Title: To authorize the Mayor of the District of Columbia and the Director of the National Park Service to enter into cooperative management agreements for the operation, maintenance, and management of units of the National Park System in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill authorizes the District of Columbia and the National Park Service (NPS) to enter into cooperative management agreements for the operation, maintenance, and management of National Park System units in DC, including the design and construction of improvements.
Such agreements may include terms and conditions relating to the allocation of responsibility between DC and the NPS and the payment of funds by the NPS and DC in support of such agreement.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2897 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2897

To authorize the Mayor of the District of Columbia and the Director of 
    the National Park Service to enter into cooperative management 
 agreements for the operation, maintenance, and management of units of 
  the National Park System in the District of Columbia, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 13, 2017

  Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Mayor of the District of Columbia and the Director of 
    the National Park Service to enter into cooperative management 
 agreements for the operation, maintenance, and management of units of 
  the National Park System in the District of Columbia, 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. AUTHORIZING COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS BETWEEN 
              DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR 
              OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, AND MANAGEMENT OF UNITS OF THE 
              NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

    (a) Authorization.--The Mayor of the District of Columbia and the 
Director of the National Park Service may enter into cooperative 
management agreements under section 101703 of title 54, United States 
Code, for the operation, maintenance, and management of units of the 
National Park System located in the District of Columbia, including the 
design and construction of improvements to such units.
    (b) Terms and Conditions.--A cooperative management agreement 
entered into under this section may include such terms and conditions 
as may be agreed to by the Mayor and Director, including terms and 
conditions relating to--
            (1) the allocation of responsibility for the operation, 
        maintenance, and management of a unit of the National Park 
        System between the District of Columbia and the National Park 
        Service; and
            (2) the payment of funds by the National Park Service and 
        the District of Columbia in support of the agreement.
    (c) Relation to Other Laws.--
            (1) Treatment of district of columbia as a state for 
        purposes of cooperative management agreements under title 54.--
        Section 101703 of title 54, United States Code, is amended by 
        adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Definition of State.--For the purposes of this section, the 
term `State' means each of the several States and the District of 
Columbia.''.
            (2) Anti-deficiency act.--Nothing in subchapter III of 
        chapter 13 or subchapter II of chapter 15 of title 31, United 
        States Code (commonly known as the ``Anti-Deficiency Act'') may 
        be construed to prohibit the payment or use of funds by the 
        District of Columbia or the National Park Service to carry out 
        a cooperative management agreement entered into under this Act, 
        in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement.
            (3) District of columbia home rule act.--Nothing in section 
        602(a)(3) of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act (sec. 1-
        206.03(a)(3), D.C. Official Code) may be construed to prohibit 
        the District of Columbia from operating, maintaining, or 
        managing a unit of the National Park System in accordance with 
        the terms and conditions of a cooperative management agreement 
        entered into under this Act.
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