Sec. 8. Acquisition of land. 
Sec. 9. Authorization of appropriations. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Chimney Rock in Southwestern Colorado 
contains nationally significant archeological, geo-
logic, biological, cultural, educational, recreational, 
visual, and scenic value. 
(2) The unique, thousand-year-old Ancestral 
Puebloan community located beneath the prominent 
Chimney Rock Pinnacles, with its dramatic 360 de-
gree view of the surrounding landscape, provides an 
outstanding opportunity to enhance understanding 
and appreciation of the prehistory of North America 
and the accomplishments of Native American cul-
tures during that period. 
(3) The Chimney Rock Ancestral Puebloan 
community is one of the largest Pueblo II period 
(900–1150 AD) communities in southwestern Colo-
rado and one of the finest examples of a Chacoan 
system ‘‘Outlier’’. The Chacoan system was a com-
plex system of interdependent communities bound by 
economic, social, political, and religious relation-
ships. Chimney Rock contains many outstanding 
hallmarks of the Chacoan system and significant ar-
cheological resources of other periods. 
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(4) The design of the Chimney Rock Ancestral 
Puebloan 
community 
incorporates 
Ancestral 
Puebloan knowledge of astronomy. The twin Chim-
ney Rock Pinnacles, for example, appear to have 
served as a frame for viewing astronomical align-
ments. 
(5) Ancestral Puebloan culture is part of the 
heritage of many Southwestern Indian cultures, and 
has influenced the culture, art and architecture of 
the Western United States. 
(6) The Chimney Rock Ancestral Puebloan 
community has special value for the Puebloan and 
Tribal people of today. 
(7) Chimney Rock provides a dramatic record 
of geological and astronomical time. 
(8) Chimney Rock is a natural laboratory that 
provides exceptional opportunities for scientific study 
in the fields of geology, ecology, prehistoric arche-
ology, and the ways in which they interrelate. 
(9) Chimney Rock provides abundant opportu-
nities to enhance the understanding and apprecia-
tion by the public of the achievements and ways of 
life of the Ancestral Puebloans, in a rugged and 
spectacular landscape. 
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(10) Chimney Rock has long been maintained 
through community care and management. Volun-
teers and volunteer organizations have provided out-
standing educational and interpretive programs and 
site stewardship, and have encouraged academic sci-
entific investigation. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act— 
(1) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Agriculture; and 
(2) the term ‘‘National Monument’’ means the 
Chimney Rock National Monument. 
SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF CHIMNEY ROCK NATIONAL 
MONUMENT. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—In order to preserve, protect, 
and restore the archeological, anthropological, geologic, 
hydrologic, biological, visual, and scenic resources of 
Chimney Rock, and to enable the public (to the extent con-
sistent with the preceding purposes) to fully realize the 
scientific, cultural, educational, recreational, visual, and 
scenic value of those resources, there is hereby designated 
the Chimney Rock National Monument. 
(b) LANDS AND INTERESTS IN LAND INCLUDED IN 
NATIONAL MONUMENT.— 
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(1) LANDS AND INTERESTS IN LAND WITHIN 
CERTAIN
BOUNDARIES.—The National Monument 
shall consist of all Federal lands and interests in 
lands located within its boundaries. The boundaries 
of the National Monument shall be the boundaries 
depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Boundary Map, Chim-
ney Rock National Monument’’, dated November 24, 
2009, as adjusted pursuant to paragraph (2). 
(2) ADJUSTMENT OF BOUNDARIES.— 
(A) INCLUSION
OF
ARCHEOLOGICAL
RE-
SOURCES.—The Secretary may make minor ad-
justments to the boundaries of the National 
Monument to include significant archeological 
resources discovered on public land adjacent to 
the National Monument after the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
(B) INCLUSION OF ACQUIRED LANDS AND 
INTERESTS.—The Secretary shall adjust the 
boundaries of the National Monument to in-
clude any land or interest in land acquired 
under section 8. 
(3) LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS AND MAP.— 
(A) PREPARATION
AND
SUBMISSION
OF 
LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.—As soon as practicable 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
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Secretary shall use the map referred to in para-
graph (1) to prepare legal descriptions of the 
boundaries of the National Monument. The 
Secretary shall submit the legal descriptions to 
the Committee on Natural Resources and the 
Committee on Agriculture of the House of Rep-
resentatives and to the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources and the Committee on 
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Sen-
ate. 
(B) AVAILABILITY OF MAP FOR PUBLIC IN-
SPECTION.—The Secretary shall make the map 
referred to in paragraph (1) available for public 
inspection in appropriate offices of the United 
States Forest Service. 
(C) CORRECTION OF CLERICAL AND TYPO-
GRAPHICAL ERRORS.—The Secretary may cor-
rect clerical and typographical errors in the 
legal descriptions and map referred to in sub-
paragraph (A) and paragraph (1), respectively. 
(c) DESIGNATION
OF MANAGER.—The Secretary 
shall designate an individual as manager of the National 
Monument as soon as practicable after development of the 
management plan under section 7(a). 
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SEC. 5. LIMITATIONS ON EFFECT AND SCOPE OF ACT. 
(a) NO INTERFERENCE WITH PROPERTY RIGHTS.— 
No provision of this Act shall interfere with the following: 
(1) The property rights of any Indian reserva-
tion. 
(2) Property rights in any individually held 
trust lands or other Indian allotments. 
(3) Any interest in land held by the State of 
Colorado or by any political subdivision or special 
district of the State of Colorado. 
(4) Any private property rights in property ad-
jacent to the National Monument. 
(5) The fish and wildlife rights of the State of 
Colorado or any tribal government. 
(b) SCOPE OF ACT.—No provision of this Act— 
(1) grants the Secretary new authority over 
non-Federal lands; or 
(2) creates any Federal reserved water rights. 
SEC. 6. MANAGEMENT AND USE OF NATIONAL MONUMENT. 
(a) MANAGEMENT AND AUTHORIZATION OF USES.— 
The Secretary shall manage and authorize uses of the Na-
tional Monument (including any use under subsection (c)) 
as a unit of the San Juan National Forest in conformance 
with the following: 
(1) The purposes described in section 4(a). 
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(2) The management plan developed under sec-
tion 7(a). 
(3) Public Law 96–550 (16 U.S.C. 410ii et 
seq.). 
(4) The Native American Graves Protection and 
Repatriation Act (25 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.). 
(5) The policy expressed in the American In-
dian Religious Freedom Act (42 U.S.C. 1996). 
(6) Treaties providing for nonexclusive access to 
the National Monument by Indians for traditional 
and cultural purposes. 
(b) VEGETATION
MANAGEMENT.—The Secretary 
may carry out vegetative management treatments within 
the National Monument, except that timber harvest and 
the use of prescribed fire may only be used when the Sec-
retary determines it necessary to address the risk of wild-
fire, insects, or diseases that would endanger the National 
Monument or imperil public safety. 
(c) AUTHORIZED USES.—All uses of the National 
Monument other than those authorized by the Secretary 
shall be prohibited. Authorized uses of the National Monu-
ment may include the following: 
(1) Construction of a visitor’s center and re-
lated exhibit and curatorial facilities to interpret the 
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scientific and cultural resources of the National 
Monument for the benefit of the general public. 
(2) Scientific research (including archeological 
research) and educational and interpretive uses. 
(3) Acquisition, consolidation, and display of ar-
tifacts found within the National Monument. 
(4) The recreational and administrative use of 
mountain bikes and motorized vehicles. 
(5) Installation, construction, and maintenance 
of a public utility right of way within the National 
Monument for a purpose described in section 4(a) if 
the Secretary determines that— 
(A) there is no route outside of the Na-
tional Monument that will accomplish the pur-
pose; or 
(B) the right of way will be located along 
a State highway crossing the National Monu-
ment. 
(6) Grazing uses, through issuance and admin-
istration by the Secretary of grazing leases or per-
mits. 
(d) PROHIBITION ON ENTRY, APPROPRIATION, DIS-
POSAL, AND OTHER USES.—The Federal lands and inter-
ests in lands located within the boundaries of the National 
Monument are hereby withdrawn from— 
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(1) all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal 
under the public land laws; 
(2) location, entry, and patent under the public 
land mining laws; and 
(3) operation of the mineral leasing and geo-
thermal leasing laws and the mineral materials laws. 
SEC. 7. DEVELOPMENT OF MANAGEMENT PLAN. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—Not later than 3 years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in con-
sultation with Indian tribes with a cultural or historic tie 
to the National Monument, shall develop a management 
plan for the management and authorization of uses of the 
National Monument under section 4(a). 
(b) OPPORTUNITY
FOR COMMENT.—In developing 
the management plan, the Secretary shall provide an op-
portunity for comment to local governments, tribal govern-
ments, the State of Colorado, and other local, State, and 
national organizations with an interest in the management 
and use of the National Monument. 
(c) CONTENTS.—The management plan shall— 
(1) identify authorized uses for the National 
Monument; 
(2) provide for the continued use of the Na-
tional Monument by Indian tribes for traditional 
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ceremonies and as a source of traditional plants and 
other materials; 
(3) specify permitted uses of artifacts, including 
whether certain artifacts may be displayed for edu-
cational purposes; 
(4) identify visitor carrying capacities; and 
(5) designate roads and trails for public and 
administrative use. 
SEC. 8. ACQUISITION OF LAND. 
The Secretary may acquire State, local government, 
tribal, and privately held land or interests in land, includ-
ing conservation easements, contiguous to the boundaries 
of the National Monument, for inclusion in the National 
Monument only by— 
(1) donation; 
(2) exchange with a willing party; or 
(3) purchase from a willing seller. 
SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as are necessary to carry out this Act. 
Æ 
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