Title: Acadia National Park Boundary Clarification Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Acadia National Park Boundary Clarification Act
This bill confirms that the boundary of Acadia National Park in Maine includes approximately 1,441 acres of land and interests in the Schoodic Peninsula.
The bill ratifies and approves:
The Department of the Interior may only acquire land or interests in land within or outside of the boundaries of the park in Hancock or Knox Counties, Maine, in accordance with the statute that established the park's boundaries, except that Interior may conduct exchanges for lands and interests in accordance with the provisions relating to conveyances of certain property and interests in property acquired by Interior that are within units of the National Park System or related areas.
Interior shall contribute a specified amount to a regional consortium composed of units of local government on or in the vicinity of Mount Desert Island that was established to improve the management of the disposal and recycling of solid waste.
Interior shall reestablish and appoint members to the Acadia National Park Advisory Commission.
Certain land in the park that was conveyed by Interior to the town of Tremont, Maine, shall no longer be used exclusively for school purposes, but for public purposes, subject to the conditions that: (1) use of such land shall not degrade or adversely impact the park's resources or values; and (2) such land shall remain in public ownership for recreational, educational, or similar public purposes.
Interior shall permit the harvesting of the marine organisms within the park according to the laws of the state of Maine and its local governments in order to allow for the continuation of traditional harvesting and aquaculture of clams, worms, mussels, periwinkles, and other marine organisms within intertidal areas in the park.
Interior shall convey to the town of Bar Harbor a specified .29-acre parcel of land within the park to be used for a solid waste transfer facility.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 763 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 763

    To clarify the boundary of Acadia National Park, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 31, 2017

  Mr. Poliquin (for himself and Ms. Pingree) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To clarify the boundary of Acadia National Park, and for other 
                               purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Acadia National Park Boundary 
Clarification Act''.

SEC. 2. ACADIA NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY CLARIFICATION.

    (a) In General.--Section 101 of Public Law 99-420 (16 U.S.C. 341 
note) is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``In order to'' and 
        inserting the following:
    ``(a) Boundaries.--To'';
            (2) in the second sentence--
                    (A) by striking ``The map'' and inserting the 
                following:
    ``(d) Availability of Maps.--The maps described in subsection (a) 
and subsection (b)''; and
                    (B) by striking ``and it shall'' and inserting 
                ``and shall''; and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (a) (as so designated) 
        the following:
    ``(b) Schoodic Peninsula Addition.--The boundary of the Park is 
confirmed to include approximately 1,441 acres of land and interests in 
land, as depicted on the map entitled `Acadia National Park, Hancock 
County, Maine, Schoodic Peninsula Boundary Revision', numbered 123/
129102, and dated July 10, 2015.
    ``(c) Ratification and Approval of Acquisitions of Land.--Congress 
ratifies and approves--
            ``(1) effective as of September 26, 2013, the acquisition 
        by the United States of the land and interests in the land 
        described in subsection (b); and
            ``(2) effective as of the date on which the alteration 
        occurred, any alteration of the land or interests in the land 
        described in subsection (b) that is held or claimed by the 
        United States (including conversion of the land to fee simple 
        interest) that occurred after the date described in paragraph 
        (1).''.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON ACQUISITION OF LAND FOR ACADIA NATIONAL PARK.

    (a) Limitation.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the 
Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this Act as the 
``Secretary'') may only acquire land or interests in land within the 
boundary of Acadia National Park or outside the boundary of Acadia 
National Park in Hancock or Knox County, Maine, in accordance with 
Public Law 99-420 (16 U.S.C. 341 note).
    (b) Exception.--The Secretary may conduct exchanges for land and 
interests in land described in subsection (a) in accordance with 
section 102901 of title 54, United States Code.

SEC. 4. SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT.

    Section 102(f) of Public Law 99-420 (16 U.S.C. 341 note) is 
amended, in the second sentence, by striking ``toward the cost of 
constructing'' through the period at the end of the sentence and 
inserting the following: ``$350,000 to a regional consortium composed 
of units of local government located on, or in the vicinity of, Mount 
Desert Island, Maine, that is established for the purpose of improving 
the management of the disposal and recycling of solid waste.''.

SEC. 5. ACADIA NATIONAL PARK ADVISORY COMMISSION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall reestablish and appoint 
members to the Acadia National Park Advisory Commission in accordance 
with section 103 of Public Law 99-420 (16 U.S.C. 341 note).
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 103 of Public Law 99-420 (16 
U.S.C. 341 note) is amended by striking subsection (f).

SEC. 6. REPEAL OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO ACADIA NATIONAL PARK.

    The following provisions are repealed:
            (1) Section 3 of the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 
        1178, chapter 45).
            (2) The first section of the Act of January 19, 1929 (45 
        Stat. 1083, chapter 77).

SEC. 7. MODIFICATION OF USE RESTRICTION.

    The Act of August 1, 1950 (64 Stat. 383, chapter 511), is amended--
            (1) by striking ``That the Secretary'' and inserting the 
        following:

``SECTION 1. CONVEYANCE OF LAND IN ACADIA NATIONAL PARK.

    ``The Secretary''; and
            (2) by striking ``for school purposes'' and inserting ``for 
        public purposes, subject to the conditions that use of the land 
        shall not degrade or adversely impact the resources or values 
        of Acadia National Park and the land shall remain in public 
        ownership for recreational, educational, or similar public 
        purposes''.

SEC. 8. CONTINUATION OF CERTAIN TRADITIONAL USES.

    Title I of Public Law 99-420 (16 U.S.C. 341 note) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 109. CONTINUATION OF CERTAIN TRADITIONAL USES.

    ``To allow for the continuation of traditional harvesting and 
aquaculture of clams, worms, mussels, periwinkles, and other marine 
organisms (as defined in section 6001(26) of title 12 of the Maine 
Revised Statutes (as in effect on the date of enactment of the Acadia 
National Park Boundary Clarification Act)) within intertidal areas 
within the Park, the Secretary shall permit the harvesting of the 
marine organisms in the Park in accordance with the laws (including 
regulations) of the State of Maine and its political units of local 
government in the State of Maine.''.

SEC. 9. CONVEYANCE OF CERTAIN LAND IN ACADIA NATIONAL PARK TO THE TOWN 
              OF BAR HARBOR, MAINE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall convey to the Town of Bar 
Harbor (referred to in this section as the ``Town'') all right, title, 
and interest of the United States in and to the .29-acre parcel of land 
in Acadia National Park identified as lot 110-055-000 on the tax map of 
the Town for section 110, dated April 1, 2015, to be used for a solid 
waste transfer facility.
    (b) Reversion.--If the land conveyed under subsection (a) is used 
for a purpose other than the purpose described in that subsection, the 
land shall, at the discretion of the Secretary, revert to the United 
States.
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