[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 20 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.20

                       One Hundred Sixth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
   the sixth day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine


                                 An Act


 
 To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct and operate a 
 visitor center for the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River on 
                  land owned by the State of New York.

    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 ``Upper Delaware Scenic and 
Recreational River Mongaup Visitor Center Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
        (1) The Secretary of the Interior approved a management plan 
    for the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, as required 
    by section 704 of Public Law 95-625 (16 U.S.C. 1274 note), on 
    September 29, 1987.
        (2) The river management plan called for the development of a 
    primary visitor contact facility located at the southern end of the 
    river corridor.
        (3) The river management plan determined that the visitor 
    center would be built and operated by the National Park Service.
        (4) The Act that designated the Upper Delaware Scenic and 
    Recreational River and the approved river management plan limits 
    the Secretary of the Interior's authority to acquire land within 
    the boundary of the river corridor.
        (5) The State of New York authorized on June 21, 1993, a 99-
    year lease between the New York State Department of Environmental 
    Conservation and the National Park Service for the construction and 
    operation of a visitor center by the Federal Government on State-
    owned land in the Town of Deerpark, Orange County, New York, in the 
    vicinity of Mongaup, which is the preferred site for the visitor 
    center.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF VISITOR CENTER FOR UPPER DELAWARE SCENIC AND 
              RECREATIONAL RIVER.

    For the purpose of constructing and operating a visitor center for 
the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River and subject to the 
availability of appropriations, the Secretary of the Interior may--
        (1) enter into a lease with the State of New York, for a term 
    of 99 years, for State-owned land within the boundaries of the 
    Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River located at an area 
    known as Mongaup near the confluence of the Mongaup and Upper 
    Delaware Rivers in the State of New York; and
        (2) construct and operate such a visitor center on land leased 
    under paragraph (2).

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.