses require fees re-
lated to use of the golf courses to be affordable in 
light of the current fee system used today at the 
courses; 
(3) may allow fees collected at one golf course 
to subsidize the maintenance and operation of one or 
more of the other golf courses; and 
(4) allows for a long-term ground lease on the 
3 courses. 
(d) REQUESTS
FOR PROPOSALS.—The Secretary 
shall solicit proposals, through a competitive process, to 
procure the lease described in subsection (b) and may, 
after such solicitation, enter into agreements to procure 
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the lease. The Secretary shall solicit the request for pro-
posals under this subsection in such a manner— 
(1) to provide that the lease described in sub-
section (c) shall be entered into not later than 180 
days after the effective date of this Act or not later 
than 30 days after the expiration of the concession 
contract for East Potomac; and 
(2) which ensures, to the greatest extent prac-
ticable, the participation of disadvantaged business 
enterprises among the equity partners of the spon-
sors of the proposals. 
(e) APPLICABILITY OF CERTAIN LAWS.—The Na-
tional Park Service Concessions Management Improve-
ment Act of 1998 (16 U.S.C. 5951 et seq.) shall not apply 
to requests for proposals submitted and leases and agree-
ments entered into under this Act. 
Æ 
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