[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 262 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 262

 To amend the Act to establish a Redwood National Park in the State of 
 California, to increase efficiency and cost savings in the management 
 of Redwood National Park by authorizing the Secretary of the Interior 
 to enter into agreements with the State of California to acquire from 
and provide to the State goods and services to be used by the National 
Park Service and the State of California in the cooperative management 
of lands in Redwood National Park and lands in Del Norte Coast Redwoods 
   State Park, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, and Prairie Creek 
              Redwoods State Park, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 1997

  Mr. Riggs introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Act to establish a Redwood National Park in the State of 
 California, to increase efficiency and cost savings in the management 
 of Redwood National Park by authorizing the Secretary of the Interior 
 to enter into agreements with the State of California to acquire from 
and provide to the State goods and services to be used by the National 
Park Service and the State of California in the cooperative management 
of lands in Redwood National Park and lands in Del Norte Coast Redwoods 
   State Park, Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, and Prairie Creek 
              Redwoods State Park, 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 ``Redwood Parks Cooperative Management 
Act of 1996''.

SEC. 2. COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF STATE AND FEDERAL PARK LANDS AT 
              REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK.

    (a) Cooperative Agreements.--Section 3(a) of Public Law 90-545, 
entitled ``An Act to establish a Redwood National Park in the State of 
California, and for other purposes'' (16 U.S.C. 79c), is amended by 
inserting ``(1)'' after ``Sec. 3. (a)'', and by adding at the end the 
following new paragraph:
    ``(2) The Secretary may enter into agreements with the State of 
California to acquire from and provide to the State goods and services 
to be used by the National Park Service or the State of California, 
respectively, in the cooperative management of lands in Redwood 
National Park and lands in Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, 
Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, and Prairie Creek Redwoods State 
Park, if the Secretary determines that appropriations for that purpose 
are available and the agreement is in the best interests of the United 
States.''.
    (b) Period of Assignments of State and Federal Personnel.--Section 
3(a) of that Act (16 U.S.C. 79c(a)) is further amended by adding at the 
end the following new paragraph:
    ``(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an assignment 
arranged by the Secretary under section 3372 of title 5, United States 
Code, of a Federal or State employee for work at Redwood National Park, 
or an extension of such an assignment, may be for any period of time 
determined by the Secretary and the State of California to be mutually 
beneficial.''.
    (c) Modification of Reporting Requirement.--Section 3(c) of such 
Act (16 U.S.C. 79c(e)) is amended by striking the third sentence and 
inserting the following: ``The Secretary shall submit an annual written 
report to the Congress by January 31 of each year which describes the 
contracts and cooperative agreements entered into in the previous year 
under this subsection.''.
    (d) Updating of Maps.--Section 2(a) of such Act (16 U.S.C. 79b(a)) 
is amended by striking ``the maps entitled'' and all that follows 
through ``March 1978'' and inserting ``the maps entitled 167-60501a and 
dated April 1996''.
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