Sec. 6. Water rights; water resource facilities; public roads; utility facilities. 
Sec. 7. San Gabriel National Recreation Area Public Advisory Council. 
Sec. 8. San Gabriel National Recreation Area Partnership. 
Sec. 9. Access and visitor services. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADJUDICATION.—The term ‘‘adjudication’’ 
means any final judgment, order, ruling, or decree 
entered in any judicial proceeding adjudicating or af-
fecting water rights, surface water management, or 
groundwater management. 
(2) ADVISORY COUNCIL.—The term ‘‘advisory 
council’’ means the San Gabriel National Recreation 
Area Public Advisory Council established by section 
7(a). 
(3) FEDERAL
LANDS.—The term ‘‘Federal 
lands’’ includes lands under the jurisdiction of the 
Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the In-
terior. 
(4) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—The term ‘‘manage-
ment plan’’ means the management plan for the San 
Gabriel National Recreation Area required by sec-
tion 4(e). 
(5) PARK
LANDS.—The term ‘‘park lands’’ 
means Federal lands under the jurisdiction of the 
Secretary and administered as part of the National 
Park System. 
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(6) PARTNERSHIP.—The term ‘‘partnership’’ 
means the San Gabriel National Recreation Partner-
ship established by section 8(a). 
(7) RECREATION AREA.—The term ‘‘recreation 
area’’ means the San Gabriel National Recreation 
Area established by section 3(b). 
(8) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
(9) SECRETARIES.—The term ‘‘Secretaries’’ 
means the Secretary of the Interior and the Sec-
retary of Agriculture acting jointly. 
(10) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the 
State of California. 
(11) UTILITY FACILITY.—The term ‘‘utility fa-
cility’’ means electric substations, communication fa-
cilities, towers, poles, and lines, ground wires, com-
munication circuits, and other structures, and re-
lated infrastructure. 
(12) WATER RESOURCE FACILITY.—The term 
‘‘water resource facility’’ means irrigation and 
pumping facilities, dams and reservoirs, flood control 
facilities, water conservation works, including debris 
protection facilities, sediment placement sites, rain 
gauges, and stream gauges, water quality facilities, 
recycled water facilities and water pumping, convey-
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ance distribution systems, and water treatment fa-
cilities, aqueducts, canals, ditches, pipelines, wells, 
hydropower projects, and transmission and other an-
cillary facilities, groundwater recharge facilities, 
water conservation, water filtration plants, and other 
water diversion, conservation, groundwater recharge, 
storage, and carriage structures. 
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF SAN GABRIEL NATIONAL 
RECREATION AREA. 
(a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are— 
(1) to conserve, protect, and enhance for the 
benefit and enjoyment of present and future genera-
tions the ecological, scenic, wildlife, recreational, cul-
tural, historical, natural, educational, and scientific 
resources of the recreation area; 
(2) to provide environmentally responsible, well- 
managed recreational opportunities within the recre-
ation area, and improve access to and from the 
recreation area; 
(3) to provide expanded educational and inter-
pretive services that will increase public under-
standing of and appreciation for the natural and cul-
tural resources of the recreation area; 
(4) to facilitate the cooperative management of 
the lands and resources within the recreation area, 
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in collaboration with the State and political subdivi-
sions of the State, historical, business, cultural, 
civic, recreational, tourism and other nongovern-
mental organizations, and the public; and 
(5) to allow the continued use of the recreation 
area by all persons, entities, and local government 
agencies in activities relating to integrated water 
management, flood protection, water conservation, 
water quality, water rights, water supply, ground-
water recharge and monitoring, wastewater treat-
ment, public roads and bridges, and utilities within 
or adjacent to the recreation area. 
(b) ESTABLISHMENT AND BOUNDARIES.—Subject to 
valid existing rights, there is hereby designated the San 
Gabriel National Recreation Area in the State, which shall 
consist of approximately 615,245 acres of Federal lands 
and interests in land in the State as depicted on the map 
titled ‘‘San Gabriel National Recreation Area’’ and dated 
June 12, 2014. 
(c) MAP AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
shall file a map and a legal description of the recre-
ation area with— 
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(A) the Committee on Natural Resources 
of the House of Representatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate. 
(2) FORCE OF LAW.—The map and legal de-
scription filed under paragraph (1) shall have the 
same force and effect as if included in this Act, ex-
cept that the Secretary may correct any clerical and 
typographical errors in the map and legal descrip-
tion. 
(3) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The map and legal 
description filed under paragraph (1) shall be on file 
and available for public inspection in the appropriate 
offices of the Forest Service and agencies of the De-
partment of the Interior. 
(d) ADMINISTRATION AND JURISDICTION.— 
(1) NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS.—The 
National Forest System lands within the recreation 
area shall be administered by the Secretary of Agri-
culture. 
(2) NATIONAL
PARK
SYSTEM
LANDS.—The 
park lands shall be administered by the Secretary as 
a unit of the National Park System. 
(3) NO CHANGE IN JURISDICTION.—Nothing in 
this Act transfers administrative jurisdiction of Fed-
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eral lands from the Secretary of Defense or Sec-
retary of Agriculture to the Secretary. 
(4) STATE AND LOCAL JURISDICTION.—Noth-
ing in this Act alters, modifies, or diminishes any 
right, responsibility, power, authority, jurisdiction, 
or entitlement of the State, any political subdivision 
thereof, or any State, or local agency under existing 
Federal, State, and local law (including regulations). 
(5) MILITARY JURISDICTION.—Nothing in this 
Act affects lands under the jurisdiction of the Sec-
retary of Defense. 
(6) APPLICABLE
LAW.—Nothing in this Act 
shall be construed to apply the laws (including regu-
lations) generally applicable to units of the National 
Park System to the National Forest System lands in 
the recreation area. 
(7) ADMINISTRATIVE TRANSFER.—Administra-
tive jurisdiction over the approximately 2,987 acres 
of land administered by the Bureau of Land Man-
agement that is identified as ‘‘BLM lands for trans-
fer’’ on the map entitled ‘‘San Gabriel National 
Recreation Area,’’ and dated June 12, 2014, is 
transferred from the Bureau of Land Management 
to the National Park Service. 
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