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grams at the Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site or may
establish a nonprofit foundation to solicit funds for such activities.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the responsibil-
ity for ensuring that development or redevelopment in the Penn-
sylvania Avenue area is carried out in accordance with the Penn-
sylvania 
Avenue 
Development 
Corporation 
Plan—1974, 
as
amended, is transferred to the National Capital Planning Commis-
sion or its successor commencing April 1, 1996.
(f) SAVINGS PROVISIONS.—
(1) REGULATIONS.—Any regulations prescribed by the Cor-
poration in connection with the Pennsylvania Avenue Develop-
ment Corporation Act of 1972 (40 U.S.C. 871–885) and the
Federal Triangle Development Act (40 U.S.C. 1101–1109) shall
continue in effect until suspended by regulations prescribed
by the Administrator of the General Services Administration.
(2) EXISTING
RIGHTS, 
DUTIES, 
AND
OBLIGATIONS
NOT
AFFECTED.—Subsection (a) shall not be construed as affecting
the validity of any right, duty, or obligation of the United
States or any other person arising under or pursuant to any
contract, loan, or other instrument or agreement which was
in effect on the day before the date of the transfers under
subsection (a).
(3) CONTINUATION OF SUITS.—No action or other proceeding
commenced by or against the Corporation in connection with
administration of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Cor-
poration Act of 1972 (40 U.S.C. 871–885) and the Federal
Triangle Development Act (40 U.S.C. 1101–1109) shall abate
by reason of enactment and implementation of this Act, except
that the General Services Administration shall be substituted
for the Corporation as a party to any such action or proceeding.
(g) Section 3(b) of the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Cor-
poration Act of 1972 (40 U.S.C. 872(b)) is amended as follows:
‘‘(b) The Corporation shall be dissolved on or before April 1,
1996. Upon dissolution, assets, obligations, indebtedness, and all
unobligated and unexpended balances of the Corporation shall be
transferred in accordance with the Department of the Interior and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996.’’.
SEC. 314. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), no part
of any appropriation contained in this Act or any other Act shall
be obligated or expended for the operation or implementation of
the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project
(hereinafter ‘‘Project’’).
(b)(1) From the funds appropriated to the Forest Service and
Bureau of Land Management, a sum of $4,000,000 is made available
for the Executive Steering Committee of the Project to publish,
and submit to the Committees on Agriculture, Nutrition, and For-
estry, Appropriations, and Energy and Natural Resources of the
Senate and Committees on Agriculture, Appropriations, and
Resources of the House of Representatives, by April 30, 1996, an
assessment on the National Forest System lands and lands adminis-
tered by the Bureau of Land Management (hereinafter ‘‘Federal
lands’’) within the area encompassed by the Project. The assessment
shall be accompanied by draft Environmental Impact Statements
that are not decisional and not subject to judicial review, contain
a range of alternatives, without the identification of a preferred
alternative or management recommendations, and provide a meth-
odology for conducting any cumulative effects analysis required
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by section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act (42
U.S.C. 4332(2)) in the preparation of each amendment to a resource
management plan pursuant to subsection (c)(2). The Executive
Steering Committee shall release the required draft Environmental
Impact Statements for a ninety day public comment period. A
summary of the public comments received must accompany these
documents upon its submission to Congress.
(2) The assessment required by paragraph (1) shall contain
the scientific information collected and analysis undertaken by the
Project on landscape dynamics and forest and rangeland health
conditions and the implications of such dynamics and conditions
for forest and rangeland management, specifically the management
of forest and rangeland vegetation structure, composition, density
and related social and economic effects.
(3) The assessment and draft Environmental Impact State-
ments required by paragraph (1) shall not: contain any material
other than that required in paragraphs (1) and (2); be the subject
of consultation or conferencing pursuant to section 7 of the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1536); or be accompanied
by any record of decision or documentation pursuant to section
102(2) of the National Environmental Policy Act, except as specified
in paragraph (1).
(c)(1) From the funds appropriated to the Forest Service and
the Bureau of Land Management, each Forest Supervisor of the
Forest Service and District Manager of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment with responsibility for a national forest or unit of land
administered by the Bureau of Land Management (hereinafter ‘‘for-
est’’) within the area encompassed by the Project shall—
(A) review the resource management plan (hereinafter
‘‘plan’’) for such forest, the scientific information and analysis
in the report prepared pursuant to subsection (b) which are
applicable to such plan, and any policy which is applicable
to such plan upon the date of enactment of this section (whether
or not such policy has been added to such plan by amendment),
including any which is, or is intended to be, of limited duration,
and which the Project addresses; and
(B) based on such review, develop a modification of such
policy, or an alternative policy which serves the basic purpose
of such policy, to meet the specific conditions of such forest.
(2) For each plan reviewed pursuant to paragraph (1), the
Forest Supervisor or District Manager concerned shall prepare and
adopt an amendment which: contains the modified or alternative
policy developed pursuant to paragraph (1)(B); is directed solely
to and affects only such plan; and addresses the specific conditions
of the forest to which the plan applies and the relationship of
the modified or alternative policy to such conditions. The Forest
Supervisor or District Manager concerned shall consult at a mini-
mum, with the Governor of the State, and the Commissioners
of the county or counties, and affected tribal governments in which
the forest to which the plan applies is situated during the review
of the plan required by paragraph (1) and the preparation of an
amendment to the plan required by this paragraph.
(3) To the maximum extent practicable, each amendment pre-
pared pursuant to paragraph (2) shall establish site-specific stand-
ards in lieu of imposing general standards applicable to multiple
sites. Any amendment which would result in any major change
in land use allocations within the plan or would reduce the likeli-
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hood of achievement of the goals and objectives of the plan (prior
to any previous amendment incorporating in the plan any policy
referred to in paragraph (1)(A)) shall be deemed a significant
change, pursuant to section 6(f)(4) of the Forest and Rangeland
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(4))
or section 202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act
of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712), requiring a significant plan amendment
or equivalent.
(4) Each amendment prepared pursuant to paragraph (2) shall
comply with any applicable requirements of section 102(2) of the
National Environmental Policy Act, except that any cumulative
effects analysis conducted in accordance with the methodology pro-
vided pursuant to subsection (b)(1) shall be deemed to meet any
requirement of such Act for such analysis and the scoping conducted
by the Project prior to the date of enactment of this section shall
substitute for any scoping otherwise required by such Act for such
amendment, unless at the sole discretion of the Forest Supervisor
or District Manager additional scoping is deemed necessary.
(5) The review of each plan required by paragraph (1) shall
be conducted, and the preparation and decision to approve an
amendment to each plan pursuant to paragraph (2) shall be made,
by the Forest Supervisor or District Manager, as the case may
be, solely on: the basis of the review conducted pursuant to para-
graph (1)(A), any consultation or conferencing pursuant to section
7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 required by paragraph
(6), any documentation required by section 102(2) of the National
Environmental Policy Act, and any applicable guidance or other
policy issued prior to the date of enactment of this Act.
(6)(A) Any policy adopted in an amendment prepared pursuant
to paragraph (2) which is a modification of or alternative to a
policy referred to in paragraph (1)(A) and upon which consultation
or conferencing has occurred pursuant to section 7 of the Endan-
gered Species Act of 1973, shall not again be subject to the consulta-
tion or conferencing provisions of such section 7.
(B) If required by such section 7, and not subject to subpara-
graph (A), the Forest Supervisor or District Manager concerned
shall consult or conference separately on each amendment prepared
pursuant to paragraph (2).
(C) No further consultation, other than the consultation speci-
fied in subparagraph (B), shall be undertaken on the amendments
prepared pursuant to paragraph (2), on any project or activity
which is consistent with an applicable amendment, on any policy
referred to in paragraph (1)(A), or on any portion of any plan
related to such policy or the species to which such policy applies.
(7) Each amendment prepared pursuant to paragraph (2) shall
be adopted on or before October 31, 1996: Provided, That any
amendment deemed a significant plan amendment, or equivalent,
pursuant to paragraph (3) shall be adopted on or before March
31, 1997.
(8) No policy referred to in paragraph (1)(A), or any provision
of a plan or other planning document incorporating such policy,
shall be effective in any forest subject to the Project on or after
March 31, 1997, or after an amendment to the plan which applies
to such forest is adopted pursuant to the provisions of this sub-
section, whichever occurs first.
(9) On the signing of a record of decision or equivalent document
making an amendment for the Clearwater National Forest pursuant
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to paragraph (2), the requirement for revision referred to in the
Stipulation of Dismissal dated September 13, 1993, applicable to
the Clearwater National Forest is deemed to be satisfied, and
the interim management direction provisions contained in the Stipu-
lation of Dismissal shall be of no further effect with respect to
the Clearwater National Forest.
(d) The documents prepared under the authority of this section
shall not be applied or used to regulate non-Federal lands.
SEC. 315. RECREATIONAL FEE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM.—(a)
The Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Bureau of Land
Management, the National Park Service and the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service) and the Secretary of Agriculture (acting
through the Forest Service) shall each implement a fee program
to demonstrate the feasibility of user-generated cost recovery for
the operation and maintenance of recreation areas or sites and
habitat enhancement projects on Federal lands.
(b) In carrying out the pilot program established pursuant
to this section, the appropriate Secretary shall select from areas
under the jurisdiction of each of the four agencies referred to
in subsection (a) no fewer than 10, but as many as 50, areas,
sites or projects for fee demonstration. For each such demonstration,
the Secretary, notwithstanding any other provision of law—
(1) shall charge and collect fees for admission to the area
or for the use of outdoor recreation sites, facilities, visitor
centers, equipment, and services by individuals and groups,
or any combination thereof;
(2) shall establish fees under this section based upon a
variety of cost recovery and fair market valuation methods
to provide a broad basis for feasibility testing;
(3) may contract, including provisions for reasonable
commissions, with any public or private entity to provide visitor
services, including reservations and information, and may
accept services of volunteers to collect fees charged pursuant
to paragraph (1);
(4) may encourage private investment and partnerships
to enhance the delivery of quality customer services and
resource enhancement, and provide appropriate recognition to
such partners or investors; and
(5) may assess a fine of not more than $100 for any violation
of the authority to collect fees for admission to the area or
for the use of outdoor recreation sites, facilities, visitor centers,
equipment, and services.
(c)(1) Amounts collected at each fee demonstration area, site
or project shall be distributed as follows:
(A) Of the amount in excess of 104% of the amount collected
in fiscal year 1995, and thereafter annually adjusted upward
by 4%, eighty percent to a special account in the Treasury
for use without further appropriation, by the agency which
administers the site, to remain available for expenditures in
accordance with paragraph (2)(A).
(B) Of the amount in excess of 104% of the amount collected
in fiscal year 1995, and thereafter annually adjusted upward
by 4%, twenty percent to a special account in the Treasury
for use without further appropriation, by the agency which
administers the site, to remain available for expenditure in
accordance with paragraph (2)(B).