Title: To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant to States and local governments easements and rights-of-way over Federal land within Gateway National Recreation Area for construction, operation, and maintenance of projects for control and prevention of flooding and shoreline erosion.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to grant to any state or local government an easement or right-of-way over federal lands within Gateway National Recreation Area in the states of New York and New Jersey to construct, operate, or maintain projects for the control and prevention of flooding and shoreline erosion.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 415 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 415

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant to States and local 
   governments easements and rights-of-way over Federal land within 
   Gateway National Recreation Area for construction, operation, and 
  maintenance of projects for control and prevention of flooding and 
                           shoreline erosion.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 9, 2019

Mr. Rose of New York introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant to States and local 
   governments easements and rights-of-way over Federal land within 
   Gateway National Recreation Area for construction, operation, and 
  maintenance of projects for control and prevention of flooding and 
                           shoreline erosion.

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

SECTION 1. AUTHORITY TO GRANT EASEMENTS AND RIGHTS-OF-WAY OVER FEDERAL 
              LANDS WITHIN GATEWAY NATIONAL RECREATION AREA.

    Section 3 of Public Law 92-592 (16 U.S.C. 460cc-2) is amended by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(j) Authority To Grant Easements and Rights-of-Way.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary of the Interior may grant, 
        to any State or local government, an easement or right-of-way 
        over Federal lands within Gateway National Recreation Area for 
        construction, operation, and maintenance of projects for 
        control and prevention of flooding and shoreline erosion.
            ``(2) Charges and reimbursement of costs.--The Secretary 
        may grant such an easement or right-of-way without charge for 
        the value of the right so conveyed, except for reimbursement of 
        costs incurred by the United States for processing the 
        application therefore and managing such right. Amounts received 
        as such reimbursement shall be credited to the relevant 
        appropriation account.''.
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