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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''El Camino Real de los Tejas National
Historic Trail Act of 2003''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION.

Section 5(a) of the National Trails System Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(a))
is amended by adding at the end the following:
''(23) El camino real de los tejas.--
''(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), El
Camino Real de los Tejas (The Royal Road of historic
Tejas) National Historic Trail, a combination of
historic routes totaling 2,580 miles in length from the
Rio Grande near Eagle Pass and Laredo, Texas, to
Natchitoches, Louisiana, and including the Old San
Antonio Road, as generally depicted on the maps
entitled 'El Camino Real de los Tejas', contained in
the report prepared pursuant to subsection (b) entitled
'National Historic Trail Feasibility Study and
Environmental Assessment: El Camino Real de los Tejas,
Texas-Louisiana', dated July 1998. The National Park
Service is authorized to administer designated portions
of this trail system as a national historic trail as
set forth in this paragraph.
''(B) Establishment.--
''(i) Publicly owned lands.--Congress
authorizes the establishment of El Camino Real
de los Tejas national historic trail and the
respective administration on those portions of
the historic trail routes and related historic
sites within publicly owned lands when such
trail related resources meet the purposes of
this Act or certification criteria set by the
Secretary of the Interior per section 3(a)(3)
of this Act.
''(ii) Privately owned lands.--Congress
authorizes the establishment of El Camino Real
de los Tejas national historic trail and the
respective administration on those portions of
the historic trail routes and related historic
sites within privately owned lands only through
the voluntary and expressed consent of the
owner and when such trails and sites qualify
for certification as officially established
components of the national historic trail. The
owner's approval of a certification agreement
satisfies the consent requirement.
Certification agreements are not legally
binding and may be terminated at any time.
Should land ownership change at a certified
site, the certification will cease to be valid
unless the new owner consents to a new
agreement.
''(C) Private property rights protection.--Nothing
in this Act or in the establishment of any portion of
the national historic trail authorizes any person to
enter private property without the consent of the
owner. Nothing in this Act or in the establishment of
any portion of the national historic trail will
authorize the Federal Government to restrict private
property owner's use or enjoyment of their property
subject to other laws or regulations. Authorization of
El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail
under this Act does not itself confer any additional
authority to apply other Federal laws and regulations
on non-Federal lands along the trail. Laws or
regulations requiring public entities and agencies to
take into consideration a national historic trail shall
continue to apply notwithstanding the foregoing.
Notwithstanding section 7(g) of this Act, the United
States is authorized to acquire privately owned real
property or an interest in such property for purposes
of the national historic trail only with the consent of
the owner of such property and shall have no authority
to condemn or otherwise appropriate privately owned
real property or an interest in such property for the
purposes of El Camino Real de los Tejas National
Historic Trail.
''(D) Coordination of activities.--The Secretary of
the Interior may coordinate with United States and
Mexican public and nongovernmental organizations,
academic institutions, and, in consultation with the
Secretary of State, the Government of Mexico and its
political subdivisions, for the purpose of exchanging
trail information and research, fostering trail
preservation and educational programs, providing
technical assistance, and working to establish an
international historic trail with complementary
preservation and education programs in each nation.''.
El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Act of 2003 - Amends the National Trails System Act to designate El Camino Real de los Tejas as a National Historic Trail. Authorizes establishment of such trail on portions of the trail on: (1) publicly owned lands; and (2) privately owned lands only with the consent of the owner.

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Marine Renewable Energy Promotion
Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:
(1) Fund.--The term ''Fund'' means the Adaptive Management
and Environmental Fund established by section 3(c).
(2) Marine renewable energy.--The term ''marine renewable
energy'' means energy from--
(A) waves, tides, and currents in oceans,
estuaries, and tidal areas;
(B) free flowing water in rivers, lakes, man made
channels, and streams; and
(C) differentials in ocean temperature or ocean
thermal energy conversion.
(3) Secretary.--The term ''Secretary'' means the Secretary
of Energy.

SEC. 3. MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

(a) Research and Development Program.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary shall establish a marine
renewable energy research and development program that is
focused on--
(A) developing new marine renewable energy
technologies;
(B) reducing the manufacturing and operation costs
of marine renewable energy technologies;
(C) increasing the reliability and survivability of
marine renewable energy facilities;
(D) integrating marine renewable energy into the
national electric grid;
(E) identifying opportunities for cross-pollination
and development of economies of scale between offshore
wind and marine renewable energy sources;
(F) identifying the environmental impacts of marine
renewable energy and ways to address any negative
impacts; and
(G)(i) applying advanced systems engineering and
system integration methods to identify critical
interfaces and develop open standards for marine
renewable energy;
(ii) transferring the resulting intellectual
property to industry stakeholders as public information
through published interface definitions, standards, and
demonstration projects; and
(iii) developing incentives for industry to comply
with the standards.
(2) Administration.--The program established under
paragraph (1) shall be separate from any wind and hydropower
program carried out by the Secretary.
(b) Marine-Based Energy Device Verification Program.--
(1) Establishment.--The Secretary shall establish a marine-
based energy device verification program to provide a bridge
from the wave, tidal, current, or thermal energy capture device
design and development efforts underway across the industry to
commercial deployment of marine renewable energy devices.
(2) Purposes.--The purposes of the program are to fund,
facilitate the development and installation of, and evaluate
marine renewable energy projects, in partnership with the
Electric Power Research Institute, the National Renewable
Energy Laboratory, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Marine Sciences Laboratory, and the Sandia National
Laboratories, and in conjunction with universities and other
institutions of higher education, private business entities,
and other appropriate organizations, in order--
(A) to increase marine renewable energy experience;
and
(B) to build and operate enough candidate devices
to obtain statistically significant operating and
maintenance data.
(3) Objectives.--The objectives of the program include--
(A) verifying the performance, reliability,
maintainability, and cost of new marine renewable
energy device designs and system components in an
operating environment;
(B) providing States, regulators, utilities, and
other stakeholders with a valid opportunity to test and
evaluate marine renewable energy technology in new
areas;
(C) documenting and communicating the experience
from those projects for the benefit of utilities,
independent power producers, other nonutility
generators, device suppliers, and others in the marine
renewable energy development community; and
(D) resolving environmental issues through robust
characterization, reliable impact prediction, effective
monitoring, development and use of adaptive management,
and informing engineering design to improve
environmental performance.
(c) Adaptive Management and Environmental Fund.--
(1) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(A) the use of marine renewable energy technologies
can reduce contributions to global warming;
(B) marine renewable energy technologies can be
produced domestically;
(C) marine renewable energy is a nascent industry;
and
(D) the United States must work to promote new
renewable energy technologies that reduce contributions
to global warming gases and improve domestic energy
production.
(2) Fund.--
(A) Establishment.--There is established in the
Treasury of the United States a revolving fund, to be
known as the ''Adaptive Management and Environmental
Fund'', consisting of such amounts as are appropriated
to the Fund under subsection (d).
(B) Expenditures from fund.--
(i) In general.--Subject to clause (ii), on
request by the Secretary, the Secretary of the
Treasury shall transfer from the Fund to the
Secretary such amounts as the Secretary
determines are necessary to provide grants to
eligible entities to assist the entities in
complying with Federal, State, or local
regulatory permit requirements through
assessment and demonstration of the
environmental effects of marine renewable
energy projects (including environmental
studies, design, fabrication, deployment,
operating, monitoring, environmental
mitigation, and decommissioning costs).
(ii) Administrative expenses.--An amount
not exceeding 10 percent of the amounts in the
Fund shall be available for each fiscal year to
pay the administrative expenses necessary to
carry out this subsection.
(C) Transfers of amounts.--
(i) In general.--The amounts required to be
transferred to the Fund under this paragraph
shall be transferred at least monthly from the
general fund of the Treasury to the Fund on the
basis of estimates made by the Secretary of the
Treasury.
(ii) Adjustments.--Proper adjustment shall
be made in amounts subsequently transferred to
the extent prior estimates were in excess of or
less than the amounts required to be
transferred.
(3) Eligibility.--
(A) In general.--To be eligible for a grant under
this subsection, an entity shall provide to the
Secretary a regulatory permit that includes conditions
for the removal of the marine renewable energy project
supported by the grant if the permitting authority
finds that the marine renewable energy project has an
unacceptable adverse impact on the environment.
(B) Administration.--A marine renewable energy
project shall not be required to be removed in the
absence of a finding by the permitting authority that
the project has an unacceptable adverse impact.
(4) Public availability.--The results of any assessment or
demonstration conducted under this subsection shall be made
available to the public, except to the extent that the
assessment or demonstration contains information that is
protected from disclosure under section 552(b) of title 5,
United States Code.
(5) Audit requirements.--
(A) In general.--Any entity that receives a grant
under this subsection shall--
(i) track the use of grant funds from the
Fund; and
(ii) certify annually to the Secretary that
the grant funds were used only for purposes
authorized under this subsection.
(B) Procedures.--The Secretary shall establish
procedures to ensure that the Secretary is able to
oversee and audit the use of funds by eligible
entities.
(C) Annual audits.--The Secretary shall conduct an
audit, at least annually, of the use of grant funds
received under this subsection by each eligible entity.
(D) Ineligibility.--The Secretary may declare an
entity ineligible for a grant under this subsection on
a finding of inappropriate use of funding.
(6) Sunset provision.--
(A) Report.--The Secretary shall submit a report to
the appropriate committees of Congress if the Secretary
determines that the technologies and activities
supported under this subsection have achieved a level
of maturity that is sufficient to enable the program
authorized under this subsection to cease.
(B) Termination.--The program authorized under this
subsection and the Fund shall cease to exist effective
on the date of submission of a report described in
subparagraph (A).
(7) Administration.--The Secretary may use amounts in the
Fund to provide assistance to State resource agencies that are
processing applications for permits required for marine
renewables projects that have received assistance from the Fund
to assist staff with understanding and evaluating applications
and participating in the applicable Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission or Minerals Management Service regulatory process.
(8) Environmental requirement.--Nothing in this section
eliminates or otherwise affects any requirement imposed under
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321
et seq.).
(d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to be
appropriated to carry out this section $250,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2010 through 2021.
Marine Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2009 - Requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish a marine renewable energy research and development program, separate from any DOE wind and hydropower program, focused on: (1) developing new marine renewable energy technologies; (2) reducing the manufacturing and operation costs of such technologies; (3) increasing the reliability and survivability of marine renewable energy facilities; (4) integrating marine renewable energy into the national electric grid; (5) identifying opportunities for cross pollination and development of economies of scale between offshore wind and marine renewable energy sources; (6) identifying the environmental impacts of marine renewable energy and ways to address negative impacts; (7) applying advanced systems engineering and system integration methods to identify critical interfaces and develop open standards for marine renewable energy; (8) transferring the resulting intellectual property to industry stakeholders as public information through published interface definitions, standards, and demonstration projects; and (9) developing incentives for industry to comply with such standards.

Requires DOE to establish a marine-based energy device verification program to provide a bridge from the wave, tidal, current, or thermal energy capture device design and development efforts underway across the industry to commercial deployment of marine renewable energy devices. Sets forth as purpose of the Program to fund, facilitate the development and installation of, and evaluate marine renewable energy projects, in partnership with the Electric Power Research Institute, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Marine Sciences Laboratory, and the Sandia National Laboratories in order to: (1) increase marine renewable energy experience; and (2) build and operate enough candidate devices to obtain statistically significant operating and maintenance data.

Establishes an Adaptive Management and Environmental Fund to provide grants for complying with requirements through assessment and demonstration of the environmental effects of marine renewable energy projects.

SECTION 1. AWARD OF RANGER TAB FOR CERTAIN SERVICE IN VIETNAM.

(a) Authority.--The Secretary of the Army may award the Ranger Tab
to any person who is eligible for the award under subsection (b) and
for whom an application for the award is submitted in accordance with
subsection (d).
(b) Eligibility.--A person is eligible for award of the Ranger Tab
under subsection (a) if the person--
(1) while serving on active duty in the Army and--
(A) while assigned to the Military Assistance
Advisory Group at any time during 1960, 1961, or 1962,
or to the Military Assistance Command Vietnam at any
time after 1961 and before 1974, served for at least 30
consecutive days in the Republic of Vietnam as an Army
Ranger advisor to one or more Biet Dong-Quan (BDO)
Ranger units of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; or
(B) while assigned to a unit identified in a table
in subsection (c), served for at least 30 consecutive
days in the Republic of Vietnam during the period
specified in that table for such unit;
(2) has been awarded the combat infantryman badge or the
combat medical badge for the service in such assignment during
that period or for service in the Armed Forces before such
service in that assignment; and
(3) since the beginning of the service in such assignment--
(A) has not been discharged from the Armed Forces
with a discharge other than an honorable discharge; or
(B) in the case of a commissioned officer, has not
been dismissed from the Armed Forces and has not been
released from active duty with a characterization of
service in the Armed Forces that is less favorable than
honorable.
(c) Units and Periods of Service.--The units and periods of service
referred to in subsection (b)(1)(B) are as follows:

Table 1
Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols (LRRPs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Period
Unit ------------------------------------
Beginning Ending
------------------------------------------------------------------------
173d Airborne Brigade (Separate), May 1, 1965 December 20,
LRRP (Provisional). 1967
1st Brigade, 101st Airborne July 1, 1965 January 10, 1968
Division, LRRP (Provisional).
1st Infantry Division, LRRP October 1, 1965 December 20,
(Provisional). 1967
1st Cavalry Division, LRRP September 1, 1965 December 20,
(Provisional). 1967
4th Infantry Division, LRRP September 1, 1966 December 20,
(Provisional). 1967
9th Infantry Division, LRRP January 1, 1967 December 20,
(Provisional). 1967
25th Infantry Division, LRRP March 1, 1966 December 20,
(Provisional). 1967
196th Infantry Brigade (Separate), January 1, 1967 December 20,
LRRP (Provisional). 1967.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Table 2
Long Range Patrol (LRP) Companies and Detachments
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Period
Unit ------------------------------------
Beginning Ending
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Company E, 20th Infantry (LRP)..... September 25, February 1, 1969
1967
Company F, 51st Infantry (LRP)..... September 25, February 1, 1969
1967
Company D, 151st Infantry (LRP).... December 26, 1968 February 1, 1969
Company E, 50th Infantry (LRP)..... December 20, 1967 February 1, 1969
Company F, 50th Infantry (LRP)..... December 20, 1967 February 1, 1969
Company E, 51st Infantry (LRP)..... December 12, 1968 February 1, 1969
Company E, 52nd Infantry (LRP)..... December 20, 1967 February 1, 1969
Company F, 52nd Infantry (LRP)..... December 20, 1967 February 1, 1969
Company E, 58th Infantry (LRP)..... December 20, 1967 February 1, 1969
Company F, 58th Infantry (LRP)..... January 10, 1968 February 1, 1969
71st Infantry Detachment (LRP)..... December 20, 1967 February 1, 1969
74th Infantry Detachment (LRP)..... December 20, 1967 February 1, 1969
78th Infantry Detachment (LRP)..... December 15, 1968 February 1, 1969
79th Infantry Detachment (LRP)..... December 15, 1968 February 1,
1969.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Table 3
Ranger Companies
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Period
Unit ------------------------------------
Beginning Ending
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Company C, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 October 25, 1971
Company D, (Ranger), 151st Infantry February 1, 1969 November 20,
1971
Company D, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. November 20, 1969 April 10, 1970
Company E, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 October 12, 1970
Company F, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 March 15, 1971
Company G, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 October 1, 1971
Company H, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 August 15, 1972
Company I, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 April 7, 1970
Company K, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 December 10,
1970
Company L, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 December 26,
1970
Company M, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 October 12, 1970
Company N, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 August 25, 1971
Company O, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 November 20,
1969
Company P, (Ranger), 75th Infantry. February 1, 1969 August 31, 1971.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

(d) Application Required.--(1) To receive a Ranger Tab under the
authority of subsection (a), a person shall submit to the Secretary of
the Army a written application together with detailed information and
documentation demonstrating eligibility for the award. An application
may be submitted on behalf of a person by any other person.
(2) The Secretary of the Army shall prescribe in regulations--
(A) the form and the manner for submission of the
application required under paragraph (1); and
(B) the information and documentation that the Secretary
considers necessary to demonstrate eligibility for award of the
Ranger Tab under subsection (b).
(e) Active Duty Defined.--In this section, the term ''active duty''
has the meaning given such term in section 101(d)(1) of title 10,
United States Code.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to award a Ranger Tab to certain individuals assigned to specified Army units and performing active duty for specified periods in the Republic of Vietnam between 1960 and 1974. Requires written application for such award.