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Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Water resources development
Date: 2016-05-16 00:00:00

Saint Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial Act

(Sec. 3) This bill authorizes the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to establish the Saint Francis Dam Disaster National Memorial at the Dam site in Los Angeles County, California, to honor the victims of the Saint Francis Dam disaster of March 12, 1928. The Memorial shall be managed by the Forest Service.

(Sec. 4) USDA shall submit to Congress, by three years after this bill's enactment, recommendations regarding:

 the planning, design, construction, and long-term management of the Memorial; the proposed boundaries; a visitor center and educational facilities; and ensuring public access to the Memorial. (Sec. 5) The bill establishes the Saint Francis Dam Disaster National Monument on specified National Forest System land administered by USDA in Los Angeles County for the purpose of conserving and enhancing the cultural, archaeological, historical, watershed, educational, and recreational resources and values of the Monument.

(Sec. 6) USDA shall develop a management plan for the Monument by four years after this bill's enactment. USDA shall manage the Monument: (1) in a manner that conserves and enhances its cultural and historic resources, and (2) in accordance with the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974. The bill limits the use of motorized vehicles but permits grazing within the Monument.

(Sec. 7) No additional funds are authorized to carry out this bill's requirements.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-05-23 00:00:00

Ste. Genevieve National Historic Site Establishment Act of 2016

This bill establishes the Ste. Genevieve National Historic Site in Missouri as a unit of the National Park System.

Interior may acquire, by donation, purchase, or exchange, any land or interest in land located within the boundary of the Historic Site or any nationally significant property identified in the special resource study that is within the Ste. Genevieve Historic District National Historic Landmark.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-05-26 00:00:00

Penn School - Reconstruction Era National Monument Act

This bill establishes the Penn School - Reconstruction Era National Monument in South Carolina, which shall become a unit of the National Park System (NPS) when the Department of the Interior has:

 acquired sufficient land or an interest in land within the monument's boundary to constitute a manageable unit, and entered into a written agreement with Penn Community Services, Inc. (known as Penn Center) pursuant to this bill. The bill declares that the monument's boundaries shall be the same as those of the Penn Center National Historic Landmark District.

Interior may enter into an agreement with Penn Center:

 regarding the transfer of land or interests in land; and delineating the respective roles and responsibilities of the National Park Service and Penn Center in the operation, maintenance, and interpretation of the monument. Interior may acquire by donation, purchase from a willing seller, or exchange lands or interests in land within the monument's boundary and within its vicinity.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-05-26 00:00:00

Lowell National Historical Park Creative Partnerships Act

This bill requires any loan made in 1984 by the Lowell Historic Preservation Commission to the Lowell Development and Financial Corporation to enable it to furnish low-interest loans for the preservation, restoration, or development of certain properties in the Lowell National Historical Park or the Lowell Historic Preservation District in Massachusetts to have a maturity of 42 years.

(Under current law, all such loans, regardless of the year in which they were made, must have a maturity of 35 years.)
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: International affairs
Date: 2016-06-09 00:00:00

This bill authorizes the American Battle Monuments Commission to acquire, operate, and maintain the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial in Marne-la-Coquette, France, pursuant to an agreement between the Commission and the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Foundation and subject to the French government's consent.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Social sciences and history
Date: 2016-06-28 00:00:00

Plymouth 400th Commemoration Commission Act of 2016

This bill establishes the Plymouth 400th Commemoration Commission to:

 assist in the planning, development, and implementation of programs and activities to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the voyage of Mayflower and the founding of Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts; facilitate such activities throughout the United States; encourage civic, military, historical, educational, religious, economic, and other organizations to organize and participate in commemoration activities to expand the understanding and appreciation of the significance of the founding and early history of Plymouth Colony; coordinate and facilitate for the public scholarly research and publications regarding, and interpretation of, the cultures present in 17th Century Plymouth Colony, including the English colonists and the indigenous Wampanoag tribes; and ensure that the 400th anniversary of Plymouth provides a lasting legacy and long-term public benefit by assisting in the development of appropriate programs and facilities. The commission shall: (1) prepare a strategic plan and an annual performance plan; and (2) submit a final report by December 31, 2021, that includes a summary of its activities, a final accounting of its funds, and its findings or recommendations.

The commission shall terminate on December 31, 2021.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-07-08 00:00:00

Second Division Memorial Modification Act

This bill authorizes the Second Indianhead Division Association, Inc. Scholarship and Memorials Foundation to place three benches honoring the members of the Second Infantry Division killed in the Cold War in Korea, the War in Iraq, and the War in Afghanistan on the Second Division Memorial located in President's Park in the District of Columbia.

No federal funds may be used for these modifications or augmentations.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-07-11 00:00:00

Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation Area Act

This bill establishes the Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation Area in Utah, comprising approximately 79,109 acres of federal land in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest.

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) shall develop a comprehensive plan for the long-term management of the area.

The bill adjusts the boundaries of Mount Olympus, Twin Peaks, and Lone Peak Wildernesses.

The bill designates certain land in the forest as the Grandeur Peak-Mount Aire Wilderness and a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

The bill designates approximately 1,800 acres of federal land in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest as the White Pine Special Management Area.

The bill prohibits timber harvesting within the special management area.

The bill withdraws all federal land within the conservation and recreation area from: (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws.

USDA shall allow installation of access and avalanche control devices, excluding ski lifts, within or adjacent to the area.

The bill arranges for a potential land exchange involving specified National Forest System land and private ski areas in Utah.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-07-14 00:00:00

Freedom Riders National Historical Park Act

This bill establishes the Freedom Riders National Historical Park in Anniston, Alabama, for the purposes of: (1) arranging for an internationally significant place for public education focused on the Freedom Riders (civil rights activists who rode a Greyhound bus attacked and burned in Anniston on May 14, 1961), civil rights, and the burning of the Freedom Riders' bus; and (2) preserving such historical site for the heritage of that area and as a tourist destination.

The park shall be located at 1031 Gurnee Avenue in downtown Anniston at the Greyhound Bus Station site where the attack began and includes the site of the original bus station.

The Department of the Interior may acquire additional buildings, assets, lands, and interests for addition to the park.

Interior shall complete a general management plan for the park.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: International affairs
Date: 2016-09-06 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was passed by the House on September 12, 2016. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

(Sec. 1) This bill authorizes the American Battle Monuments Commission to enter into an agreement with the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Foundation to acquire, operate, and maintain the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial in Marnes-la-Coquette, France.

The Commission shall ensure the ongoing maintenance of the memorial, including the cemetery containing the remains of 49 U.S. aviators who died during World War I.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-09-20 00:00:00

This bill states that Congress finds that the United States did not acquire any right, title, or interest in or to submerged lands in Nantucket Sound (near the coast of Massachusetts) or the waters above those submerged lands as a result of the taking described in the civil action, United States v. 3,000 Acres of Land (D. Mass. 1944). That taking involved land that is now part of the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Native Americans
Date: 2016-09-21 00:00:00

Canyon Village Land Conveyance Act

This bill amends the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act to require the Department of the Interior to convey to Kian Tr'ee Corporation, an Alaska Native village corporation, for the Native village of Canyon Village, the surface estate of up to 6,400 acres of public land selected by the corporation.

Interior must convey an equal acreage of subsurface estate to Doyon Limited, an Alaska Native regional corporation.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-09-27 00:00:00

Chiricahua National Park Act

This bill establishes the Chiricahua National Park in Arizona.

The bill abolishes the Chiricahua National Monument and incorporates the lands and interests within the monument in, and as part of, the park.

Any funds that are available for the monument's purposes shall be made available for those of the park.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-09-28 00:00:00

This bill confirms that the boundary of Acadia National Park in Maine includes approximately 1,441 acres of land and interests in the Schoodic Peninsula.

The bill ratifies and approves:

 retroactive to September 26, 2013, the acquisition or purported acquisition by the United States of the land and interests in the Schoodic Peninsula, and any subsequent or purported alteration of the land or interests held or claimed by the United States in the peninsula (including conversion to fee simple interest) retroactive to whatever point an alteration occurred or may have occurred. The Department of the Interior may only acquire land or interests in land:

 within the boundaries of the park in accordance with specified law; and outside the boundaries of the park in Hancock County, Maine, in accordance with such law. Interior shall contribute a specified amount to a regional consortium which was established to improve the management of the disposal and recycling of solid waste and is composed of municipalities on, as well as near, Mount Desert Island.

 Interior shall reestablish and appoint members to the Acadia National Park Advisory Commission.

 Certain land in the park that was conveyed by Interior to the town of Tremont, Maine, shall no longer be used exclusively for school purposes, but for public purposes, subject to the conditions that: (1) use of the property (on such land) shall not degrade or adversely impact the park's resources or values; and (2) such land shall remain in public ownership for recreational, educational, or similar public purposes.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-09-28 00:00:00

George W. Bush Childhood Home Study Act

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the childhood home of former President George W. Bush, which is located at 1412 West Ohio Avenue in Midland, Texas.

Interior shall: (1) evaluate the national significance of such site, and (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-09-28 00:00:00

Indiana Dunes National Park Act

This bill renames the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as the Indiana Dunes National Park.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2016-12-06 00:00:00

This bill amends the National Trails System Act to direct the Department 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.

 Interior shall consider input from owners of private land within or adjacent to such study area and shall not consider acquiring any land outside the exterior boundaries of any federally administered area.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-01-21 00:00:00

Susquehanna Gateway National Heritage Area Act

 Establishes the Susquehanna Gateway National Heritage Area in Pennsylvania.

Designates the Susquehanna Heritage Corporation as the local coordinating entity for the Area.

Requires the Corporation to prepare and submit a management plan for the Area.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-01-21 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: 2015-02-02 00:00:00

Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild and Scenic River Act

 (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified segments of the Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook in Connecticut as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

(Sec. 4) The Department of the Interior shall manage: (1) the river segments according to the Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Management Plan, dated June 2011; and (2) coordinate the management responsibilities of Interior under this Act relating to such segments with the Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild and Scenic Committee.

Authorizes Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with: (1) the state of Connecticut; (2) the towns of Avon, Bloomfield, Burlington, East Granby, Farmington, Granby, Hartland, Simsbury, and Windsor in Connecticut; and (3) appropriate local planning and environmental organizations.

For purposes of the segments designated by this Act, the zoning ordinances adopted by the towns, including provisions for the conservation of floodplains, wetlands, and watercourses associated with such segments, shall be deemed to satisfy the Act's standards and requirements limiting or prohibiting federal acquisition of lands by condemnation.

 The authority of Interior to acquire lands for the purposes of such segments shall be limited to acquisition by donation or with the owner's consent and shall be subject to additional management plan criteria.

 The designation made by this Act shall not be construed to prohibit, pre-empt, or abridge the potential future licensing or re-licensing of the Rainbow Dam and Reservoir (including any and all aspects of its facilities, operations, and transmission lines) by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as a federally licensed hydroelectric generation project, provided that FERC may, in its discretion and consistent with this Act, establish any terms and conditions in a hydropower license for the Dam as necessary to reduce impacts that invade or unreasonably diminish the scenic, recreational, and fish and wildlife values of the designated segments. Neither shall the designation affect the operation of, or impose any flow or release requirements on, the unlicensed hydroelectric facility at the Dam and Reservoir.

 The Lower Farmington River shall not be administered as part of the National Park System or be subject to System regulations.

(Sec. 5) The bill also revises the description of a specified designated segment of the Farmington River in Connecticut.
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 Napa, Lake, Mendocino, Solano, Glenn, Colusa, and Yolo counties in California.

Continues to provide historical and adequate access to private inholdings in the Monument.

 Requires a comprehensive plan for the protection and management of the federal land 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 addresses 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. Requires the appointment of one Council member to represent Indian tribes.
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

 (Sec. 2) 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.

(Sec. 3) Prohibits any land or interest outside of the exterior boundary of any federally administered area from being acquired by the federal government for the Trail by condemnation.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-09 00:00:00

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.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-10 00:00:00

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.
Topic: Public Lands — National Parks
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2015-02-12 00:00:00

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.
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 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.