[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1349 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1349

  To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct special resource 
  studies to determine the national significance of specific sites as 
well as the suitability and feasibility of their inclusion as units of 
                       the National Park System.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 12, 1999

  Mr. Thomas 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 direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct special resource 
  studies to determine the national significance of specific sites as 
well as the suitability and feasibility of their inclusion as units of 
                       the National Park System.

    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 ``National Park System New Area Study 
Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that pursuant to Public Law 105-391, 
the Administration has submitted a list of areas recommended for study 
for potential inclusion in the National Park System in fiscal year 
2000.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to direct special resource studies to determine the 
national significance of the sites, and/or areas, listed in section 5 
of this Act to determine the national significance of each site, and/or 
area, as well as the suitability and feasibility of their inclusion as 
units of the National Park System.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior acting through the Director of the National 
        Park Service.

SEC. 4. STUDIES.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 2 years after the date on which 
funds are made available for the purpose of this Act, the Secretary, 
shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
Senate and the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives 
individual resource studies of the sites, and/or areas, listed in 
section 5 of this Act.
    (b) Contents.--The study under subsection (a) shall--
            (1) identify the location and the suitability and 
        feasibility of designating the sites, and/or areas, as units of 
        the National Park System; and
            (2) include cost estimates for any necessary acquisition, 
        development, operation and maintenance, and identification of 
        alternatives for the management, administration, and protection 
        of the area.

SEC. 5. SITES AND/OR AREAS.

    (a) The areas recommended for study for potential inclusion in the 
National Park System include the following:
            (1) Bioluminescent Bay, Mosquito Lagoon, Puerto Rico;
            (2) Brandywine and Paoli Battlefields, Pennsylvania;
            (3) Civil Rights Trail, Nationwide;
            (4) Gaviota Coast Seashore, California;
            (5) Kate Mullaney House, New York;
            (6) Low Country Gullah Culture, South Carolina, Georgia and 
        Florida;
            (7) Nan Madol, Northern Marianas;
            (8) Walden Pond and Woods, in Concord and Lincoln, 
        Massachusetts; and
            (9) World War II sites on Palau and Saipan.

SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary 
to carry out this Act.
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