[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4697 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4697

  To modify the boundaries of Walnut Canyon National Monument in the 
                           State of Arizona.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 1994

    Ms. English of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To modify the boundaries of Walnut Canyon National Monument in the 
                           State of Arizona.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Walnut Canyon National Monument 
Boundary Modification Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that:
            (1) Walnut Canyon National Monument was established for the 
        preservation and interpretation of certain settlements and land 
        use patterns associated with the prehistoric Sinaguan culture 
        of northern Arizona.
            (2) Major cultural resources associated with the purposes 
        of Walnut Canyon National Monument are near the boundary and 
        are currently managed under multiple-use objectives of the 
        adjacent national forest. These concentrations of cultural 
        resources, often referred to as ``forts'', would be more 
        effectively managed as part of the National Park System.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to modify the boundaries 
of the Walnut Canyon National Monument (hereafter in this Act referred 
to as the ``national monument'') to improve management of the national 
monument and associated resources.

SEC. 3. BOUNDARY MODIFICATION.

    Effective on the date of enactment of this Act, the boundaries of 
the national monument shall be modified as depicted on map entitled 
``Boundary Proposal--Walnut Canyon National Monument, Coconino County, 
Arizona'' numbered 360/80,008, and dated June 1994. Such map shall be 
on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the 
Director of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

SEC. 4. ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF PROPERTY.

    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire lands and 
interest in lands within the national monument, by donation, purchase 
with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange. Federal property 
within the boundaries of the national monument (as modified by this 
Act) is hereby transferred to the administrative jurisdiction of the 
Secretary of the Interior for management as part of the national 
monument. Federal property excluded from the monument pursuant to the 
boundary modification under section 3 is hereby transferred to the 
administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture to be 
managed as a part of the Coconino National Forest.

SEC. 5. ADMINISTRATION.

    The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the 
National Park Service, shall manage the national monument in accordance 
with this Act and the provisions of law generally applicable to units 
of the National Park Service, including ``An Act to establish a 
National Park Service,'' approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 
U.S.C. 1, 2-4), and for other purposes.

SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out the purpose of this Act.
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