[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 860 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 860

To authorize the National Park Service to provide funding to assist in 
  the restoration, reconstruction, rehabilitation, preservation, and 
  maintenance of the historic buildings known as ``Poplar Forest'' in 
   Bedford County, Virginia, designed, built, and lived in by Thomas 
                   Jefferson, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 4, 1993

Mr. Payne of Virginia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                 to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the National Park Service to provide funding to assist in 
  the restoration, reconstruction, rehabilitation, preservation, and 
  maintenance of the historic buildings known as ``Poplar Forest'' in 
   Bedford County, Virginia, designed, built, and lived in by Thomas 
                   Jefferson, 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. AUTHORIZATION FOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ASSISTANCE FOR 
              POPLAR FOREST SITE.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the 
Director of the National Park Service, is authorized to provide 
assistance under the Act of August 21, 1935 (the Historic Sites, 
Buildings, and Antiquities Act, 16 U.S.C. 461-467), to nonprofit 
organizations to be used (1) for the restoration, reconstruction, 
rehabilitation, preservation, and maintenance of the historic buildings 
designed, built, and lived in by Thomas Jefferson known as ``Poplar 
Forest'' in Bedford County, Virginia, (2) for preservation and 
maintenance of related sites, (3) for providing and maintaining public 
access to such buildings and related sites, (4) for the design and 
planning of activities referred to in paragraphs (1) through (3), and 
(5) for the acquisition of lands and interests in lands necessary to 
provide for the preservation and interpretation of such buildings and 
related sites.
    (b) Use of Funds.--Any restoration, reconstruction, rehabilitation, 
preservation, and maintenance carried with the use of funds authorized 
to be appropriated under this Act shall be carried out in accordance 
with standards applicable to historic structures as established by the 
Director of the National Park Service.
    (c) Cost Sharing.--Funds made available pursuant to this Act for 
any project shall not exceed 50 percent of the total cost of the 
project to be funded. In making such funds available, the Secretary 
shall give consideration to projects which provide a greater leverage 
of federal funds.
    (d) Conversion, Use, or Disposal.--Any assistance made available 
pursuant to this Act shall be subject to an agreement that conversion, 
use, or disposal of the project assisted for purposes contrary to the 
purposes of this Act, as determined by the Secretary, shall result in a 
right of the United States to compensation for all funds made available 
for such project, or the proportion of the increased value of the 
project attributable to such funds, as determined at the time of such 
conversion, use, or disposal, whichever is greater.
    (e) Audit.--Not less frequently than every 2 years after assistance 
is provided under this Act for any project (and upon completion of such 
project), the Inspector General of the Department of the Interior shall 
conduct periodic audits of such project to determine if such projects 
are being carried out in accordance with the requirements of this Act 
and other applicable law. The Inspector General of the Department of 
the Interior shall submit a report containing the results of each such 
audit to the Secretary of the Interior, to the Committee on Natural 
Resources of the United States House of Representatives, and to the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate. 
Any assistance made available pursuant to this Act shall be subject to 
an agreement that the Director of the National Park Service and the 
Inspector General of the Department of the Interior shall be permitted 
to inspect and audit, upon request, all sites, facilities, and books 
and records relating to any project for which such assistance is 
provided.

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