A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide supplemental funding and other services that are necessary to assist certain local school districts in the State of California in providing educational services for students attending schools located within Yosemite National Park, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to adjust the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, to adjust the boundaries of Redwood National Park, and for other purposes.
PL 109-131 (S.136), enacted 12/20/2005

119 STAT. 2566
PUBLIC LAW 109–131—DEC. 20, 2005
Public Law 109–131
109th Congress
An Act
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide supplemental funding and
other services that are necessary to assist certain local school districts in the
State of California in providing educational services for students attending schools
located within Yosemite National Park, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior
to adjust the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, to adjust
the boundaries of Redwood National Park, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Table of contents.
TITLE I—YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK AUTHORIZED PAYMENTS
Sec. 101. Payments for educational services.
Sec. 102. Authorization for park facilities to be located outside the boundaries of
Yosemite National Park.
TITLE II—RANCHO CORRAL DE TIERRA GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL
RECREATION AREA BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT
Sec. 201. Short title.
Sec. 202. Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California.
TITLE III—REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT
Sec. 301. Short title.
Sec. 302. Redwood National Park boundary adjustment.
TITLE I—YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK
AUTHORIZED PAYMENTS
SEC. 101. PAYMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) For fiscal years 2006 through 2009, the
Secretary of the Interior may provide funds to the Bass Lake
Joint Union Elementary School District and the Mariposa Unified
School District in the State of California for educational services
to students—
(A) who are dependents of persons engaged in the adminis-
tration, operation, and maintenance of Yosemite National Park;
or
(B) who live within or near the park upon real property
owned by the United States.
(2) The Secretary’s authority to make payments under this
section shall terminate if the State of California or local education
agencies do not continue to provide funding to the schools referred
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to in subsection (a) at per student levels that are no less than
the amount provided in fiscal year 2005.
(b) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—Payments made under this
section shall only be used to pay public employees for educational
services provided in accordance with subsection (a). Payments may
not be used for construction, construction contracts, or major capital
improvements.
(c) LIMITATION ON AMOUNT OF FUNDS.—Payments made under
this section shall not exceed the lesser of—
(1) $400,000 in any fiscal year; or
(2) the amount necessary to provide students described
in subsection (a) with educational services that are normally
provided and generally available to students who attend public
schools elsewhere in the State of California.
(d) SOURCE OF PAYMENTS.—(1) Except as otherwise provided
in this subsection, the Secretary may use funds available to the
National Park Service from appropriations, donations, or fees.
(2) Funds from the following sources shall not be used to
make payments under this section:
(A) Any law authorizing the collection or expenditure of
entrance or use fees at units of the National Park System,
including—
(i) the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965
(16 U.S.C. 460l–4 et seq.); and
(ii) the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act
(16 U.S.C. 6801 et seq.).
(B) Any unexpended receipts collected through—
(i) the recreational fee demonstration program estab-
lished under section 315 of the Department of the Interior
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (16 U.S.C.
460l–6a note; Public Law 104–134); or
(ii) the national park passport program established
under section 602 of the National Parks Omnibus Manage-
ment Act of 1998 (16 U.S.C. 5992).
(C) Emergency appropriations for flood recovery at
Yosemite National Park.
(3)(A) The Secretary may use an authorized funding source
to make payments under this section only if the funding available
to Yosemite National Park from such source (after subtracting
any payments to the school districts authorized under this section)
is greater than or equal to the amount made available to the
park for the prior fiscal year, or in fiscal year 2005, whichever
is greater.
(B) It is the sense of Congress that any payments made under
this section should not result in a reduction of funds to Yosemite
National Park from any specific funding source, and that with
respect to appropriated funds, funding levels should reflect annual
increases in the park’s operating base funds that are generally
made to units of the National Park System.
SEC. 102. AUTHORIZATION FOR PARK FACILITIES TO BE LOCATED
OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARIES OF YOSEMITE NATIONAL
PARK.
(a) FUNDING AUTHORITY FOR TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND
EXTERNAL FACILITIES.—Section 814(c) of the Omnibus Parks and
Public Lands Management Act of 1996 (16 U.S.C. 346e) is
amended—
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(1) in the heading by inserting ‘‘AND YOSEMITE
NATIONAL PARK’’ after ‘‘ZION NATIONAL PARK’’;
(2) in the first sentence—
(A) by inserting ‘‘and Yosemite National Park’’ after
‘‘Zion National Park’’; and
(B) by inserting ‘‘for transportation systems or’’ after
‘‘appropriated funds’’; and
(3) in the second sentence by striking ‘‘facilities’’ and
inserting ‘‘systems or facilities’’.
(b) 
CLARIFYING
AMENDMENT
FOR
TRANSPORTATION
FEE
AUTHORITY.—Section 501 of the National Parks Omnibus Manage-
ment Act of 1998 (16 U.S.C. 5981) is amended in the first sentence
by striking ‘‘service contract’’ and inserting ‘‘service contract,
cooperative agreement, or other contractual arrangement’’.
TITLE II—RANCHO CORRAL DE TIERRA
GOLDEN 
GATE 
NATIONAL 
RECRE-
ATION 
AREA 
BOUNDARY 
ADJUST-
MENT
SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Rancho Corral de Tierra Golden
Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act’’.
SEC. 202. GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, CALIFORNIA.
Section 2(a) of Public Law 92–589 (16 U.S.C. 460bb–1(a)) is
amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘The recreation area shall comprise’’ and
inserting the following:
‘‘(1) INITIAL LANDS.—The recreation area shall comprise’’;
and
(2) by striking ‘‘The following additional lands are also’’
and all that follows through the period at the end of the
subsection and inserting the following new paragraphs:
‘‘(2) ADDITIONAL LANDS.—In addition to the lands described
in paragraph (1), the recreation area shall include the following:
‘‘(A) The parcels numbered by the Assessor of Marin
County, California, 119–040–04, 119–040–05, 119–040–18,
166–202–03, 166–010–06, 166–010–07, 166–010–24, 166–
010–25, 119–240–19, 166–010–10, 166–010–22, 119–240–
03, 119–240–51, 119–240–52, 119–240–54, 166–010–12,
166–010–13, and 119–235–10.
‘‘(B) Lands and waters in San Mateo County generally
depicted on the map entitled ‘Sweeney Ridge Addition,
Golden Gate National Recreation Area’, numbered NRA
GG–80,000–A, and dated May 1980.
‘‘(C) Lands acquired under the Golden Gate National
Recreation Area Addition Act of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 460bb–
1 note; Public Law 102–299).
‘‘(D) Lands generally depicted on the map entitled
‘Additions to Golden Gate National Recreation Area’, num-
bered NPS–80–076, and dated July 2000/PWR–PLRPC.
‘‘(E) Lands generally depicted on the map entitled
‘Rancho Corral de Tierra Additions to the Golden Gate
16 USC 460bb
note.
Rancho Corral de
Tierra Golden
Gate National
Recreation Area
Boundary
Adjustment Act.
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 136:
SENATE REPORTS: No. 109–63 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 151 (2005):
July 26, considered and passed Senate.
Dec. 6, considered and passed House.
National Recreation Area’, numbered NPS–80,079E, and
dated March 2004.
‘‘(3) ACQUISITION LIMITATION.—The Secretary may acquire
land described in paragraph (2)(E) only from a willing seller.’’.
TITLE III—REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK
BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT
SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Redwood National Park
Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005’’.
SEC. 302. REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.
Section 2(a) of the Act of Public Law 90–545 (16 U.S.C. 79b(a))
is amended—
(1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘(a) The area’’ and
all that follows through the period at the end and inserting
the following: ‘‘(a)(1) The Redwood National Park consists of
the land generally depicted on the map entitled ‘Redwood
National Park, Revised Boundary’, numbered 167/60502, and
dated February, 2003.’’;
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) (as designated by para-
graph (1)) the following:
‘‘(2) The map referred to in paragraph (1) shall be—
‘‘(A) on file and available for public inspection in the appro-
priate offices of the National Park Service; and
‘‘(B) provided by the Secretary of the Interior to the appro-
priate officers of Del Norte and Humboldt Counties, California.’’;
and
(3) in the second sentence—
(A) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(3) The Secretary;’’ and
(B) by striking ‘‘one hundred and six thousand acres’’
and inserting ‘‘133,000 acres’’.
Approved December 20, 2005.
16 USC 79a note.
Redwood
National Park
Boundary
Adjustment Act
of 2005.
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