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

The bill ratifies and approves:

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

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

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

 Certain land in the park that was conveyed by Interior to the town of Tremont, Maine, shall no longer be used exclusively for school purposes, but for public purposes, subject to the conditions that: (1) use of the property (on such land) shall not degrade or adversely impact the park's resources or values; and (2) such land shall remain in public ownership for recreational, educational, or similar public purposes.

Date: 2016-09-28
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
George W. Bush Childhood Home Study Act

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

Interior shall: (1) evaluate the national significance of such site, and (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System.

Date: 2016-09-28
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Indiana Dunes National Park Act

This bill renames the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as the Indiana Dunes National Park.

Date: 2016-09-28
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
This bill amends the National Trails System Act to direct the Department of the Interior to conduct a study on feasibility of designating as a national historic trail the Chief Standing Bear Trail extending approximately 550 miles from Niobrara, Nebraska, to Ponca City, Oklahoma, which follows the route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people during federal Indian removal, and approximately 550 miles from Ponca City through Omaha to Niobrara, Nebraska, which follows the return route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people.

 Interior shall consider input from owners of private land within or adjacent to such study area and shall not consider acquiring any land outside the exterior boundaries of any federally administered area.

Date: 2016-12-06
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Susquehanna Gateway National Heritage Area Act

 Establishes the Susquehanna Gateway National Heritage Area in Pennsylvania.

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

Requires the Corporation to prepare and submit a management plan for the Area.

Date: 2015-01-21
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
National Monument Designation Transparency and Accountability Act of 2015

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

The Department of the Interior may not implement restrictions on the public use of a national monument until the expiration of an appropriate review period providing for public input and congressional approval.

Date: 2015-01-21
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild and Scenic River Act

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Sec. 5) The bill also revises the description of a specified designated segment of the Farmington River in Connecticut.

Date: 2015-02-02
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Act

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

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

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

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

Establishes the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument Advisory Council to advise with respect to the preparation and implementation of the management plan. Requires the appointment of one Council member to represent Indian tribes.

Date: 2015-02-05
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
North Country National Scenic Trail Route Adjustment Act

 (Sec. 2) Amends the National Trails System Act to revise the authorized route of the North Country National Scenic Trail to extend it to the Appalachian Trail in Vermont and to modify the route in northeastern Minnesota.

(Sec. 3) Prohibits any land or interest outside of the exterior boundary of any federally administered area from being acquired by the federal government for the Trail by condemnation.

Date: 2015-02-05
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
California Desert Conservation and Recreation Act of 2015 

 Amends the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 to, among other things: (1) establish or designate national monuments, wilderness areas, a special management area, off-highway vehicle recreation areas, a national scenic area, and an area of critical environmental concern; (2) release specified wilderness study areas; (3) adjust national park and preserve boundaries; and (4) specify land withdrawals, exchanges, and acquisitions.

Directs that specified federal land be taken into trust for the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribe.

Authorizes the acquisition of lands and interests in land, including improvements, outside the boundary of Joshua Tree National Park in California for the purpose of operating a visitor center.

Makes amendments to the California Desert Protection Act of 1994 regarding the California State School lands.

Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified segments of rivers and creeks as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Sets forth requirements for the disposition of revenues collected as payments for the development of wind and solar energy on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Establishes the Renewable Energy Resource Conservation Fund.

Date: 2015-02-09
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Improved National Monument Designation Process Act

Before a national monument can be designated on public land, the President must obtain congressional approval, certify compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and receive notice from the governor of the state in which the monument is to be located that the state legislature has enacted legislation approving its designation.

 The President may not declare any area of the exclusive economic zone to be a marine national monument unless:

 it is specifically authorized by Congress, the President has certified compliance with NEPA, and each state legislature within 100 nautical miles of the proposed monument has approved it. Neither the Department of the Interior nor the Department of Commerce may implement a restriction on the public use of a marine national monument until the expiration of an appropriate review period providing for public input and congressional approval.

Date: 2015-02-10
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Amends the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on feasibility of designating as a national historic trail the Chief Standing Bear Trail extending approximately 550 miles from Niobrara, Nebraska, to Ponca City, Oklahoma, which follows the route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people during federal Indian removal, and approximately 550 miles from Ponca City through Omaha to Niobrara, Nebraska, which follows the return route taken by Chief Standing Bear and the Ponca people.

Requires Interior to consider input from owners of private land within or adjacent to such study area.

Date: 2015-02-12
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center Act

 Establishes the African Burial Ground International Memorial Museum and Educational Center at the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York, New York.

Directs the National Park Service , to: (1) acquire for the Museum property that is located adjacent to the National Monument or in any other area of the African Burial Ground National Historic Landmark in the city other than the location adjacent to the Monument, and (2) construct the Museum on the acquired property.

Establishes within the Department of the Interior the African Burial Ground Advisory Council to: (1) make recommendations to the Secretary on the construction of the Museum, and (2) advise and assist Interior on all matters relating to the operation and preservation of the Museum.

Date: 2015-02-12
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Social sciences and history
Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network Reauthorization Act 

This bill amends the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998 to permanently reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network and the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Grants Assistance Program.

Date: 2015-02-12
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
President Street Station Study Act

 (Sec. 3) Directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the President Street Station, a railroad terminal in Baltimore, Maryland, to evaluate the terminal's national significance and determine its feasibility for designation as a unit of the National Park System.

Date: 2015-02-12
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Presidential Library Donation Reform Act of 2015

 (Sec. 2) Requires each presidential library fundraising organization to submit quarterly reports to the National Archives and Records Administration on all contributions of $200 or more whether monetary or in-kind for the quarterly period.

Requires the Archivist of the United States to publish such information on the website of the National Archives within 30 days after each submission.

Makes it unlawful for contributors or fundraising organizations to knowingly and willfully submit materially false information or omit material information. Prescribes criminal penalties for violation of such prohibitions.

Date: 2015-02-25
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Government operations and politics
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Thurgood Marshall's Elementary School Study Act

(Sec. 3) The Department of the Interior shall conduct a special resource study, according to requirements for study of potential additions to the National Park System, of P.S. 103, the public school located in West Baltimore, Maryland, which former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall attended as a youth. The study must also include any other resources in the surrounding neighborhood that relate to his early life.

Date: 2015-02-27
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
(Sec. 1) This bill modifies the boundary of Petersburg National Battlefield in Virginia to include the land and interests in land identified on the map titled "Petersburg National Battlefield Boundary Expansion," and dated March 2016.

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

Interior shall administer any acquired lands or interests as a part of the Battlefield.

The bill transfers:

 from Interior to the Department of the Army administrative jurisdiction over approximately 1.170 acres of land for the Fort Lee Military Reservation, and from the Army to Interior administrative jurisdiction over approximately 1.171 acres of land for the Battlefield. The transferred lands shall not be subject to reimbursement or consideration.

The land transferred to the Army shall be excluded from the boundary of the Battlefield.

The land transferred to Interior shall be included within the boundary of the Battlefield and administered as part of it.

Date: 2015-03-11
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Grand Canyon Bison Management Act

(Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of the Interior to publish a management plan to reduce, through humane lethal culling by skilled public volunteers and other nonlethal means, the population of bison in the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona that Interior determines are detrimental to the uses of the Park.

 Such a volunteer may remove a full bison harvested from the Park.

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

 In developing such plan, Interior must comply with all applicable federal environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

Date: 2015-03-18
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Animals
Browns Canyon National Monument Clarification Act

Declares that the designation of a national monument on land on which the Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area in Colorado is located shall not affect: (1) the arrangements for cooperative administration of the Area by the Bureau of Land Management and the state of Colorado, (2) grazing on the land on which the monument is located, or (3) the use or allocation of any water, water right, or interest in water.

Requires the Department of the Interior to complete a comprehensive management plan for the conservation and protection of the monument.

Date: 2015-04-16
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

(Sec. 1) This bill amends the Dayton Aviation Heritage Preservation Act of 1992 to rename the John W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers Aviation Center, part of the Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park in Dayton, Ohio, as the "John W. Berry, Sr. Wright Brothers National Museum."

Date: 2015-04-20
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
National Scenic Trails Parity Act

 Amends the National Trails System Act to require the North Country, Ice Age, and New England National Scenic Trails to be administered as units of the National Park System.

Date: 2015-04-23
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Healthy Kids Outdoors Act of 2015 

 Authorizes the Department of the Interior to issue an eligible entity a cooperative agreement for each state for the development, implementation, and updating of a five-year Healthy Kids Outdoors State Strategy designed to encourage people in the United States (especially children, youth, and families) to be physically active outdoors.

Requires an entity that receives funding to: (1) update the State Strategy at least once every five years, and (2) provide a 25% match through in-kind contributions or cash.

Requires State Strategies to provide for subgrants to local partners to implement the state strategy through at at least one of specified program activities.

 Directs the President to issue a national strategy for encouraging people to be physically active outdoors.

Directs Interior and the Department of Health and Human Services to carry out a study of national significance on the health impacts of the national strategy and State Strategies.

Requires Interior to provide technical assistance to eligible entities and local partners, and disseminate best practices that emerge from the strategies funded by this Act.

Date: 2015-04-23
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Owyhee Wilderness Areas Boundary Modifications Act 

(Sec. 2) This bill adjusts the boundaries of the North Fork Owyhee Wilderness, the Owyhee River Wilderness, and the Pole Creek Wilderness in Idaho to exclude certain land.

(Sec. 3) The holder of a grazing permit within the Pole Creek Wilderness and the Owyhee River Wilderness shall be allowed continued limited motorized use in those wilderness areas to support livestock operations if:

 the use occurred before the designation of the wilderness areas; and the Department of the Interior, as part of the minimum requirements analysis required by this bill, has authorized the permittee to conduct limited motorized use within the wilderness areas. Interior shall conduct a minimum requirements analysis for motorized use within those wilderness areas as part of the renewal process for the affected grazing permit.

As part of such analysis, Interior shall analyze the impacts of limited motorized use for livestock operations on vegetation, wildlife, and cultural resources within those wilderness areas.

Until the minimum requirements analysis is completed, Interior shall permit limited motorized use for livestock operations in those wilderness areas at not more than the level authorized.

Date: 2015-04-30
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Cerros del Norte Conservation Act

 (Sec. 3) Designates the Cerro del Yuta Wilderness (comprising approximately 13,420 acres) and Rio San Antonio Wilderness (comprising approximately 8,120 acres) within the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Sets forth requirements for the management of the wilderness areas regarding: (1) livestock grazing, (2) the creation of protective perimeters and buffer zones, and (3) the jurisdiction of the state of New Mexico respecting fish and wildlife located on public land in New Mexico.

Releases specified public land within the San Antonio Wilderness Study Area not designated as wilderness by this Act from further study for such a designation.

Requires the wilderness areas to be administered as components of the National Landscape Conservation System.

Withdraws any federal land within the wilderness areas, including any acquired land or interest, from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) operation of the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws.

Denies that anything in this Act enlarges, diminishes, or otherwise modifies any treaty rights.

Date: 2015-05-07
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Sutton Mountain and Painted Hills Area Preservation and Economic Enhancement Act of 2015

Designates the Sutton Mountain Wilderness, Pat's Cabin Wilderness, Painted Hills Wilderness, and Dead Dog Wilderness in Oregon as wilderness areas and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Permits grazing of livestock to continue if already established.

Declares that nothing in this Act alters, modifies, enlarges, diminishes, or abrogates the treaty rights of any Indian tribe.

Authorizes the Department of the Interior to: (1) conduct management activities necessary to maintain or restore fish and wildlife populations and habitats, and (2) take measures necessary for the control of fire, insects, and diseases.

Authorizes commercial services (including outfitting and guide activities) to the extent necessary for activities that fulfill recreational or other wilderness purposes of such areas.

Requires Interior to provide an owner of private property within the boundary of a wilderness area adequate access to such property.

Prescribe requirements for the Collins, Faulkner, Quant, and Twickenham Livestock LLC land exchanges in Oregon.

Directs Interior to convey specified lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management to Wheeler County, Oregon.

Date: 2015-05-07
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2015

Designates specified lands in the following areas of Utah as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Great Basin, (2) Grand Staircase-Escalante, (3) Moab-La Sal Canyons, (4) Henry Mountains, (5) Glen Canyon, (6) San Juan-Anasazi, (7) Canyonlands Basin, (8) San Rafael Swell, and (9) Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin.

Sets forth administrative requirements for: (1) the exchange of state-owned lands within such areas, (2) federal reservation of water rights, (3) measurement of setbacks for roads with wilderness, (4) authorized livestock grazing, and (5) withdrawal of such lands from disposition under certain public land laws.

Date: 2015-05-19
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Central Coast Heritage Protection Act

 This bill designates specified Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Forest System lands in California as wilderness areas and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

It also designates certain land in Los Padres National Forest in California, comprising approximately 2,174 acres, as the Machesna Mountain Potential Wilderness Area, which shall be incorporated into the Machesna Mountain Wilderness Area.

Specified segments of the Indian, Mono, Matilija, Sespe, and Piru Creeks and Sisquoc River in California are designated as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Certain land in the Los Padres National Forest in California, comprising approximately 41,617 acres, is designated as the Fox Mountain Potential Wilderness Area, which shall be incorporated into the San Rafael Wilderness.

This bill designates specified land: (1) in Los Padres National Forest, comprising approximately 18,666 acres, as the Condor Ridge Scenic Area; and (2) in Los Padres National Forest and in the BLM Bakersfield Field Office, comprising approximately 15,846 acres, as the Black Mountain Scenic Area.

The Condor Trail in Monterey County, California, is designated as the Condor National Recreation Trail.

The Department of Agriculture shall study: (1) connecting the northern and southern parts of the Los Padres National Forest using a trail corridor across parts of the Northern and Southern Santa Lucia Mountains of the Southern California Coastal Range; and (2) nonmotorized recreation trail opportunities (including mountain bicycling) on land not designated as wilderness by this Act within the Santa Barbara, Ojai, and Mt. Pinos ranger districts.

The Forest Service shall study the feasibility of opening a new trail, for vehicles measuring 50 inches or less, connecting Forest Service Highway 95 to the existing off-highway vehicle trail system in the Ballinger Canyon off-highway vehicle area.

Indian tribes shall be assured access to the wilderness areas, scenic areas, and potential wilderness areas designated by this Act for traditional cultural and religious purposes.

Date: 2015-05-21
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
James K. Polk Presidential Home Study Act

(Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the James K. Polk Home and adjacent property in Columbia, Tennessee.

In conducting this study Interior shall evaluate the national significance of the site and determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System.

Date: 2015-06-02
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 2015 

 Designates certain federal land in the Olympic National Forest in the state of Washington as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Designates certain other land, identified on the same map as such proposed areas, as potential wilderness.

Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate as wild, scenic, or recreational rivers specified segments of the following rivers in the state of Washington:

 Elwha River; Dungeness River; Big Quilcene River; Dosewallips River; Duckabush River; Hamma Hamma River; South Fork Skokomish River; Middle Fork Satsop River; West Fork Satsop River; Wynoochee River; East Fork Humptulips River; West Fork Humptulips River; Quinault River; Queets River; Hoh River; Bogachiel River; South Fork Calawah River; Sol Duc River; and Lyre River. Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to take necessary measures to control fire, insects, and diseases in the wilderness areas designated by this Act.

Withdraws the federal land within the boundaries of the designated river segments from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws relating to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials.

Date: 2015-06-04
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
East Rosebud Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

 (Sec. 3) This bill amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified river segments of the East Rosebud Creek in Montana as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Nothing in this bill creates a protective perimeter or buffer zone outside of the designated boundary of the designated river segments.

Date: 2015-06-15
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Maritime Washington National Heritage Area Act

(Sec. 3) This bill establishes the Maritime Washington National Heritage Area in the state of Washington.

The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation shall be the local coordinating entity for the Heritage Area, and shall prepare and submit a management plan for it.

(Sec. 5) The Washington Trust for Historic Preservation shall not use federal funds made available under this bill for the acquisition of real property or any interests in real property.

(Sec. 7) The bill makes specific disclaimers relating to private property and federal, state, local, and tribal regulatory protections.

Nothing in this bill alters, modifies, diminishes, or extinguishes any Indian tribe's treaty rights within the Heritage Area.

(Sec. 9) The bill authorizes appropriations. The federal cost share of any activity carried out under this bill shall be 50% of its total cost.

The authority of the Department of the Interior to furnish assistance under this bill terminates 15 years after enactment.

Date: 2015-06-18
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008 to add Livingston County, the city of Jonesboro in Union County, and the city of Freeport in Stephenson County in Illinois to the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area.

Date: 2015-06-24
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area Act

(Sec. 4) This bill establishes the Mountains to Sound Greenway National Heritage Area in the state of Washington. The bill designates the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust as the local coordinating entity for the heritage area, which shall prepare and submit a management plan for it.

(Sec. 6) The Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust shall not use federal funding made available under this bill for the acquisition of real property or any interest in real property.

(Sec. 8) Nothing in this bill:

 abridges the rights of any public or private property owners; alters any adopted land use regulations, approved land use plans, or other regulatory authorities of any federal, state, tribal, or local agencies; conveys any land use or other regulatory authority to the Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust; or alters, modifies, diminishes, or extinguishes any Indian tribe's treaty rights within the heritage area. (Sec. 10) The bill authorizes appropriations.

The federal cost share of any activity carried out under this bill shall be 50% of that activity's total cost.

The authority of Department of the Interior to furnish assistance under this bill terminates 15 years after this bill's enactment.

Date: 2015-06-25
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park Boundary Revision Act of 2016

(Sec. 3) This bill redesignates the Ocmulgee National Monument in Georgia as the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park. (Sec. 4) The bill adjusts the boundary of the Historical Park to include approximately 2,100 acres.

(Sec. 5) The Department of the Interior may acquire lands and interests within the boundary of the historical park by donation, purchase from a willing seller, or exchange.

Interior shall administer any acquired land as part of the historical park.

(Sec. 6) Interior shall conduct a special resource study of the Ocmulgee River corridor between the cities of Macon, Georgia, and Hawkinsville, Georgia, to determine:

 the national significance of the study area; the suitability and feasibility of adding land in the study area to the National Park System; and the methods and means for the protection and interpretation of the study area by the National Park Service, other federal, state, or local government entities, or private or nonprofit organizations.

Date: 2015-06-25
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Oregon Wildlands Act

This bill designates specified Bureau of Land Management land in Oregon as the Rogue Canyon and Molalla National Recreation Areas in Oregon.

The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act is amended to add specified segments to the Rogue River as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Segment lengths and other technical corrections are made to segment designations for the Chetco River, Oregon.

The Squaw Creek is renamed as Whychus Creek.

The Franklin and Wasson Creeks and specified segments of the Molalla River are designated as wild rivers and components of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Specified segments are added to the Elk River, and specified other river segments are designated as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Approximately 56,100 acres of specified federal land are added to the Wild Rogue Wilderness, as well as approximately 600 acres of certain potential wilderness administered by the Department of the Interior.

Interior shall manage approximately 4,000 acres of Withdrawal Area to preserve the natural and primitive character of the land for recreational, scenic, and scientific use.

Approximately 30,540 acres of certain Forest Service and BLM land in Oregon are designated as the Devil's Staircase Wilderness and a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Date: 2015-06-25
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
This bill amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to state that the authorization of the Department of Agriculture (USDA), with respect to the Salmon River in Idaho, to maintain or replace facilities or structures for commercial recreation services at Smith Gulch may include improvements or replacements that:

 are consistent with the management of a specified river segment of the main Salmon River pursuant to the Central Idaho Wilderness Act of 1980; and would reduce the impact of commercial recreation facilities or services on wilderness or wild and scenic river resources and values. The USDA may also consider including as appropriate:

 hydroelectric generators and associated electrical transmission facilities, water pumps for fire suppression, transitions from propane to electrical lighting, solar energy systems, 6-volt or 12-volt battery banks for power storage, and other appropriate improvements or replacements which are consistent with this bill.

Date: 2015-07-15
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Finger Lakes National Heritage Area Study Act of 2015

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating specified counties and other areas in the state of New York as the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area.

Date: 2015-07-21
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2015 

 (Sec. 3) This bill modifies the boundary of the Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park in Georgia to include approximately eight acres identified as Wallis House and Harriston Hill.

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

Interior shall administer acquired lands and interests as part of the park.

Date: 2015-08-04
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Shiloh National Military Park Boundary Adjustment and Parker's Crossroads Battlefield Designation Act

 (Sec. 3) This bill modifies the boundary of Shiloh National Military Park, located in Tennessee and Mississippi, to include the following areas: (1) Fallen Timbers Battlefield, (2) Russell House Battlefield, and (3) Davis Bridge Battlefield. The Department of the Interior may acquire lands by donation, purchase from willing sellers, or exchange.

(Sec. 4) The bill establishes Parker's Crossroads Battlefield in Tennessee as an affiliated area of the National Park System.

The city of Parkers Crossroads and the Tennessee Historical Commission shall jointly be the management entity for the affiliated area.

Interior may furnish technical assistance and enter into cooperative agreements with the management entity for financial assistance with marketing, interpretation, and preservation of the affiliated area.

Interior shall develop a general management plan for the affiliated area.

Date: 2015-08-05
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
California Coastal National Monument Expansion Act

This bill expands the boundary of the California Coastal National Monument to include specified federal lands in Humboldt, Santa Cruz, and San Luis Obispo Counties in California.

The Department of the Interior shall amend the Monument management plan for the long-term protection and management of the federal land so added.

 Interior may acquire nonfederal land or interests within or adjacent to the added federal land only through exchange, donation, or purchase from a willing seller.

Interior must ensure the protection of Indian sacred sites and traditional cultural properties in the Monument and provide access by members of Indian Tribes for traditional cultural and customary uses.

The Monument shall be managed as part of the National Landscape Conservation System.

Interior shall establish an advisory council for each unit of the added federal land to advise on the implementation of the management plan.

 Certain rocks, pinnacles, reefs, and islands in the Pacific Ocean within a mile of the coast of Orange County, California, are made part of the California Coastal National Monument, and their current temporary reservation is repealed.

 Likewise repealed is the lighthouse reservation with respect to the San Juan and San Mateo Rocks and the two rocks in the vicinity of Laguna Beach, off the coast of Orange County.

Date: 2015-08-05
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Sewall-Belmont House Act of 2015

This bill establishes the Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site (the former headquarters of the National Woman's Party of the women's suffrage movement) as a unit of the National Park System (NPS).

The Site shall not be established as an NPS unit, however, until the Department of the Interior determines that: (1) the National Woman's Party has transferred to Interior the land and any improvements within the boundaries of the Site, and (2) Interior and the National Woman's Party have entered into a management agreement.

The national historic site shall consist of the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum, located at 144 Constitution Avenue, NE, Washington, DC.

Date: 2015-08-05
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall of Remembrance Act of 2015

Authorizes a Wall of Remembrance, as part of the previously authorized Korean War Veterans Memorial, to include: (1) a list by name of members of the U.S. Armed Forces who died in theater in the Korean War; (2) the number of members who were wounded, listed as missing in action, or prisoners of war; and (3) the number of members of the Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army, the Republic of Korea Armed Forces, and the other nations of the United Nations Command who were killed, wounded, missing, or prisoners.

Prohibits using any federal funds to construct the Wall.

Date: 2015-08-05
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
This bill declares that any proclamation of a national monument or reservation of a parcel of land as part of a national monument shall expire three years after the proclamation or reservation unless specifically approved by: (1) a federal law enacted after the date of the proclamation or reservation; and (2) a state law, for each state where the land involved is located, that is enacted after such date.

Date: 2015-08-06
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Fort Frederica National Monument Boundary Expansion Act of 2015

 Expands the boundary of the Fort Frederica National Monument on Saint Simon Island, Georgia. Increases the maximum number of acres that may be included in the monument from 250 to 525 acres.

Date: 2015-09-10
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
This bill authorizes the Smithsonian Institution to plan, design, and construct additional storage facilities for collections storage modules and hangar additions to the National Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, and additional storage and laboratory space at the Museum Support Center at the Suitland Collections Center in Suitland, Maryland, to accommodate the care, preservation, conservation, deposit, and study of national collections held in trust.

Date: 2015-09-17
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Arts, culture, religion
National Memorial to Fallen Educators Act of 2015

This bill designates as the "National Memorial to Fallen Educators" an existing memorial located at the National Teachers Hall of Fame in Emporia, Kansas. The memorial is not a unit of the National Park System, and its designation shall not require or allow federal funds to be expended for any purpose related to it.

Date: 2015-09-21
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Education
Fort Scott National Historic Site Boundary Modification Act

(Sec. 2) This bill allows the Department of the Interior to acquire by purchase with appropriated funds or by donation (as under current law) the lands and interests in land, together with buildings and improvements, known as Fort Scott in the city of Fort Scott in Bourbon County, Kansas.

The proviso that the buildings so acquired shall not include the structure known as "Lunette Blair" is repealed (thereby allowing its acquisition).

The boundary of the Fort Scott National Historic Site in Kansas shall be modified accordingly.

Date: 2015-09-28
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Medgar Evers House Study Act

(Sec. 2) This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the home of the late civil rights activist Medgar Evers, which is located at 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive in Jackson, Mississippi.

 Interior shall: (1) evaluate the national significance of the site, and (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System.

Date: 2015-10-08
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
National Park Service Centennial Act

This bill establishes the National Park Centennial Challenge Fund in the Treasury to finance signature projects and programs to enhance the National Park System (NPS) as it approaches its centennial in 2016.

 There is also established in the Treasury a Public Lands Centennial Fund.

The Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture shall jointly establish a program under which funds from the Centennial Fund are made available to federal land or water management agencies to support projects that:

 enhance visitor services and outdoor recreational opportunities, restore lands and waters, repair facilities or trails, or increase energy and water efficiency. National Park Foundation Endowment Act

The National Park Foundation shall establish the Second Century Endowment for the National Park Service.

The National Park Service Second Century Fund is established in the Treasury.

Interior shall undertake a broad program of the highest quality interpretation and education.

This bill makes permanent the Volunteers in the Parks Program.

Interior may establish a Visitor Services Management Authority (VSMA) to administer commercial visitor services programs and activities of the NPS, including the award and administration of commercial visitor facilities and services management contracts pursuant to this Act.

A VSMA revolving fund is established for expenses necessary for the management, improvement, enhancement, operation, construction, and maintenance of commercial visitor services and facilities and payment of possessory interest and leasehold surrender interest.

Date: 2015-11-05
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
African American Civil Rights Network Act of 2016

(Sec. 3) This bill requires the Department of the Interior to establish within the National Park Service (NPS) an African American Civil Rights Network that encompasses: (1) all NPS units and programs that relate to the African American civil rights movement during the period from 1939 through 1968; (2) other federal, state, local, and privately owned properties that relate to the African American civil rights movement and that are included in, or eligible for, the National Register of Historic Places; and (3) other governmental and nongovernmental facilities and programs of an educational, research, or interpretive nature that are directly related to such movement.

In carrying out the network, Interior must: (1) review civil rights movement studies and reports that may already be underway or completed, such as the Civil Rights Framework Study; (2) produce and disseminate educational materials, such as handbooks, maps, interpretive guides, or electronic information; (3) provide technical assistance; and (4) adopt an official, uniform symbol or device for the network and issue regulations for the symbol's use.

Date: 2015-11-19
Topic: Public Lands (National Parks)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources