Title: National Heritage Areas Reauthorization Act of 2019
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
National Heritage Areas Reauthorization Act of 2019
This bill reauthorizes certain National Heritage Areas and increases the total amount that may be made available for certain National Heritage Corridors.
The bill increases the total amount that may be appropriated for (1) the Last Green Valley National Heritage Corridor (formerly the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor) in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and (2) the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor in New York.
The bill reauthorizes through FY2022 (1) the National Aviation National Heritage Area in Ohio and Indiana, and (2) the Oil Region National Heritage Area in Pennsylvania.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2952 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2952

To reauthorize certain National Heritage Areas, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 21, 2019

Mr. Brown (for himself, Mr. Portman, Mr. Schumer, Mrs. Gillibrand, Mr. 
 Casey, Mr. Markey, and Mr. Blumenthal) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To reauthorize certain National Heritage Areas, 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 ``National Heritage Areas 
Reauthorization Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LAST GREEN VALLEY 
              NATIONAL HERITAGE CORRIDOR AND THE ERIE CANALWAY NATIONAL 
              HERITAGE CORRIDOR.

    (a) Authorization of Appropriations for The Last Green Valley 
National Heritage Corridor.--Section 109(a) of the Quinebaug and 
Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994 (54 
U.S.C. 320101 note; Public Law 103-449; 108 Stat. 4756; 113 Stat. 1729; 
123 Stat. 1292) is amended by striking ``$15,000,000'' and inserting 
``$17,000,000''.
    (b) Authorization of Appropriations for the Erie Canalway National 
Heritage Corridor.--Section 810(a)(1) of the Erie Canalway National 
Heritage Corridor Act (54 U.S.C. 320101 note; Public Law 106-554; 114 
Stat. 2763A-303; 131 Stat. 461) is amended by striking ``$12,000,000'' 
and inserting ``$14,000,000''.

SEC. 3. REAUTHORIZATION OF NATIONAL AVIATION HERITAGE AREA AND THE OIL 
              REGION NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA.

    (a) Reauthorization of the National Aviation Heritage Area.--
Section 512 of the National Aviation Heritage Area Act (54 U.S.C. 
320101 note; Public Law 108-447; 118 Stat. 3367) is amended by striking 
``on the date that is 15 years after the date that funds are first made 
available for this title'' and inserting ``on October 1, 2022''.
    (b) Reauthorization of the Oil Region National Heritage Area.--
Section 608 of the Oil Region National Heritage Area Act (54 U.S.C. 
320101 note; Public Law 108-447; 118 Stat. 3372) is amended by striking 
``the expiration of the 15-year period beginning on the date that funds 
are first made available for this title'' and inserting ``September 30, 
2022''.
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