Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act
Bill: S.1769 | Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA)
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act
This bill adjusts the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area in California as depicted on a specified map to include the Rim of the Valley Unit.
The Rim of the Valley Unit, and any lands or interests acquired by the United States and located within its boundaries, shall be administered as part of the recreation area.
The addition of the Rim of the Valley Unit to the recreation area shall not affect the operation, maintenance, or modification of water resource facilities or public utilities within the unit.

To adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains National 
  Recreation Area to include the Rim of the Valley Corridor, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``Rim of the Valley Corridor 
Preservation Act''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. FINDINGS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Congress finds that--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation 
        Area was authorized as a unit of the National Park System on 
        November 10, 1978;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) the Santa Monica Mountains and the Rim of the 
        Valley Corridor include--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) nationally significant resources, 
                including--</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    (i) outstanding examples of 
                        geologic history, including the evolution of 
                        the Transverse Ranges Province;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    (ii) a diversity of well-preserved 
                        marine and terrestrial paleontological 
                        resources; and</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    (iii) high biodiversity, including 
                        outstanding examples of native grasslands, 
                        coastal sage scrub, chaparral, dry coniferous 
                        forests, and alluvian fan sage scrub; 
                        and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) nationally significant cultural 
                resources that represent a wide range of themes 
                relating to human use and settlement in the region, 
                including--</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    (i) high concentrations of 
                        archeological resources that provide insight 
                        into more than 10,000 years of Tribal history; 
                        and</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    (ii) landmarks that represent 
                        topics such as architecture, recreation, and 
                        space exploration; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) expanding the Santa Monica Mountains National 
        Recreation Area would provide new opportunities for the 
        National Park Service to serve a broad range of urban 
        communities, including many communities that are--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) underrepresented in units of the 
                National Park System; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) underserved by State and local 
                parks.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 3. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT; LAND ACQUISITION; 
              ADMINISTRATION.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) Boundary Adjustment.--Section 507(c)(1) of the 
National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 460kk(c)(1)) is 
amended, in the first sentence, by striking ```Santa Monica Mountains 
National Recreation Area and Santa Monica Mountains Zone, California, 
Boundary Map', numbered 80,047-C and dated August 2001'' and inserting 
```Rim of the Valley Unit--Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation 
Area' and dated October 2017''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Rim of the Valley Unit.--Section 507 of the National 
Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 460kk) is amended by adding 
at the end the following:</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(u) Rim of the Valley Unit.--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(1) Definitions.--In this subsection:</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(A) State.--The term `State' means the 
                State of California.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(B) Unit.--The term `Unit' means the Rim 
                of the Valley Unit included within the boundaries of 
                the recreation area, as depicted on the map described 
                in subsection (c)(1).</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(C) Utility facility.--The term `utility 
                facility' means--</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(i) electric substations, 
                        communication facilities, towers, poles, and 
                        lines;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(ii) ground wires;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(iii) communications 
                        circuits;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(iv) other utility structures; 
                        and</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(v) related 
                        infrastructure.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(D) Water resource facility.--The term 
                `water resource facility' means--</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(i) irrigation and pumping 
                        facilities;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(ii) dams and 
                        reservoirs;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(iii) flood control 
                        facilities;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(iv) water conservation works, 
                        including debris protection facilities, 
                        sediment placement sites, rain gauges, and 
                        stream gauges;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(v) water quality, recycled 
                        water, and pumping facilities;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(vi) conveyance distribution 
                        systems;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(vii) water treatment 
                        facilities;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(viii) aqueducts;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(ix) canals;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(x) ditches;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xi) pipelines;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xii) wells;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xiii) hydropower 
                        projects;</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xiv) transmission facilities; 
                        and</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(xv) other ancillary facilities, 
                        groundwater recharge facilities, water 
                        conservation, water filtration plants, and 
                        other water diversion, conservation, 
                        groundwater recharge, storage, and carriage 
                        structures.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(2) Boundaries.--Not later than 3 years after 
        the date of enactment of this subsection, the Secretary shall 
        update the general management plan for the recreation area 
        developed under subsection (t) to reflect the boundaries 
        designated on the map referred to in subsection (c)(1) to 
        include the area known as the `Rim of the Valley 
        Unit'.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(3) Administration.--Subject to valid existing 
        rights, the Secretary shall administer the Unit and any land or 
        interest in land acquired by the United States located within 
        the boundaries of the Unit--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(A) as part of the recreation area; 
                and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(B) in accordance with--</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(i) this section; and</DELETED>
                        <DELETED>    ``(ii) applicable laws (including 
                        regulations).</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(4) Acquisition of land.--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary may 
                acquire non-Federal land within the boundaries of the 
                Unit only through exchange, donation, or purchase from 
                a willing seller.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(B) Use of eminent domain.--Nothing in 
                this subsection authorizes the use of eminent domain to 
                acquire land or interests in land within the boundaries 
                of the Unit.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(5) Outside activities.--The fact that certain 
        activities or land uses can be seen or heard from within the 
        Unit shall not preclude the activities or land uses outside the 
        boundary of the Unit.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(6) Effect of subsection.--Nothing in this 
        subsection or the application of the applicable management plan 
        to the Unit--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(A) modifies any provision of Federal, 
                State, or local law with respect to public access to, 
                or use of, non-Federal land;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(B) creates any liability, or affects 
                any liability under any other law, of any private 
                property owner or other owner of non-Federal land with 
                respect to any person injured on private property or 
                other non- Federal land;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(C) affects the ownership, management, 
                or other rights relating to any non-Federal land 
                (including any interest in any non-Federal 
                land);</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(D) requires any unit of local 
                government to participate in any program administered 
                by the Secretary;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(E) alters, modifies, or diminishes any 
                right, responsibility, power, authority, jurisdiction, 
                or entitlement of the State, any political subdivision 
                of the State, or any State or local agency under 
                existing Federal, State, or local law (including 
                regulations);</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(F) requires the creation of protective 
                perimeters or buffer zones around the Unit;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(G) requires or promotes the use of, or 
                encourages trespass on, land, facilities, or rights-of-
                way owned by non-Federal entities, including water 
                resource facilities and public utilities, without the 
                written consent of the owner of the land;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(H) affects the operation, maintenance, 
                modification, construction, or expansion of any water 
                resource facility or utility facility located within or 
                adjacent to the Unit;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(I) terminates the fee title to land, or 
                the customary operation, maintenance, repair, and 
                replacement activities on or under the land, granted to 
                public agencies that are authorized under Federal or 
                State law;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(J) interferes with, obstructs, hinders, 
                or delays the exercise of any right to, or access to 
                any water resource facility or other facility or 
                property necessary or useful to access any water right 
                to operate any public water or utility system; 
                or</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    ``(K) requires initiation or reinitiation 
                of consultation with the Director of the United States 
                Fish and Wildlife Service under, or the application of 
                provisions of, the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
                U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), the National Environmental Policy 
                Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), or division A of 
                subtitle III of title 54, United States Code, relating 
                to any action or activity affecting water, water 
                rights, water management, or water resource facilities 
                within the Unit.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(7) Utility facilities; water resource 
        facilities.--A utility facility or water resource facility 
        shall conduct activities in a manner that reasonably avoids or 
        reduces the impact of the activities on the resources of the 
        Unit.''.</DELETED>

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Rim of the Valley Corridor 
Preservation Act''.

SEC. 2. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.

    (a) Boundary Adjustment.--Section 507(c) of the National Parks and 
Recreation Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 460kk(c)) is amended by striking 
paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
            ``(1) Boundary.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The recreation area shall 
                consist of--
                            ``(i) the land, water, and interests in 
                        land and water generally depicted as the 
                        recreation area on the map entitled `Santa 
                        Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and 
                        Santa Monica Mountains Zone, California, 
                        Boundary Map', numbered 80,047-C, and dated 
                        August 2001; and
                            ``(ii) the land, water, and interests in 
                        land and water, as generally depicted as 
                        `Proposed Addition' on the map entitled `Rim of 
                        the Valley Unit--Santa Monica Mountains 
                        National Recreation Area', numbered 638/
                        179670C, and dated July 12, 2022.
                    ``(B) Availability of maps.--The maps described in 
                subparagraph (A) shall be on file and available for 
                public inspection in the appropriate offices of the 
                National Park Service.
                    ``(C) Revisions.--After advising the Committee on 
                Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the 
                Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
                Representatives, in writing, of the proposed revision, 
                the Secretary may make minor revisions to the 
                boundaries of the recreation area by publication of a 
                revised drawing or other boundary description in the 
                Federal Register.''.

SEC. 3. ADMINISTRATION.

    Any land or interest in land acquired by the Secretary of the 
Interior within the Rim of the Valley Unit shall be administered as 
part of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (referred 
to in this Act as the ``National Recreation Area'') in accordance with 
the laws (including regulations) applicable to the National Recreation 
Area.

SEC. 4. UTILITIES AND WATER RESOURCE FACILITIES.

    The addition of the Rim of the Valley Unit to the National 
Recreation Area shall not affect the operation, maintenance, or 
modification of water resource facilities or public utilities within 
the Rim of the Valley Unit, except that any utility or water resource 
facility activities in the Rim of the Valley Unit shall be conducted in 
a manner that reasonably avoids or reduces the impact of the activities 
on resources of the Rim of the Valley Unit.
                                                       Calendar No. 532

117th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 1769

                          [Report No. 117-181]

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