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Bill 114-S-414 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

California Desert Conservation and Recreation Act of 2015 

 Amends the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 to, among other things: (1) establish or designate national monuments, wilderness areas, a special management area, off-highway vehicle recreation areas, a national scenic area, and an area of critical environmental concern; (2) release specified wilderness study areas; (3) adjust national park and preserve boundaries; and (4) specify land withdrawals, exchanges, and acquisitions.

Directs that specified federal land be taken into trust for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribe.

Authorizes the acquisition of lands and interests in land, including improvements, outside the boundary of Joshua Tree National Park in California for the purpose of operating a visitor center.

Makes amendments to the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 regarding the California State School lands.

Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified segments of rivers and creeks as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Sets forth requirements for the disposition of revenues collected as payments for the development of wind and solar energy on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Establishes the Renewable Energy Resource Conservation Fund.
Bill 114-S-437 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Improved National Monument Designation Process Act

Before a national monument can be designated on public land, the President must obtain congressional approval, certify compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and receive notice from the governor of the state in which the monument is to be located that the state legislature has enacted legislation approving its designation.

 The President may not declare any area of the exclusive economic zone to be a marine national monument unless:

 it is specifically authorized by Congress, the President has certified compliance with NEPA, and each state legislature within 100 nautical miles of the proposed monument has approved it. Neither the Department of the Interior nor the Department of Commerce may implement a restriction on the public use of a marine national monument until the expiration of an appropriate review period providing for public input and congressional approval.
Bill 114-S-479 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Amends the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on feasibility of designating as a national historic trail the Chief Standing Bear Trail extending approximately 550 miles from Niobrara, Nebraska, to Ponca City, Oklahoma, which follows the route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people during federal Indian removal, and approximately 550 miles from Ponca City through Omaha to Niobrara, Nebraska, which follows the return route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people.

Requires Interior to consider input from owners of private land within or adjacent to such study area.
Bill 114-S-509 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Social sciences and history

African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center Act

 Establishes the African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center at the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York, New York.

Directs the National Park Service , to: (1) acquire for the Museum property that is located adjacent to the National Monument or in any other area of the African Burial Ground National Historic Landmark in the city other than the location adjacent to the Monument, and (2) construct the Museum on the acquired property.

Establishes within the Department of the Interior the African Burial Ground Advisory Council to: (1) make recommendations to the Secretary on the construction of the Museum, and (2) advise and assist Interior on all matters relating to the operation and preservation of the Museum.
Bill 114-S-519 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network Reauthorization Act 

This bill amends the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998 to permanently reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network and the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Grants Assistance Program.
Bill 114-S-521 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

President Street Station Study Act

 (Sec. 3) Directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the President Street Station, a railroad terminal in Baltimore, Maryland, to evaluate the terminal's national significance and determine its feasibility for designation as a unit of the National Park System.
Bill 114-S-541 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

John P. Parker House Study Act

 Directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the John P. Parker House in Ripley, Ohio, to determine the suitability and feasibility of establishing it as a unit of the National Park System.
Bill 114-S-558 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Government operations and politics

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

Presidential Library Donation Reform Act of 2015

 (Sec. 2) Requires each presidential library fundraising organization to submit quarterly reports to the National Archives and Records Administration on all contributions of $200 or more whether monetary or in-kind for the quarterly period.

Requires the Archivist of the United States to publish such information on the website of the National Archives within 30 days after each submission.

Makes it unlawful for contributors or fundraising organizations to knowingly and willfully submit materially false information or omit material information. Prescribes criminal penalties for violation of such prohibitions.
Bill 114-S-610 — 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.)

Thurgood Marshall's Elementary School Study Act

(Sec. 3) The Department of the Interior shall conduct a special resource study, according to requirements for study of potential additions to the National Park System, of P.S. 103, the public school located in West Baltimore, Maryland, which former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall attended as a youth. The study must also include any other resources in the surrounding neighborhood that relate to his early life.
Bill 114-S-630 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area Establishment Act

Establishes the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area in California.

Designates the Delta Protection Commission as the local coordinating entity for the Heritage Area.

Requires the Commission to submit a proposed management plan for the Heritage Area to the Department of the Interior for approval.

Bars approval of the management plan until Interior has received certification from the Commission that the Delta Stewardship Council has reviewed such plan for consistency with the plan adopted by the Council pursuant to state law.
Bill 114-S-718 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

(Sec. 1) This bill modifies the boundary of Petersburg National Battlefield in Virginia to include the land and interests in land identified on the map titled "Petersburg National Battlefield Boundary Expansion," and dated March 2016.

The Department of the Interior may acquire lands and interests from willing sellers only, by donation, purchase, exchange, or transfer.

Interior shall administer any acquired lands or interests as a part of the Battlefield.

The bill transfers:

 from Interior to the Department of the Army administrative jurisdiction over approximately 1.170 acres of land for the Fort Lee Military Reservation, and from the Army to Interior administrative jurisdiction over approximately 1.171 acres of land for the Battlefield. The transferred lands shall not be subject to reimbursement or consideration.

The land transferred to the Army shall be excluded from the boundary of the Battlefield.

The land transferred to Interior shall be included within the boundary of the Battlefield and administered as part of it.
Bill 114-S-782 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Animals

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

Grand Canyon Bison Management Act

(Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of the Interior to publish a management plan to reduce, through humane lethal culling by skilled public volunteers and other nonlethal means, the population of bison in the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona that Interior determines are detrimental to the uses of the Park.

 Such a volunteer may remove a full bison harvested from the Park.

 Interior shall coordinate with the Arizona Game and Fish Commission regarding the development and implementation of the management plan.

 In developing such plan, Interior must comply with all applicable federal environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
Bill 114-S-972 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Browns Canyon National Monument Clarification Act

Declares that the designation of a national monument on land on which the Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area in Colorado is located shall not affect: (1) the arrangements for cooperative administration of the Area by the Bureau of Land Management and the state of Colorado, (2) grazing on the land on which the monument is located, or (3) the use or allocation of any water, water right, or interest in water.

Requires the Department of the Interior to complete a comprehensive management plan for the conservation and protection of the monument.
Bill 114-S-1007 — 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 Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 to rename the John W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center, part of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio, as the "John W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers National Museum."
Bill 114-S-1074 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

National Scenic Trails Parity Act

 Amends the National Trails System Act to require the North Country, Ice Age, and New England National Scenic Trails to be administered as units of the National Park System.
Bill 114-S-1078 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Healthy Kids Outdoors Act of 2015 

 Authorizes the Department of the Interior to issue an eligible entity a cooperative agreement for each state for the development, implementation, and updating of a five-year Healthy Kids Outdoors State Strategy designed to encourage people in the United States (especially children, youth, and families) to be physically active outdoors.

Requires an entity that receives funding to: (1) update the State Strategy at least once every five years, and (2) provide a 25% match through in-kind contributions or cash.

Requires State Strategies to provide for subgrants to local partners to implement the state strategy through at at least one of specified program activities.

 Directs the President to issue a national strategy for encouraging people to be physically active outdoors.

Directs Interior and the Department of Health and Human Services to carry out a study of national significance on the health impacts of the national strategy and State Strategies.

Requires Interior to provide technical assistance to eligible entities and local partners, and disseminate best practices that emerge from the strategies funded by this Act.
Bill 114-S-1167 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Owyhee Wilderness Areas Boundary Modifications Act 

(Sec. 2) This bill adjusts the boundaries of the North Fork Owyhee Wilderness, the Owyhee River Wilderness, and the Pole Creek Wilderness in Idaho to exclude certain land.

(Sec. 3) The holder of a grazing permit within the Pole Creek Wilderness and the Owyhee River Wilderness shall be allowed continued limited motorized use in those wilderness areas to support livestock operations if:

 the use occurred before the designation of the wilderness areas; and the Department of the Interior, as part of the minimum requirements analysis required by this bill, has authorized the permittee to conduct limited motorized use within the wilderness areas. Interior shall conduct a minimum requirements analysis for motorized use within those wilderness areas as part of the renewal process for the affected grazing permit.

As part of such analysis, Interior shall analyze the impacts of limited motorized use for livestock operations on vegetation, wildlife, and cultural resources within those wilderness areas.

Until the minimum requirements analysis is completed, Interior shall permit limited motorized use for livestock operations in those wilderness areas at not more than the level authorized.
Bill 114-S-1240 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Cerros del Norte Conservation Act

 (Sec. 3) Designates the Cerro del Yuta Wilderness (comprising approximately 13,420 acres) and Rio San Antonio Wilderness (comprising approximately 8,120 acres) within the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Sets forth requirements for the management of the wilderness areas regarding: (1) livestock grazing, (2) the creation of protective perimeters and buffer zones, and (3) the jurisdiction of the state of New Mexico respecting fish and wildlife located on public land in New Mexico.

Releases specified public land within the San Antonio Wilderness Study Area not designated as wilderness by this Act from further study for such a designation.

Requires the wilderness areas to be administered as components of the National Landscape Conservation System.

Withdraws any federal land within the wilderness areas, including any acquired land or interest, from: (1) 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, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws.

Denies that anything in this Act enlarges, diminishes, or otherwise modifies any treaty rights.
Bill 114-S-1255 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Sutton Mountain and Painted Hills Area Preservation and Economic Enhancement Act of 2015

Designates the Sutton Mountain Wilderness, Pat's Cabin Wilderness, Painted Hills Wilderness, and Dead Dog Wilderness in Oregon as wilderness areas and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Permits grazing of livestock to continue if already established.

Declares that nothing in this Act alters, modifies, enlarges, diminishes, or abrogates the treaty rights of any Indian tribe.

Authorizes the Department of the Interior to: (1) conduct management activities necessary to maintain or restore fish and wildlife populations and habitats, and (2) take measures necessary for the control of fire, insects, and diseases.

Authorizes commercial services (including outfitting and guide activities) to the extent necessary for activities that fulfill recreational or other wilderness purposes of such areas.

Requires Interior to provide an owner of private property within the boundary of a wilderness area adequate access to such property.

Prescribe requirements for the Collins, Faulkner, Quant, and Twickenham Livestock LLC land exchanges in Oregon.

Directs Interior to convey specified lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management to Wheeler County, Oregon.
Bill 114-S-1375 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2015

Designates specified lands in the following areas of Utah as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Great Basin, (2) Grand Staircase-Escalante, (3) Moab-La Sal Canyons, (4) Henry Mountains, (5) Glen Canyon, (6) San Juan-Anasazi, (7) Canyonlands Basin, (8) San Rafael Swell, and (9) Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin.

Sets forth administrative requirements for: (1) the exchange of state-owned lands within such areas, (2) federal reservation of water rights, (3) measurement of setbacks for roads with wilderness, (4) authorized livestock grazing, and (5) withdrawal of such lands from disposition under certain public land laws.
Bill 114-S-1423 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Central Coast Heritage Protection Act

 This bill designates specified Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Forest System lands in California as wilderness areas and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

It also designates certain land in Los Padres National Forest in California, comprising approximately 2,174 acres, as the Machesna Mountain Potential Wilderness Area, which shall be incorporated into the Machesna Mountain Wilderness Area.

Specified segments of the Indian, Mono, Matilija, Sespe, and Piru Creeks and Sisquoc River in California are designated as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Certain land in the Los Padres National Forest in California, comprising approximately 41,617 acres, is designated as the Fox Mountain Potential Wilderness Area, which shall be incorporated into the San Rafael Wilderness.

This bill designates specified land: (1) in Los Padres National Forest, comprising approximately 18,666 acres, as the Condor Ridge Scenic Area; and (2) in Los Padres National Forest and in the BLM Bakersfield Field Office, comprising approximately 15,846 acres, as the Black Mountain Scenic Area.

The Condor Trail in Monterey County, California, is designated as the Condor National Recreation Trail.

The Department of Agriculture shall study: (1) connecting the northern and southern parts of the Los Padres National Forest using a trail corridor across parts of the Northern and Southern Santa Lucia Mountains of the Southern California Coastal Range; and (2) nonmotorized recreation trail opportunities (including mountain bicycling) on land not designated as wilderness by this Act within the Santa Barbara, Ojai, and Mt. Pinos ranger districts.

The Forest Service shall study the feasibility of opening a new trail, for vehicles measuring 50 inches or less, connecting Forest Service Highway 95 to the existing off-highway vehicle trail system in the Ballinger Canyon off-highway vehicle area.

Indian tribes shall be assured access to the wilderness areas, scenic areas, and potential wilderness areas designated by this Act for traditional cultural and religious purposes.
Bill 114-S-1483 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

James K. Polk Presidential Home Study Act

(Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the James K. Polk Home and adjacent property in Columbia, Tennessee.

In conducting this study Interior shall evaluate the national significance of the site and determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System.
Bill 114-S-1510 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2015 

 Designates certain federal land in the Olympic National Forest in the state of Washington as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Designates certain other land, identified on the same map as such proposed areas, as potential wilderness.

Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate as wild, scenic, or recreational rivers specified segments of the following rivers in the state of Washington:

 Elwha River; Dungeness River; Big Quilcene River; Dosewallips River; Duckabush River; Hamma Hamma River; South Fork Skokomish River; Middle Fork Satsop River; West Fork Satsop River; Wynoochee River; East Fork Humptulips River; West Fork Humptulips River; Quinault River; Queets River; Hoh River; Bogachiel River; South Fork Calawah River; Sol Duc River; and Lyre River. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to take necessary measures to control fire, insects, and diseases in the wilderness areas designated by this Act.

Withdraws the federal land within the boundaries of the designated river segments from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws relating to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials.
Bill 114-S-1577 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

East Rosebud Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

 (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified river segments of the East Rosebud Creek in Montana as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Nothing in this bill creates a protective perimeter or buffer zone outside of the designated boundary of the designated river segments.
Bill 114-S-1623 — Public Lands / National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources

Maritime Washington National Heritage Area Act

(Sec. 3) This bill establishes the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area in the state of Washington.

The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation shall be the local coordinating entity for the Heritage Area, and shall prepare and submit a management plan for it.

(Sec. 5) The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation shall not use federal funds made available under this bill for the acquisition of real property or any interests in real property.

(Sec. 7) The bill makes specific disclaimers relating to private property and federal, state, local, and tribal regulatory protections.

Nothing in this bill alters, modifies, diminishes, or extinguishes any Indian tribe's treaty rights within the Heritage Area.

(Sec. 9) The bill authorizes appropriations. The federal cost share of any activity carried out under this bill shall be 50% of its total cost.

The authority of the Department of the Interior to furnish assistance under this bill terminates 15 years after enactment.
Bill 114-S-1662 — 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. 2) This bill amends the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 to add Livingston County, the city of Jonesboro in Union County, and the city of Freeport in Stephenson County in Illinois to the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area.