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Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-05 00:00:00

Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Act

 Establishes the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument to consist of federal land and interests in federal land within Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, and Yolo Counties in California.

 Continues to provide historical and adequate access to private inholdings within the exterior boundaries of the Monument.

Requires a comprehensive plan for the protection and management of the federal lands included within the Monument. Requires such plan to: (1) include a weed management component, (2) include a native fish passage and habitat quality improvement component, and (3) include a component that deals with public safety and environmental clean-up issues associated with illegal marijuana production.

Permits grazing in the Conservation Area: (1) to continue, if established before this Act's enactment; (2) if not established before enactment, only to the extent that it is consistent with the purposes for which the Monument was established; or (3) through issuing annual targeted permits for the control of noxious weeds, fire suppression, or to provide other ecological benefits.

Establishes the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Advisory Council to advise with respect to the preparation and implementation of the management plan for the Monument. Requires the appointment of one Council member to represent Native American tribes.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2015-02-05 00:00:00

Complete America's Great Trails Act

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the fair market value of any National Scenic Trail conservation contribution. Requires the Department of the Interior to study and report on the efficacy of such tax credit in completing, extending, and increasing the number of National Scenic Trails and the feasibility and cost of making such credit refundable and transferable.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-05 00:00:00

North Country National Scenic Trail Route Adjustment Act

 This bill amends the National Trails System Act to revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic Trail to extend it to the Appalachian Trail in Vermont and to modify the route in northeastern Minnesota.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-11 00:00:00

National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015

This bill requires the President, before a national monument can be designated on public land, to obtain congressional approval, certify compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and determine that the state in which the monument is to be located has enacted legislation approving its designation.

The Department of the Interior may not implement restrictions on the public use of a national monument until the expiration of an appropriate review period providing for public input and congressional approval.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-11 00:00:00

Black Metropolis National Heritage Area Study Act

 Directs the Department of the Interior to study the feasibility of designating a specified region in Chicago, Illinois, as the Black Metropolis National Heritage Area.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-12 00:00:00

California Coastal National Monument Santa Cruz Redwoods Expansion Act 

 Expands the boundary of the California Coastal National Monument, established by Presidential Proclamation 7264, to include the Santa Cruz Redwoods public lands comprising approximately 5,800 acres in Santa Cruz County, California.

Requires the Department of the Interior to manage such lands: (1) in accordance with such Proclamation, (2) as part of the Monument, and (3) by allowing only such uses of the Monument as will further the purposes for which it is being established.

Instructs Interior to finalize an amendment to the Monument's management plan for the long-term protection and management of the lands added to the Monument under this Act.

Requires management of the Monument as part of the National Landscape Conservation System.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Health
Date: 2015-02-12 00:00:00

Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Reauthorization of 2015

Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize and revise a research, training, and technical assistance resource center to prevent suicides (the Suicide Prevention Resource Center). Expands the program's focus from youth suicides to suicides among all ages, particularly among groups that are at high risk for suicide. Repeals authority for grants to establish research, training, and technical assistance centers related to mental health, substance abuse and the justice system.

Reauthorizes a program of grants for the development of state or tribal youth suicide early intervention and prevention strategies.

Reauthorizes and revises a grant program to enhance services for students with mental health or substance use disorders at institutions of higher education. Requires the Center for Mental Health Services to award grants to enhance such services and to develop best practices for the delivery of such services. Permits grant funds to be used for the provision of such services to students and to employ appropriately trained staff. Requires special consideration be given to applications for grants that describe programs that demonstrate the greatest need for new or additional mental and substance use disorder services and the greatest potential for replication.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Social sciences and history
Date: 2015-02-12 00:00:00

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 on the construction of the Museum, and (2) advise and assist Interior on all matters relating to the operation and preservation of the Museum.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-12 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on September 16, 2015. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Medgar Evers House Study Act

 (Sec. 3) 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.

Requires Interior to: (1) evaluate the national significance of the site; (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the site as a unit of the National Park System (NPS); (3) determine the effect of the site's designation on existing commercial and recreational uses, and the effect on state and local governments to manage those activities; and (4) identify any authorities, including condemnation, that will compel or permit the Department of the Interior to influence or participate in local land use decisions (such as zoning) or place restrictions on nonfederal land if the site is designated as an NPS unit.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-13 00:00:00

Yellowstone and Grand Teton Paddling Act

(Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of the Interior to promulgate regulations to allow the use of hand-propelled vessels on certain rivers and streams within: (1) the Yellowstone National Park in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming; and (2) the Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway in Wyoming.

The regulations issued under this Act shall not consider any expansion of commercial use of hand-propelled vessels in the Parks.

When promulgating such regulations, the Department of the Interior shall consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service to help ensure that the regulations make recreational use of hand-propelled vessels on the Gros Ventre River within the National Elk Refuge in Wyoming adjacent to Grand Teton National Park consistent with the requirements of the National Refuge System Administration Act of 1966.

Upon the issuance of final regulations, existing regulations prohibiting hand-propelled vessels on streams and rivers in Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park shall no longer have any force or effect.

Interior is authorized to recover all costs associated with monitoring the use of hand-propelled vessels, including the cost of inspecting and decontaminating vessels to prevent the introduction or spread of invasive or injurious species in such National Parks and the Memorial Parkway.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-24 00:00:00

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.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-24 00:00:00

Molalla River Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

 Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified segments of the Molalla River in Oregon as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Renames the Squaw Creek in Oregon as Wychus Creek.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-25 00:00:00

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Modification Act of 2015 

 This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior to acquire specified private or state lands or interests from willing sellers in order to expand the boundaries of the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

Two additional parcels of land are also to be included in the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. One parcel of 3.8 acres is currently being administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The other parcel of 7.41 acres currently being administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is exchanged for 3.5 acres of land currently being administered by the National Park Service (NPS). That land is to be used by BIA for the San Carlos Irrigation Project.

 As consideration for the acquisition of state and private lands under this Act, unless such lands are donated, Interior must: (1) pay fair market value; or (2) convey to the state of Arizona and private land owners federal lands, interest in federal land, or any other federal asset of equal value located in Arizona.

Interior may enter into an agreement with the state of Arizona to provide for cooperative management of approximately 200 acres of specified state trust lands.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-03-03 00:00:00

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.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Animals
Date: 2015-03-18 00:00:00

Grand Canyon Bison Management Act

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.

Permits the removal by such a volunteer of a full bison harvested from the Park.

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

Requires Interior, in developing such plan, to comply with all applicable federal environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-03-19 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on July 14, 2016. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall of Remembrance Act

(Sec. 2) This bill authorizes the Korean War Veterans Memorial Foundation, Inc., to construct a Wall of Remembrance at the site of the Korean War Veterans Memorial.

The wall shall include a list of names of members of the U.S. Armed Forces who died in the Korean War, as determined by the Department of Defense (DOD).

DOD shall: (1) establish eligibility criteria for the inclusion of names on the wall, and (2) provide to the Department of the Interior a final list of names for inclusion on the wall.

The wall may include other information about the Korean War, including the number of members of the U.S. Armed Forces, 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 in action, were wounded in action, are listed as missing in action, or were prisoners of war with regard to such war.

The Commemorative Works Act shall apply to the wall.

The bill prohibits using any federal funds to construct the wall.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-03-25 00:00:00

(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 Proposed Boundary Expansion," and dated March 2016.

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

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.

The bill transfers from the Department of the Army to Interior administrative jurisdiction over approximately 1.171 acres of land for the Battlefield.

The transfers of administrative jurisdiction under this bill shall be subject to the following conditions: (1) the transfers shall occur without reimbursement or consideration, (2) the land transferred to Interior shall be included within the boundary of the Battlefield, and (3) the land transferred to the Department of the Army shall be excluded from the boundary of the Battlefield.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-03-26 00:00:00

Ronald Reagan Birthplace Historic Site Establishment Act

Directs the Department of the Interior to: (1) purchase the Ronald Reagan Birthplace and Museum in Tampico, Illinois, from a willing seller, (2) designate it as the Ronald Reagan Birthplace Historic Site, and (3) prepare a general management plan for such Site.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Congress
Date: 2015-03-26 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)

National POW/MIA Remembrance Act of 2015

(Sec. 3) This bill directs the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) to: (1) enter into an agreement to obtain a chair featuring the logo of the National League of POW/MIA Families, and (2) place it in the U.S. Capitol in a suitable permanent location within two years after enactment of this Act.

(Sec. 4) The AOC may: (1) enter into an agreement with any tax-exempt, charitable organization to solicit private donations to carry out this Act; and (2) accept resulting donations of funds, property, and services.

All costs incurred in carrying out this Act's purposes shall be paid for with private donations received from such organizations.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-03-26 00:00:00

This bill amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to reauthorize the National Women's Rights History Project through FY2019. The Project preserves and promotes historic sites significant to the women's rights movement and will establish a Votes for Women Trail linking women's suffrage movement sites throughout New York.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-04-14 00:00:00

Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Area Act

 Establishes the Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Area in Texas. Designates the Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Area Corporation as the management entity for the Heritage Area. Requires the Corporation to submit a management plan for the Heritage Area. Sets forth requirements for the approval or disapproval of such plan.

Specifies this Act's effect on private property protections and water rights with regard to the Heritage Area. Bars anything in this Act from being meant as modifying the Rio Grande Natural Area Act.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-04-16 00:00:00

Monuments Protection Act

Directs the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture to enter into an agreement with a state, the District of Columbia, a federally recognized Indian tribe, a U.S. territory or possession, or a political subdivision of such an entity that offers to assume activities to resume or continue operations and public access to any covered unit during any period when those activities would not otherwise be carried out because: (1) there is a lapse in available federal funds as a result of a failure to enact a regular appropriations bill or continuing resolution, or (2) there are insufficient federal funds to operate such unit as a result of a failure of the federal government to make sufficient funds available.

Defines a "covered unit" to mean:

 public lands, units of the National Park System, units of the National Wildlife Refuge System, federally owned open air monuments and memorials, units of the National Forest System, and federally owned roads and off ramps on all such lands. Requires Interior and USDA to reimburse such an entity once funds are made available for activities carried out by such entity.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-04-22 00:00:00

National Liberty Memorial Clarification Act of 2015

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 with respect to submission of site and design proposals by the National Mall Liberty Fund D.C. (sponsor) for the National Liberty Memorial to honor the slaves and free black persons who served as soldiers and sailors or provided civilian assistance during the American Revolution.

The site and design approval process is revised to make the Department of Agriculture, rather than the Department of the Interior or the General Services Administration, responsible for consideration of these site and design proposals and their submission, on behalf of the sponsor, to the Commission of Fine Arts and National Capital Planning Commission.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Native Americans
Date: 2015-04-23 00:00:00

Pascua Yaqui Tribe Land Conveyance Act

(Sec. 3) This bill declares that 39.65 acres of land are to be held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, effective the day after the Tuscon Unified School District No. 1 relinquishes its interest in the land. (Sec. 4) The United States must convey to the school district 13.24 acres of federal land in exchange for payment of the fair market value of the land and the cost of conveyance. The school district may acquire the federal reversionary interest in 27.5 acres of district land by paying the appraised value, plus the costs of appraisal and conveyance, to the Department of the Interior. (Sec. 5) Gaming is prohibited on the land taken into trust pursuant to this bill. (Sec. 6) There are no federal reserved water rights for the land taken into trust. The tribe retains state water rights for this land. Water rights for this land may not be forfeited or abandoned.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-04-23 00:00:00

Healthy Kids Outdoors Act of 2015 

 Authorizes the Department of the Interior to issue one cooperative agreement per state to eligible entities to implement and update a five-year Healthy Kids Outdoors State Strategy for encouraging Americans, especially children, youth, and families, to be physically active outdoors.

Requires eligible entities to provide a 25% match of the funding that they receive under this Act through in-kind contributions or cash. Directs the President to issue a national strategy for encouraging Americans 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 strategies under this Act.

Requires Interior to provide technical assistance to grantees and to disseminate best practices that emerge from the state strategies funded by this Act.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-04-30 00:00:00

Owyhee Wilderness Areas Boundary Modifications Act 

Adjusts the boundaries of the North Fork Owyhee Wilderness, the Owyhee River Wilderness, and the Pole Creek Wilderness in Idaho to exclude certain land.

Amends the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to allow motor vehicles to continue to be used for livestock monitoring, herding, and gathering in the Big Jacks Creek Wilderness, Bruneau-Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness, Little Jacks Creek Wilderness, North Fork Owyhee Wilderness, Owyhee River Wilderness, and Pole Creek Wilderness.

Requires the Department of the Interior to: (1) report to Congress on all livestock grazing management activities that were authorized in such wilderness areas on the day before they were designated as wilderness, and (2) use the report to assist in the management of livestock grazing in those areas.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-05-12 00:00:00

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.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-05-12 00:00:00

Authorizes the National Emergency Medical Services Memorial Foundation to establish a commemorative work on federal land in the District of Columbia and its environs to commemorate the commitment and service represented by emergency medical services.

Prohibits the use of federal funds to pay any expense of the establishment of such work. Makes the Foundation solely responsible for acceptance of contributions for, and payment of the expenses of, the establishment of such work. Provides for the deposit of excess funds received for such work into a National Park Foundation account.