[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1366 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1366

 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 New York State, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 14, 1999

  Mr. Murkowski (by request) 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 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 New York State, 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 ``Upper Delaware Scenic and 
Recreational River Mongaup Visitor Center Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
            (1) the Secretary of the Interior approved a management 
        plan for the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, as 
        required by 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 which 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; and
            (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, 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 a visitor center on land leased 
        under paragraph (a).

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.
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