California Desert Protection Act of 1994
PL 103-433 (S.21), enacted 10/31/1994

PUBLIC LAW 103-433—OCT. 31, 1994 
108 STAT. 4471 
Public Law 103-433 
103d Congress 
An Act 
To designate certain lands in the California Desert as wilderness, to establish 
the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks, to establish the Mojave National 
Preserve, 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. SHORT TITLE. 
Sections 1 and 2, and titles I through IX of this Act may 
be cited as the "California Desert Protection Act of 1994". 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND POLICY. 
(a) The Congress finds and declares that— 
(1) the federally owned desert lands of southern California 
constitute a public wildland resource of extraordinary and ines-
timable value for this and future generations; 
(2) these desert wildlands display unique scenic, historical, 
archeological, environmental, ecological, wildlife, cultural, sci-
entific, educational, and recreational values used and enjoyed 
by milUons of Americans for hiking and camping, scientific 
study and scenic appreciation; 
(3) the public land resources of the California desert now 
face and are increasingly threatened by adverse pressures 
which would impair, dilute, and destroy their public and natural 
values; 
(4) the California desert, embracing wilderness lands, units 
of the National Park System, other Federal lands. State parks 
and other State lands, and private lands, constitutes a cohesive 
unit posing unique and difficult resource protection and 
management challenges; 
(5) through designation of national monuments by Presi-
dential proclamation, through enactment of general public land 
statutes (including section 601 of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976, 90 Stat. 2743, 43 U.S.C. 1701 et 
seq.) and through interim administrative actions, the Federal 
Government has begun the process of appropriately providing 
for protection of the significant resources of the public lands 
in the California desert; and 
(6) statutory land unit designations are needed to afford 
the full protection which the resources and public land values 
of the California desert merit. 
(b) In order to secure for the Americsui people of this and 
future generations an enduring heritage of wilderness, national 
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Conservation. 
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Protection Act of 
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parks, and public land values in the California desert, it is hereby 
declared to be the policy of the Congress that— 
(1) appropriate public lands in the California desert shall 
be included within the National Park System and the National 
Wilderness Preservation System, in order to— 
(A) preserve unrivaled scenic, geologic, and wildlife 
values associated with these unique natural landscapes; 
(B) perpetuate in their natural state significant and 
diverse ecosystems of the California desert; 
(C) protect and preserve historical and cultural values 
of the California desert associated with ancient Indian 
cultures, patterns of western exploration and settlement, 
and sites exemplifying the mining, ranching and railroad-
ing history of the Old West; 
(D) provide opportunities for compatible outdoor public 
recreation, protect and interpret ecological and geological 
features and historic, paleontological, and archeological 
sites, maintain wilderness resource values, and promote 
public understanding and appreciation of the California 
desert; and 
(E) retain and enhance opportunities for scientific 
research in undisturbed ecosystems. 
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TITLE I—DESIGNATION OF 
WILDER-
NESS AREAS TO BE ADMINISTERED 
BY THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGE-
MENT 
SEC. 101. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds and declares that— 
(1) wilderness is a distinguishing characteristic of the pub-
lic lands in the California desert, one which affords an unrivaled 
opportunity for experiencing vast areas of the Old West essen-
tially unaltered by man's activities, and which merits preserva-
tion for the benefit of present and future generations; 
(2) the wilderness values of desert lands are increasingly 
threatened by and especially vulnerable to impairment, alter-
ation, and destruction by activities and intrusions associated 
with incompatible use and development; and 
(3) preservation of desert wilderness necessarily requires 
the highest forms of protective designation and management. 
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SEC. 102. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS. 
In furtherance of the purpose of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 
890, 16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), and sections 601 and 603 of the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2743, 
43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the following lands in the State of Cahfor-
nia, as generally depicted on maps referenced herein, are hereby 
designated as wilderness, and therefore, as components of the 
National Wilderness Preservation System: 
(1) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately seventy-four thousand eight hundred and ninety 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Argus Range 
Wilderness—Proposed 1", dated May 1991, and two maps enti-
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tied "Argus Range Wilderness—Proposed 2" and "Argus Range 
Wilderness—Proposed 3", dated January 1989, and which shall 
be known as the Argus Range Wilderness. If at any time 
within fifteen years after the date of enactment of this Act 
the Secretary of the Navy notifies the Secretary that permission 
has been granted to use lands within the area of the China 
Lake Naval Air Warfare Center for installation of a space 
energy laser facility, and that establishment of a right-of-way 
across lands within the Argus Range Wilderness is desirable 
in order to facilitate access to the lands to be used for such 
facility, the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, may grant a right-
of-way for, and authorize construction of, a road to be used 
solely for that purpose across such lands, notwithstanding the 
designation of such lands as wilderness. So far as practicable, 
any such road shall be aligned in a manner that takes into 
account the desirability of minimizing adverse impacts on 
wilderness values. 
(2) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately ten thousand three hundred and eighty acres, 
as generally depicted on a map entitled "Bigelow ChoUa Garden 
Wilderness— Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall be 
known as the Bigelow ChoUa Garden Wilderness. 
(3) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, and within the 
San Bernardino National Forest, which comprise approximately 
thirty-nine thousand one hundred and eighty-five acres, as 
generally depicted on a map entitled "Bighorn Mountain Wilder-
ness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall be known 
as the Bighorn Mountain Wilderness. 
(4) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area and the Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately forty-seven thoussuid five 
hundred and seventy acres, as generally depicted on a map 
entitled "Big Maria Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", dated 
February 1986, and which shall be known as the Big Maria 
Mountains Wilderness. 
(5) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty acres, 
as generally depicted on a map entitled "Black Mountain 
Wilderness—^Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall be 
known as the Black Mountain Wilderness. 
(6) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately nine thousand five hundred and twenty acres, 
as generally depicted on a map entitled "Bright Star Wilder-
ness—Proposed , dated October 1993, and which shall be known 
as the Bright Star Wilderness. 
(7) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately sixty-eight thousand five hundred and fifteen 
acres, as generally depicted on two maps entitled "Bristol Moun-
tains Wilderness—Proposed 1", and "Bristol Mountains Wilder-
ness—Proposed 2", dated September 1991, and which shall 
be known as Bristol Mountains Wilderness. 
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(8) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirty-nine thousand seven hundred and forty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Cadiz Dunes 
Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall be 
known as the Cadiz Dunes Wilderness. 
(9) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area and Eastern San Diego County, of the Bureau of Land 
Management, which comprise approximately fifteen thousand 
seven hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Carrizo Gorge Wilderness—Proposed", dated February 1986, 
and which shall be known as the Carrizo Gorge Wilderness. 
(10) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area and Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Management, 
which comprise approximately sixty-four thousand three hun-
dred and twenty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 
1993, and which shall be known as the Chemehuevi Mountains 
Wilderness, 
(11) Certain lands in the Bakersfield District, of the Bureau 
of Land Management, which comprise approximately thirteen 
thousand seven hundred acres, as generally depicted on two 
maps entitled "Chimney Park Wilderness—Proposed 1" and 
"Chimney Peak Wilderness—Proposed 2", dated May 1991, and 
which shall be known as the Chimney Peak Wilderness. 
(12) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately eighty thousand seven hundred and seventy 
acres, as generally depicted on two maps entitled "Chuckwalla 
Mountains Wilderness—Proposed 1" and "Chuckwalla Moun-
tains Wilderness—Proposed 2", dated July 1992, and which 
shall be known as the Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness. 
(13) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
thirty-three thousand nine hundred and eighty acres, as gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled "Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness— 
Proposea', dated July 1993, and which shall be known as 
the Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness. The Secretary may, pursuant 
to an application filed by the Department of Defense, grant 
a right-of-way for, and authorize construction of, a road within 
the area depicted as "nonwilderness road corridor" on such 
map. 
(14) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-six thousand acres, as generally depicted 
on a map entitled "Clipper Mountain Wilderness—Proposed", 
dated July 1993, and which shall be known as Clipper Mountain 
Wilderness. 
(15) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately fifty thousand five hundred and twenty acres, 
as generally depicted on a map entitled "Coso Range Wilder-
ness—Proposed , dated May 1991, and which shall be known 
as Coso Range Wilderness. 
(16) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately seventeen thousand acres, as generally depicted 
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on a map entitled "Coyote Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", 
dated July 1993, and which shall be known as Coyote Moun-
tains Wilderness. 
(17) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately eight thousand six hundred acres, as generally 
depicted on a map entitled "Darwin Falls Wilderness—Pro-
posed", dated May 1991, and which shall be known as Darwin 
Falls Wilderness. 
(18) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area and the Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately forty-eight thousand eight 
hundred and fifty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Dead Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", dated October 1991, 
and which shall be known as Dead Mountains Wilderness. 
(19) Certain lands in the Bakersfield District, of the Bureau 
of Land Management, which comprise approximately thirty-
six thousand three hundred acres, as generally depicted on 
two maps entitled "Domeland Wilderness Additions—Proposed 
1" and "Domeland Wilderness Additions—Proposed 2", dated 
February 1986, and which are hereby incorporated in, and 
which shall be deemed to be a part of, the Domeland Wilderness 
as designated by Public Laws 93-632 and 98-425. 
(20) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-three thousand seven hundred and eighty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "El Paso Moun-
tains Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall 
be known as the El Paso Mountains Wilderness. 
(21) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-five thousand nine hundred and forty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Fish Creek 
Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which 
shall be known as Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness. 
(22) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-eight thousand one hundred and ten 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Funeral Moun-
tains Wilderness—Proposed", dated May 1991, and which shall 
be known as Funeral Mountains Wilderness. 
(23) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirty-seven thousand seven hundred acres, as 
generally depicted on a map entitled "Golden Valley Wilder-
ness—Proposed", dated February 1986, and which shall be 
known as Golden Valley Wilderness. 
(24) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirty-one thousand six hundred and ninety-
five acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Grass 
Valley Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which 
shall be known as the Grass Valley Wilderness. 
(25) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-two thousand two hundred and forty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Hollow Hills 
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Wilderness—Proposed", dated May 1991, and which shall be 
known as the Hollow Hills Wilderness. 
(26) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-six thousand four hundred and sixty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Ibex Wilder-
ness—Proposed", dated May 1991, and which shall be known 
as the Ibex Wilderness. 
(27) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirty-three thousand eight hundred and fifty-
five acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Indian 
Pass Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall 
be known as the Indian Pass Wilderness. 
(28) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area and the Bakersfield District, of the Bureau of Land 
Management, and within the Inyo National Forest, which com-
prise approximately two hundred and five thousand and twenty 
acres, as generally depicted on three maps entitled "Inyo Moun-
tains Wilderness—Proposed 1", "Inyo Mountains Wilderness— 
Proposed 2", "Inyo Mountains Wilderness—Proposed 3", dated 
May 1991, and which shall be known as the Inyo Mountains 
Wilderness. 
(29) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirty-three thousand six hundred and seventy 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Jacumba Wilder-
ness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall be known 
as the Jacumba Wilderness. 
(30) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately one hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hun-
dred and eighty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Kelso Dunes Wilderness—Proposed 1", dated October 1991, 
a map entitled "Kelso Dunes Wilderness—Proposed 2", dated 
May 1991, and a map entitled "Kelso Dunes Wilderness— 
Proposed 3", dated September 1991, and which shall be known 
as the Kelso Dunes Wilderness. 
(31) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, and the Sequoia 
National Forest, which comprise approximately eighty-eight 
thousand two hundred and ninety acres, as generally depicted 
on a map entitled "Kiavah Wilderness—Proposed 1", dated 
February 1986, and a map entitled "Kiavah Wilderness—Pro-
posed 2", dated October 1993, and which shall be known as 
the Kiavah Wilderness. 
(32) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately two hundred nine thousand, six hundred and 
eight acres, as generally depicted on four maps entitled "Kings-
ton Range Wilderness—Proposed 1", "Kingston Range Wilder-
ness—Proposed 2", "Kingston Range Wilderness—Proposed 3", 
"Kingston Range Wilderness—Proposed 4", dated July 1993, 
and which shall be known as the Kingston Range Wilderness. 
(33) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-nine thousand eight hundred emd eighty 
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acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Little 
Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 
1993, and which shall be known as the Little Chuckwalla 
Mountains Wilderness. 
(34) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area and the Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately thirty-three thousand six 
hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Little 
Picacho Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which 
shall be known as the Little Picacho Wilderness. 
(35) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirty-two thousand three hundred and sixty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Malpais Mesa 
Wilderness—Proposed", dated September 1991, and which shall 
be known as the Malpais Mesa Wilderness. 
(36) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately sixteen thousand one hundred and five acres, 
as generally depicted on a map entitled "Manly Peak Wilder-
ness—Proposed", dated October 1991, and which shall be known 
as the Manly Peak Wilderness. 
(37) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-four thousand two hundred acres, as gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled "Mecca Hills Wilderness— 
Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall be known as 
the Mecca Hills Wilderness. 
(38) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately forty-seven thousand three hundred and thirty 
acres, as genersdly depicted on a map entitled "Mesquite Wilder-
ness—Proposed", dated May 1991, and which shall be known 
as the Mesquite Wilderness. 
(39) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-two thousand nine hundred acres, as 
generally depicted on a map entitled "Newberry Mountains 
Wilderness—Proposed", dated February 1986, and which shall 
be known as the Newberry Mountains Wilderness. 
(40) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately one hundred ten thousand eight hundred and 
sixty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Nopah 
Range Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall 
be known as the Nopah Range Wilderness. 
(41) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirty-two thousand two hundred and forty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "North Algodones 
Dunes Wilderness—Proposed", dated October 1991, and which 
shall be known as the North Algodones Dunes Wilderness. 
(42) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-five thousand five hundred and forty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "North Mesquite 
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Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", dated May 1991, and which 
shall be known as the North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness. 
(43) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately one hundred forty-six thousand and twenty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Old Woman 
Mountains Wilderness—Proposed 1", dated July 1993 and a 
map entitled "Old Woman Mountains Wilderness—Proposed 
2", dated July 1993, and which shall be known as the Old 
Woman Mountains Wilderness. 
(44) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately forty thousand seven hundred and thirty-five 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Orocopia Moun-
tains Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall 
be known as the Orocopia Mountains Wilderness. 
(45) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area and the Bakersfield District, of the Bureau of Land 
Management, which comprise approximately seventy-four thou-
sand and sixty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Owens Peak Wilderness—Proposed 1", dated February 1986, 
a map entitled "Owens Peak Wilderness—Proposed 2", dated 
March 1994, and a map entitled "Owens Peak Wilderness— 
Proposed 3", dated May 1991, and which shall be known as 
the Owens Peak Wilderness. 
(46) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately seventy-four thousand eight hundred acres, as 
generally depicted on a map entitled "Pahrump Valley Wilder-
ness—Proposed", dated February 1986, and which shall be 
known as the Pahrump Valley Wilderness. 
(47) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately two hundred seventy thousand six hundred and 
twenty-nine acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Palen/McCoy Wilderness—Proposed 1", dated July 1993, and 
a map entitled "Palen/McCoy Wilderness—Proposed 2", dated 
July 1993, and which shall be known as the Palen/McCoy 
Wilderness. 
(48) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirty-two thousand three hundred and ten 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Palo Verde 
Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which 
shall be known as the Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness. 
(49) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately seven thousand seven hundred acres, as gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled "Picacho Peak Wilderness— 
Proposed", dated May 1991, and which shall be known as 
the Picacho Peak Wilderness. 
(50) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately seventy-two thousand five hundred and seventy-
five acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Piper Moun-
tain Wilderness—Proposed", dated October 1993, and which 
shall be known as the Piper Mountain Wilderness. 
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(51) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirty-six thousand eight hundred and forty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Piute Mountains 
Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall be 
known as the Piute Mountains Wilderness. 
(52) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Resting 
Spring Range Wilderness—Proposed", dated May 1991, and 
which shall be known as the Resting Spring Range Wilderness. 
(53) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately forty thousand eight hundred and twenty acres, 
as generally depicted on a map entitled "Rice Valley Wilder-
ness—Proposed , dated May 1991, and which shall be known 
as the Rice Valley Wilderness. 
(54) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area and the Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately twenty-two thousand 
three hundred eighty acres, as generally depicted on a map 
entitled "Riverside Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", dated 
May 1991, and which shall be known as the Riverside Moun-
tains Wilderness. 
(55) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-seven thousand six hundred and ninety 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Rodman Moun-
tains Wilderness—Proposed", dated October 1994, and which 
shall be known as the Rodman Mountains Wilderness. 
(56) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area and the Bakersfield District, of the Bureau of Land 
Management, which comprise approximately fifty-one thousand 
nine hundred acres, as generally depicted on two maps entitled 
"Sacatar Trail Wilderness—Proposed 1" and "Sacatar Trail 
Wilderness—Proposed 2", dated May 1991, and which shall 
be known as the Sacatar Trail Wilderness. 
(57) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately one thousand four hundred and forty acres, as 
generally depicted on a map entitled "Saddle Peak Hills Wilder-
ness—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall be known 
as the Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness. 
(58) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and eighty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "San Gorgonio 
Wilderness Additions—Proposed", dated July 1993, and which 
are hereby incorporated in, and which shall be deemed to 
be a part of, the San Gorgonio Wilderness as designated by 
Public Laws 88-577 and 98-425. 
(59) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately sixty-four thousand three hundred and forty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Santa Rosa 
Wilderness Additions—Proposed", dated March 1994, and which 
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are hereby incorporated in, and which shall be deemed to 
be part of, the Santa Rosa Wilderness designated by Public 
Law 98^25. 
(60) Certain lands in the California Desert District, of 
the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise approxi-
mately thirt;y-five thousand and eighty acres, as generally 
depicted on a map entitled "Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness— 
Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall be known as 
the Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness. 
(61) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately one hundred seventy-four thousand eight hun-
dred acres, as generally depicted on two maps entitled 
"Sheephole Valley Wilderness—Proposed 1", dated July 1993, 
and "Sheephole Valley Wilderness—Proposed 2", dated July 
1993, and which shall be known as the Sheephole Valley 
Wilderness. 
(62) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately sixteen thousand seven hundred and eighty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "South Nopah 
Range Wilderness—Proposed", dated February 1986, and which 
shall be known as the South Nopah Range Wilderness. 
(63) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately seven thousand and fifty acres, as generally 
depicted on a map entitled "Stateline Wilderness—Proposed", 
dated May 1991, and which shall be known as the Stateline 
Wilderness. 
(64) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately eighty-one thousand six hundred acres, as gen-
erally depicted on a map entitled "Stepladder Mountains 
Wilderness—Proposed", dated February 1986, and which shall 
be known as the Stepladder Mountains Wilderness. 
(65) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately twenty-nine thousand one hundred and eighty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Surprise Canyon 
Wilderness—Proposed", dated September 1991, £md which shall 
be known as the Surprise Canyon Wilderness. 
(66) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately seventeen thousand eight hundred and twenty 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Sylvania Moun-
tains Wilderness—Proposed", dated February 1986, and which 
shall be known as the Sylvania Mountains Wilderness. 
(67) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately thirty-one thousand one hundred and sixty acres, 
as generally depicted on a map entitled "Trilobite Wilderness— 
Proposed", dated July 1993, and which shall be known as 
the Trilobite Wilderness. 
(68) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
approximately one hundred forty-four thousand five hundred 
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Turtle Moun-
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tains Wilderness—Proposed 1", dated Februaiy 1986 and a 
map entitled "Turtle Mountains Wilderness—Proposed 2", 
dated May 1991, and which shall be known as the Turtle 
Mountains Wilderness. 
(69) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
Area and the Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment, which comprise approximately seventy-seven thousand 
five hundred £uid twenty acres, as generally depicted on a 
map entitled "Whipple Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", 
dated July 1993, and which shall be known as the Whipple 
Mountains Wilderness. 
SEC. 103. ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS. 
(a) MANAGEMENT.—Subject to valid existing rights, each wilder-
ness area designated under section 102 shall be administered by 
the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter in this Act referred to 
as the "Secretary") or the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, 
in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act, except 
that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the 
Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective 
date of this title and any reference to the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the Secretary who has adminis-
trative jurisdiction over the area. 
(b) MAP AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.—AS soon as practicable 
after the date of enactment of section 102, the Secretary concerned 
shall file a map and legal description for each wilderness area 
designated under this title with the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee 
on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representa-
tives. Each such map and description shall have the same force 
and effect as if included in this title, except that the Secretary 
or the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, may correct clerical 
and typographical errors in each such legal description and map. 
Each such map and legal description shall be on file and available 
for public inspection in the office of the Director of the Bureau 
of Land Management, Department of the Interior, or the Chief 
of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, as appropriate. 
(c) LIVESTOCK.—^Within the wilderness areas designated under 
section 102, the grazing of livestock, where established prior to 
the date of enactment of this Act, shall be permitted to continue 
subject to such reasonable regulations, policies, and practices as 
the Secretary deems necessary, as long as such regulations, policies, 
and practices fully conform with and implement the intent of Con-
gress regarding grazing in such areas as such intent is expressed 
in the Wilderness Act and section 101(f) of Public Law 101-628. 
(d) No BUFFER ZONES.—The Congress does not intend for the 
designation of wilderness areas in section 102 of this title to lead 
to the creation of protective perimeters or buffer zones around 
any such wilderness area. The fact that nonwilderness activities 
or uses can be seen or heard from areas within a wilderness 
area shall not, of itself, preclude such activities or uses up to 
the boundary of the wilderness area. 
(e) FISH AND WILDLIFE.—AS provided in section 4(d)(7) of the 
Wilderness Act, nothing in this title shall be construed as affecting 
the jurisdiction of the State of California with respect to wildlife 
and fish on the public lands located in that State. 
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(f) FISH AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT.— Management activities 
to maintain or restore fish and wildlife populations and the habitats 
to support such populations may be carried out within wilderness 
areas designated by this title and shall include the use of motorized 
vehicles by the appropriate State agencies. 
(g) LAW ENFORCEMENT ACCESS,—^Nothing in this Act, including 
the wilderness designations made by such Act, may be construed 
to preclude Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies 
from conducting law enforcement and border operations as per-
mitted before the date of enactment of this Act, including the 
use of motorized vehicles and aircraft, on any lands designated 
as wilderness by this Act. 
SEC. 104. WILDERNESS REVIEW. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection (b), the 
Congress hereby finds and directs that lands in the California 
Desert Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, 
not designated as wilderness or wilderness study areas by this 
Act have been adequately studied for wilderness designation pursu-
ant to section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management 
Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2743, 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and are no 
longer subject to the requirement of section 603(c) of the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 pertaining to the manage-
ment of wilderness study areas in a manner that does not impair 
the suitability of such areas for preservation as wilderness. 
(b) AREAS NOT RELEASED.—The following areas shall continue 
to be subject to the requirements of section 603(c) of the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, pertaining to the 
management of wilderness study areas in a manner that does 
not impair the suitability of such areas for preservation as 
wilderness— 
(1) certain lands which comprise approximately sixty-one 
thousand three hundred and twenty, as generally depicted on 
a map entitled "Avawatz Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", 
dated May 1991; 
(2) certain lands which comprise approximately thirty-nine 
thousand seven hundred and fifty acres, as generally depicted 
on a map entitled "Kingston Range Wilderness—Proposed 4", 
dated July 1993; 
(3) certain lands which comprise approximately eighty 
thousand four hundred and thirty acres, as generally depicted 
on two maps entitled "Soda Mountains Wilderness—Proposed 
1", dated May 1991, and "Soda Mountains Wilderness—Pro-
posed 2", dated January 1989; 
(4) certain lands which compromise approximately twenty-
three thousand two hundred and fifty acres, as generally 
depicted on a map entitled "South Avawatz Mountains—Pro-
posed", dated May 1991; 
(5) certain lands which comprise approximately seventeen 
thousand two hundred and eighty acres, as generally depicted 
on a map entitled "Death Valley National Park Boundary and 
Wilderness 17—Proposed", dated July 1993; 
(6) certain lands which comprise approximately eight thou-
sand eight hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map 
entitled "Great Falls Basin Wilderness—Proposed", dated Feb-
ruary 1986; and 
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(7) certain lands which comprise approximately eighty-four 
thousand four hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map 
entitled "Cady Mountains Wilderness—Proposed", dated July 
1993. 
(c) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, the Federal 
lands referred to in subsection (b) are hereby withdrawn from 
all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land 
laws; from location, entry, and patent under the United States 
mining laws; and from disposition under all laws pertaining to 
mineral and geothermal leasing, and mineral materials, and all 
amendments thereto. 
SEC. 105. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREA. 
In furtherance of the provisions of the Wilderness Act, certain 
lands in the California Desert Conservation Area, of the Bureau 
of Land Management, which comprise approximately eleven thou-
sand two hundred acres as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"White Mountains Wilderness Study Area—Proposed", dated May 
1991, are hereby designated as the White Mountains Wilderness 
Study Area and shall be administered by the Secretary in accord-
ance with the provisions of section 603(c) of the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1782). 
SEC. 106. SUITABILITY REPORT. 
The Secretary is required, ten years after the date of enactment 
of this Act, to report to Congress on current and planned explo-
ration, development or mining activities on, and suitability for 
future wilderness designation of, the lands as generally depicted 
on maps entitled "Surprise Canyon Wilderness—Proposed", "Middle 
Park Canyon Wilderness—Proposed", and "Death Valley National 
Park Boundary and Wilderness 15", dated September 1991 and 
a map entitled "Manly Peak Wilderness—Proposed", dated October 
1991. 
SEC. 107. DESERT LILY SANCTUARY. 
43 USC 1781 
(a) DESIGNATION.—There is hereby established the Desert Lily 
Sanctuary within the California Desert Conservation Area, Califor-
nia, of the Bureau of Land Management, comprising approximately 
two thousand forty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Desert Lily Sanctuary, dated February 1986, The Secretary shall 
administer the area to provide maximum protection to the desert 
lily. 
(b) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, all Federal 
lands within the Desert Lily Sanctuary are hereby withdrawn from 
all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land 
laws; from location, entry, and patent under the United States 
mining laws; and from disposition under all laws pertaining to 
mineral and geothermal leasing, and mineral materials, and all 
amendments thereto. 
SEC. 108. DINOSAUR TRACKWAY AREA OF CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL 
43 USC 1781 
CONCERN. 
note. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—^There is hereby established the Dinosaur 
Trackway Area of Critical Environmental Concern within the 
California Desert Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land 
Management, comprising approximately five hundred and ninety 
acres as generally depicted on a map entitled "Dinosaur Trackway 
Area of Critical Environmental Concern", dated July 1993. The 
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Secretary shall administer the area to preserve the paleontological 
resources within the area. 
(b) WITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, the Federal 
lands within and adjacent to the Dinosaur Trackway Area of Critical 
Environmental Concern, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Dinosaur Trackway Mineral Withdrawal Area", dated July 1993, 
are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or 
disposal under the public land laws; from location, entry, and patent 
under the United States mining laws; and from disposition under 
all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing, and mineral 
materials, and all amendments thereto. 
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TITLE II—DESIGNATION OF WILDER-
NESS AREAS TO BE ADMINISTERED 
BY THE UNITED STATES FISH AND 
WILDLIFE SERVICE 
SEC. 201. DESIGNATION AND MANAGEMENT. 
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(a) DESIGNATION.—In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilder-
•lote. 
ness Act, the following lands are hereby designated as wilderness 
and therefore, as components of the National Wilderness 
Preserva-
tion System: 
(1) Certain lands in the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge, 
California, which comprise approximately three thousand one 
hundred and ninety-five acres, as generally depicted on a map 
entitled "Havasu Wilderness—Proposed", and dated October 
1991, and which shall be known as the Havasu Wilderness. 
(2) Certain lands in the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, 
California, which comprise approximately five thousand eight 
hundred and thirty-six acres, as generally depicted on two 
maps entitled "Imperial Refuge Wilderness—Proposed 1" and 
"Imperial Refuge Wilderness—Proposed 2", and dated October 
1991, and which shall be known as the Imperial Refuge Wilder-
ness. 
(b) MANAGEMENT.—Subject to valid existing rights, the wilder-
ness areas designated under this title shall be administered by 
the Secretary in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness 
Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness, except 
that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the 
Wilderness Act (or any similar reference) shall be deemed to be 
a reference to the date of enactment of this Act. 
(c) MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.—^As soon as practicable after 
enactment of this title, the Secretary shall file a map and a legal 
description of each wilderness area designated under this section 
with the Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and 
Environment and Public Works of the United States Senate and 
Natural Resources and Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the 
United States House of Representatives. Such map and description 
shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act, 
except that correction of clerical and typographical errors in such 
legal description and map may be made. Such map and legal 
description shall be on file and available for public inspection in 
the Office of the Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
Department of the Interior. 
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SEC. 
202. 
NO 
EFFECT 
ON 
COLORADO 
RIVER 
DAMS. 
Nothing in this title shall be construed to affect the operation 
of federally owned dams located on the Colorado River in the 
Lower Basin. 
SEC. 203. NO EFFECT ON UPPER BASIN. 
Nothing in this Act shall amend, construe, supersede, or pre-
empt any State law, Federal law, interstate compact, or inter-
national treaty pertaining to the Colorado River (including its tribu-
taries) in the Upper Basin, including, but not limited to the appro-
priation, use, development, storage, regulation, allocation, conserva-
tion, exportation, or quality of those rivers. 
SEC. 204. COLORADO RIVER. 
With respect to the Havasu and Imperial wilderness areas 
designated by subsection 201(a) of this title, no rights to water 
of the Colorado River are reserved, either expressly, impliedly, 
or otherwise. 
TITLE III- -DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL 
PARK 
Short title. 
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SEC. 301. FINDINGS. 
16 USC 410aaa. 
The Congress hereby finds that— 
(1) proclamations by Presidents Herbert Hoover in 1933 
and Franklin Roosevelt in 1937 established and expanded the 
Death Valley National Monument for the preservation of the 
unusual features of scenic, scientific, and educational interest 
therein contained; 
(2) Death Valley National Monument is today recognized 
as a major unit of the National Park System, having extraor-
dinary values enjoyed by millions of visitors; 
(3) the monument boundaries established in the 1930's 
exclude and thereby expose to incompatible development and 
inconsistent management, contiguous Federal lands of essential 
and superlative natural, ecological, geological, archeological, 
paleontological, cultural, historical ad wilderness values; 
(4) Death Valley National Monument should be substan-
tially enlarged by the addition of all contiguous Federal lands 
of national park caliber and afforded full recognition and statu-
tory protection as a National Park; and 
(5) the wilderness within Death Valley should receive maxi-
mum statutory protection by designation pursuant to the 
Wilderness Act. 
SEC. 
302. 
ESTABLISHMENT 
OF 
DEATH 
VALLEY 
NATIONAL 
PARK. 
There is hereby established the Death Valley National Park 
(hereinafter in this title referred to as the "park") as generally 
depicted on twenty-three maps entitled "Death Valley National 
Park Boundary and Wilderness—Proposed", numbered in the title 
one through twenty-three, and dated July 1993 or prior, which 
shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices 
of the Superintendent of the park £md the Director of the National 
Park Service, Department of the Interior. The Death Valley 
16 USC 431 note. 
National Monument is hereby abolished as such, the lands and 
interests therein are hereby incorporated within and made part 
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of the new Death Valley National Park, and any funds available 
for purposes of the monument shall be available for purposes of 
the park, 
SEC. 303. TRANSFER AND ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS. 
Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary shall transfer the 
lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management 
depicted in the maps described in section 302 of this title, without 
consideration, to the administrative jurisdiction of the National 
Park Service for administration as part of the National Park Sys-
tem, and the boundary of the park shall be adjusted accordingly. 
The Secretary shall administer the areas added to the park by 
this title in accordance with the provisions of law generally 
applicable to units of the National Park System, including the 
Act entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and 
for other purposes", approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 
U.S.C. 1, 2-4). 
SEC. 304. MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION. 
Within six months after the enactment of this title, the Sec-
retary shall file maps and a legal description of the park designated 
under this title with the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on Natu-
ral Resources of the United States House of Representatives. Such 
maps and legal description shall have the same force and effect 
as if included in this title, except that the Secretary may correct 
clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and in 
the maps referred to in section 302. The maps and legal description 
shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices 
of the Superintendent of the park and the Director of the National 
Park Service, Department of the Interior. 
SEC. 305. WITHDRAWAL. 
Subject to valid existing rights, all Federal lands within the 
park are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, 
or disposal under the public land laws; from location, entry, and 
patent under the United States mining laws; and from disposition 
under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing, and 
mineral materials, and all amendments thereto. 
SEC. 306. GRAZING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—^The privilege of grazing domestic livestock 
on lands within the park shall continue to be exercised at no 
more than the current level, subject to applicable laws and National 
Park Service regulations. 
(b) SALE OF PROPERTY.^-If a person holding a grazing permit 
referred to in subsection (a) informs the Secretary that such permit-
tee is willing to convey to the United States any base property 
with respect to which such permit was issued and to which such 
permittee holds title, the Secretary shall make the acquisition of 
such base property a priority as compared with the acquisition 
of other lands within the park, provided agreement can be reached 
concerning the terms and conditions of such acquisition. Any such 
base property which is located outside the park and acquired as 
a priority pursuant to this section shall be managed by the Federal 
agency responsible for the majority of the adjacent lands in accord-
ance with the laws applicable to such adjacent lands. 
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SEC. 307. DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ADVISORY COMMISSION. 
(a) The Secretary shall establish an Advisory Commission of 
no more than fifteen members, to advise the Secretary concerning 
the development and implementation of a new or revised com-
prehensive management plan for Death Valley National Park. 
(b)(1) The advisory commission shall include an elected official 
for each County within which any part of the park is located, 
a representative of the owners of private properties located within 
or immediately adjacent to the park, and other members represent-
ing persons actively engaged in grazing and range management, 
mineral exploration and development, and persons with expertise 
in relevant fields, including geology, biology, ecology, law enforce-
ment, and the protection and management of National Park 
resources and values. 
(2) Vacancies in the advisory commission shall be filled by 
the Secretary so as to maintain the full diversity of views required 
to be represented on the advisory commission. 
(c) The Federal Advisory Committee Act shall apply to the 
procedures and activities of the advisory commission. 
(d) The advisory commission shall cease to exist ten years 
after the date of its establishment. 
SEC. 308. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT. 
In preparing the maps and legal descriptions required by sec-
tions 304 and 602 of this Act, the Secretary shall adjust the bound-
aries of the Death Valley National Park and Death Valley National 
Park Wilderness so as to exclude from such National Park and 
Wilderness the lands generally depicted on the map entitled "Porter 
Mine (Panamint Range) Exclusion Area" dated June 1994. 
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TITLE IV-^OSHUA TREE NATIONAL 
PARK 
Short title. 
Ante, p. 4471. 
SEC. 401. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds that— 
(1) a proclamation by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 
established Joshua Tree National Monument to protect various 
objects of historical and scientific interest; 
(2) Joshua Tree National Monument today is recognized 
as a major unit of the National Park System, having extraor-
dinary values enjoyed by millions of visitors; 
(3) the monument boundaries as modified in 1950 and 
1961 exclude and thereby expose to incompatible development 
and inconsistent management, contiguous Federal lands of 
essential and superlative natural, ecological, archeological, 
paleontological, cultural, historical, and wilderness values; 
(4) Joshua Tree National Monument should be enlarged 
by the addition of contiguous Federal lands of national park 
caliber, and afforded full recognition and statutory protection 
as a National Park; and 
(5) the nondesignated wilderness within Joshua Tree 
should receive statutory protection by designation pursuant 
to the Wilderness Act. 
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SEC. 402. ESTABLISHMENT OF JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK. 
There is hereby established the Joshua Tree National Park, 
(hereinafter in this section referred to as the "park"), as generally 
depicted on a map entitled "Joshua Tree National Park Boundary— 
Proposed", dated May 1991, and four maps entitled "Joshua Tree 
National Park Boundary and Wilderness', numbered in the title 
one through four, and dated October 1991 or prior, which shall 
be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the 
Superintendent of the park and the Director of the National Park 
Service, Department of the Interior. The Joshua Tree National 
Monument is hereby abolished as such, the lands and interests 
therein are hereby incorporated within and made part of the new 
Joshua Tree National Park, and any funds available for purposes 
of the monument shall be available for purposes of the park. 
SEC. 403. TRANSFER AND ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS. 
Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary shall transfer the 
lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management 
depicted on the maps described in section 402 of this title, without 
consideration, to tne administrative jurisdiction of the National 
Park Service for administration as part of the National Park Sys-
tem. The boundaries of the park shall be adjusted accordingly. 
The Secretary shall administer the areas added to the park by 
this title in accordance with the provisions of law generally 
applicable to units of the National Park System, including the 
Act entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, and 
for other purposes", approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 
U.S.C. 1, 2-4). 
SEC. 404. MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION. 
Within six months after the date of enactment of this title, 
the Secretary shall file maps and legal description of the park 
with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United 
States Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
United States House of Representatives, Such maps and legal 
description shall have the same force and effect as if included 
in this title, except that the Secretary may correct clerical and 
typographical errors in such legal description and maps. The maps 
and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspec-
tion in the appropriate offices of the National Park Service, Depart-
ment of the Interior. 
SEC. 405. WITHDRAWAL. 
Subject to valid existing rights, all Federal lands within the 
park are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, 
or disposal under the public land laws; from location, entry, and 
patent under the United States mining laws; and from disposition 
under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing, and 
mineral materials, and all amendments thereto. 
SEC. 406. UTILITY RIGHTS-OF-WAY. 
Nothing in this title shall have the effect of terminating any 
validly issued right-of-way or customary operation, maintenance, 
repair, and replacement activities in such right-of-way, issued, 
granted, or permitted to the Metropolitan Water District pursuant 
to the Boulder Canyon Project Act (43 U.S.C. 617-619b), which 
is located on lands included in the Joshua Tree National Park, 
but outside lands designated as wilderness under section 601(a)(2). 
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Such activities shall be conducted in a manner which will minimize 
the impact on park resources. Nothing in this title shall have 
the effect of terminating the fee title to lands or customary oper-
ation, maintenance, repair, and replacement activities on or under 
such lands granted to the Metropolitan Water District pursuant 
to the Act of June 18, 1932 (47 Stat. 324), which are located 
on lands included in the Joshua Tree National Park, but outside 
lands designated as wilderness under section 601(a)(2). Such activi-
ties shall be conducted in a manner which will minimize the impact 
on park resources. The Secretary shall prepare within one hundred 
and eighty days after the date of enactment of this Act, in consulta-
tion with the Metropolitan Water District, plans for emergency 
access by the Metropolitan Water District to its lands and rights-
of-way. 
SEC. 407. JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ADVISORY COMMISSION. 
(a) The Secretary shall establish an Advisory Commission of 
no more than fifteen members, to advise the Secretary concerning 
the development and implementation of a new or revised com-
prehensive management plan for Joshua Tree National Park. 
(b)(1) The advisory commission shall include an elected official 
for each County within which any part of the park is located, 
a representative of the owners of private properties located within 
or immediately adjacent to the park, and other members represent-
ing persons actively engaged in grazing and range management, 
mineral exploration and development, and persons with expertise 
in relevant fields, including geology, biology, ecology, law enforce-
ment, and the protection and management of National Park 
resources and values. 
(2) Vacancies in the advisory commission shall be filled by 
the Secretary so as to maintain the full diversity of views required 
to be represented on the advisory commission. 
(c) The Federal Advisory Committee Act shall apply to the 
procedures and activities of the advisory commission. 
(d) The advisory commission shall cease to exist ten years 
after the date of its establishment. 
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TITLE 
V—MO 
JAVE 
NATIONAL 
PRESERVE 
Short title. 
Ante, p. 4471. 
SEC. 501. FINDINGS. 
The Congress hereby finds that— 
(1) Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks, as estab-
lished by this Act, protect unique and superlative desert 
resources, but do not embrace the particular ecosystems and 
transitional desert type found in the Mojave Desert area lying 
between them on public lands now afforded only impermanent 
administrative designation as a national scenic area; 
(2) the Mojave Desert area possesses outstanding natural, 
cultural, historical, and recreational values meriting statutory 
designation and recognition as a unit of the National Park 
System; 
(3) the Mojave Desert area should be afforded full recogni-
tion and statutory protection as a national preserve; 
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(4) the wilderness within the Mojave Desert should receive 
maximum statutory protection by designation pursuant to the 
Wilderness Act; and 
(5) the Mojave Desert area provides an outstanding oppor-
tunity to develop services, programs, accommodations and facili-
ties to ensure the use and enjoyment of the area by individuals 
with disabilities, consistent with section 504 of the Rehabilita-
tion Act of 1973, Public Law 101-336, the Americans With 
Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101), and other,appropriate 
laws and regulations. 
SEC. 502. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE. 
There is hereby established the Mojave National Preserve, 
comprising approximately one million four hundred nineteen thou-
sand eight hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Mojave National Park Boundary—Proposed", dated May 17, 1994, 
which shall be on file and available for inspection in the appropriate 
offices of the Director of the National Park Service, Department 
of the Interior. 
SEC. 503. TRANSFER OF LANDS. 
Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary shall transfer the 
lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management 
depicted on the maps described in section 502 of this title, without 
consideration, to the administrative jurisdiction of the Director of 
the National Park Service. The boundaries of the public lands 
shall be adjusted accordingly. 
SEC. 504. MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION. 
Within six months after the date of enactment of this title, 
the Secretary shall file maps and a legal description of the preserve 
designated under this title with the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee 
on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representa-
tives. Such maps and legal description shall have the same force 
and effect as if included in this title, except that the Secretary 
may correct clerical and typographical errors in such legal descrip-
tion and in the maps referred to in section 502. The maps and 
legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection 
in the appropriate offices of the National Park Service, Department 
of the Interior. 
SEC. 505. ABOLISHMENT OF SCENIC AREA. 
The East Mojave National Scenic Area, designated on January 
13, 1981 (46 FR 3994), and modified on August 9, 1983 (48 FR 
36210), is hereby abolished. 
SEC. 506. ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS. 
(a) The Secretary shall administer the preserve in accordance 
with this title and with the provisions of law generally applicable 
to units of the National Park System, including the Act entitled 
"An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other pur-
poses", approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1, 2-
4). 
(b) The Secretary shall permit hunting, fishing, and trapping 
on lands and waters within the preserve designated by this Act 
in accordance with applicable Federal and State laws except that 
the Secretary may designate areas where, and establish periods 
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when, no hunting, fishing, or trapping will be permitted for reasons 
of public safety, administration, or compliance with provisions of 
applicable law. Except in emergencies, regulations closing areas 
to hunting, fishing, or trapping pursuant to this subsection shall 
be put into effect only after consultation with the appropriate State 
agency having responsibility for fish and wildlife. Nothing in this 
Act shall be construed as affecting the jurisdiction or responsibilities 
of the States with respect to fish and wildlife on Federal lands 
and waters covered by this title nor shall anything in this Act 
be construed as authorizing the Secretary concerned to require 
a Federal permit to hunt, fish, or trap on Federal lands and waters 
covered by this title. 
SEC. 507. WITHDRAWAL. 
Subject to valid existing rights, all Federal lands within the 
preserve are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropria-
tion, or disposal under the public land laws; from location, entry, 
and patent under the United States mining laws; and from disposi-
tion under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing, 
and mineral materials, and all amendments thereto. 
SEC. 508. REGULATION OF MINING. 
Subject to valid existing rights, all mining claims located within 
the preserve shall be subject to all applicable laws and regulations 
applicable to mining within units of the National Park System, 
including the Mining in the Parks Act (16 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.), 
and any patent issued after the date of enactment of this title 
shall convey title only to the minerals together with the right 
to use the surface of lands for mining purposes, subject to such 
laws and regulations. 
SEC. 509. STUDY AS TO VALIDITY OF MINING CLAIMS. 
(a) The Secretary shall not approve any plan of operation 
prior to determining the validity of tne unpatented mining claims, 
mill sites, and tunnel sites affected by such plan within the preserve 
and shall submit to Congress recommendations as to whether any 
valid or patented claims should be acquired by the United States, 
including the estimated acquisition costs of such claims, and a 
discussion of the environmental consequences of the extraction of 
minerals from these lands. 
(b)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
shall permit the holder or holders of mining claims identified on 
the records of the Bureau of Land Management as Volco #A CAMC 
105446, Volco #B CAMC 105447, Volco 1 CAMC 80155, Volco 2 
CAMC 80156, Volco 3 CAMC 170259, Volco 4 CAMC 170260, Volco 
5 CAMC 78405, Volco 6 CAMC 78404, and Volco 7 CAMC 78403, 
Volco Placer 78332, to continue exploration and development activi-
ties on such claims for a period of two years after the date of 
enactment of this title, subject to the same regulations as applied 
to such activities on such claims on the day before such date 
of enactment. 
(2) At the end of the period specified in paragraph (1), or 
sooner if so requested by the holder or holders of the claims specified 
in such paragraph, the Secretary shall determine whether there 
has been a discovery of valuable minerals on such claims and 
whether, if such discovery had been made on or before July 1, 
1994, such claims would have been valid as of such date under 
the mining laws of the United States in effect on such date. 
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(3) If the Secretary, pursuant to paragraph (2), makes an 
affirmative determination concerning the claims specified in para-
graph (1), the holder or holders of such claims shall be permitted 
to continue to operate such claims subject only to such regulations 
as applied on July 1, 1994 to the exercise of valid existing rights 
on patented mining claims within a unit of the National Park 
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SEC. 510. GRAZING. 
(a) The privilege of grazing domestic livestock on lands within 
the preserve shall continue to be exercised at no more than the 
current level, subject to applicable laws and National Park Service 
regulations. 
(b) If a person holding a grazing permit referred to in subsection 
(a) informs the Secretary that such permittee is willing to convey 
to the United States any base property with respect to which 
such permit was issued and to which such permittee holds title, 
the Secretary shall make the acquisition of such base property 
a priority as compared with the acquisition of other lands within 
the preserve, provided agreement can be reached concerning the 
terms and conditions of such acquisition. Any such base property 
which is located outside the preserve and acquired as a priority 
pursuant to this section shall be managed by the Federal agency 
responsible for the majority of the adjacent lands in accordance 
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(a)(1) Nothing in this title shall have the effect of terminating 
any validly issued right-of-way or customary operation, mainte-
nance, repair, and replacement activities in such right-of-way, 
issued, granted, or permitted to Southern California Edison Com-
pany, its successors or assigns, which is located on lands included 
in the Mojave National Preserve, but outside lands designated 
as wilderness under section 601(a)(3), Such activities shall be con-
ducted in a manner which will minimize the impact on preserve 
resources. 
(2) Nothing in this title shall have the effect of prohibiting 
the upgrading of an existing electrical transmission line for the 
purpose of increasing the capacity of such transmission line in 
the Southern California Edison Company validly issued Eldorado-
Lugo Transmission Line right-of-way and Mojave-Lugo Trans-
mission Line right-of-way, or in a right-of-way if issued, granted, 
or permitted by the Secretary adjacent to the existing Mojave-
Lugo Transmission Line right-of-way (hereafter in this section 
referred to as "adjacent right-of-way"), including construction of 
a replacement transmission line: Provided, That— 
(A) in the Eldorado-Lugo Transmission Line rights-of-way 
(hereafter in this section referred to as the "Eldorado rights-
of-way") at no time shall there be more than three electrical 
transmission lines; 
(B) in the Mojave-Lugo Transmission Line right-of-way 
(hereafter in this section referred to as the "Mojave right-
of-way) and adjacent right-of-way, removal of the existing elec-
trical transmission line and reclamation of the site shall be 
completed no later than three years after the date on which 
construction of the upgraded transmission line begins, after 
which time there may be only one electrical transmission line 
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in the lands encompassed by Mojave right-of-way and adjacent 
right-of-way; 
(C) if there are no more than two electrical transmission 
lines in the Eldorado rights-of-way, two electrical transmission 
lines in the lands encompassed by the Mojave right-of-way 
and adjacent right-of-way may be allowed; 
(D) in the Eldorado rights-of-way and Mojave right-of-way 
no additional land shall be issued, granted, or permitted for 
such upgrade unless an addition would reduce the impacts 
to preserve resources; 
(E) no more than 350 feet of additional land shall be 
issued, granted, or permitted for an adjacent right-of-way to 
the south of the Mojave right-of-way unless a greater addition 
would reduce the impacts to preserve resources; and 
(F) such upgrade activities, including helicopter aided 
construction, shall be conducted in a manner which will mini-
mize the impact on preserve resources. 
(3) The Secretary shall prepare within one hundred and eighty 
days after the date of enactment of this title, in consultation with 
the Southern California Edison Company, plans for emergency 
access by the Southern California Edison Company to its rights-
of-way. 
(b)(1) Nothing in this title shall have the effect of terminating 
any validly issued right-of-way, or customary operation, mainte-
nance, repair, and replacement activities in such 
right-of-way; 
prohibiting the upgrading of and construction on existing facilities 
in such right-of-way for the purpose of increasing the capacity 
of the existing pipeline; or prohibiting the renewal of such right-
of-way issued, granted, or permitted to the Southern California 
Gas Company, its successors or assigns, which is located on lands 
included in the Mojave National Preserve, but outside lands des-
ignated as wilderness under section 601(a)(3). Such activities shall 
be conducted in a manner which will minimize the impact on 
preserve resources. 
(2) The Secretary shall prepare within one hundred and eighty 
days after the date of enactment of this title, in consultation with 
the Southern California Gas Company, plans for emergency access 
by the Southern California Gas Company to its rights-of-way. 
(c) Nothing in this title shall have the effect of terminating 
any validly issued right-of-way or customary operation, mainte-
nance, repair, and replacement activities of existing facilities issued, 
granted, or permitted for communications cables or lines, which 
are located on lands included in the Mojave National Preserve, 
but outside lands designated as wilderness under section 601(a)(3). 
Such activities shall be conducted in a manner which will minimize 
the impact on preserve resources. 
(d) Nothing in this title shall have the effect of terminating 
any validly issued right-of-way or customary operation, mainte-
nance, repair, and replacement activities of existing facilities issued, 
granted, or permitted to Molybdenum Corporation of America; 
Molycorp, Incorporated; or Union Oil Company of California (d/ 
b/a Unocal Corporation); or its successors or assigns, or prohibiting 
renewal of such right-of-way, which is located on lands included 
in the Mojave National Preserve, but outside lands designated 
as wilderness under section 601(a)(3). Such activities shall be con-
ducted in a manner which will minimize the impact on preserve 
resources. 
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SEC. 512. PREPARATION OF MANAGEMENT PLAN. 
Within three years after the date of enactment of this title, 
the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on Natu-
ral Resources of the United States House of Representatives a 
detailed and comprehensive management plan for the preserve. 
Such plan shall place emphasis on historical and cultural sites 
and ecological and wilderness values within the boundaries of the 
preserve. Such plan shall evaluate the feasibility of using the Kelso 
Depot and existing railroad corridor to provide public access to 
and a facility for special interpretive, educational, and scientific 
programs within the preserve. Such plan shall specifically address 
the needs of individuals with disabilities in the design of services, 
programs, accommodations and facilities consistent with section 
504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Public Law 101-336, the 
Americans with Disabihties Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101), and 
other appropriate laws and regulations. 
SEC. 513. GRANITE MOUNTAINS NATURAL RESERVE. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—^There is hereby designated the Granite 
Mountains Natural Reserve within the preserve comprising approxi-
mately nine thousand acres as generally depicted on a map entitled 
"Mojave National Park Boundary and Wilderness—Proposed 6", 
dated May 1991. 
(b) COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT AGREEMENT.—Upon enactment 
of this title, the Secretary shall enter into a cooperative manage-
ment agreement with the University of California for the purposes 
of managing the lands within the Granite Mountains Natural 
Reserve. Such cooperative agreement shall ensure continuation of 
arid lands research and educational activities of the University 
of California, consistent with the provisions of this title and laws 
generally applicable to units of the National Park System. 
SEC. 
514. 
SODA 
SPRINGS 
DESERT 
STUDY 
CENTER. 
Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary shall enter into 
a cooperative management agreement with California State Univer-
sity for the purposes of managing facilities at the Soda Springs 
Desert Study Center. Such cooperative agreement shall ensure 
continuation of the desert research and educational activities of 
California State University, consistent with the provisions of this 
title and laws generally applicable to units of the National Park 
System. 
SEC. 515. CONSTRUCTION OF VISITOR CENTER. 
The Secretary is authorized to construct a visitor center in 
the preserve for the purpose of providing information through appro-
priate displays, printed material, and other interpretive programs, 
about the resources of the preserve. 
SEC. 516. ACQUISITION OF LANDS. 
The Secretary is authorized to acquire all lands and interest 
in lands within the boundary of the preserve by donation, purchase, 
or exchange, except that— 
(1) any lands or interests therein within the boundary 
of the preserve which are owned by the State of California, 
or any political subdivision thereof, may be acquired only by 
donation or exchange except for lands managed by the Califor-
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(2) lands or interests therein within the boundary of the 
preserve which are not owned by the State of CaHfornia or 
any poUtical subdivision thereof may be acquired only with 
the consent of the owner thereof unless the Secretary deter-
mines, after written notice to the owner and after opportunity 
for comment, that the property is being developed, or proposed 
to be developed, in a manner which is detrimental to the 
integrity of the preserve or which is otherwise incompatible 
with the purposes of this title: Provided, however. That the 
construction, modification, repair, improvement, or replacement 
of a single-family residence shall not be determined to be det-
rimental to the integrity of the preserve or incompatible with 
the purposes of this title. 
SEC. 517. ACQUIRED LANDS TO BE MADE PART OF MOJAVE NATIONAL 
PRESERVE. 
Any lands acquired by the Secretary under this title shall 
become part of the Mojave National Preserve. 
SEC. 518. MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE ADVISORY COMMISSION. 
(a) The Secretary shall establish an Advisory Commission of 
no more than fifteen members, to advise the Secretary concerning 
the development and implementation of a new or revised com-
prehensive management plan for the Mojave National Preserve. 
(b)(1) The advisory commission shall include an elected ofticial 
for each County within which any part of the preserve is located, 
a representative of the owners of private properties located within 
or immediately adjacent to the preserve, and other members rep-
resenting persons actively engaged in grazing and range manage-
ment, mineral exploration and development, and persons with 
expertise in relevant fields, including geology, biology, ecology, law 
enforcement, and the protection and management of National Park 
resources and values. 
(2) Vacancies in the advisory commission shall be filled by 
the Secretary so as to maintain the full diversity of views required 
to be represented on the advisory commission. 
(c) The Federal Advisory Committee Act shall apply to the 
procedures and activities of the advisory commission. 
(d) The advisory commission shall cease to exist ten years 
after the date of its establishment. 
SEC. 519. NO ADVERSE AFFECT ON LAND UNTIL ACQUIRED. 
Unless and until acquired by the United States, no lands within 
the boundaries of wilderness areas or National Park System units 
designated or enlarged by this Act that are owned by any person 
or entity other than the United States shall be subject to any 
of the rules or regulations applicable solely to the Federal lands 
within such boundaries and may be used to the extent allowed 
by applicable law. Neither the location of such lands within such 
boundaries nor the possible acquisition of such lands by the United 
States shall constitute a bar to the otherwise lawful issuance of 
any Federal license or permit other than a license or permit related 
to activities governed by 16 U.S.C. 4601-22(c). Nothing in this 
section shall be construed as affecting the applicability of any 
provision of the Mining in the Parks Act (16 U.S.C. 1901 et.seq.), 
the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.), or regulations applicable 
to oil and gas development as set forth in 36 CFR 9B. 
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TITLE VI—NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 
WILDERNESS 
SEC. 601. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS. 
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(a) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (78 
note. 
Stat. 890; 16 U.S.C. 1311 et seq.), the following lands within the 
units of the National Park System designated by this Act are 
hereby designated as wilderness, and therefore, as components of 
the National Wilderness Preservation System: 
(1) Death Valley National Park Wilderness, comprising 
approximately three million one hundred fifty-eight thousand 
thirty-eight acres, as generally depicted on twenty-three maps 
entitled "Death Valley National Park Boundary and Wilder-
ness", numbered in the title one through twenty-three, and 
dated October 1993 or prior, and three maps entitled "Death 
Valley National Park Wilderness", numbered in the title one 
through three, and dated July 1993 or prior, and which shall 
be known as the Death Valley Wilderness. 
(2) Joshua Tree National Park Wilderness Additions, 
comprising approximately one hundred thirty-one thousand 
seven hundred and eighty acres, as generally depicted on four 
maps entitled "Joshua Tree National Park Boundary and 
Wilderness—Proposed", numbered in the title one througn four, 
and dated October 1991 or prior, and which are hereby incor-
porated in, and which shall be deemed to be a part of the 
Joshua Tree Wilderness as designated by Public Law 94-567. 
(3) Mojave National Preserve Wilderness, comprising 
approximately six hundred ninety-five thousand two hundred 
acres, as generally depicted on ten maps entitled "Mojave 
National Park Boundary and Wilderness—Proposed", and num-
bered in the title one through ten, and dated March 1994 
or prior, and seven maps entitled "Mojave National Park 
Wilderness—Proposed", numbered in the title one through 
seven, and dated March 1994 or prior, and which shall be 
known as the Mojave Wilderness. 
(b) POTENTIAL WILDERNESS.—Upon cessation of all uses prohib-
ited by the Wilderness Act and publication by the Secretary in 
the Federal Register of notice of such cessation, potential wilder-
ness, comprising approximately six thousand eight hundred and 
forty acres, as described in "1988 Death Valley National Monument 
Draft General Management Plan Draft Environmental Impact 
Statement" (hereafter in this title referred to as "Draft Plan") 
and as generally depicted on map in the Draft Plan entitled "Wilder-
ness Plan Death Valley National Monument", dated January 1988, 
and which shall be deemed to be a part of the Death Valley 
Wilderness as designated in paragraph (a)(1). Lands identified in 
the Draft Plan as potential wilderness shall be managed by the 
Secretary insofar as practicable as wilderness until such time as 
said lands are designated as wilderness. 
SEC. 602. FILING OF MAPS AND DESCRIPTIONS. 
Maps and a legal description of the boundaries of the areas 
designated in section 601 of this title shall be on file and available 
for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National 
Park Service, Department of the Interior. As soon as practicable 
after the date of enactment of this title, maps and legal descriptions 
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of the wilderness areas shall be filed with the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the Commit-
tee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Representa-
tives, and such maps and legal descriptions shall have the same 
force and effect as if included in this title, except that the Secretary 
may correct clerical and typographical errors in such maps and 
legal descriptions. 
SEC. 603. ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS. 
The areas designated by section 601 of this title as wilderness 
shall be administered by the Secretary in accordance with the 
applicable provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas des-
ignated by that title as wilderness, except that any reference in 
such provision to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this title, 
and where appropriate, and reference to the Secretary of Agriculture 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the Secretary of the Interior. 
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PROVISIONS 
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701. 
TRANSFER 
OF 
LANDS 
TO 
RED 
ROCK 
CANYON 
STATE 
PARK. 
Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary shall transfer to 
the State of California certain lands within the California Desert 
Conservation Area, California, of the Bureau of Land Management, 
comprising approximately twenty thousand five hundred acres, as 
generally depicted on two maps entitled "Red Rock Canyon State 
Park Additions 1" and "Red Rock Canyon State Park Additions 
2", dated May 1991, for inclusion in the State of California Park 
System. Should the State of California cease to manage these lands 
as part of the State Park System, ownership of the lands shall 
revert to the Department of the Interior to be managed as part 
of California Desert Conservation Area to provide maximum protec-
tion for the area's scenic and scientific values. 
SEC. 702. LAND TENURE ADJUSTMENTS. 
In preparing land tenure adjustment decisions with the Califor-
nia Desert Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, 
the Secretary shall give priority to consolidating Federal ownership 
within the national park units and wilderness areas designated 
by this Act. 
SEC. 703. LAND DISPOSAL. 
Except as provided in section 406 of this Act, none of the 
lands within the boundaries of the wilderness or park areas des-
ignated under this Act shall be granted to or otherwise made 
available for use by the Metropolitan Water District or any other 
agencies or persons pursuant to the Boulder Canyon Project Act 
(43 U.S.C. 617-619b) or any similar Acts. 
SEC. 704. MANAGEMENT OF NEWLY ACQUIRED LANDS. 
Any lands within the boundaries of a wilderness area des-
ignated under this Act which are acquired by the Federal Govern-
ment, shall become part of the wilderness area within which they 
are located and shall be managed in accordance with all the provi-
sions of this Act and other laws applicable to such wilderness 
area. 
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SEC. 705. NATIVE AMERICAN USES AND INTERESTS. 
(a) ACCESS.—In recognition of the past use of the National 
Park System units and wilderness areas designed under this Act 
by Indian people for traditional cultural and religious purposes, 
the Secretary shall ensure access to such park system units and 
wilderness areas by Indian people for such traditional cultural 
and religious purposes. In implementing this section, the Secretary, 
upon the request of an Indian tribe or Indian religious community, 
shall temporarily close to the general public use of one or more 
specific portions of the park system unit or wilderness area in 
order to protect the privacy of traditional cultural and religious 
activities in such areas by Indian people. Any such closure shall 
be made to affect the smallest practicable area for the minimum 
period necessary for such purposes. Such access shall be consistent 
with the purpose and intent of Public Law 95-341 (42 U.S.C. 
1996) commonly referred to as the "American Indian Religious 
Freedom Act", and with respect to areas designated as wilderness, 
the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890; 16 U.S.C. 1131). 
(b) STUDY.—(1) The Secretary, in consultation with the 
Timbisha Shoshone Tribe and relevant Federal agencies, shall con-
duct a study, subject to the availability of appropriations, to identify 
lands suitable for a reservation for the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe 
that are located within the Tribe's aboriginal homeland area within 
and outside the boundaries of the Death Valley National Monument 
and the Death Valley National Park, as described in title III of 
this Act. 
(2) Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this 
title, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Indian Affairs 
of the United States Senate, and the Committee on Natural 
Resources of the United States House of Representatives on the 
results of the study conducted under paragraph (1). 
SEC. 706. FEDERAL RESERVED WATER RIGHTS. 
(a) Except as otherwise provided in section 204 of this Act, 
with respect to each wilderness area designated by this Act, Con-
gress hereby reserves a quantity of water sufficient to fulfill the 
purposes of this Act. The priority date of such reserved water 
rights shall be the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) The Secretary and all other officers of the United States 
shall take all steps necessary to protect the rights reserved by 
this section, including the filing by the Secretary of a claim for 
the quantification of such rights in any present or future appro-
priate stream adjudication in the courts of the State of California 
in which the United States is or may be joined in accordance 
with section 208 of the Act of July 10, 1952 (66 Stat. 560, 43 
U.S.C. 666), commonly referred to as the McCarran Amendment. 
(c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as a relinquishment 
or reduction of any water rights reserved or appropriated by the 
United States in the State of California on or before the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
(d) The Federal water rights reserved by this Act are specific 
to the wilderness area located in the State of California designated 
under this Act. Nothing in this Act related to the reserved Federal 
water rights shall be construed as establishing a precedent with 
regard to any future designations, nor shall it constitute an 
interpretation of any other Act or any designation made thereto. 
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SEC. 707. CALIFORNIA STATE SCHOOL LANDS. 
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(a) NEGOTIATIONS TO EXCHANGE.—Upon request of the Califor-
nia State Lands Commission (hereinafter in this section referred 
to as the "Commission"), the Secretary shall enter into negotiations 
for an agreement to exchange Federal lands or interests therein 
on the list referred to in subsection (b)(2) for California State 
School lands or interests therein which are located within the 
boundaries of one or more of the wilderness areas or park system 
units designated by this Act (hereinafter in this section referred 
to as "State School lands."). The Secretary shall negotiate in good 
faith to reach a land exchange agreement consistent with the 
requirements of section 206 of the Federal Land Policy and Manage-
ment Act of 1976. 
(b) PREPARATION OF LIST.—^Within six months after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall send to the Commission 
and to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
United States Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources 
of the United States House of Representatives a list of the following: 
(1) State School lands or interests therein (including min-
eral interests) which are located within the boundaries of the 
wilderness areas or park system units designated by this Act. 
(2) Lands within the State of California under the jurisdic-
tion of the Secretary that the Secretary determines to be suit-
able for disposal for exchange, identified in the following 
priority— 
(A) lands with mineral interests, including geothermal, 
which have the potential for commercial development but 
which are not currently under mineral lease or producing 
Federal mineral revenues; 
(B) Federal claims in California managed by the 
Bureau of Reclamation that the Secretary determines are 
not needed for any Bureau of Reclamation project; and 
(C) any public lands in California that the Secretary, 
pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management 
Act of 1976, has determined to be suitable for disposal 
through exchange. 
(3) Any other Federal land, or interest therein, within 
the State of California, which is or becomes surplus to the 
needs of the Federal Government. The Secretary may exclude, 
in the Secretary's discretion, lands located within, or contiguous 
to, the exterior boundaries of lands held in trust for a federally 
recognized Indian tribe located in the State of California. 
(4) The Secretary shall maintain such list and shall 
annually transmit such list to the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the Commit-
tee on Natural Resources of the United States House of Rep-
resentatives until all of the State School lands identified in 
paragraph (1) have been acquired. 
(c) DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS FEDERAL PROPERTY.—(1) Effective 
upon the date of enactment of this title and until all State School 
lands identified in paragraph (b)(1) of this section are acquired, 
no Federal lands or interests therein within the State of California 
may be disposed of from Federal ownership unless— 
(A) the Secretary is notified of the availability of such 
lands or interest therein; 
(B) the Secretary has notified the Commission of the avail-
ability of such lands or interests therein for exchange; and 
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six months that it wishes to consider entering into an exchange 
for such lands or interests therein. 
(2) If the Commission notifies the Secretary that it wishes 
to consider an exchange for such lands or interests therein, the 
Secretary shall attempt to conclude such exchange in accordance 
with the provisions of this section as quickly as possible. 
(3) If an agreement is reached and executed with the Commis-
sion, then upon notice to the head of the agency having administra-
tive jurisdiction over such lands or interests therein, the Secretary 
shall be vested with administrative jurisdiction over such land 
or interests therein for the purpose of concluding such exchange. 
(4) Upon the acquisition of all State School lands or upon 
notice by the Commission to the Secretary that it no longer has 
an interest in such lands or interests therein, such lands or interests 
shall be released to the agency that originally had jurisdiction 
over such lands or interests for disposal in accordance with the 
laws otherwise applicable to such lands or interests. 
(d) No EFFECT ON MILITARY BASE CLOSURES.—The provisions 
of this section shall not apply to the disposal of property under 
title II of the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure 
and Realignment Act (PubHc Law 100-526; 102 Stat. 2627; 10 
U.S.C. 2687 note) or the Defense Base Closure and Realignment 
Act of 1990 (Pubhc Law 101-510; 104 Stat. 1808; 10 U.S.C. 2687 
note). 
SEC. 708. ACCESS TO PRIVATE PROPERTY. 
The Secretary shall provide adequate access to nonfederally 
owned land or interests in land within the boundaries of the con-
servation units and wilderness areas designated by this Act which 
will provide the owner of such land or interest the reasonable 
use and enjoyment thereof. 
SEC. 709. FEDERAL FACILITIES FEE EQUITY. 
(a) POLICY STATEMENT.—It is the intent of Congress that 
entrance, tourism or recreational use fees for use of Federal lands 
and facilities not discriminate against any State or any region 
of the country. 
(b) FEE STUDY.—The Secretary, in cooperation with other 
affected agencies, shall prepare and submit a report by May 1, 
1996 to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
United States Senate, the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
United States House of Representatives, and any other relevant 
committees, which shall— 
(1) identify all Federal lands and facilities that provide 
recreational or tourism use; and 
(2) analyze by State and region any fees charged for 
entrance, recreational or tourism use, if any, on Federal lands 
or facilities in a State or region, individually and collectively. 
(c) RECOMMENDATIONS.—Following completion of the report in 
subsection (b), the Secretary, in cooperation with other affected 
agencies, shall prepare and submit a report by May 1, 1997 to 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United 
States Senate, the Committee on Natural Resources of the United 
States House of Representatives, and any other relevant commit-
tees, which shall contain recommendations which the Secretary 
deems appropriate for implementing the congressional intent out-
lined in subsection (a). 
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SEC. 710. LAND APPRAISAL. 
Lands and interests in lands acquired pursuant to this Act 
shall be appraised without regard to the presence of a species 
listed as threatened or endangered pursuant to the Endangered 
Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 
SEC. 711. DEFINITION. 
Any reference to the term "this Act" in titles I through IX 
shall be deemed to be solely a reference to sections 1 and 2, 
and titles I through IX. 
TITLE VIII—MILITARY LANDS AND 
OVERFLIGHTS 
SEC. 801. SHORT TITLE AND FINDINGS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This title may be cited as the "California 
Military Lands Withdrawal and Overflights Act of 1994". 
(b) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— 
(1) military aircraft testing and training activities as well 
as demilitarization activities in California are an important 
part of the national defense system of the United States, and 
are essential in order to secure for the American people of 
this and future generations an enduring and viable national 
defense system; 
(2) the National Park System units and wilderness areas 
designated by this Act lie within a region critical to providing 
training, research, and development for the Armed Forces of 
the United States and its allies; 
(3) there is a lack of alternative sites available for these 
military training, testing, and research activities; 
(4) continued use of the lands and airspace in the California 
desert region is essential for military purposes; and 
(5) continuation of these military activities, under appro-
priate terms and conditions, is not incompatible with the protec-
tion and proper management of the natural, environmental, 
cultural, and other resources and values of the Federal lands 
in the California desert area. 
SEC. 802. MILITARY OVERFLIGHTS. 
(a) OVERFLIGHTS.—Nothing in this Act, the Wilderness Act, 
or other land management laws generally applicable to the new 
units of the National Park or Wilderness Preservation Systems 
(or any additions to existing units) designated by this Act, shall 
restrict or preclude low-level overflights of military aircraft over 
such units, including military overflights that can be seen or heard 
within such units. 
(b) SPECIAL AIRSPACE.—Nothing in this Act, the Wilderness 
Act, or other land management laws generally applicable to the 
new units of the National Park or Wilderness Preservation Systems 
(or any additions to existing units) designated by this Act, shall 
restrict or preclude the designation of new units of special airspace 
or the use or establishment of military flight training routes over 
such new park system or wilderness units. 
(c) No EFFECT ON OTHER LAWS.—Nothing in this section shall 
be construed to modify, expand, or diminish any authority under 
other Federal law. 
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Military Lands 
Withdrawal and 
Overflights Act 
of 1994. 
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SEC. 803. WITHDRAWALS. 
(a) CHINA LAKE.—(1) Subject to valid existing rights and except 
as otherwise provided in this title, the Federal lands referred to 
in paragraph (2), and all other areas within the boundary of such 
lands as depicted on the map specified in such paragraph which 
may become subject to the operation of the public land laws, are 
hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the public 
land laws (including the mining laws and the mineral leasing 
laws). Such lands are reserved for use by the Secretary of the 
Navy for— 
(A) use as a research, development, test, and evaluation 
laboratory; 
(B) use as a range for air warfare weapons and weapon 
systems; 
(C) use as a high hazard training area for aerial gunnery, 
rocketry, electronic warfare and countermeasures, tactical 
maneuvering and air support; 
(D) geothermal leasing and development and related power 
production activities; and 
(E) subject to the requirements of section 804(f) of this 
title, other defense-related purposes consistent with the pur-
poses specified in this paragraph. 
(2) The lands referred to in paragraph (1) are the Federal 
lands located within the boundaries of the China Lake Naval Weap-
ons Center, comprising approximately one million one hundred 
thousand acres in Inyo, Kern, and San Bernardino Counties, Califor-
nia, as generally depicted on a map entitled "China Lake Naval 
Weapons Center Withdrawal—Proposed", dated January 1985. 
(b) CHOCOLATE MOUNTAIN.—(1) Subject to valid existing rights 
and except as otherwise provided in this title, the Federal lands 
referred to in paragraph (2), and all other areas within the boundary 
of such lands as depicted on the map specified in such paragraph 
which may become subject to the operation of the public land 
laws, are hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under 
the public land laws (including the mining laws and the mineral 
leasing and the geothermal leasing laws). Such lands are reserved 
for use by the Secretary of the Navy for— 
(A) testing and training for aerial bombing, missile firing, 
tactical maneuvering and air support; and 
(B) subject to the provisions of section 804(f) of this title, 
other defense-related purposes consistent with the purposes 
specified in this paragraph. 
(2) The lands referred to in paragraph (1) are the Federal 
lands comprising approximately two hundred twenty-six thousand 
seven hundred and eleven acres in Imperial County, California, 
as generally depicted on a map entitled "Chocolate Mountain Aerial 
Gunnery Range Proposed—Withdrawal" dated July 1993. 
SEC. 804. MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS. 
(a) PUBLICATION AND FILING REQUIREMENT.—^As soon as prac-
ticable afl;er the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary 
shall— 
Federal 
(1) publish in the Federal Register a notice containing 
^fjf^f; 
the legal description of the lands withdrawn and reserved by 
publication. 
this title; and 
(2) file maps and the legal description of the lands with-
drawn and reserved by this title with the Committee on Energy 
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and Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the 
Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House 
of Representatives. 
(b) TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.—Such maps and legal descrip-
tions shall have the same force and effect as if they were included 
in this title except that the Secretary may correct clerical and 
t3T)ographical errors in such maps and legal descriptions. 
(c) AVAILABILITY FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION.—Copies of such maps 
and legal descriptions shall be available for public inspection in 
the appropriate offices of the Bureau of Land Management; the 
office of the commander of the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, 
California; the office of the commanding officer. Marine Corps Air 
Station, Yuma, Arizona; and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 
Washington, District of Columbia. 
(d) REIMBURSEMENT.—The Secretary of Defense shall reimburse 
the Secretary for the cost of implementing this section. 
SEC. 805. MANAGEMENT OF WITHDRAWN LANDS. 
(a) MANAGEMENT BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.—(1) 
Except as provided in subsection (g), during the period of the 
withdrawal the Secretary shall manage the lands withdrawn under 
section 802 of this title pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and other 
applicable law, including this title. 
(2) To the extent consistent with applicable law and Executive 
orders, the lands withdrawn under section 802 of this title may 
be managed in a manner permitting— 
(A) the continuation of grazing pursuant to applicable law 
and Executive orders were permitted on the date of enactment 
of this title; 
(B) protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat; 
(C) control of predatory and other animals; 
(D) recreation (but only on lands withdrawn by section 
802(a) of this title (relating to China Lake)); 
(E) the prevention and appropriate suppression of brush 
and range fires resulting from nonmilitary activities; and 
(F) geothermal leasing and development and related power 
production activities on the lands withdrawn under section 
802(a) of this title (relating to China Lake). 
(3)(A) All nonmilitary use of such lands, including the uses 
described in paragraph (2), shall be subject to such conditions 
and restrictions as may be necessary to permit the military use 
of such lands for the purposes specified in or authorized pursuant 
to this title. 
(B) The Secretary may issue any lease, easement, right-of-
way, or other authorization with respect to the nonmilitary use 
of such lands only with the concurrence of the Secretary of the 
Navy. 
(b) CLOSURE TO PUBLIC.—(1) If the Secretary of the Navy deter-
mines that military operations, public safety, or national security 
require the closure to public use of aiiy road, trail, or other portion 
of the lands withdrawn by this title, the Secretary may take such 
action as the Secretary determines necessary or desirable to effect 
and maintain such closure. 
(2) Any such closure shall be limited to the minimum areas 
and periods which the Secretary of the Navy determines are 
required to carry out this subsection. 
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(3) Before and during any closure under this subsection, the 
Secretary of the Navy shall— 
(A) keep appropriate warning notices posted; and 
Notification. 
(B) take appropriate steps to notify the public concerning 
such closures. 
(c) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—The Secretary (after consultation with 
the Secretary of the Navy) shall develop a plan for the management 
of each area withdrawn under section 802 of this title during 
the period of such withdrawal. Each plan shall— 
(1) be consistent with applicable law; 
(2) be subject to conditions and restrictions specified in 
subsection (a)(3); 
(3) include such provisions as may be necessary for proper 
management and protection of the resources and values of 
such area; and 
(4) be developed not later than three years after the date 
of enactment of this title. 
(d) BRUSH AND RANGE FIRES.—The Secretary of the Navy shall 
take necessary precautions to prevent and suppress brush and 
range fires occurring within and outside the lands withdrawn under 
section 802 of this title as a result of military activities and may 
seek assistance from the Bureau of Land Management in the 
suppression of such fires. The memorandum of understanding 
required by subsection (e) shall provide for Bureau of Land Manage-
ment assistance in the suppression of such fires, and for a transfer 
of funds from the Department of the Navy to the Bureau of Land 
Management as compensation for such assistance. 
(e) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING.—(1) The Secretary and 
the Secretary of the Navy shall (with respect to each land with-
drawal under section 802 of this title) enter into a memorandum 
of understanding to implement the management plan developed 
under subsection (c). Any such memorandum of understanding shall 
provide that the Director of the Bureau of Land Management shall 
provide assistance in the suppression of fires resulting from the 
military use of lands withdrawn under section 802 if requested 
by the Secretary of the Navy. 
(2) The duration of any such memorandum shall be the same 
as the period of the withdrawal of the lands under section 802. 
(f) ADDITIONAL MILITARY USES.—Lands withdrawn under sec-
tion 802 of this title may be used for defense-related uses other 
than those specified in such section. The Secretary of Defense 
shall promptly notify the Secretary in the event that the lands 
withdrawn by this title will be used for defense-related purposes 
other than those specified in section 802. Such notification shall 
indicate the additional use or uses involved, the proposed duration 
of such uses, and the extent to which such additional military 
uses of the withdrawn lands will require that additional or more 
stringent conditions or restrictions be imposed on otherwise-per-
mitted nonmilitary uses of the withdrawn land or portions thereof. 
(g) MANAGEMENT OF CHINA LAKE.—(1) The Secretary may 
assign the management responsibility for the lands withdrawn 
under section 802(a) of this title to the Secretary of the Navy 
who shall manage such lands, and issue leases, easements, rights-
of-way, and other authorizations, in accordance with this title and 
cooperative management arrangements between the Secretary and 
the Secretary of the Navy: Provided, That nothing in this subsection 
shall affect geothermal leases issued by the Secretary prior to 
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the date of enactment of this title, or the responsibiUty of the 
Secretary to administer and manage such leases, consistent with 
the provisions of this section. In the case that the Secretary assigns 
such management responsibility to the Secretary of the Navy before 
the development of the management plan under subsection (c), 
the Secretary of the Navy (after consultation with the Secretary) 
shall develop such management plan. 
(2) The Secretary shall be responsible for the issuance of any 
lease, easement, right-of-way, and other authorization with respect 
to any activity which involves both the lands withdrawn under 
section 802(a) of this title and any other lands. Any such authoriza-
tion shall be issued only with the consent of the Secretary of 
the Navy and, to the extent that such activity involves lands with-
drawn under section 802(a), shall be subject to such conditions 
as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe. 
(3) The Secretary of the Navy shall prepare and submit to Reports, 
the Secretary an annual report on the status of the natural and 
cultural resources and values of the lands withdrawn under section 
802(a). The Secretary shall transmit such report to the Committee 
on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate 
and the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States 
House of Representatives. 
(4) The Secretary of the Navy shall be responsible for the 
management of wild horses and burros located on the lands with-
drawn under section 802(a) of this title and may utilize helicopters 
and motorized vehicles for such purposes. Such management shall 
be in accordance with laws applicable to such management on 
public lands and with an appropriate memorandum of understand-
ing between the Secretary and the Secretary of the Navy. 
(5) Neither this title nor any other provision of law shall be 
construed to prohibit the Secretary from issuing and administering 
any lease for the development and utilization of geothermal steam 
and associated geothermal resources on the lands withdrawn under 
section 802(a) of this title pursuant to the Geothermal Steam Act 
of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) and other apphcable law, but 
no such lease shall be issued without the concurrence of the Sec-
retary of the Navy. 
(6) This title shall not affect the geothermal exploration and 
development authority of the Secretary of the Navy under section 
2689 of title 10, United States Code, except that the Secretary 
of the Navy shall obtain the concurrence of the Secretary before 
taking action under that section with respect to the lands with-
drawn under section 802(a). 
(7) Upon the expiration of the withdrawal or relinquishment 
of China Lake, Navy contracts for the development of geothermal 
resources at China Lake then in effect (as amended or renewed 
by the Navy after the date of enactment of this title) shall remain 
in effect: Provided, That the Secretary, with the consent of the 
Secretary of the Navy, may offer to substitute a standard geo-
thermal lease for any such contract. 
SEC. 806. DURATION OF WITHDRAWALS. 
(a) DURATION.—The withdrawals and reservations established 
by this title shall terminate twenty years after the date of enact-
ment of this title. 
(b) DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT.—No later than Publication, 
eighteen years after the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary 
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of the Navy shall publish a draft environmental impact statement 
concerning continued or renewed withdrawal of any portion of the 
lands withdrawn by this title for which that Secretary intends 
to seek such continued or renewed withdrawal. Such draft environ-
mental impact statement shall be consistent with the requirements 
of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 
et seq.) applicable to such a draft environmental impact statement. 
Prior to the termination date specified in subsection (a), the Sec-
retary of the Navy shall hold a public hearing on any draft environ-
mental impact statement published pursuant to this section. Such 
hearing shall be held in the State of California in order to receive 
public comments on the alternatives and other matters included 
in such draft environmental impact statement. 
(c) EXTENSIONS OR RENEWALS.—The withdrawals estabUshed 
by this title may not be extended or renewed except by an Act 
or joint resolution of Congress. 
SEC. 807. ONGOING DECONTAMINATION. 
(a) PROGRAM.—Throughout the duration of the withdrawals 
made by this title, the Secretary of the Navy, to the extent funds 
are made available, shall maintain a program of decontamination 
of lands withdrawn by this title at least at the level of decontamina-
tion activities performed on such lands in fiscal year 1986. 
(b) REPORTS.—^At the same time as the President transmits 
to the Congress the President's proposed budget for the first fiscal 
year beginning after the date of enactment of this title and for 
each subsequent fiscal year, the Secretary of the Navy shall trans-
mit to the Committees on Appropriations, Armed Services, and 
Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate and 
to the Committees on Appropriations, Armed Services, and Natural 
Resources of the United States House of Representatives a descrip-
tion of the decontamination efforts undertaken during the previous 
fiscal year on such lands and the decontamination activities pro-
posed for such lands during the next fiscal year including— 
(1) amounts appropriated and obligated or expended for 
decontamination of such lands; 
(2) the methods used to decontaminate such lands; 
(3) amount and types of contaminants removed from such 
lands; 
(4) estimated types and amounts of residual contamination 
on such lands; and 
(5) an estimate of the costs for full contamination of such 
lands and the estimate of the time to complete such decon-
tamination. 
SEC. 808. REQUIREMENTS FOR RENEWAL. 
(a) NOTICE AND FILING.—(1) No later than three years prior 
to the termination of the withdrawal and reservation established 
by this title, the Secretary of the Navy shall advise the Secretary 
as to whether or not the Secretary of the Navy will have a continu-
ing military need for any of the lands withdrawn under section 
802 after the termination date of such withdrawal and reservation. 
(2) If the Secretary of the Navy concludes that there will 
be a continuing military need for any of such lands after the 
termination date, the Secretary of the Navy shall file an application 
for extension of the withdrawal and reservation of such needed 
lands in accordance with the regulations and procedures of the 
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108 STAT. 4507 
Department of the Interior applicable to the extension of withdraw-
als of lands for military uses. 
(3) If, during the period of withdrawal and reservation, the 
Secretary of the Navy decides to relinquish all or any of the lands 
withdrawn and reserved by this title, the Secretary of the Navy 
shall file a notice of intention to relinquish with the Secretary. 
(b) CONTAMINATION.—(1) Before transmitting a notice of 
intention to relinquish pursuant to subsection (a), the Secretary 
of Defense, acting through the Department of the Navy, shall pre-
pare a written determination concerning whether and to what 
extent the lands that are to be relinquished are contaminated 
with explosive, toxic, or other hazardous materials. 
(2) A copy of such determination shall be transmitted with 
the notice of intention to relinquish. 
(3) Copies of both the notice of intention to relinquish and Federal 
the determination concerning the contaminated state of the lands Register, 
shall be pubhshed in the Federal Register by the Secretary of Publication, 
the Interior. 
(c) DECONTAMINATION.—If any land which is the subject of 
a notice of intention to relinquish pursuant to subsection (a) is 
contaminated, and the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary 
of the Navy, determines that decontamination is practicable and 
economically feasible (taking into consideration the potential future 
use and value of the land) and that upon decontamination, the 
land could be opened to operation of some or all of the public 
land laws, including the mining laws, the Secretary of the Navy 
shall decontaminate the land to the extent that funds are appro-
priated for such purpose. 
(d) ALTERNATIVES.—If the Secretary, after consultation with 
the Secretary of the Navy, concludes that decontamination of any 
land which is the subject of a notice of intention to rehnquish 
pursuant to subsection (a) is not practicable or economically feasible, 
or that the land cannot be decontaminated sufficiently to be opened 
to operation of some or all of the public land laws, or if Congress 
does not appropriate a sufficient amount of funds for the decon-
tamination of such land, the Secretary shall not be required to 
accept the land proposed for relinquishment. 
(e) STATUS OF CONTAMINATED LANDS.—If, because of their 
contaminated state, the Secretary declines to accept jurisdiction 
over lands withdrawn by this title which have been proposed for 
relinquishment, or if at the expiration of the withdrawal made 
by this title the Secretary determines that some of the lands with-
drawn by this title are contaminated to an extent which prevents 
opening such contaminated lands to operation of the public land 
laws— 
(1) the Secretary of the Navy shall take appropriate steps 
to warn the public of the contaminated state of such lands 
and any risks associated with entry onto such lands; 
(2) after the expiration of the withdrawal, the Secretary 
of the Navy shall undertake no activities on such lands except 
in connection with decontamination of such lands; and 
(3) the Secretary of the Navy shall report to the Secretary 
and to the Congress concerning the status of such lands and 
all actions taken in furtherance of this subsection. 
(f) REVOCATION AUTHORITY.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Secretary, upon deciding that it is in the public 
interest to accept jurisdiction over lands proposed for relinquish-
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Federal 
Register, 
publication. 
Short title. 
Ante, p. 4471. 
ment pursuant to subsection (a), is authorized to revoke the with-
drawal and reservation estabHshed by this title as it applies to 
such lands. Should the decision be made to revoke the withdrawal 
and reservation, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal Register 
an appropriate order which shall— 
(1) terminate the withdrawal and reservation; 
(2) constitute official acceptance of full jurisdiction over 
the lands by the Secretary; and 
(3) state the date upon which the lands will be opened 
to the operation of some or all of the public lands law, including 
the mining laws. 
SEC. 809. DELEGABILITY. 
(a) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.—The functions of the Secretary 
of Defense or the Secretary of the Navy under this title may 
be delegated. 
(b) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.—The functions of the Sec-
retary under this title may be delegated, except that an order 
described in section 807(f) may be approved and signed only by 
the Secretary, the Under Secretary of the Interior, or an Assistant 
Secretary of the Department of the Interior. 
SEC. 810. HUNTING, FISHING, AND TRAPPING. 
All hunting, fishing, and trapping on the lands withdrawn 
by this title shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions 
of section 2671 of title 10, United States Code. 
SEC. 811. IMMUNITY OF UNITED STATES. 
The United States and all departments or agencies thereof 
shall be held harmless and shall not be liable for any injury or 
damage to persons or property suffered in the course of any geo-
thermal leasing or other authorized nonmilitary activity conducted 
on lands described in section 802 of this title. 
SEC. 812. EL CENTRO RANGES. 
The Secretary is authorized to permit the Secretary of the 
Navy to use until January 1, 1997, the approximately forty-four 
thousand eight hundred and seventy acres of public lands in Impe-
rial County, California, known as the East Mesa and West Mesa 
ranges, in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding 
dated June 29, 1987, between the Bureau of Land Management, 
the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Department of the Navy. All 
military uses of such lands shall cease on January 1, 1997, unless 
authorized by a subsequent Act of Congress. 
TITLE IX—AUTHORIZATION OF 
APPROPRIATIONS 
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SEC. 901. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated to the National Park 
Service and to the Bureau of Land Management to carry out this 
Act an amount not to exceed $36,000,000 over and above that 
provided in fiscal year 1994 for additional administrative and 
construction costs over the fiscal year 1995-1999 period, and 
$300,000,000 for all land acquisition costs. No funds in excess 
of these amounts may be used for construction, administration, 
or land acquisition authorized under this Act without a specific 
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108 STAT. 4509 
authorization in an Act of Congress enacted after the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
TITLE X—PROTECTION OF BODIE BOWL 
SEC. 1001. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the "Bodie Protection Act of 1994". 
SEC. 1002. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds that— 
(1) the historic Bodie gold mining district in the State 
of California is the site of the largest and best preserved authen-
tic ghost town in the western United States; 
(2) the Bodie Bowl area contains important natural, histori-
cal, and aesthetic resources; 
(3) Bodie was designated as a National Historical Land-
mark in 1961 and a California State Historic Park in 1962, 
is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is 
included in the Federal Historic American Buildings Survey; 
(4) nearly 200,000 persons visit Bodie each year, providing 
the local economy with important annual tourism revenues; 
(5) the town of Bodie is threatened by proposals to explore 
and extract minerals: mining in the Bodie Bowl area may 
have adverse physical and aesthetic impacts on Bodie's histori-
cal integrity, cultural values, and ghost town character as well 
as on its recreational values and the area's flora and fauna; 
(6) the California State Legislature, on September 4, 1990, 
requested the President and the Congress to direct the Sec-
retary of the Interior to protect the ghost town character, 
ambience, historic buildings, and scenic attributes of the town 
of Bodie and nearby areas; 
(7) the California State Legislature also requested the Sec-
retary, if necessary to protect the Bodie Bowl area, to withdraw 
the Federal lands within the area from all forms of mineral 
entry and patent; 
(8) the National Park Service listed Bodie as a priority 
one endangered National Historic Landmark in its fiscal year 
1990 and 1991 report to Congress entitled "Threatened and 
Damaged National Historic Landmarks" and recommended 
protection of the Bodie area; and 
(9) it is necessary and appropriate to provide that all Fed-
eral lands within the Bodie Bowl area are not subject to loca-
tion, entry, and patent under the mining laws of the United 
States, subject to valid existing rights, and to direct the Sec-
retary to consult with the Governor of the State of California 
before approving any mining activity plan within the Bodie 
Bowl. 
SEC. 1003. DEFINITIONS. 
For the purposes of this title: 
(1) The term "Bodie Bowl" means the Federal lands and 
interests therein within the area generally depicted on the 
map referred to in section 1004(a). 
(2) The term "mineral activities" means any activity involv-
ing mineral 
prospecting, exploration, extraction, 
milling, 
beneficiation, processing, and reclamation. 
Bodie Protection 
Act of 1994. 
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(3) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the 
Interior. 
SEC. 1004. APPLICABILITY OF MINERAL MINING, LEASING AND DIS-
POSAL LAWS. 
(a) RESTRICTION.—Subject to valid existing rights, after the 
date of enactment of this title Federal lands and interests in lands 
within the area generally depicted on the map entitled "Bodie 
Bowl" and dated June 12, 1992, shall not be— 
(1) open to the location of mining and mill site claims 
under the general mining laws of the United States; 
(2) subject to any lease under the Mineral Leasing Act 
(30 U.S.C. 181 and following) or the Geothermal Steam Act 
of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 100 and following), for lands within the 
Bodie Bowl; and 
(3) available for disposal of mineral materials under the 
Act of July 31, 1947, commonly known as the Materials Act 
of 1947 (30 U.S.C. 601 and following). 
Such map shall be on file and available for public inspection in 
the Office of the Secretary, and appropriate offices of the Bureau 
of Land Management ana the National Park Service. As soon as 
practicable after the date of enactment of this title, the Secretary 
shall publish a legal description of the Bodie Bowl area in the 
Federal Register. 
(b) VALID EXISTING RIGHTS.—^As used in this section, the term 
"valid existing rights" in reference to the general mining laws 
means that a mining claim located on lands within the Bodie 
Bowl was properly located and maintained under the general mining 
laws prior to the date of enactment of this title, was supported 
by a discovery of a valuable miiieral deposit within the meaning 
of the general mining laws on the date of enactment of this title, 
and that such claim continues to be valid. 
(c) VALIDITY REVIEW.—The Secretary shall undertake an expe-
dited program to determine the validity of all unpatented mining 
claims located within the Bodie Bowl. The expedited program shall 
include an examination of all unpatented mining claims, including 
those for which a patent application has not been filed. If a claim 
is determined to be invalid, the Secretary shall promptly declare 
the claim to be null and void, except that the Secretary shall 
not challenge the validity of any claim located within the Bodie 
Bowl for the failure to do assessment work for any period after 
the date of enactment of this title. The Secretary shall make a 
determination with respect to the validity of each claim referred 
to under this subsection within two years after the date of enact-
ment of this title. 
(d) LIMITATION ON PATENT ISSUANCE.— 
(1) MINING CLAIMS.—(A) After January 11, 1993, no patent 
shall be issued by the United States for any mining claim 
located under the general mining laws within the Bodie Bowl 
unless the Secretary determines that, for the claim concerned— 
(i) a patent application was filed with the Secretary 
on or before such date; and 
(ii) all requirements established under sections 2325 
and 2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) 
for vein or lode claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331, 
and 2333 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, 37) 
for placer claims were fully complied with by that date. 
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108 STAT. 4511 
(B) If the Secretary makes the determinations referred 
to in subparagraph (A) for any mining claim, the holder of 
the claim shall be entitled to the issuance of a patent in 
the same manner and degree to which such claim holder would 
have been entitled to prior to the enactment of this title, unless 
and until such determinations are withdrawn or invalidated 
by the Secretary or by a court of the United States. 
(2) MILL SITE CLAIMS.—(A) After January 11, 1993, no 
patent shall be issued by the United States for any mill site 
claim located under the general mining laws within the Bodie 
Bowl unless the Secretary determines that, for the claim 
concerned— 
(i) a patent application was filed with the Secretary 
on or before January 11,1993; and 
(ii) all requirements applicable to such patent applica-
tion were fully complied with by that date. 
(B) If the Secretary makes the determinations referred 
to in subparagraph (A) for any mill site claim, the holder 
of the claim shall be entitled to the issuance of a patent in 
the same manner and degree to which such claim holder would 
have been entitled to prior to the enactment of this title, unless 
and until such determinations are withdrawn or invalidated 
by the Secretary or by a court of the United States. 
SEC. 1005. MINERAL ACTiyiTIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding the last sentence of section 
302(b) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 
and in accordance with this title and other applicable law, the 
Secretary shall require that mineral activities be conducted in the 
Bodie Bowl so as to— 
(1) avoid adverse effects on the historic, cultural, rec-
reational, and natural resource values of the Bodie Bowl; and 
(2) minimize other adverse impacts to the environment. 
(b) RESTORATION OF EFFECTS OF MINING EXPLORATION.—AS 
soon as possible after the date of enactment of this Act, visible 
evidence or other effects of mining exploration activity within the 
Bodie Bowl conducted on or after September 1, 1988, shall be 
reclaimed by the operator in accordance with regulations prescribed 
pursuant to subsection (d). 
(c) ANNUAL EXPENDITURES; FILING.—The requirements for 
annual expenditures on unpatented mining claims imposed by 
Revised Statute 2324 (30 U.S.C. 28) shall not apply to any such 
claim located within the Bodie Bowl. In lieu of filing the affidavit 
of assessment work referred to under section 314(a)(1) of the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1744(a)(1)), 
the holder of any unpatented mining or mill site claim located 
within the Bodie Bowl shall only be required to file the notice 
of intention to hold the mining claim referred to in such section 
314(a)(1). 
(d) REGULATIONS.—^The Secretary shall promulgate rules to 
implement this section, in consultation with the Governor of the 
State of California, within 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this title. Such rules shall be no less stringent that the rules 
promulgated pursuant to the Act of September 28, 1976 entitled 
"An Act to provide for the regulation of mining activity within, 
and to repeal the application of mining laws to, areas of the National 
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Park System, and for other purposes" (Public Law 94r-429; 16 
U.S.C. 1901-1912). 
SEC. 1006. STUDY. 
Beginning as soon as possible after the date of enactment 
of this title, the Secretary shall review possible actions to preserve 
the scenic character, historical integrity, cultural and recreational 
values, flora and fauna, and ghost town characteristics of lands 
and structures within the Bodie Bowl, No later than 3 years after 
the date of such enactment, the Secretary shall submit to the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States 
Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the United 
States House of Representatives a report that discusses the results 
of such review and makes recommendations as to which steps 
(including but not limited to acquisition of lands or valid mining 
claims) should be undertaken in order to achieve these objectives. 
SEC. 1007. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out this title. 
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REGION INITIATIVES 
SEC. 1101. FINDINGS. 
(a) The Congress finds that— 
(1) in 1988, Congress enacted Pubhc Law 100-460, 
establishing the Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commis-
sion, to assess the needs, problems, and opportunities of people 
living in the Lower Mississippi Delta Region that includes 
219 counties and parishes within the States of Arkansas, Illi-
nois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Ten-
nessee; 
(2) the Commission conducted a thorough investigation to 
assess these needs, problems, and opportunities, and held sev-
eral public hearings throughout the Delta Region; 
(3) on the basis of these investigations, the Commission 
issued the Delta Initiatives Report, which included rec-
ommendations on natural resource protection, historic preserva-
tion, and the enhancement of educational and other opportuni-
ties for Delta residents; 
(4) the Delta Initiatives Report recommended— 
(A) designating the Great River Road as a scenic 
byway, and designating other hiking and motorized trails 
throughout the Delta Region; 
(B) that the Federal Government identify sites and 
structures of historic and prehistoric importance through-
out the Delta Region; 
(C) the further study of potential new units of the 
National Park System within the Delta Region; and 
(D) that Federal agencies target more monies in 
selected areas to institutions of higher education in the 
Delta Region, especially Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities. 
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SEC. 1102. DEFINITIONS. 
As used in this title, the term— 
(1) "Commission" means the Lower Mississippi Delta Devel-
opment Commission established pursuant to Public I^aw 100-
460; 
(2) "Delta Initiatives Report" means the May 14, 1990 
Final Report of the Commission entitled "The Delta Initiatives: 
Realizing the Dream .. . Fulfilling the Potential"; 
(3) "Delta Region" means the Lower Mississippi Delta 
Region including the 219 counties and parishes within the 
States of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, 
Missouri, and Tennessee, as defined in the Delta Initiatives 
Report, except that, for any State for which the Delta Region 
as defined in such report comprises more than half of the 
geographic area of such State, the entire State shall be consid-
ered part of the Delta Region for purposes of this title; 
(4) "Department" means the United States Department 
of the Interior, unless otherwise specifically stated; 
(5) "Historically Black College or University" means a col-
lege or university that would be considered a "part B institu-
tion" by section 322(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1061(2)); 
(6) "minority college or university" means a Historically 
Black College or University that would be considered a "part 
B institution" by section 322(2) of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061(2)) or a "minority institution" as that 
term is defined in section 1046 of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1135d-5(3)); 
(7) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior, unless 
otherwise specifically stated. 
SEC. 1103. LOWER MISSISSIPPI DELTA REGION HERITAGE STUDY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consultation with the States 
of the Delta Region, the Lower Mississippi Delta Development 
Center, and other appropriate Delta Region institutions, is directed 
to prepare and transmit to the Congress within three years after 
the date of the enactment of this title, a study of significant natural, 
recreational, historical or prehistorical, and cultural lands, waters, 
sites, and structures located within the Delta Region. This study 
shall take into consideration the research and inventory of resources 
conducted by the Mississippi River Heritage Corridor Study 
Commission. 
(b) TRANSPORTATION ROUTES.—(1) The study shall include rec-
ommendations on appropriate designation and interpretation of 
historically significant roads, trails, byways, waterways, or other 
routes within the Delta Region. 
(2) In order to provide for public appreciation, education, under-
standing, interpretation, and enjoyment of the significant sites 
identified pursuant to subsection (a), which are accessible by public 
roads, the Secretary shall recommend in the study vehicular tour 
routes along existing public roads linking such sites within the 
Delta Region. 
(3) Such recommendations shall include an analysis of designat-
ing the Great River Road (as depicted on the map entitled "Proposed 
Delta Transportation Network on pages 102-103 of the Delta Ini-
tiatives Report) and other sections of the Great River Road between 
Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana and an analysis of des-
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ignating that portion of the Old Antonio Road and the Louisiana 
Natchez Trace which extends generally along Highway 84 from 
Vidalia, Louisiana, to Clarence, Louisiana, and Louisiana Highway 
6 from Clarence, Louisiana, to the Toledo Bend Reservoir, Louisi-
ana, as a National Scenic Byway, or as a component of the National 
Trails System, or such other designation as the Secretary deems 
appropriate. 
(4) The Secretary shall also recommend in the study an appro-
priate route along existing public roads to commemorate the impor-
tance of timber production and trade to the economic development 
of the Delta Region in the early twentieth century, and to highlight 
the continuing importance of timber production and trade to the 
economic life of the Delta Region. Recommendations shall include 
an analysis of designating that portion of US 165 which extends 
from Alexandria, Louisiana, to Monroe, Louisiana, as a National 
Scenic B3rway, or as a component of the National Trails System, 
or such other designation as the Secretary deems appropriate. 
(5) The study shall also include a comprehensive recreation, 
interpretive, and visitor use plan for the routes described in the 
above paragraphs, including bicycle and hiking paths, and make 
specific recommendations for the acquisition and construction or 
related interpretive and visitor information facilities at selected 
sites along such routes. 
(6) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to States for 
work necessary to stabilize, maintain, and widen public roads to 
allow for adequate access to the nationally significant sites and 
structures identified by the study, to allow for proper use of the 
vehicular tour route, trails, b3rways, including the routes defined 
in paragraphs (3) and (4) or other public roads within the Delta 
Region and to implement the comprehensive recreation, interpre-
tive, and visitor use plan required in paragraph (5). 
(c) LISTING.—On the basis of the study, and in consultation 
with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Secretary 
shall inventory significant structures and sites in the Delta Region. 
The Secretary shall further recommend and encourage cooperative 
preservation and economic development efforts 
such as the 
establishment of preservation districts linking groups of contiguous 
counties or parishes, especially those that lie along the aforemen-
tioned designated routes. The Secretary shall prepare a list of 
the sites and structures for possible inclusion by the National 
Park Service as National Historic Landmarks or such other designa-
tion as the Secretary deems appropriate. 
SEC. 1104. DELTA REGION HERITAGE CORRIDORS AND HERITAGE AND 
CULTURAL CENTERS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— 
(1) in 1990, the Congress authorized the Institute of 
Museum Services to prepare a report assessing the needs of 
small, emerging, minority, and rural museums in order to iden-
tify the resources such museums needed to meet their edu-
cational mission, to identify the areas of museum operation 
in which the needs were greatest, and to make recommenda-
tions on how these needs could best be met; 
(2) the Institute of Museum Services undertook a com-
prehensive eighteen month study of such needs with the assist-
ance of two advisory groups, surveyed 524 museums from 
throughout the Nation, held discussion groups in which rep-
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resentatives of 25 museum groups participated, and conducted 
case studies of 12 museum facilities around the Nation; 
(3) on the basis of this assessment, the Institute of Museum 
Services issued a report in September, 1992, entitled, "National 
Needs Assessment of Small, Emerging, Minority and Rural 
Museums in the United States" (hereinafter "National Needs 
Assessment") which found that small, emerging, minority, and 
rural museums provide valuable educational and cultural 
resources for their communities and contain a reservoir of 
the Nation's material, cultural and historical heritage, but due 
to inadequate resources are unable to meet their full potential 
or the demands of the surrounding communities; 
(4) the needs of these institutions are not being met through 
existing Federal programs; 
(5) fewer than half of the participants in the survey had 
applied for Federal assistance in the past two years and that 
many small, emerging, minority and rural museums believe 
existing Federal programs do not meet their needs; 
(6) based on the National Needs Assessment, that funding 
agencies should increase support available to small, emerging, 
minority, and rural museums and make specific recommenda-
tions for increasing technical assistance in order to identify 
such institutions and provide assistance to facilitate their 
participation in Federal programs; 
(7) the Delta Initiatives Report made specific recommenda-
tions for the creation and development of centers for the 
preservation of the cultural, historical, and literary heritage 
of the Delta Region, including recommendations for the 
establishment of a Delta Region Native American Heritage 
and Cultural Center and a Delta Region African American 
Heritage and Cultural Center with additional satellite centers 
or museums linked throughout the Delta Region; 
(8) the Delta Initiatives Report stated that new ways of 
coordinating, preserving, and promoting the Delta Region's lit-
erature, art, and music should be established including the 
creation of a network to promote the Delta Region's literary, 
artistic, and musical heritage; and 
(9) wholesale destruction and attrition of archeological sites 
and structures has eliminated a significant portion of Native 
American heritage as well as the interpretive potential of the 
Delta Region's parks and museums. Furthermore, site and 
structure destruction is so severe that an ambitious program 
of site and structure acquisition in the Delta Region is nec-
essary. 
(b) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consultation with the States 
of the Delta Region, the Chairman of the National Endowment 
for the Arts, the Chairman of the National Endowment for the 
Humanities, the Director of the Smithsonian Institution, the Lower 
Mississippi Delta Development Center, Historically Black Colleges 
and Universities, and appropriate African American, Native Amer-
ican and other relevant institutions or organizations in the Delta 
Region, is further directed to prepare and transmit to the Congress 
a plan outlining specific recommendations, including recommenda-
tions for necessary funding, for the establishment of a Delta Region 
Native American Heritage Corridor and Heritage and Cultural Cen-
ter and a Delta Region African American Heritage Corridor and 
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Heritage and Cultural Center with a network of satellite or coopera-
tive units. 
(c) DELTA REGION NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE CORRIDOR AND 
CULTURAL CENTER.—(1) The plan referred to in subsection (b) of 
this section shall include recommendations for establishing a net-
work of parks, museums, and other centers to interpret Native 
American culture and heritage in the Delta Region, including a 
ten year development strategy for such a network. 
(2) Such plan shall include specific proposals for the develop-
ment of a Native American Heritage Corridor and Heritage and 
Cultural Center in the Delta Region, along with recommendations 
for the appropriate Federal role in such a center including matching 
grants, technical and interpretive assistance. 
(3) Such plan shall be conducted in consultation with tribal 
leaders in the Delta Region. 
(4) Such plan shall also include specific proposals for edu-
cational and training assistance for Delta Region Native Americans 
to carry out the recommendations provided in the study. 
(d) DELTA REGION AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE CORRIDOR AND 
HERITAGE AND CULTURAL CENTER.—(1) The plan referred to in 
subsection (b) of this section shall include recommendations for 
establishing a heritage corridor or trail system, consisting of one 
or two major north-south routes and several east-west-spur loops 
to preserve, interpret and commemorate the African American herit-
age and culture in the Delta Region during all significant historical 
periods. 
(2) Such plan shall make specific recommendations for rep-
resenting all forms of expressive culture including the musical, 
folklore, literary, artistic, scientific, historical, educational, and 
political contributions and accomplishments of African Americans 
in the Delta Region. 
(3) Such plan shall make specific recommendations 
for 
implementing the findings of the Delta Initiatives Report with 
respect to establishing an African American Heritage Corridor and 
Heritage and Cultural Center and related satellite museums in 
the Delta Region, together with specific funding levels necessary 
to carry out these recommendations and shall also include rec-
ommendations for improving access of small, emerging, minority 
or rural museums to technical and financial assistance. 
(4) Such plan shall be conducted in consultation with institu-
tions of higher education in the Delta Region with expertise in 
African American studies. Southern studies, archeology, anthropol-
ogy, history and other relevant fields. 
(5) Such plan shall make specific recommendations for improv-
ing educational programs offered by existing cultural facilities and 
museums as well as establishing new outreach programs for 
elementary, middle and secondary schools, including summer pro-
grams for youth in the Delta Region. 
(e) GRANTS.—(1) In furtherance of the purposes of this section, 
the Secretary is authorized to make planning grants to State 
Humanities Councils in the Delta Region to assist small, emerging, 
minority and rural museums selected on a financial needs basis 
in the development of a comprehensive long term plan for these 
institutions. The Secretary is also authorized to make implementa-
tion grants to State Humanities Councils in the Delta Region who, 
in consultations with State Museum Associations, shall make grants 
to small, emerging, minority or rural museums for the purpose 
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of carrying out an approved plan for training personnel, improving 
exhibits or other steps necessary to assure the integrity of collec-
tions in their facilities, for educational outreach programs, or for 
other activities the Secretary deems appropriate including the pro-
motion of tourism in the region. Such institutions shall be selected 
competitively and on the basis of demonstrated financial need. 
The Secretary is also authorized to make grants to State Human-
ities Councils to update, simplify and coordinate the respective 
State Works Progress Administration guides and to develop a single 
comprehensive guide for the Delta Region. 
(2) The Secretary is authorized to provide grants and other 
appropriate technical assistance to State Humanities Councils, 
State museum Associations, and State Arts Councils in the Delta 
Region for the purpose of assessing the needs of such institutions. 
Such grants may be used by these institutions to undertake such 
an assessment and to provide other technical, administrative and 
planning assistance to small, emerging, minority or rural institu-
tions seeking to preserve the Delta Region's literary, artistic, and 
musical heritage. 
(f) MUSIC HERITAGE PROGRAM.—(1) The plan referred to in 
subsection (b) of this section shall include recommendations for 
establishing a Music Heritage Program, with specific emphasis 
on the Mississippi Delta Blues. The plan shall include specific 
recommendations for developing a network of heritage sites, struc-
tures, small museums, and festivals in the Delta Region. 
(2) The plan shall include an economic strategy for the pro-
motion of the Delta Region's music, through the participation of 
musicians, festival developers, museum operators, universities, eco-
nomic development districts, and other relevant individuals and 
organizations. 
(g) COMPLETION DATE.—^The plan authorized in this section 
shall be completed not later than three years Eifter the date funds 
are made available for such plan. 
SEC. 1105. HISTORIC AND PREHISTORIC STRUCTURES AND SITES SUR- 
Minorities. 
VEY. 
(a) ASSISTANCE.—The Secretary is authorized to provide tech-
nical and financial assistance to Historically Black Colleges and 
Universities to undertake a comprehensive survey of historic and 
prehistoric structures and sites located on their campuses, including 
recommendations as to the inclusion of appropriate structures and 
sites on the National Register of Historic Places, designation as 
National Historic Landmarks, or other appropriate designation as 
determined by the Secretary. The Secretary shall also make specific 
proposals and recommendations, together with estimates of nec-
essary funding levels, for a comprehensive plan to be carried out 
by the Department to assist Historically Black Colleges and Univer-
sities in the preservation and interpretation of such sites and struc-
tures. 
(b) GRANTS.—In furtherance of the purposes of this section, 
the Secretary is authorized to provide technical and financial assist-
ance to Historically Black Colleges and Universities for stabiliza-
tion, preservation and interpretation of such sites and structures. 
SEC. 1106. DELTA ANTIQUITIES SURVEY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) The Secretary is directed to prepare and 
transmit to the Congress, in cooperation with the States of the 
Delta 
Region, 
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Archeological Centers, a study of the feasibility of establishing 
a Delta Antiquities Trail or Delta Antiquities Heritage Corridor 
in the Delta Region. 
(2) Such study shall, to the extent practicable, use nonintrusive 
methods of identifjdng, surveying, inventorying, and stabilizing 
ancient archeological sites and structures. 
(3) In undertaking this study, the Secretary is directed to 
enter into cooperative agreements with the States of the Delta 
Region, the State Archeological Surveys, and Regional Archeological 
Centers located in Delta Region institutions of higher education 
for on-site activities including surveys, inventories, and stabilization 
and other activities which the Secretary deems appropriate. 
(4) In addition to the over 100 known ancient archeological 
sites located in the Delta Region including Watson's Brake, French-
man's Bend, Hedgepeth, Monte Sano, Banana Bayou, Hornsby, 
Parkin, Toltec, Menard-Hodges, Eaker, Blytheville Mound, Nodena, 
Taylor Mounds, DeSoto Mound and others, such study shall also 
employ every practical means possible, including assistance from 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Forest 
Service and Soil Conservation Service of the Department of Agri-
culture, the Army Corps of Engineers of the Department of Defense, 
and other appropriate Federal agencies, to locate and confirm the 
existence of a site known as Balbansha in southern Louisiana 
and a site known as Autiamque in Arkansas. The heads of these 
Federal agencies shall cooperate with the Secretary as the Secretary 
requires on a non-reimbursable basis. 
(b) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—In furtherance of the purposes 
of this section, the Secretary is authorized to provide technical 
assistance and grants to private landowners for necessary stabiliza-
tion activities of identified sites and for preparing recommendations 
for designating such sites as National Landmarks or other appro-
I
)riate designations as the Secretary, with the concurrence of the 
andowners, determines to be appropriate. 
(c) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The Secretary is authorized 
to enter into cooperative agreements with the States, State 
Archeological Surveys, and Regional Archeological Centers of the 
Delta Region to develop a ten-year plan for the stabilization, 
preservation and interpretation of those sites and structures as 
may be identified by the Secretary. 
SEC. 1107. HISTORIC AND ARCHEOLOGICAL RESOURCES PROGRAM. 
(a) PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall conduct a comprehensive 
program for the research, interpretation, and preservation of signifi-
cant historic and archeological resources in the Delta Region. 
(b) ELEMENTS OF THE PROGRAM.—^The program shall include, 
but not be limited to— 
(1) identification of research projects related to historic 
and archeological resources in the Delta Region and a proposal 
for the regular publication of related research materials and 
publications; 
(2) the development of a survey program to investigate, 
inventory and further evaluate known historic and archeological 
sites and structures and identify those sites and structures 
that require additional study; 
(3) identification of a core system of interpretive sites and 
structures that would provide a comprehensive overview of 
historic and archeological resources of the Delta Region; 
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(4) preparation of educational materials to interpret the 
historical and archeological resources of the Delta Region; 
(5) preparation of surveys and archeological and historical 
investigations of sites, structures, and artifacts relating to the 
Delta Region, including the preparation of reports, maps, and 
other related activities. 
(c) GRANTS AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—(1) The Secretary 
is authorized to award grants to qualified tribal, governmental 
and non-governmental entities and individuals to assist the Sec-
retary in canying out those elements of the program which the 
Secretary deems appropriate. 
(2) The Secretary is further authorized to award grants and 
provide other types of technical and financial assistance to such 
entities and individuals to conserve and protect historic and 
archeological sites and structures in the Delta Region identified 
in the program prepared pursuant to this section. 
(d) DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.—^The Secretary shall establish 
a national demonstration project for the conservation and curation 
of the archeological records and collections of Federal and State 
management agencies in the Delta Region. 
SEC. 1108. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out this title. 
TITLE XII—NEW ORLEANS JAZZ 
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK 
SEC. 1201. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as the "New Orleans Jazz National 
Historical Park Act of 1994". 
SEC. 1202. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that: 
(1) Jazz is the United States' most widely recognized indige-
nous music and art form. Congress previously recognized jazz 
in 1987 through Senate Concurrent Resolution 57 as a rare 
, 
and valuable national treasure of international importance. 
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(2) The city of New Orleans is widely recognized as the 
birthplace of jazz. In and around this city, cultural and musical 
elements blended to form the unique American music that 
is known as New Orleans jazz, which is an expression of the 
cultural diversity of the lower Mississippi Delta Region. 
(3) Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve 
was established to commemorate the cultural diversity of the 
lower Mississippi Delta Region including a range of cultural 
expressions like jazz. 
(b) PURPOSE.—In furtherance of the need to recognize the value 
and importance of jazz, it is the purpose of this title to establish 
a New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park to pres-srve the ori-
gins, early history, development and progression of jazz; provide 
visitors with opportunities to experience the sights, sounds, and 
places where jazz evolved; and implement innovative ways of 
establishing jazz educational partnerships that will help to ensure 
that jazz continues as a vital element of the culture of New Orleans 
and our Nation. 
New Orleans 
Jazz National 
Historical Park 
Act of 1994. 
Cultural 
preservation. 
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SEC. 1203. ESTABLISHMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In order to assist in the preservation, edu-
cation, and interpretation of jazz as it has evolved in New Orleans, 
and to provide technical assistance to a broad range of organizations 
involved with jazz music and its history, there is hereby established 
the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park (hereinafter referred 
to as the "historical park"). The historical park shall be adminis-
tered in conjunction with the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park 
and Preserve, which was established to preserve and interpret 
the cultural and natural resources of the lower Mississippi Delta 
Region. 
(b) AREA INCLUDED.—The historical park shall consist of lands 
and interests therein as follows: 
(1) Lands which the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter 
referred to as "the Secretary") may designate for an interpretive 
visitor center complex. 
(2) Sites that are the subject of cooperative agreements 
with the National Park Service for the purposes of interpretive 
demonstrations and programs associated with the purposes of 
this title. 
(3)(A) Sites designated by the Secretary as provided in 
subparagraph (B). 
(B)(i) No later than 18 months sifter the date of enactment 
of this title, the Secretary is directed to complete a national 
historic landmark evaluation of sites associated with jazz in 
and around New Orleans as identified in the document entitled 
"New Orleans Jazz Special Resource Study", prepared by the 
National Park Service pursuant to Public Law 101-499. In 
undertaking the evaluation, the Secretary shall, to the extent 
practicable, utilize existing information relating to such sites. 
(ii) If any of the sites evaluated are found to meet the 
standards of the National Historic Landmark program and 
National Park Service tests of suitability and feasibility, and 
offer outstanding opportunities to further the purposes of this 
title, the Secretary may designate such sites as part of the 
historical park, following consultation with the owners of such 
sites, the city of New Orleans, the Smithsonian Institution, 
and the New Orleans Jazz Commission, and notification to 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United 
States Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of 
the United States House of Representatives. 
SEC. 1204. ADMINISTRATION. 
(a)(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall administer the histori-
cal park in accordance with this title and with provisions of law 
generally applicable to units of the National Park System, including 
the Act entitled "An Act to establish a National Park Service, 
and for other purposes", approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 
16 U.S.C. 1, 2-4); and the Act of August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 666; 
16 U.S.C. 461-467). The Secretary shall manage the historical 
park in such a manner as will preserve and perpetuate knowledge 
and understanding of the history of jazz and its continued evolution 
as a true American art form. 
(2) To minimize operational costs associated with the manage-
ment and administration of the historical park and to avoid duplica-
tion of effort, the Secretary shall, to the maximum extent prac-
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ticable, utilize the facilities, administrative staff and other services 
of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve. 
(b) DONATIONS.—The Secretary may accept and retain dona-
tions of funds, property, or services from individuals, foundations, 
corporations, or other public entities for the purposes of providing 
services, programs, and facilities that further the purposes of this 
title. 
(c) INTERPRETIVE CENTER.—The Secretary is authorized to con-
struct, operate, and maintain an interpretive center in the historical 
park on lands identified by the Secretary pursuant to section 
1203(b)(1). Programs at the center shall include, but need not 
be limited to, live jazz interpretive and educational programs, and 
shall provide visitors with information about jazz-related programs, 
performances, and opportunities. 
(d) JAZZ HERITAGE DISTRICTS.—The Secretary may provide tech-
nical assistance to the city of New Orleans and other appropriate 
entities for the designation of certain areas in and around New 
Orleans as jazz heritage districts. Such districts shall include those 
areas with an exceptional concentration of jazz historical sites and 
established community traditions of 
jazz street parades. 
(e) 
COOOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS, GRANTS AND TECHNICAL 
ASSISTANCE.—In furtherance of the purposes of this title— 
(1) the Secretary, after consultation with the New Orleans 
Jazz Commission established pursuant to section 1207, is 
authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with owners 
of properties that are designated pursuant to section 1203(b)(3) 
which 
provide 
outstanding 
educational and interpretive 
opportunities relating to the evolution of jazz in New Orleans. 
The Secretary may assist in rehabilitating, restoring, marking, 
and interpreting and may provide technical assistance for the 
preservation and interpretation of such properties. Such agree-
ments shall contain, but need not be limited to, provisions 
that the National Park Service will have reasonable rights 
of access for operational and visitor use needs, that rehabilita-
tion and restoration will meet the Secretar^s standards for 
rehabilitation of historic buildings, and that specify the roles 
and responsibilities of the Secretary for each site or structure; 
(2) the Secretary is authorized to enter into cooperative 
agreements with the city of New Orleans, the State of Louisi-
ana, and other appropriate public and private organizations 
under which the other parties to the agreement may contribute 
to the acquisition, construction, operation, and maintenance 
of the interpretive center and to the operation of educational 
and interpretive programs to further the purposes of this title; 
and 
(3) the Secretary, in consultation with the New Orleans 
Jazz Commission, is authorized to provide grants or technical 
assistance to public and private organizations. 
(f) JAZZ EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS.—The Secretary shall, in the 
administration of the historical park, promote a broad range of 
educational activities relating to jazz and its history. The Secretary 
shall cooperate with schools, universities, and organizations 
supporting jazz education to develop educational programs that 
provide expanded public understanding of jazz and enhanced 
opportunities for public appreciation. The Secretary may assist 
appropriate entities in the development of an information base 
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including archival material, audiovisual records, and objects that 
relate to the history of jazz. 
SEC. 1205. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY. 
(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—The Secretary may acquire lands 
and interests therein within the sites designated pursuant to section 
1203(b)(1) and (3) by donation or purchase with donated or appro-
priated funds or long term lease: Provided, That sites designated 
pursuant to section 1203(b)(3) shall only be acquired with the 
consent of the owner thereof 
(b) STATE AND LOCAL PROPERTIES.—Lands and interests in 
lands which are owned by the State of Louisiana, or any political 
subdivision thereof, may be acquired only by donation. 
SEC. 1206. GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN. 
Within three years after the date funds are made available 
therefor and concurrent with the national landmark study ref-
erenced in section 1203(b)(3), the Secretary, in consultation with 
the New Orleans Jazz Commission, shall prepare a general manage-
ment plan for the historical park. The plan shall include, but 
need not be limited to— 
(1) a visitor use plan indicating programs and facilities 
associated with park programs that will be made available 
to the public; 
(2) preservation and use plans for any structures and sites 
that are identified through the historic landmark study for 
inclusion within the historical park; 
(3) the location and associated cost of public facilities that 
are proposed for inclusion within the historical park, including 
a visitor center; 
(4) identification of programs that the Secretary will imple-
ment or be associated with through cooperative agreements 
with other groups and organizations; 
(5) a transportation plan that addresses visitor use access 
needs to sites, facilities, and programs central to the purpose 
of the historical park; 
(6) plans for the implementation of an archival system 
for materials, objects, and items of importance relating to the 
history of 
jazz; and 
(7) guidelines for the application of cooperative agreements 
that will be used to assist in the management of historical 
park facilities and programs. 
SEC. 1207. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ COMMISSION. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—To assist in implementing the purposes 
of this title and the document entitled "New Orleans Jazz Special 
Resource Study", there is established the New Orleans Jazz 
Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission"). 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.—The Commission shall consist of 17 members 
to be appointed no later than six months after the date of enactment 
of this title. The Commission shall be appointed by the Secretary 
as follows: 
(1) One member from recommendations submitted by the 
Mayor of New Orleans. 
(2) Two members who have recognized expertise in music 
education programs that emphasize jazz. 
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(3) One member, with experience in and knowledge of 
tourism in the greater New Orieans area, from recommenda-
tions submitted by local businesses. 
(4) One member from recommendations submitted by the 
Board of the New Orieans Jazz and Heritage Foundation, 
(5) One member, with experience in and knowledge of 
historic preservation within the New Orleans area. 
(6) Two members, one from recommendations submitted 
by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and one mem-
ber from recommendations submitted by the Chairman of the 
National Endowment of the Arts, who are recognized musicians 
with knowledge and experience in the development of jazz 
in New Orleans. 
(7) Two members, one from recommendations submitted 
by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and one mem-
ber from recommendations submitted by the Director of the 
Louisiana State Museum with recognized expertise in the 
interpretation of jazz history or traditions related to jazz in 
New Orleans. 
(8) Two members who represent local neighborhood groups 
or other local associations; from recommendations submitted 
by the Mayor of New Orleans. 
(9) One member representing local mutual aid and benevo-
lent societies as well as local social and pleasure clubs, from 
recommendations submitted by the Board of the New Orleans 
Jazz and Heritage Foundation. 
(10) One member from recommendations submitted by the 
Governor of the State of Louisiana, who shall be a member 
of the Louisiana State Music Commission. 
(11) One member representing the New Orleans Jazz Club 
from recommendations submitted by the club. 
(12) One member who is a recognized local expert on the 
history, development and progression of jazz in New Orleans 
and is familiar with existing archival materials from rec-
ommendations submitted by the Librarian of Congress. 
(13) The Director of the National Park Service, or the 
Director's designee, ex officio. 
(c) DUTIES OF THE COMMISSION.—The Commission shall— 
(1) advise the Secretary in the preparation of the general 
management plan for the historical park; assist in public discus-
sions of planning proposals; and assist the National Park Serv-
ice in working with individuals, groups, and organizations 
including economic and business interests in determining pro-
grams in which the Secretary should participate through 
cooperative agreement; 
(2) in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary, 
develop partnerships with educational groups, schools, univer-
sities, and other groups to furtherance of the purposes of this 
title; 
(3) in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary, 
develop partnerships with city-wide organizations, and raise 
and disperse funds for programs that assist mutual aid and 
benevolent societies, social and pleasure clubs and other tradi-
tional groups in encouraging the continuation of and enhance-
ment of 
jazz cultural traditions; 
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(4) acquire or lease property for jazz education, and advise 
on hiring brass bands and musical groups to participate in 
education programs and help train young musicians; 
(5) in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary, 
provide recommendations for the location of the visitor center 
and other interpretive sites; 
(6) assist the Secretary in providing funds to support 
research on the origins and early history of 
jazz in New Orleans; 
and 
(7) notwithstanding any other provision of law, seek and 
accept donations of funds, property, or services from individuals, 
foundations, corporations, or other public or private entities 
and expend and use the same for the purposes of providing 
services, programs, and facilities for jazz education, or assisting 
in the rehabilitation and restoration of structures identified 
in the national historic landmark study referenced in section 
1203(b)(3) as having outstanding significance to the history 
of 
jazz in New Orleans. 
(d) APPOINTMENT.—Members of the Commission shall be 
appointed for staggered terms of 3 years, as designated by the 
Secretary at the time of the initial appointment. 
(e) CHAIRMAN.—The Commission shall elect a chairman from 
among its members. The term of the chairman shall be for 3 
years. 
(f) TERMS.—^Any member of the Commission appointed by the 
Secretary for a 3-year term may serve after the expiration of his 
or her term until a successor is appointed. Any vacancy shall 
be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment 
was made. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve 
for the remainder of the term for which the predecessor was 
appointed. 
(g) PER DIEM EXPENSES.—Members of the Commission shall 
serve without compensation. Members shall be entitled to travel 
expenses under section 5703, title 5, United States Code, when 
engaged in Commission business, including per diem in lieu of 
subsistence in the same manner as persons employed intermittently. 
(h) ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT.—The Secretary shall provide the 
Commission with assistance in obtaining such personnel, equip-
ment, and facilities as may be needed by the Commission to carry 
out its duties. 
(i) ANNUAL REPORT.—^The Commission shall submit an annual 
report to the Secretary identifying its expenses and income and 
the entities to which any grants or technical assistance were made 
during the year for which the report is made. 
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108 STAT. 4525 
SEC. 1208. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
16 USC 
There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may 
be necessary to carry out this title. 
Approved October 31, 1994. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—S. 21 (H.R. 518): 
HOUSE REPORTS: Nos. 103-498 accompanying H.R. 518 (Comm. on Natural 
Resources) and 103-832 (Comm. of Conference). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 103-165 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 140 (1994): 
Apr. 12, 13, considered and passed Senate. 
May 17, June 10,13, Julv 12-14, 27, H.R. 518 considered and passed House; 
S. 21, amended, passed in lieu. 
Oct. 6, House agreed to conference report. 
Oct. 7, 8, Senate considered and agreed to conference report 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 30 (1994): 
Oct. 31, Presidential statement.