(1) prepare and submit a management plan for 
the Heritage Corridor to the Secretary in accordance 
with section 6; 
(2) assist units of local government, regional 
planning organizations, and nonprofit organizations 
in implementing the approved management plan 
by— 
(A) carrying out programs and projects 
that recognize, protect, and enhance important 
resource values within the Heritage Corridor; 
(B) establishing and maintaining interpre-
tive exhibits and programs within the Heritage 
Corridor; 
(C) developing recreational and educational 
opportunities in the Heritage Corridor; 
(D) increasing public awareness of and ap-
preciation for natural, historical, scenic, and 
cultural resources of the Heritage Corridor; 
(E) protecting and restoring historic sites 
and buildings in the Heritage Corridor that are 
consistent with Heritage Corridor themes; 
(F) ensuring that clear, consistent, and ap-
propriate signs identifying points of public ac-
cess and sites of interest are posted throughout 
the Heritage Corridor; and 
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(G) promoting a wide range of partner-
ships among governments, organizations, and 
individuals to further the purposes of the Herit-
age Corridor; 
(3) consider the interests of diverse units of 
government, businesses, organizations, and individ-
uals in the Heritage Corridor in the preparation and 
implementation of the management plan; 
(4) conduct meetings open to the public at least 
semiannually regarding the development and imple-
mentation of the management plan; 
(5) submit an annual report to the Secretary 
for any fiscal year in which the local coordinating 
entity receives Federal funds under this Act speci-
fying— 
(A) the specific performance goals and ac-
complishments of the local coordinating entity; 
(B) the expenses and income of the local 
coordinating entity; 
(C) the amounts and sources of matching 
funds; 
(D) the amounts leveraged with Federal 
funds and sources of the leveraging; and 
(E) grants made to any other entities dur-
ing the fiscal year; 
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(6) make available for audit for any fiscal year 
in which it receives Federal funds under this Act, all 
information pertaining to the expenditure of such 
funds and any matching funds, and require in all 
agreements authorizing expenditures of Federal 
funds by other organizations, that the receiving or-
ganizations make available for such audit all records 
and other information pertaining to the expenditure 
of such funds; and 
(7) encourage by appropriate means economic 
viability that is consistent with the purposes of the 
Heritage Corridor. 
(b) AUTHORITIES.—The local coordinating entity 
may, for the purposes of preparing and implementing the 
management plan for the Heritage Corridor, use Federal 
funds made available through this Act to— 
(1) make grants to the State of Georgia, its po-
litical subdivisions, nonprofit organizations, and 
other persons; 
(2) enter into cooperative agreements with or 
provide technical assistance to the State of Georgia, 
its political jurisdictions, nonprofit organizations, 
Federal agencies, and other interested parties; 
(3) hire and compensate staff, which shall in-
clude individuals with expertise in natural, cultural, 
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and historical resources protection, economic and 
community development, and heritage planning; 
(4) obtain funds or services from any source in-
cluding any that are provided under any other Fed-
eral law or program; 
(5) contract for goods or services; and 
(6) support activities of partners and any other 
activities that further the purposes of the Heritage 
Corridor and is consistent with the approved man-
agement plan. 
(c) PROHIBITIONS ON THE ACQUISITION OF REAL 
PROPERTY.—The local coordinating entity may not use 
Federal funds received under this Act to acquire real prop-
erty, but may use any other source of funding, including 
other Federal funding outside this authority, intended for 
the acquisition of real property. 
SEC. 6. MANAGEMENT PLAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The management plan for the 
Heritage Corridor shall— 
(1) include comprehensive policies, strategies, 
and recommendations for conservation, funding, 
management, and development of the Heritage Cor-
ridor; 
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(2) take into consideration existing State, coun-
ty, and local plans in the development of the man-
agement plan and its implementation; 
(3) include a description of actions that govern-
ments, private organizations, and individuals have 
agreed to take to protect the natural, historical, and 
cultural resources of the Heritage Corridor; 
(4) specify the existing and potential sources of 
funding or economic development strategies to pro-
tect, manage, and develop the Heritage Corridor; 
(5) include an inventory of the natural, histor-
ical, cultural, educational, scenic, and recreational 
resources of the Heritage Corridor related to the 
themes of the Heritage Corridor that should be pre-
served, restored, managed, developed, or maintained; 
(6) recommend policies and strategies for re-
source management that consider and detail the ap-
plication of appropriate land and water management 
techniques including, but not limited to, the develop-
ment of intergovernmental and interagency coopera-
tive agreements to protect the Heritage Corridor’s 
natural, historical, cultural, educational, scenic, and 
recreational resources; 
(7) describe a program of implementation for 
the management plan including performance goals, 
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