Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-1922
Sponsor: Rep. Mahoney, Tim [D-FL-16]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Coast guard
Commemorations
Environmental Protection
Florida
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Landscape protection
Lighthouses and lightships
Natural areas
Restoration ecology
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area Act of 2007 - Establishes the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area to protect, conserve, and enhance the unique and nationally important historic, natural, cultural, scientific, educational, scenic, and recreational values of the federal land surrounding the Lighthouse for the benefit of generations of people in the United States while: (1) allowing certain recreational and research activities to continue in the Area; and (2) ensuring that Coast Guard operations and activities are unimpeded within the boundaries of the Area. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Commandant of the Coast Guard, to develop a comprehensive management plan to provide long-term management guidance for the public land in the Area. 
 
Requires the Secretary to manage the Area as part of the National Landscape Conservation System.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into cooperative agreements with federal, state, county, other local government agencies, and other partners (including the Loxahatchee River Historical Society) for the long-term management of the Area; and (2) acquire for inclusion in the Area any state or private land or any interest in state or private land that is adjacent to the Area and identified in the management plan as appropriate for acquisition.

action_date: 2008-03-04
text: 
 Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area Act of 2008 - Establishes the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area in Palm Beach County, Florida. 

Withdraws the federal lands and interests in such land included within the Outstanding Natural Area from: (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and (3) operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws and the mineral materials laws. Revokes certain Executive Orders and a certain public land order. 

Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in consultation with the Commandant of the Coast Guard, to: (1) develop a comprehensive management plan to provide long-term management guidance for the public land in the Outstanding Natural Area; and (2) ensure that the Outstanding Natural Area fulfills the purposes for which it is established. 

Requires the Secretary to: (1) manage the Outstanding Natural Area as part of the National Landscape Conservation System; and (2) in a manner that conserves, protects, and enhances the unique and nationally important historical, natural, cultural, scientific, educational, scenic, and recreational values of the Outstanding Natural Area, including an emphasis on the restoration of native ecological systems. 

Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into cooperative agreements with federal, state, county, other local government agencies, and other partners (including the Loxahatchee River Historical Society) for the long-term management of the Outstanding Natural Area; and (2) acquire for inclusion in the Outstanding Natural Area any state or private land or any interest in state or private land that is adjacent to the Outstanding Natural Area and identified in the management plan as appropriate for acquisition. 

Prohibits restrictions on specified law enforcement activities and ongoing and future Coast Guard operations in the Outstanding Natural Area. 

 Authorizes appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5530)
action_date: 2008-05-22
text: For Further Action See P.L. 110-229, Title II, Section 202 (S. 2739).
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 724.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2008-03-04
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-03-04
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-03-04
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1201-1202)
action_date: 2008-03-04
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H1201-1202)
action_date: 2008-03-04
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1922.
action_date: 2008-03-04
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1201-1203)
action_date: 2008-03-04
text: Mr. Rahall moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
action_date: 2008-03-03
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 327.
action_date: 2008-03-03
text: Committee on Transportation discharged.
action_date: 2008-03-03
text: Committee on Transportation discharged.
action_date: 2008-03-03
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-536, Part I.
action_date: 2008-03-03
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-536, Part I.
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Discharged.
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-10-23
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House