SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Golden Spike 150th 
Anniversary Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADJACENT LANDOWNER.—The term ‘‘adja-
cent landowner’’ means the non-Federal owner of 
property that directly abuts the Park boundaries. 
(2) HISTORICAL CROSSING.—The term ‘‘histor-
ical crossing’’ means a corridor with a maximum 
width of 30 feet across former railroad rights-of-way 
within the Park— 
(A) that has been used by adjacent land-
owners in an open manner multiple times in 
more than 1 of the past 10 years for vehicle, 
farm machinery, or livestock travel; or 
(B) where existing utility or pipelines have 
been placed. 
(3) NETWORK.—The term ‘‘Network’’ means 
the Transcontinental Railroad Network established 
under section 4. 
(4) PARK.—The term ‘‘Park’’ means the Gold-
en Spike National Historical Park designated under 
section 3.
(5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Di-
rector of the National Park Service. 
(6) TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD.—The term 
‘‘Transcontinental Railroad’’ means the approxi-
mately 1,912-mile continuous railroad constructed 
between 1863 and 1869 from Council Bluffs, Iowa, 
to San Francisco, California. 
SEC. 3. REDESIGNATION. 
(a) REDESIGNATION.—The Golden Spike National 
Historic Site designated April 2, 1957, and placed under 
the administration of the National Park Service under the 
Act of July 10, 1965 (79 Stat. 426), shall be known and 
designated as the ‘‘Golden Spike National Historical 
Park’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the Golden Spike National Historic Site shall 
be considered a reference to the ‘‘Golden Spike National 
Historical Park’’. 
(c) NETWORK.—The Park shall be part of the Net-
work. 
SEC. 4. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD NETWORK. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish, 
within the National Park Service, the Transcontinental
Railroad Network. The Network shall not include prop-
erties used in active freight railroad operations (or other 
ancillary purposes) or reasonably anticipated to be used 
for freight railroad operations in the future. 
(b) STUDY.—The Secretary shall— 
(1) inventory National Park Service sites, facili-
ties, and programs; and 
(2) identify other sites, facilities, and programs, 
to determine their suitability for inclusion in the Network, 
as delineated under subsection (e). 
(c) DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY.—In carrying out 
the Network, the Secretary shall— 
(1) produce and disseminate appropriate edu-
cation materials relating to the history, construction, 
and legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad, such as 
handbooks, maps, interpretive guides, or electronic 
information; 
(2) identify opportunities to enhance the rec-
ognition of immigrant laborers’ contributions to the 
history, construction, and legacy of the Trans-
continental Railroad; 
(3) enter into appropriate cooperative agree-
ments and memoranda of understanding to provide 
technical assistance under subsection (d); and
(4) create and adopt an official, uniform symbol 
or device for the Network and issue guidance for the 
use of such symbol or device. 
(d) ELEMENTS.—The Network shall encompass the 
following elements: 
(1) All units and programs of the National 
Park Service that are determined by the Secretary 
to relate to the history, construction, and legacy of 
the Transcontinental Railroad. 
(2) With the consent of each person owning any 
legal interest in the property, other Federal, State, 
local, and privately owned properties that have a 
verifiable connection to the history, construction, 
and legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad and are 
included in, or determined by the Secretary to be eli-
gible for inclusion in, the National Register of His-
toric Places. 
(3) Other governmental and nongovernmental 
programs of an educational, research, or interpretive 
nature that are directly related to the history, con-
struction, and legacy of the Transcontinental Rail-
road. 
(e) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS AND MEMORANDA 
OF UNDERSTANDING.—To achieve the purposes of this 
section and to ensure effective coordination of the Federal
and non-Federal elements of the Network described in 
subsection (d) with National Park System units and pro-
grams of the National Park Service, the Secretary may 
enter into cooperative agreements and memoranda of un-
derstanding with, and provide technical assistance to, the 
heads of other Federal agencies, States, units of local gov-
ernment, regional governmental bodies, and private enti-
ties. 
SEC. 5. AGREEMENTS AFFECTING CERTAIN HISTORICAL 
CROSSINGS. 
(a) PROGRAMMATIC AGREEMENT.—No later than 6 
months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary shall enter into a Programmatic Agreement with 
the Utah State Historic Preservation Office and other con-
sulting parties to add certain undertakings in the Park 
to the list of those eligible for streamlined review under 
section 106 of the Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (54 
U.S.C. 306108). In the development of the Programmatic 
Agreement, the Secretary shall collaborate with adjacent 
landowners, Tribes, and other consulting parties. 
(b) PROCESS FOR APPROVAL.—After the completion 
of the Programmatic Agreement under subsection (a), an 
adjacent landowner shall give the Secretary notice of pro-
posed certain undertakings. Within 30 days of the receipt 
of the notice, the Secretary shall review and approve the
proposed certain undertakings if consistent with the Pro-
grammatic Agreement. 
(c) DEFINITION OF CERTAIN UNDERTAKINGS.—As 
used in this section, the term ‘‘certain undertakings’’ 
means those activities that take place on, within, or under 
a historical crossing and— 
(1) will last less than 1 month and will have 
limited physical impact on the surface of the histor-
ical crossing; 
(2) have been implemented by an adjacent land-
owner or other adjacent landowners in the past; or 
(3) is the subject of a categorical exclusion 
under the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). 
SEC. 6. INVASIVE SPECIES CONTROL. 
At the request of an adjacent landowner, within 30 
days of such a request, the Secretary shall authorize the 
adjacent landowner to participate in the eradication of 
invasive species in the Park for a period of up to 10 years, 
subject to renewal. Such an authorization shall provide— 
(1) that the invasive species proposed for eradi-
cation is identified as such by the National Park 
Service; 
(2) that the method, timing, and location of the 
eradication must be approved by the Secretary; and
(3) appropriate indemnification of the adjacent 
landowner. 
SEC. 7. FUNDING CLARIFICATION. 
No additional funds are authorized to carry out the 
requirements of this Act. Such requirements shall be car-
ried out using amounts otherwise authorized. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 25, 2018. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5751 
AN ACT 
To redesignate Golden Spike National Historic Site 
and to establish the Transcontinental Railroad 
Network.