[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2615 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  2d Session
                                S. 2615

To study options to improve and enhance the protection, management, and 
   interpretation of the significant natural and other resources of 
   certain units of the National Park System in northwest Alaska, to 
 implement a pilot program to better accomplish the purposes for which 
those units were established by providing greater involvement by Alaska 
              Native communities, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

              October 9 (legislative day, October 2), 1998

 Mr. Murkowski 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 study options to improve and enhance the protection, management, and 
   interpretation of the significant natural and other resources of 
   certain units of the National Park System in northwest Alaska, to 
 implement a pilot program to better accomplish the purposes for which 
those units were established by providing greater involvement by Alaska 
              Native communities, 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. REPORT.

    Within six months after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior (``Secretary'') shall submit a report to the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate 
and the Committee on Resources of the United States House of 
Representatives--
            (1) detailing the progress the Department of the Interior 
        has made in the implementation of the provisions of sections 
        1307 and 1308 of the Alaska National Interest Lands 
        Conservation Act (P. L. 96-487, 94 Stat. 2371, 2479-2480, 16 
        U.S.C. 3197, 3198) and the provisions of the Indian Self-
        Determination and Education Assistance Act (P. L. 93-638, 88 
        Stat. 2203, 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.) on lands under the 
        jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior in Alaska;
            (2) including a detailed action plan on the future 
        implementation of those provisions on such lands;
            (3) describing, in detail, the measures and actions that 
        will be taken, along with a description of the anticipated 
        results to be achieved during the next three fiscal years; and
            (4) identifying any laws, rules, regulations and policies 
        which act as a deterrent to hiring Alaska Natives or 
        contracting with Alaska Natives to perform and conduct 
        activities and programs of agencies and bureaus under the 
        jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior with respect to 
        activities on lands under the jurisdiction of the Department of 
        the Interior in Alaska.

SEC. 2. PILOT PROGRAM.

    (a) In furtherance of the goals of sections 1307 and 1308 of the 
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and the provisions of 
the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, the 
Secretary shall--
            (1) implement pilot programs to employ residents of local 
        communities at the following units of the National Park System 
        located in northwest Alaska:
                    (A) Bering Land Bridge National Preserve,
                    (B) Cape Krusenstern National Monument,
                    (C) Kobuk Valley National Park, and
                    (D) Noatak National Preserve; and
            (2) shall report on the results of the programs within one 
        year to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
        United States and the Committee on Resources of the House of 
        Representatives.
    (b) In implementing the programs, the Secretary shall consult with 
the Native Corporations, non-profit organizations, and Tribal entities 
in the immediate vicinity of such units and shall also, to the extent 
practicable, involve such groups in the development of interpretive 
materials and the pilot programs relating to such units.
    (c) The objective of such programs shall be, to the extent 
possible, to establish cooperative arrangements, thorough contracts or 
other means, that will allow local communities and residents to assume 
administrative and management responsibilities for those units, or 
portions of those units, of the National Park System in a manner that 
will accomplish the purposes for which the units were established and 
consistent with policies set forth in the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 
Stat. 535, 16 U.S.C. 1).
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