[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1455 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1455

 To protect the integrity of the Point Reyes National Seashore and the 
 Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

           September 14 (legislative day, September 7), 1993

  Mrs. Boxer introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To protect the integrity of the Point Reyes National Seashore and the 
 Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), 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. PURPOSES.

    The purposes of this Act are to--
            (1) furnish watershed and environmental protection for the 
        Tomales Bay;
            (2) maintain the relatively undeveloped nature of the land 
        surrounding Tomales Bay by providing guarantees of 
        nondevelopment; and
            (3) protect the pastoral nature of the land adjacent to the 
        Point Reyes National Seashore and GGNRA; and
            (4) preserve productive long-term agriculture in the 
        region.

SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE AND ACQUISITION OF 
              DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS.

    (a) Expansion.--Section 2 of the Act entitled ``An Act to establish 
the Point Reyes National Seashore in the State of California, and for 
other purposes'' (16 U.S.C. 459c-1) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(c) The Point Reyes National Seashore shall also include the area 
depicted on the map numbered ______ and dated ______. Such map shall be 
on file and available for public inspection in the Offices of the 
National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, District 
of Columbia.''.
    (b) Acquisition.--Section 3 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 459c-2) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d)(1) Notwithstanding subsections (a) through (c) of this 
section, the Secretary, within the area depicted on the map referred to 
in section 2(c) of this Act, may acquire lands or interests in lands 
from the owners thereof only by donation, purchase with donated or 
appropriated funds, or exchange, except as provided in paragraph (4). 
The Secretary shall give a priority to acquiring interests in lands 
(including development rights and conservation easements) and to 
acquiring such interests from nonprofit corporations.
    ``(2) In acquiring lands under this subsection, the Secretary may 
negotiate for the acquisition of lands specifically for trail purposes.
    ``(3) Lands or interests in lands may not be acquired under this 
subsection without the consent of the owner thereof, unless the 
Secretary determines that, in his judgment the lands are subject to, or 
threatened with, uses which are having, or would have, an adverse 
impact on the area.
    ``(4) Lands, and interests in lands, within the area referred to in 
paragraph (1) which are owned by the State of California, or any 
political subdivision thereof, may be acquired only by donation or 
exchange.
    ``(5) Section 5 does not apply with respect to lands and interests 
in lands acquired under this subsection.''.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--Section 9 of such Act (16 
U.S.C. 459c-7) is amended by adding at the end the following: ``In 
addition to the sums authorized to be appropriated by this section 
before the date of the enactment of this Act, there is authorized to be 
appropriated such sums as may be necessary for the acquisition of lands 
and interests in lands under section 3(d).''.

SEC. 3. ADDITION TO GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL RECREATION AREA.

    Section 2(a) of the Act entitled ``An Act to establish the Golden 
Gate National Recreation Area in the State of California, and for other 
purposes'' (16 U.S.C. 460bb-1(a)) is amended by striking ``map entitled 
`Point Reyes and GGNRA Amendments and dated October 25, 1979'.'' and 
inserting ``map entitled `______' and dated ______.''. The Secretary of 
the Interior shall--
            (1) revise the boundary of Golden Gate National Recreation 
        Area to reflect the amendment made by this section; and
            (2) prepare and make available a map displaying such 
        boundary revision in accordance with section 2(b) of such Act 
        (16 U.S.C. 460bb-1(b)).

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