[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1683 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1683

  To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide funds to the 
  Palisades Interstate Park Commission for acquisition of land in the 
 Sterling Forest area of the New York/New Jersey Highlands Region, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            November 18 (legislative day, November 2), 1993

 Mr. Bradley (for himself and Mr. Lautenberg) 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 authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide funds to the 
  Palisades Interstate Park Commission for acquisition of land in the 
 Sterling Forest area of the New York/New Jersey Highlands Region, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Sterling Forest and New Jersey 
Watershed Protection Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. LAND ACQUISITION.

    (a) Authorization.--The Palisades Park Commission (referred to in 
this Act as the ``Commission'') is authorized to acquire from the 
Sterling Forest Corporation an open space tract of land comprising the 
Sterling Forest area of the New York/New Jersey Highlands Region.
    (b) Management.--The Commission shall manage the land acquired 
pursuant to subsection (a) to enhance protection of watershed, outdoor 
recreational, wildlife habitat, and Appalachian Trail values in the 
Sterling Forest area of the New York/New Jersey Highlands Region.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) In General.--There is authorized to be appropriated to the 
Secretary of the Interior $35,000,000 for the purposes of acquiring the 
land described in section 2.
    (b) Transfer of Funds.--Of the sums made available pursuant to 
subsection (a), the Secretary of the Interior shall transfer to the 
Commission such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.

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