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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Park Centennial Act of 
2004''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds:
            (1) The National Park Service was established to conserve 
        the national parks, their scenery, natural and historic 
        objects, and wildlife for the enjoyment, in such manner and by 
        such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of 
        future generations.
            (2) The central purpose of the establishment of our 
        national parks is being challenged by chronic funding 
        shortfalls, which have created annual shortfalls in operational 
        funding that exceed $600,000,000, and have amassed a 
        maintenance backlog estimated by the General Accounting Office 
        at between $4,080,000,000 and $6,800,000,000.
            (3) Without providing the Park Service the resources 
        necessary to operate and maintain our national parks, future 
        generations will receive diminished visitor services, will 
        experience a continually weakening system that is less and less 
        able to fulfill its mission, and will inherit a national park 
        system than has been left to them in worse condition that it 
        was left to their ancestors.
            (4) The annual appropriations process has proved incapable 
        of fully addressing the debilitating funding shortfalls of the 
        national parks, making it necessary to supplement what the 
        appropriations process is able to accomplish.
            (5) It is necessary to ensure that fiscal resources devoted 
        to the national parks are spent wisely and effectively, making 
        strong congressional oversight over annual appropriations 
        extremely important.
            (6) Congress can enhance the resources available for 
        national park operations and ensure adequate oversight over 
        Park Service spending by removing from the appropriations 
        process a series of funding responsibilities that are outside 
        the core operating budgets for the national parks.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to eliminate the annual 
operating deficit and the maintenance backlog in the national parks by 
the centennial anniversary of the National Park System by enabling 
Congress to focus on overseeing and fully funding the core operations 
of the national parks in the annual appropriations process.

                        TITLE I--CENTENNIAL FUND

SEC. 101. CENTENNIAL FUND FOR PRESERVING AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of the 
United States a fund which shall be known as the ``National Park 
Centennial Fund'', hereinafter in this Act referred to as the 
``Centennial Fund''. In each fiscal year beginning in fiscal year 2005, 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall deposit in the Centennial Fund 
amounts set forth in subsection (b) sufficient to fund the programs 
identified in titles II, III, and IV.
    (b) Appropriations.--There are hereby appropriated to the 
Centennial Fund in each fiscal year, the following amounts:
            (1) Amounts equivalent to the amounts designated in the 
        fiscal year concerned under section 6097 of the Internal 
        Revenue Code of 1986.
            (2) Any additional amounts necessary to make the total 
        amounts deposited to the Centennial Fund each fiscal year equal 
        to the total amount listed in section 103.

SEC. 102. DESIGNATION OF OVERPAYMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT 
              OF UNITS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter A of chapter 61 of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new part:

   ``PART IX--DESIGNATION OF OVERPAYMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE 
              BENEFIT OF UNITS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

``Sec. 6097. Designation.

``SEC. 6097. DESIGNATION.

    ``(a) In General.--In the case of an individual, with respect to 
each taxpayer's return for the taxable year of the tax imposed by 
chapter 1, such taxpayer may designate that--
            ``(1) a specified portion (but not less than $1) of any 
        overpayment of tax for such taxable year, and
            ``(2) any cash contribution which the taxpayer includes 
        with such return, shall be used for the benefit of units of the 
        National Park System.
    ``(b) Manner and Time of Designation.--A designation under 
subsection (a) may be made with respect to any taxable year only at the 
time of filing the return of the tax imposed by chapter 1 for such 
taxable year. Such designation shall be made in such manner as the 
Secretary prescribes by regulations except that such designation shall 
be made either on the first page of the return or on the page bearing 
the taxpayer's signature.
    ``(c) Overpayments Treated as Refunded.--For purposes of this 
title, any portion of any overpayment of tax designated under 
subsection (a) shall be treated as being refunded to the taxpayer as of 
the last date prescribed for filing the return of tax imposed by 
chapter 1 (determined without regard to extensions) or, if later, the 
date the return is filed.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of parts for subchapter A of 
chapter 61 of such Code is amended by adding at the end thereof the 
following new item:

   ``Part IX. Designation of overpayments and contributions for the 
            benefit of units of the National Park System''.

    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2004.

SEC. 103. PROGRAM ALLOCATION.

    The following amounts shall be deposited in the Centennial Fund 
from amounts designated under section 102 (and from the General Fund of 
the Treasury to the extent the amounts so designated are less than the 
total amounts specified in this section for the fiscal year concerned). 
Such amounts shall, without further appropriation, be available to the 
Secretary of the Interior until expended:
            (1) Fiscal year 2005: $100,000,000.
            (2) Fiscal year 2006: $125,000,000.
            (3) Fiscal year 2007: $150,000,000.
            (4) Fiscal year 2008: $175,000,000.
            (5) Such sums as may be necessary through fiscal year 2016.

SEC. 104. DISTRIBUTION OF FUND.

    There are hereby created within the Centennial Fund 3 accounts, 
designated for the following purposes:
            (1) National Park Backlog Elimination Fund (60 percent).
            (2) Natural Resource Challenge Fund (20 percent).
            (3) Cultural Resource Challenge Fund (20 percent).

SEC. 105. PATRIOTS FOR PARKS PROMOTION.

    There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of 
the Interior such sums as necessary for a public awareness campaign 
about the existence of the National Park Centennial Fund created in 
section 101 and the ability of taxpayers to contribute to it through 
the tax checkoff created in section 6097 of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986.

      TITLE II--ELIMINATING THE NATIONAL PARK MAINTENANCE BACKLOG

SEC. 201. BACKLOG ELIMINATION.

    (a) In General.--Sixty percent of the funds deposited into the 
Centennial Fund shall be used to eliminate the backlog of unmet needs 
in the National Parks, as identified in the Facility Condition Index 
(hereinafter in this Act referred to as the ``FCI'') of the National 
Park Service.
    (b) Priorities.--(1) The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare, 
as part of the annual budget proposal, a priority list for projects to 
be funded under this section. Moneys shall be made available from the 
fund, without further appropriation, effective October 15 of each 
calendar year, for the projects identified on the priority list, unless 
prior to such date, legislation is enacted establishing a different 
priority list.
    (2) In preparing the list of projects to be funded under this 
section, the Secretary of the Interior shall give priority to projects 
that--
            (A) are identified in the park unit's general management 
        plan;
            (B) are listed in the FCI;
            (C) are identified by the Secretary of the Interior as 
        necessary to prevent immediate damage to the park unit's 
        natural, cultural, or historic resources, with priority given 
        to projects with the most significant benefit to conservation 
        of resources or visitor education; and
            (D) are identified as necessary to promote public health 
        and safety.
    (c) Overhead.--National Parks undertaking projects under this 
section may allocate up to 8 percent of the funds for such projects for 
oversight of such projects and other associated overhead 
responsibilities.

                 TITLE III--PROTECTING NATURAL WONDERS

SEC. 301. NATURAL RESOURCE CHALLENGE.

    (a) Natural Resource Protection.--Twenty percent of the funds 
deposited into the Centennial Fund shall be used to protect natural 
resources within the parks.
    (b) Project Description.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
prepare, as part of the annual budget proposal, a description of 
projects to be funded under this section. Moneys shall be made 
available from the Centennial Fund, without further appropriation, 
effective October 15 of each calendar year for activities that include 
each of the following:
            (1) Natural resource inventories.
            (2) Monitoring efforts including air and water quality 
        monitoring.
            (3) Protection of native and endangered species and their 
        habitats.
            (4) Control of nonnative species.
            (5) Resource planning.
            (6) Increase collaboration with scientists.
            (7) Authorized environmental restoration projects.
            (8) Use of parks for learning.
            (9) Establishment of partnerships with nonpark entities for 
        the purpose of leveraging Federal funds allocated to natural 
        resource protection.

                TITLE IV--PROTECTING NATIONAL TREASURES

SEC. 401. CULTURAL RESOURCE CHALLENGE.

    (a) Cultural Resources.--Twenty percent of the funds deposited into 
the Centennial Fund shall be used to protect cultural resources within 
the national parks.
    (b) Project Description.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
prepare, as part of the annual budget proposal, a description of 
projects to be funded under this section. Moneys shall be made 
available from the fund, without further appropriation, effective 
October 15 of each calendar year for activities that include each of 
the following:
            (1) Cultural or historic resources not listed on the FCI.
            (2) Documenting and preserving archaeological sites.
            (3) Preserving collections and archives.
            (4) Ethnographic activities.
            (5) Evaluating and protecting cultural landscapes.
            (6) Establishment of partnerships with non-park entities 
        for the purpose of leveraging Federal funds allocated to 
        cultural resource protection.

                TITLE V--MEETING ANNUAL OPERATING NEEDS

SEC. 501. PROGRESS ON ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) GAO Report.--The General Accounting Office annually shall 
submit to the Committee on Appropriations, Committee on Government 
Reform, and Committee on Resources of the United States House of 
Representatives and to the Committee on Appropriations, Committee on 
Government Affairs, and Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
the United States Senate a report that describes each of the following:
            (1) The progress of Congress in eliminating the annual 
        operating fund deficit in the National Park System, defined as 
        in excess of $600,000,000 based on a fiscal year 2002 estimate 
        of then-complete national park business plans, and projection 
        of when such deficit will be eliminated, based on funding 
        levels and trends.
            (2) A comparison of business plan estimates of national 
        park needs versus actual funds appropriated to such parks.
            (3) Any differences in the Park Service's business plan 
        methodology for the estimate in paragraph (2) of this 
        subsection compared to that used in fiscal year 2003.
            (4) Management improvement measures undertaken by 
        individual park units and by the National Park Service as a 
        whole, including actual realized savings and actual impact on 
        visitor services and resource protection.
            (5) Adjustments in, and the total number of, full-time 
        equivalent and actual positions dedicated to resource 
        protection, visitor services, interpretation, and other 
        employment categories.
            (6) Any adjustments made in service to the public, 
        including but not limited to adjustments to visitor center 
        hours and the number or quality of ranger-led tours.
            (7) Any changes in the Park Service's level of effort due 
        to partnership or other leveraged activities.
            (8) Any new requirements and assessments placed on the 
        parks for unbudgeted expenses, including, but not limited to, 
        homeland security, natural disasters, and employee cost-of-
        living adjustments.
            (9) An assessment of the accuracy and completeness of the 
        Facility Condition Index described in Title I of this Act, 
        including adjustments made to such Index on an annual basis.
    (b) Business Plan Implementation Pilot (Demonstration) Program.--In 
consultation with the Director of the National Park Service, at least 
60 percent of the amounts provided under Titles II, III, and IV shall 
be distributed to national parks that have completed comprehensive 
business plans under the Business Plan Initiative of the National Park 
Service.
    (c) Education and the National Parks.--The Secretary of Education 
is hereby authorized to provide grants to elementary and secondary 
schools to enter into cooperative agreements with the National Park 
Service for the purpose of distance learning and onsite education 
programs for the following purposes:
            (1) Connecting students to the history of our Nation 
        through the national parks.
            (2) Using the parks to facilitate scientific instruction.
    (d) Intent of Congress to Supplement Annual Appropriations for 
National Park Service.--Amounts made available by this Act are intended 
by the Congress to supplement, and not detract from, annual 
appropriations for the National Park Service.
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National Park Centennial Act of 2004 - Establishes the National Park Centennial Fund (Fund) in the Treasury.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to designate overpayments and contributions for the benefit of the National Park System. Allocates such amounts to the Fund (along with necessary amounts from the General Fund to the extent that such amounts are inadequate in any fiscal year) for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior.

Creates within the Fund the National Park Backlog Elimination Fund, the Natural Resource Challenge Fund, and the Cultural Resource Challenge Fund.

Authorizes appropriations for a public awareness campaign about the Fund and the ability of taxpayers to make tax-related contributions.

Requires a specified percentage of Fund deposits to be used: (1) for the elimination of the backlog of unmet needs in the national parks as identified in the Facility Condition Index of the National Park Service (NPS); (2) to protect natural resources within the parks; and (3) to protect cultural resources within the parks. Requires a majority of such percentages to be distributed to those national parks that have completed comprehensive business plans under the Business Plan Initiative of the NPS.

Directs the Government Accountability Office annually to submit a report on the National Park System to specified congressional committees.

Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide grants to elementary and secondary schools for cooperative agreements with the NPS providing distance learning and onsite education programs.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be referred to as the ``Gallatin Range Consolidation 
and Protection Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
        (1) the lands north of Yellowstone National Park possess 
    outstanding natural characteristics and wildlife habitats that give 
    the lands high value as lands added to the National Forest System; 
    and
        (2) it is in the interest of the United States for the 
    Secretary, acting through the Forest Service, to enter into an 
    option agreement with Big Sky Lumber Company and Louisiana Pacific 
    Corporation to fulfill the purposes of this Act.

SEC. 3. BIG SKY LUMBER LAND EXCHANGE--GALLATIN AREA.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Agriculture (referred to in this Act as the ``Secretary'', 
unless the context otherwise requires) shall acquire by exchange certain 
lands and interests in lands of the Big Sky Lumber Company (referred to 
in this Act as the ``Company''), in and adjacent to the Hyalite-
Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area, the Scapegoat Wilderness 
Area, and other lands in the Gallatin National Forest in accordance with 
this section.
    (b) Description of Lands.--
        (1) Offer and acceptance of land.--If the Company offers to the 
    United States acceptable fee title, including mineral interests, to 
    approximately 37,752 acres of land owned by the Company and 
    available for exchange, as depicted on two maps entitled ``Proposed 
    BSL Land Acquisitions'', East Half and West Half Gallatin National 
    Forest, dated February 1993 the Secretary shall accept a warranty 
    deed to the land.
        (2) Exchange.--In exchange for the lands described in paragraph 
    (1) and subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary of the 
    Interior shall convey, by patent, the fee title to approximately 
    16,278 acres of National Forest System lands available for exchange 
    as depicted on the maps referred to in paragraph (1), and the five 
    maps entitled ``H.R. 873, the Gallatin Range Consolidation and 
    Protection Act of 1993'', Lolo and Flathead National Forest, subject 
    to--
            (A) the reservation of ditches and canals required by the 
        first section of the Act entitled ``An Act making appropriations 
        for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year 
        ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for 
        other purposes'', approved August 30, 1890 (26 Stat. 371, 
        chapter 837; 43 U.S.C. 945);
            (B) the reservation of rights under Federal Oil and Gas 
        Lease numbers 49739, 55610, 40389, 53670, 40215, 33385, 53736, 
        and 38684; and
            (C) such other terms, conditions, reservations, and 
        exceptions as may be agreed upon by the Secretary and the 
        Company.
        (3) Termination of leases.--
            (A) Vesting of rights and interests.--Upon termination or 
        relinquishment of the leases referred to in paragraph (2)(B), 
        all the rights and interests in such leases reserved under 
        paragraph (2)(B) shall immediately vest in the Company and its 
        successors and assigns.
            (B) Notice.--The Secretary shall provide notice of the 
        termination or relinquishment of the leases referred to in 
        paragraph (2)(B) by a document suitable for recording in the 
        county in which the leased lands are located.
    (c) Easements.--
        (1) In general.--Reciprocal easements in accordance with this 
    subsection shall be conveyed at the time of the exchange authorized 
    by this section.
        (2) Conveyance by the secretary.--The Secretary shall, in 
    consideration of the easements conveyed by the Company under 
    paragraph (3), and under the authority of section 2 of Public Law 
    88-257 (commonly known as the ``National Forest Roads and Trails 
    Act'') (16 U.S.C. 533), or the Federal Lands Policy and Management 
    Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), execute and deliver to the 
    Company such easements or other rights-of-way over federally owned 
    lands as may be agreed to by the Secretary and the Company.
        (3) Conveyance by the company.--The Company shall, in 
    consideration of the easements conveyed by the Secretary under 
    paragraph (2), execute and deliver to the United States such 
    easements or other rights-of-way across Company-owned lands included 
    in this exchange as may be agreed to by the Secretary and the 
    Company.
    (d) North Bridger Range.--
        (1) Covenants and other restrictions.--As a condition of the 
    exchange, with respect to such lands depicted on the map entitled 
    ``North Bridger Range'', dated May 1993, the Company shall agree 
    that--
            (A) the holders, or their successors or assigns, of grazing 
        leases on such lands on the date of enactment of this Act shall 
        be permitted to continue to use such lands for grazing under 
        terms acceptable to the Company and the permittees for so long 
        as the Company owns such lands and for two years after the 
        Company has sold or disposed of such lands; and
            (B) the timber harvest practices used on such lands shall be 
        conducted in accordance with Montana Forestry Best Management 
        Practices, the Montana Streamside Zone Management Law (Mont. 
        Code Ann. sec. 77-5-301 et seq.), and all other applicable laws 
        of the State of Montana.
        (2) Future acquisition.--The Secretary shall consider the 
    desirability of possible acquisition, through exchange under 
    existing law, of any of the lands described in paragraph (1), and 
    shall, not later than one year after the date of enactment of this 
    Act, report to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
    Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
    Representatives concerning the desirability of an exchange.
    (e) Timing of Transaction.--
        (1) Determination.--The Secretary shall review the title for the 
    non-Federal lands described in subsection (b), and the appraisal and 
    titles for the non-Federal lands described in sections 4 and 5, and, 
    within sixty days after receipt of all applicable appraisal and 
    title documents from the Company, determine whether--
            (A) the applicable title standards for Federal land 
        acquisition have been satisfied or the quality of title is 
        otherwise acceptable to the Secretary;
            (B) all draft conveyances and closing documents have been 
        received and approved;
            (C) a current title commitment verifying compliance with 
        applicable title standards has been issued to the Secretary;
            (D) the appraisals comply with applicable Forest Service 
        standards; and
            (E) except as provided in section (8)(b), the title includes 
        both the surface and subsurface estates without reservation or 
        exception (except by the United States or the State of Montana, 
        by patent), including--
                (i) minerals or mineral rights;
                (ii) timber or timber rights; and
                (iii) any other interest in the property.
        (2) Conveyance of title.--In the event the appraisal and/or 
    quality of title do not meet Federal standards or are otherwise 
    determined unacceptable to the Secretary, the Secretary shall advise 
    the Company regarding corrective actions necessary to make an 
    affirmative determination under paragraph (1). The Secretary, acting 
    through the Chief of the Forest Service, shall effect the conveyance 
    of lands described in subsection (b)(2) not later than sixty days 
    after the Secretary has made an affirmative determination under 
    paragraph (1).
    (f) Compliance With Option.--Notwithstanding section (3)(e)(2), the 
Secretary shall not consummate the conveyance of lands described in 
subsection (b)(2) until the Secretary has determined that title to the 
lands described in sections 4 and 5 have been escrowed as required by 
the document entitled ``Option Agreement for the Exchange and/or 
Purchase of Real Property Pursuant to the Gallatin Range Consolidation 
and Protection Act of 1993'' (referred to in this Act as ``the 
Option''), executed by the Company, as seller.
    (g) References.--References in this Act to the Company shall include 
references to the successors and assigns of the Company.

SEC. 4. LAND CONSOLIDATION--PORCUPINE AREA.

    (a) Acquisition of Porcupine Property.--The Secretary is authorized 
and directed to acquire, by purchase or exchange, lands and interests in 
lands listed as ``Exhibit A, Porcupine Area'', in the Option, in 
accordance with the terms and conditions of the Option for the fair 
market value of such lands and interests, determined at the time of 
acquisition, in accordance with the appraisal standards specified in the 
Option.
    (b) Reports to Congress.--The Secretary shall report annually to the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the 
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, on the 
status of the acquisition authorized by this section.

SEC. 5. LAND CONSOLIDATION--TAYLOR FORK AREA.

    (a) Acquisition of Taylor Fork Property.--The Secretary is 
authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase or exchange, lands and 
interests in lands as listed as ``Exhibit A, Taylor Fork Area'', in the 
Option, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Option for 
the fair market value of such lands and interests, determined at the 
time of acquisition, in accordance with the appraisal standards 
specified in the Option.
    (b) Reports to Congress.--The Secretary shall report annually to the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the 
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, on the 
status of the pending acquisition authorized by this section.

SEC. 6. LAND CONSOLIDATION--GALLATIN ROADED AREA.

    (a) Acquisition of Gallatin Roaded Property.--The Secretary is 
authorized and directed to acquire, by purchase or exchange, lands and 
interests in lands as listed as ``Exhibit A, Gallatin Roaded'', in the 
Option, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Option not 
otherwise acquired, purchased, or exchanged under section 3, 4, or 5.
    (b) Reports to Congress.--The Secretary shall report annually to the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the 
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives, on the 
status of the acquisition authorized by this section.

SEC. 7. SEVERED MINERAL EXCHANGE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
        (1) underlying certain areas in Montana described in subsection 
    (b) are mineral rights owned by subsidiaries of Burlington 
    Resources, Incorporated and its successors and assigns (referred to 
    in this Act as ``Burlington'');
        (2) there are federally owned minerals underlying lands of 
    Burlington lying outside those areas;
        (3) Burlington has agreed in principle with the Secretary to an 
    exchange of mineral rights to consolidate surface and subsurface 
    ownerships and to avoid potential conflicts with the surface 
    management of the areas; and
        (4) it is desirable that an exchange of lands be completed not 
    later than two years after the date of enactment of this Act.
    (b) Mineral Interests.--
        (1) Acquisition.--Pursuant to an exchange agreement between the 
    Secretary and Burlington, the Secretary may acquire mineral 
    interests owned by Burlington or an affiliate of Burlington 
    underlying surface lands owned by the United States located in the 
    areas depicted on the maps entitled ``Severed Minerals Exchange, 
    Clearwater-Monture Area'', dated September 1988, and ``Severed 
    Mineral Exchanges, Gallatin Area'', dated September 1988, or in 
    fractional sections adjacent to the areas depicted on the maps.
        (2) Exchange.--In exchange for the mineral interests conveyed to 
    the Secretary pursuant to paragraph (1), the Secretary of the 
    Interior shall convey, subject to valid existing rights, such 
    federally owned mineral interests as the Secretary and Burlington 
    may agree upon.
    (c) Equal Value.--
        (1) In general.--The value of the mineral interests exchanged 
    under subsection (b) shall be approximately equal in value based 
    upon available information.
        (2) Appraisal.--To ensure that the wilderness or other natural 
    values of the area are not affected by the exchange, a formal 
    appraisal based upon drilling or other surface disturbing activities 
    shall not be required for any mineral interest proposed for 
    exchange, except that the Secretary and Burlington shall fully share 
    all available information on the quality and quantity of mineral 
    interests proposed for exchange.
        (3) Inadequate information.--In the absence of adequate 
    information regarding values of minerals proposed for exchange, the 
    Secretary and Burlington may agree to an exchange on the basis of 
    mineral interests of similar development potential, geologic 
    character, and similar factors.
    (d) Identification of Federally Owned Mineral Interests.--
        (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), mineral interests 
    conveyed by the United States pursuant to this section shall 
    underlie lands the surface of which are owned by Burlington.
        (2) Other interests.--If there are not sufficient federally 
    owned mineral interests of approximately equal value underlying 
    lands owned by Burlington, the Secretary and the Secretary of the 
    Interior may identify for exchange other federally owned mineral 
    interests in lands in the State of Montana of which the surface 
    estate is in private ownership.
    (e) Consultation With the Department of the Interior.--
        (1) In general.--The Secretary shall consult with the Secretary 
    of the Interior in the negotiation of the exchange agreement 
    authorized by subsection (b), particularly with respect to the 
    inclusion in the agreement of a provision authorizing the exchange 
    of federally owned mineral interests lying outside the boundaries of 
    units of the National Forest System.
        (2) Conveyance.--Notwithstanding any other law, the Secretary of 
    the Interior shall convey the federally owned mineral interests 
    identified in a final exchange agreement between the Secretary of 
    Agriculture and Burlington and affiliates of Burlington.
    (f) Mineral Interest Defined.--For purposes of this section, the 
term ``mineral interests'' includes all locatable and leasable minerals, 
including oil and gas, geothermal resources, and other subsurface 
rights.

SEC. 8. GENERAL PROVISIONS.

    (a) Maps.--The maps referred to in sections 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 are 
subject to such minor corrections as may be agreed upon by the Secretary 
and the Company. The Secretary shall notify the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on 
Natural Resources of the United States House of Representatives of any 
corrections made pursuant to the subsection. The maps shall be on file 
and available for public inspection in the office of Chief, Forest 
Service, USDA.
    (b) Title of Lands Conveyed to the United States.--
        (1) Quality of title and rights.--Subject to paragraph (2), the 
    rights, title, and interests to lands conveyed to the United States 
    under sections 4, 5, and 6 shall, at a minimum, consist of the 
    surface estate and the subsurface rights owned by the Company or 
    Burlington where applicable.
        (2) Exception.--The Secretary may accept title subject to 
    outstanding or reserved oil and gas and geothermal rights, except 
    that there shall be no surface occupancy permitted on the lands 
    acquired by the United States under sections 4, 5, and 6 for access 
    to reserved or outstanding rights or exploration or development of 
    such lands.
        (3) Access.--No portion of lands acquired by the United States 
    under this Act shall be available for access to, or exploration or 
    development of, any reserved or outstanding oil, gas, geothermal, or 
    other non-Federal property interest.
    (c) National Forest Lands.--
        (1) In general.--All lands conveyed to the United States under 
    this Act shall be added to and administered as part of the Gallatin 
    National Forest of the National Forest System by the Secretary in 
    accordance with the laws and regulations pertaining to the National 
    Forest System.
        (2) Hyalite-porcupine-buffalo horn wilderness study area.--Lands 
    acquired within the Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study 
    Area shall be managed to maintain their presently existing 
    wilderness character and potential for inclusion in the National 
    Wilderness Preservation System in accordance with the Montana 
    Wilderness Study Act of 1977 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note).

SEC. 9. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary 
to carry out this Act.







                                Speaker of the House of Representatives.







                             Vice President of the United States and    
                                                President of the Senate.
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Gallatin Range Consolidation and Protection Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire:  (1) by exchange from the Big Sky Lumber Company, specified lands and interests north of Yellowstone National Park, including land in and adjacent to the Hyalite-Porcupine-Buffalo Horn Wilderness Study Area, the Scapegoat Wilderness Area, and other lands in the Gallatin National Forest; and (2) by purchase or exchange from the Company, lands and interests in the Porcupine Area, the Taylor Fork Area, and the Gallatin Area. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey National Forest System lands as part of such exchange.  Sets forth conditions for such exchange with respect to leases and easements.  Provides for the continuation of grazing on the North Bridger Range lands and requires timber harvest practices on such lands to be in accordance with the laws of the State of Montana. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, pursuant to an agreement with Burlington Resources, Incorporated, to acquire mineral interests owned by Burlington underlying surface lands owned by the United States and located within the Clearwater-Monture Area and the Gallatin Area. Requires such acquisition to be made through exchange to Burlington of other federally owned mining interests that the parties may agree to. Requires consultation with the Secretary of the Interior in the negotiation of such exchange. Requires all lands conveyed to the United States under this Act to be added to and administered as part of the Gallatin National Forest. Authorizes appropriations.


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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Respect for Rights of Conscience Act 
of 2010''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) As Thomas Jefferson declared to New London Methodists 
        in 1809, ``[n]o provision in our Constitution ought to be 
        dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience 
        against the enterprises of the civil authority''.
            (2) Jefferson's statement expresses a conviction on respect 
        for conscience that is deeply embedded in the history and 
        traditions of our Nation and codified in numerous State and 
        Federal laws, including laws on health care.
            (3) Until enactment of the Patient Protection and 
        Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148, in this section 
        referred to as ``PPACA''), the Federal Government has not 
        sought to impose specific coverage or care requirements that 
        infringe on the rights of conscience of insurers, purchasers of 
        insurance, plan sponsors, beneficiaries, and other 
        stakeholders, such as individual or institutional health care 
        providers.
            (4) PPACA creates a new nationwide requirement for health 
        plans to cover ``essential health benefits'' and ``preventive 
        services'' (including a distinct set of ``preventive services 
        for women''), delegating to the Department of Health and Human 
        Services the authority to provide a list of detailed services 
        under each category, and imposes other new requirements with 
        respect to the provision of health care services.
            (5) While PPACA provides an exemption for some religious 
        groups that object to participation in Government health 
        programs generally, it does not allow purchasers, plan 
        sponsors, and other stakeholders with religious or moral 
        objections to specific items or services to decline providing 
        or obtaining coverage of such items or services, or allow 
        health care providers with such objections to decline to 
        provide them.
            (6) By creating new barriers to health insurance and 
        causing the loss of existing insurance arrangements, these 
        inflexible mandates in PPACA jeopardize the ability of 
        individuals to exercise their rights of conscience and their 
        ability to freely participate in the health insurance and 
        health care marketplace.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are--
            (1) to ensure that health care stakeholders retain the 
        right to provide, purchase, or enroll in health coverage that 
        is consistent with their religious beliefs and moral 
        convictions, without fear of being penalized or discriminated 
        against under PPACA; and
            (2) to ensure that no requirement in PPACA creates new 
        pressures to exclude those exercising such conscientious 
        objection from health plans or other programs under PPACA.

SEC. 3. RESPECT FOR RIGHTS OF CONSCIENCE.

    (a) In General.--Section 1302(b) of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148; 42 U.S.C. 18022(b)) is amended 
by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
            ``(6) Respecting rights of conscience with regard to 
        specific items or services.--
                    ``(A) For health plans.--A health plan shall not be 
                considered to have failed to provide the essential 
                health benefits package described in subsection (a) (or 
                preventive health services described in section 2713 of 
                the Public Health Service Act), to fail to be a 
                qualified health plan, or to fail to fulfill any other 
                requirement under this title on the basis that it 
                declines to provide coverage of specific items or 
                services because--
                            ``(i) providing coverage (or, in the case 
                        of a sponsor of a group health plan, paying for 
                        coverage) of such specific items or services is 
                        contrary to the religious beliefs or moral 
                        convictions of the sponsor, issuer, or other 
                        entity offering the plan; or
                            ``(ii) such coverage (in the case of 
                        individual coverage) is contrary to the 
                        religious beliefs or moral convictions of the 
                        purchaser or beneficiary of the coverage.
                    ``(B) For health care providers.--Nothing in this 
                title (or any amendment made by this title) shall be 
                construed to require an individual or institutional 
                health care provider, or authorize a health plan to 
                require a provider, to provide, participate in, or 
                refer for a specific item or service contrary to the 
                provider's religious beliefs or moral convictions. 
                Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a 
                health plan shall not be considered to have failed to 
                provide timely or other access to items or services 
                under this title (or any amendment made by this title) 
                or to fulfill any other requirement under this title 
                because it has respected the rights of conscience of 
                such a provider pursuant to this paragraph.
                    ``(C) Nondiscrimination in exercising rights of 
                conscience.--No Exchange or other official or entity 
                acting in a governmental capacity in the course of 
                implementing this title (or any amendment made by this 
                title) shall discriminate against a health plan, plan 
                sponsor, health care provider, or other person because 
                of such plan's, sponsor's, provider's, or person's 
                unwillingness to provide coverage of, participate in, 
                or refer for, specific items or services pursuant to 
                this paragraph.
                    ``(D) Construction.--Nothing in subparagraph (A) or 
                (B) shall be construed to permit a health plan or 
                provider to discriminate in a manner inconsistent with 
                subparagraphs (B) and (D) of paragraph (4).
                    ``(E) Private rights of action.--The various 
                protections of conscience in this paragraph constitute 
                the protection of individual rights and create a 
                private cause of action for those persons or entities 
                protected. Any person or entity may assert a violation 
                of this paragraph as a claim or defense in a judicial 
                proceeding.
                    ``(F) Remedies.--
                            ``(i) Federal jurisdiction.--The Federal 
                        courts shall have jurisdiction to prevent and 
                        redress actual or threatened violations of this 
                        paragraph by granting all forms of legal or 
                        equitable relief, including, but not limited 
                        to, injunctive relief, declaratory relief, 
                        damages, costs, and attorney fees.
                            ``(ii) Initiating party.--An action under 
                        this paragraph may be instituted by the 
                        Attorney General of the United States, or by 
                        any person or entity having standing to 
                        complain of a threatened or actual violation of 
                        this paragraph, including, but not limited to, 
                        any actual or prospective plan sponsor, issuer, 
                        or other entity offering a plan, any actual or 
                        prospective purchaser or beneficiary of a plan, 
                        and any individual or institutional health care 
                        provider.
                            ``(iii) Interim relief.--Pending final 
                        determination of any action under this 
                        paragraph, the court may at any time enter such 
                        restraining order or prohibitions, or take such 
                        other actions, as it deems necessary.
                    ``(G) Administration.--The Office for Civil Rights 
                of the Department of Health and Human Services is 
                designated to receive complaints of discrimination 
                based on this paragraph and coordinate the 
                investigation of such complaints.
                    ``(H) Actuarial equivalence.--Nothing in this 
                paragraph shall prohibit the Secretary from issuing 
                regulations or other guidance to ensure that health 
                plans excluding specific items or services under this 
                paragraph shall have an aggregate actuarial value at 
                least equivalent to that of plans at the same level of 
                coverage that do not exclude such items or services.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be 
effective as if included in the enactment of Public Law 111-148.
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Respect for Rights of Conscience Act of 2010 - Amends the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to permit a health plan to decline coverage of specific items and services that are contrary to the religious beliefs of the sponsor, issuer, or other entity offering the plan or the purchaser or beneficiary (in the case of individual coverage) without penalty.  Declares that such plans are still considered to: (1) be providing the essential health benefits package or preventive health services, (2) be a qualified health plan, and (3) have fulfilled other requirements under PPACA.

Declares that nothing in PPACA shall be construed to authorize a health plan to require a provider to provide, participate in, or refer for a specific item or service contrary to the provider's religious beliefs or moral convictions. Prohibits a health plan from being considered to have failed to provide timely or other access to items or services or to fulfill any other requirement under PPACA because it has respected the rights of conscience of such a provider. Prohibits an American Health Benefit Exchange or other official or entity acting in a governmental capacity in the course of implementing PPACA from discriminating against a health plan, plan sponsor, health care provider, or other person because of an unwillingness to provide coverage of, participate in, or refer for, specific items or services. Creates a private cause of action for the protection of individual rights created under this Act. Authorizes any person or entity to assert a violation of this Act as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding. Designates the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to receive and investigate complaints of discrimination based on this Act. Makes this Act effective as if it were included in PPACA.