To eliminate an unused lighthouse reservation, provide management consistency by incorporating the rocks and small islands along the coast of Orange County, California, into the California Coastal National Monument managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and meet the original Congressional intent of preserving Orange County's rocks and small islands, and for other purposes.

Bill: 114-hr-4233
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2015-12-10
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: California

Land transfers

Land use and conservation

Marine and coastal resources, fisheries

Monuments and memorials

Navigation, waterways, harbors

Pacific Ocean

Parks, recreation areas, trails
Latest action: action_date: 2016-05-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-12-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill makes certain rocks, pinnacles, reefs, and islands in the Pacific Ocean within a mile of the coast of Orange County, California, part of the California Coastal National Monument and repeals their current temporary reservation. </p> <p>The Department of the Interior shall ensure that economic and recreational activities conducted on the lands added to the California Coastal Monument shall continue to be allowed to the same extent they were authorized and ongoing on the day before such lands were added. </p> <p>Likewise repealed is the lighthouse reservation with respect to the San Juan and San Mateo Rocks and the two rocks in the vicinity of Laguna Beach, off the coast of Orange County. </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4233 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 10, 2015 Mr. Rohrabacher (for himself, Mr. Issa , Mr. Lowenthal , Mr. Royce , and Mrs. Mimi Walters of California ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To eliminate an unused lighthouse reservation, provide management consistency by incorporating the rocks and small islands along the coast of Orange County, California, into the California Coastal National Monument managed by the Bureau of Land Management, and meet the original Congressional intent of preserving Orange County’s rocks and small islands, and for other purposes.

1. Preservation of rocks and small islands along the coast of Orange County, California (a) California Coastal National Monument The Act of February 18, 1931, entitled An Act to reserve for public use rocks, pinnacles, reefs, and small islands along the seacoast of Orange County, California (46 Stat. 1172) is amended— (1) by striking , temporarily reserved and all that follows through United States and inserting part of the California Coastal National Monument and shall be administered as such ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: In administering the lands added to the California Coastal National Monument by this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall ensure that economic and recreational activities conducted on such lands shall continue to be allowed to the same extent to which such activities were authorized and ongoing on the day before such lands were added to the national monument. . (b) Repeal of Reservation Section 31 of the Act of May 28, 1935, entitled An Act to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to dispose of certain lighthouse reservations, and for other purposes is hereby repealed.