[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1549 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1549

 To amend the Act establishing Golden Gate National Recreation Area to 
  provide for the management of the Presidio by the Secretary of the 
                   Interior, and for other purposes.


_______________________________________________________________________


                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

             October 15 (legislative day, October 13), 1993

 Mrs. Feinstein (for herself and Mrs. Boxer) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
                               Resources

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Act establishing Golden Gate National Recreation Area to 
  provide for the management of the Presidio by the Secretary of the 
                   Interior, 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. AMENDMENT OF ACT ESTABLISHING GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL 
              RECREATION AREA.

    (a) Statement of Purposes.--Section 1 of the Act entitled ``An Act 
to establish the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in the State of 
California, and for other purposes'', approved October 27, 1972 (Public 
Law 92-589; 86 Stat. 1299; 16 U.S.C. 460bb), is amended by inserting 
the following after the first sentence: ``In addition, the Secretary 
may utilize the resources of the Presidio unit of the recreation area 
to provide for and support programs and activities that foster 
research, education and demonstration projects concerning the 
environment, international affairs, cultural understanding, and health 
and science.''.
    (b) Administration.--Section 4 of such Act is amended by adding the 
following new subsection at the end thereof:
    ``(g) Interim Authority.--(1) In addition to other available 
authorities, the Secretary may, in his discretion, negotiate and enter 
into leases, as appropriate, with any person, firm, association, 
organization, corporation or governmental entity for the use of any 
property within the Presidio in accordance with the General Management 
Plan or for any of the purposes set forth in section 1 of this Act. The 
Secretary may further, in his discretion, negotiate and enter into 
leases or other appropriate agreements with any Federal agency to house 
employees of the agency engaged in activities or programs at the 
Presidio.
    ``(2) In addition to other available authorities, the Secretary 
may, in his discretion, enter into--
            ``(A) interagency permitting agreements or other 
        appropriate agreements with the Secretary of Defense and the 
        Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and
            ``(B) leases with the Red Cross,
to house their activities and employees at the Presidio.
    ``(3) Any leases or other appropriate agreements entered into under 
this subsection shall be subject to such procedures, terms, conditions 
and restrictions as the Secretary deems necessary. Leases shall be 
entered into at fair market value; fair market value shall be 
calculated taking into account the uses permitted by the General 
Management Plan or under this Act. The preceding sentence shall not 
apply to any interagency permitting agreement entered into between the 
Secretary and the Secretary of Defense regarding the housing of 
activities and employees of the Sixth United States Army.
    ``(4) The Secretary shall establish competitive bidding procedures 
to be used for the issuance of leases under this section. For leases 
and other appropriate agreements under this subsection, the Secretary 
may waive any requirement of any law or regulation otherwise applicable 
to the leasing of Federal properties if the Secretary determines that 
such waiver is necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. The 
Secretary shall provide written notice of any such waiver to the United 
States Congress. The notice to Congress shall contain an explanation of 
the reasons for such determination.
    ``(5) For 5 years from the date of enactment of this subsection, 
the proceeds from leases under this subsection, and from concession and 
other use authorizations and from other services that may be provided 
by the recreation area under this subsection shall be retained by the 
Secretary and used to defray the costs of preservation, restoration, 
maintenance, improvement, repair and related expenses including 
administration of the above, incurred by the Secretary with respect to 
Presidio properties, with the balance used to defray other costs 
incurred by the Secretary in the administration of the Presidio.
    ``(6) Each lessee and sublessee of a lease entered into under this 
subsection shall keep such records as the Secretary may prescribe to 
enable the Secretary to determine that all terms of the lease or 
sublease have been and are being faithfully performed. The Secretary 
and the Comptroller General and their duly authorized representatives 
shall, for the purpose of audit and examination, have access to all 
records and to other books, documents, and papers of the lessee and 
sublessee pertinent to the lease or sublease and all the terms and 
conditions thereof.
    ``(7) The Secretary shall annually prepare and submit to Congress a 
report on property leased under this subsection.
    ``(8) In addition to other available authorities, the Secretary 
may, in his discretion, enter into cooperative agreements and permits 
for any of the purposes of the recreation area set out in section 1 of 
this Act.''.

                                 <all>