[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3378 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3378

To amend the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the establishment of 
 Fort Clatsop National Memorial in the State of Oregon, and for other 
   purposes'', to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire 
additional lands for Fort Clatsop National Memorial in accordance with 
the Fort Clatsop National Memorial's General Management Plan dated June 
                                 1995.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 1998

  Ms. Furse introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the establishment of 
 Fort Clatsop National Memorial in the State of Oregon, and for other 
   purposes'', to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire 
additional lands for Fort Clatsop National Memorial in accordance with 
the Fort Clatsop National Memorial's General Management Plan dated June 
                                 1995.

    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 ``Fort Clatsop National Memorial 
Expansion Act of 1998''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The cross-country expedition of Meriwether Lewis and 
        William Clark, known as ``The Corps of Discovery'', was a very 
        important exploratory journey in American history that provided 
        invaluable geographic, scientific, and cultural information.
            (2) In 1805, the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 
        built Fort Clatsop at the mouth of the Columbia River near 
        Astoria, Oregon, where they spent 106 days waiting for the end 
        of winter and preparing for their journey home.
            (3) As the westernmost point and the second longest 
        stopover of the expedition, and as the site where Lewis and 
        Clark edited their journals and prepared many of their maps, 
        Fort Clatsop is a uniquely special place in the journey of 
        Lewis and Clark.
            (4) The Fort Clatsop National Memorial was created by 
        Congress in 1958 for the purpose of commemorating the 
        culmination, and the winter encampment, of the Lewis and Clark 
        Expedition following its successful crossing of the North 
        American continent, and is the only National Park Service site 
        solely dedicated to the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
            (5) The 1995 General Management Plan for the Fort Clatsop 
        National Memorial, prepared with input from the local 
        community, calls for the addition of lands to the memorial to 
        include the trail used by expedition members to travel from the 
        fort to the Pacific Ocean and to include the shore and forest 
        lands surrounding the fort and trail to protect their natural 
        settings.
            (6) Expansion of the Fort Clatsop National Memorial would 
        require Federal legislation because the size of the memorial is 
        currently limited by statute to 130 acres.
            (7) Congressional action to allow for the expansion of Fort 
        Clatsop would be both timely and appropriate before the start 
        of the national bicentennial celebration of the Lewis and Clark 
        Expedition planned to take place during the years 2004 through 
        2006.

SEC. 3. ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOR FORT CLATSOP NATIONAL MEMORIAL.

    The Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the establishment of Fort 
Clatsop National Memorial in the State of Oregon, and for other 
purposes'', approved May 29, 1958 (Chapter 158; 72 Stat. 153), is 
amended--
            (1) in section 2 (16 U.S.C. 450mm-1)--
                    (A) by striking ``: Provided,'' and all that 
                follows through the end of the sentence and inserting a 
                period;
                    (B) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``The Secretary of 
                the Interior''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) In addition to the land and improvements designated under 
subsection (a), the Fort Clatsop National Memorial shall include land 
and improvements that are acquired by the Secretary of the Interior 
under section 3(b).'';
            (2) in section 3 (16 U.S.C. 450mm-2), by inserting ``(a)'' 
        before ``Within the area'', and by adding at the end the 
        following:
    ``(b)(1) In addition to lands acquired under subsection (a), the 
Secretary of the Interior may acquire for inclusion in the Fort Clatsop 
National Memorial any land or improvements located in areas identified 
on the map entitled `Fort Clatsop Boundary Map' and numbered 405-80016-
CCO-June 1996 as appropriate to preserve the historic scene and provide 
lands for the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.
    ``(2) The Secretary may make acquisitions under this subsection 
only by purchase from willing sellers using appropriated or donated 
amounts, by willing donation, or by exchange in accordance with 
paragraph (3).
    ``(3)(A) To acquire land or improvements under this subsection by 
exchange, the Secretary may enter into exchanges of lands or 
improvements administered by the National Park Service, the Forest 
Service, or the Bureau of Land Management for lands or improvements in 
Clatsop County, Oregon, that are of approximately equal value and that 
are owned by any non-Federal person.
    ``(B) An exchange under this paragraph shall be made--
            ``(i) in the case of an exchange of land or improvements 
        administered or to be administered after the exchange by the 
        Forest Service, in accordance with otherwise applicable 
        provisions of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1000 
        et seq.), the Act of March 1, 1911 (Chapter 186; 16 U.S.C. 
        552), popularly known as the Weeks Law, and other provisions of 
        law governing the disposal or acquisition by exchange of 
        National Forest lands; and
            ``(ii) in the case of an exchange of land or improvements 
        administered or to be administered after the exchange by the 
        Bureau of Land Management, in accordance with otherwise 
        applicable provisions of the Federal Land Policy and Management 
        Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.).''; and
            (3) in section 4 (16 U.S.C. 460mm-3), by inserting ``(a)'' 
        before ``Establishment of'', and by adding at the end the 
        following:
    ``(b) Before issuing any regulations governing the protection, 
public use, or management of land or improvement acquired under section 
3(b), the Secretary shall seek comment from the government of Clatsop 
County, Oregon, and persons that reside in the vicinity of the land or 
improvement. The Secretary shall ensure that any management or use of 
the land or improvement is consistent with the General Management Plan 
for Fort Clatsop National Memorial, as in effect on the effective date 
of this subsection, and all laws and policies otherwise applicable to 
the land or improvement.''.
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