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Bill 114-S-1690 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area Act

(Sec. 4) This bill establishes the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area in the state of Washington. The bill designates the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust as the local coordinating entity for the heritage area, which shall prepare and submit a management plan for it.

(Sec. 6) The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust shall not use federal funding made available under this bill for the acquisition of real property or any interest in real property.

(Sec. 8) Nothing in this bill:

 abridges the rights of any public or private property owners; alters any adopted land use regulations, approved land use plans, or other regulatory authorities of any federal, state, tribal, or local agencies; conveys any land use or other regulatory authority to the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust; or alters, modifies, diminishes, or extinguishes any Indian tribe's treaty rights within the heritage area. (Sec. 10) The bill authorizes appropriations.

The federal cost share of any activity carried out under this bill shall be 50% of that activity's total cost.

The authority of Department of the Interior to furnish assistance under this bill terminates 15 years after this bill's enactment.
Bill 114-S-1696 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act of 2016

(Sec. 3) This bill redesignates the Ocmulgee National Monument in Georgia as the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. (Sec. 4) The bill adjusts the boundary of the Historical Park to include approximately 2,100 acres.

(Sec. 5) The Department of the Interior may acquire lands and interests within the boundary of the historical park by donation, purchase from a willing seller, or exchange.

Interior shall administer any acquired land as part of the historical park.

(Sec. 6) Interior shall conduct a special resource study of the Ocmulgee River corridor between the cities of Macon, Georgia, and Hawkinsville, Georgia, to determine:

 the national significance of the study area; the suitability and feasibility of adding land in the study area to the National Park System; and the methods and means for the protection and interpretation of the study area by the National Park Service, other federal, state, or local government entities, or private or nonprofit organizations.
Bill 114-S-1699 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Oregon Wildlands Act

This bill designates specified Bureau of Land Management land in Oregon as the Rogue Canyon and Molalla National Recreation Areas in Oregon.

The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act is amended to add specified segments to the Rogue River as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Segment lengths and other technical corrections are made to segment designations for the Chetco River, Oregon.

The Squaw Creek is renamed as Whychus Creek.

The Franklin and Wasson Creeks and specified segments of the Molalla River are designated as wild rivers and components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Specified segments are added to the Elk River, and specified other river segments are designated as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Approximately 56,100 acres of specified federal land are added to the Wild Rogue Wilderness, as well as approximately 600 acres of certain potential wilderness administered by the Department of the Interior.

Interior shall manage approximately 4,000 acres of Withdrawal Area to preserve the natural and primitive character of the land for recreational, scenic, and scientific use.

Approximately 30,540 acres of certain Forest Service and BLM land in Oregon are designated as the Devil's Staircase Wilderness and a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.
Bill 114-S-1777 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

This bill amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to state that the authorization of the Department of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to the Salmon River in Idaho, to maintain or replace facilities or structures for commercial recreation services at Smith Gulch may include improvements or replacements that:

 are consistent with the management of a specified river segment of the main Salmon River pursuant to the Central Idaho Wilderness Act of 1980; and would reduce the impact of commercial recreation facilities or services on wilderness or wild and scenic river resources and values. The USDA may also consider including as appropriate:

 hydroelectric generators and associated electrical transmission facilities, water pumps for fire suppression, transitions from propane to electrical lighting, solar energy systems, 6-volt or 12-volt battery banks for power storage, and other appropriate improvements or replacements which are consistent with this bill.
Bill 114-S-1824 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Finger Lakes National Heritage Area Study Act of 2015

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating specified counties and other areas in the state of New York as the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area.
Bill 114-S-1930 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2015 

 (Sec. 3) This bill modifies the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Georgia to include approximately eight acres identified as Wallis House and Harriston Hill.

 The Department of the Interior may acquire land or interests, by donation or exchange, from willing sellers only.

Interior shall administer acquired lands and interests as part of the park.
Bill 114-S-1943 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Shiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Designation Act

 (Sec. 3) This bill modifies the boundary of Shiloh National Military Park, located in Tennessee and Mississippi, to include the following areas: (1) Fallen Timbers Battlefield, (2) Russell House Battlefield, and (3) Davis Bridge Battlefield. The Department of the Interior may acquire lands by donation, purchase from willing sellers, or exchange.

(Sec. 4) The bill establishes Parker's Crossroads Battlefield in Tennessee as an affiliated area of the National Park System.

The city of Parkers Crossroads and the Tennessee Historical Commission shall jointly be the management entity for the affiliated area.

Interior may furnish technical assistance and enter into cooperative agreements with the management entity for financial assistance with marketing, interpretation, and preservation of the affiliated area.

Interior shall develop a general management plan for the affiliated area.
Bill 114-S-1971 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

California Coastal National Monument Expansion Act

This bill expands the boundary of the California Coastal National Monument to include specified federal lands in Humboldt, Santa Cruz, and San Luis Obispo Counties in California.

The Department of the Interior shall amend the Monument management plan for the long-term protection and management of the federal land so added.

 Interior may acquire nonfederal land or interests within or adjacent to the added federal land only through exchange, donation, or purchase from a willing seller.

Interior must ensure the protection of Indian sacred sites and traditional cultural properties in the Monument and provide access by members of Indian Tribes for traditional cultural and customary uses.

The Monument shall be managed as part of the National Landscape Conservation System.

Interior shall establish an advisory council for each unit of the added federal land to advise on the implementation of the management plan.

 Certain rocks, pinnacles, reefs, and islands in the Pacific Ocean within a mile of the coast of Orange County, California, are made part of the California Coastal National Monument, and their current temporary reservation is repealed.

 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.
Bill 114-S-1975 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Sewall-Belmont House Act of 2015

This bill establishes the Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site (the former headquarters of the National Woman's Party of the women's suffrage movement) as a unit of the National Park System (NPS).

The Site shall not be established as an NPS unit, however, until the Department of the Interior determines that: (1) the National Woman's Party has transferred to Interior the land and any improvements within the boundaries of the Site, and (2) Interior and the National Woman's Party have entered into a management agreement.

The national historic site shall consist of the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, located at 144 Constitution Avenue, NE, Washington, DC.
Bill 114-S-1982 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall of Remembrance Act of 2015

Authorizes a Wall of Remembrance, as part of the previously authorized Korean War Veterans Memorial, to include: (1) a list by name of members of the U.S. Armed Forces who died in theater in the Korean War; (2) the number of members who were wounded, listed as missing in action, or prisoners of war; and (3) the number of members of the Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army, the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, and the other nations of the United Nations Command who were killed, wounded, missing, or prisoners.

Prohibits using any federal funds to construct the Wall.
Bill 114-S-2004 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

This bill declares that any proclamation of a national monument or reservation of a parcel of land as part of a national monument shall expire three years after the proclamation or reservation unless specifically approved by: (1) a federal law enacted after the date of the proclamation or reservation; and (2) a state law, for each state where the land involved is located, that is enacted after such date.
Bill 114-S-2024 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Fort Frederica National Monument Boundary Expansion Act of 2015

 Expands the boundary of the Fort Frederica National Monument on Saint Simon Island, Georgia. Increases the maximum number of acres that may be included in the monument from 250 to 525 acres.
Bill 114-S-2039 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

This bill declares that the mountain at the Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming shall be known and designated as "Devils Tower."
Bill 114-S-2057 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Arts, culture, religion

This bill authorizes the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, and construct additional storage facilities for collections storage modules and hangar additions to the National Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, and additional storage and laboratory space at the Museum Support Center at the Suitland Collections Center in Suitland, Maryland, to accommodate the care, preservation, conservation, deposit, and study of national collections held in trust.
Bill 114-S-2061 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Education

National Memorial to Fallen Educators Act of 2015

This bill designates as the "National Memorial to Fallen Educators" an existing memorial located at the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas. The memorial is not a unit of the National Park System, and its designation shall not require or allow federal funds to be expended for any purpose related to it.
Bill 114-S-2087 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Fort Scott National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act

(Sec. 2) This bill allows the Department of the Interior to acquire by purchase with appropriated funds or by donation (as under current law) the lands and interests in land, together with buildings and improvements, known as Fort Scott in the city of Fort Scott in Bourbon County, Kansas.

The proviso that the buildings so acquired shall not include the structure known as "Lunette Blair" is repealed (thereby allowing its acquisition).

The boundary of the Fort Scott National Historic Site in Kansas shall be modified accordingly.
Bill 114-S-2177 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Medgar Evers House Study Act

(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the home of the late civil rights activist Medgar Evers, which is located at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, Mississippi.

 Interior shall: (1) evaluate the national significance of the site, and (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System.
Bill 114-S-2257 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

National Park Service Centennial Act

This bill establishes the National Park Centennial Challenge Fund in the Treasury to finance signature projects and programs to enhance the National Park System (NPS) as it approaches its centennial in 2016.

 There is also established in the Treasury a Public Lands Centennial Fund.

The Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture shall jointly establish a program under which funds from the Centennial Fund are made available to federal land or water management agencies to support projects that:

 enhance visitor services and outdoor recreational opportunities, restore lands and waters, repair facilities or trails, or increase energy and water efficiency. National Park Foundation Endowment Act

The National Park Foundation shall establish the Second Century Endowment for the National Park Service.

The National Park Service Second Century Fund is established in the Treasury.

Interior shall undertake a broad program of the highest quality interpretation and education.

This bill makes permanent the Volunteers in the Parks Program.

Interior may establish a Visitor Services Management Authority (VSMA) to administer commercial visitor services programs and activities of the NPS, including the award and administration of commercial visitor facilities and services management contracts pursuant to this Act.

A VSMA revolving fund is established for expenses necessary for the management, improvement, enhancement, operation, construction, and maintenance of commercial visitor services and facilities and payment of possessory interest and leasehold surrender interest.
Bill 114-S-2309 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

African American Civil Rights Network Act of 2016

(Sec. 3) This bill requires the Department of the Interior to establish within the National Park Service (NPS) an African American Civil Rights Network that encompasses: (1) all NPS units and programs that relate to the African American civil rights movement during the period from 1939 through 1968; (2) other federal, state, local, and privately owned properties that relate to the African American civil rights movement and that are included in, or eligible for, the National Register of Historic Places; and (3) other governmental and nongovernmental facilities and programs of an educational, research, or interpretive nature that are directly related to such movement.

In carrying out the network, Interior must: (1) review civil rights movement studies and reports that may already be underway or completed, such as the Civil Rights Framework Study; (2) produce and disseminate educational materials, such as handbooks, maps, interpretive guides, or electronic information; (3) provide technical assistance; and (4) adopt an official, uniform symbol or device for the network and issue regulations for the symbol's use.
Bill 114-S-2326 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Billy Frank Jr. Tell Your Story Act

This bill redesignates the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge in Washington state as the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.

The bill also establishes, as a unit of the National Park System, the Medicine Creek Treaty National Memorial within the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge to commemorate the location of the signing of the Medicine Creek Treaty of 1854 between the U.S. government and leaders of the Muckleshoot, Nisqually, Puyallup, and Squaxin Island Indian Tribes.

The Department of the Interior must: (1) establish the boundaries of the Medicine Creek Treaty National Memorial and to provide for its administration and interpretation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and (2) coordinate with representatives of the Muckleshoot, Nisqually, Puyallup, and Squaxin Island Indian Tribes in providing for that interpretation.
Bill 114-S-2341 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

This bill amends the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 to designate a specified portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System under the Wilderness Act.
Bill 114-S-2386 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Stonewall National Historic Site Establishment Act

This bill establishes the Stonewall National Historic Site in New York as a unit of the National Park System.

The boundary of the Historic Site shall be identical to that of the Stonewall National Historic Landmark.

The Department of the Interior may enter into an agreement with New York City, New York, delineating the respective roles and responsibilities of the National Park Service and New York City in operating, maintaining, and interpreting the Historic Site.

Interior shall prepare a general management plan for the Historic Site.
Bill 114-S-2412 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Tule Lake National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2015

(Sec. 3) This bill establishes the Tule Lake National Historic Site in California as a unit of the National Park System in order to preserve, protect, and interpret the site of incarceration and segregation of U.S. citizens of Japanese descent and resident immigrants of Japanese citizenry at Tule Lake during World War II.

The National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shall enter into an agreement to allow the NPS to manage and interpret the resources of the portions of the site within the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge.

The resources of the Lava Beds National Monument may be used to administer the site.

 The Department of the Interior shall prepare a general management plan for the site.

(Sec. 4) The boundaries of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument are revised to exclude from the monument the Tule Lake Unit, consisting of portions of the Tule Lake Segregation Center National Historic Landmark and Camp Tule Lake, and incorporate the excluded lands and interests into the site.

Any funds available for the purposes of the excluded lands and interests shall become available for the purposes of the site.

(Sec. 5) Such sums as are necessary may be used to carry out this bill.
Bill 114-S-2548 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Civil rights and liberties, minority issues

400 Years of African-American History Commission Act

(Sec. 3) This bill establishes the 400 Years of African-American History Commission to develop and carry out activities throughout the United States to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Africans in the English colonies at Point Comfort, Virginia, in 1619.

The commission must:

 plan programs to acknowledge the impact that slavery and laws that enforced racial discrimination had on the United States; encourage civic, patriotic, historical, educational, artistic, religious, and economic organizations to organize and participate in anniversary activities; assist states, localities, and nonprofit organizations to further the commemoration; and coordinate for the public scholarly research on the arrival of Africans in the United States and their contributions to this country. (Sec. 5) The commission may provide: (1) grants to communities and nonprofit organizations for the development of programs; (2) grants to research and scholarly organizations to research, publish, or distribute information relating to the arrival of Africans in the United States; and (3) technical assistance to states, localities, and nonprofit organizations to further the commemoration.

(Sec. 7) The commission must prepare a strategic plan and submit a final report to Congress that contains a summary of its activities, an accounting of its received and expended funds, and its recommendations.

(Sec. 9) The commission shall terminate on July 1, 2020.
Bill 114-S-2620 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

(Sec. 1) This bill amends the Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 to revise a condition for establishment of the Coltsville National Historical Park in Connecticut to require the state, the city, or the private property owner, as appropriate, to enter into a written agreement with the Department of the Interior to donate at least 10,000 square feet of space in the Colt Armory Complex (currently referred to as the East Armory).
Bill 114-S-2622 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Fort Ontario Study Act

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York, which was used as a military installation during the French and Indian War, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812.

Interior shall: (1) evaluate the site's national significance, and (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System.
Bill 114-S-2627 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Mojave National Preserve Boundary Adjustment Act of 2016

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to transfer administrative jurisdiction over 520 acres of federal land from the National Park Service to the Bureau of Land Management. Interior may acquire by donation up to four acres of land identified in the land protection plan of the Mojave National Preserve as suitable for acquisition to be used for mitigation for every one acre of land removed from the Preserve.

 The acquired land shall become part of the Preserve.

 Interior shall permit cattle grazing on the acquired land according to National Park Service laws and policies.