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[H.R. 4192 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                 Union Calendar No. 253
111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4192

                          [Report No. 111-437]

To designate the Stornetta Public Lands as an Outstanding Natural Area 
  to be administered as a part of the National Landscape Conservation 
                    System, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 3, 2009

  Mr. Thompson of California introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

                             March 11, 2010

                    Additional sponsor: Ms. Woolsey

                             March 11, 2010

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
    [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on 
                           December 3, 2009]





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                                 A BILL


 
To designate the Stornetta Public Lands as an Outstanding Natural Area 
  to be administered as a part of the National Landscape Conservation 
                    System, 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; DEFINITIONS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Stornetta 
Outstanding Natural Area Act of 2010''.
    (b) Definitions.--In this Act:
            (1) Public lands.--The term ``public lands'' has the 
        meaning stated in section 103(e) of the Federal Land Policy and 
        Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1703(e)).
            (2) Outstanding natural area.--The term ``Outstanding 
        Natural Area'' means the Stornetta Outstanding Natural Area 
        established under section 2.
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.
            (4) Stornetta public lands.--The term ``Stornetta Public 
        Lands'' means the lands designated as such on the map referred 
        to in section 2(b).

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF THE STORNETTA OUTSTANDING NATURAL AREA.

    (a) In General.--In order to protect, conserve, and enhance for the 
benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations the unique and 
nationally important historical, natural, cultural, scientific, 
educational, scenic, and recreational values of certain lands in and 
around the Stornetta Public Lands, in Mendocino County, California, 
while allowing certain recreational and research activities to 
continue, there is established, subject to valid existing rights, the 
Stornetta Outstanding Natural Area.
    (b) Map.--The Outstanding Natural Area shall consist of the lands 
generally depicted as the Stornetta Outstanding Natural Area on the map 
titled ``Stornetta Outstanding Natural Area'' and dated December 3, 
2009. The map shall be on file and available for public inspection in 
the Office of the Director, Bureau of Land Management, United States 
Department of the Interior, and the State office of the Bureau of Land 
Management in the State of California.
    (c) Basis of Management.--The Secretary shall manage the 
Outstanding Natural Area as part of the National Landscape Conservation 
System to protect the resources of the area, and shall allow only those 
uses that further the purposes for the establishment of the Outstanding 
Natural Area, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and other applicable laws.
    (d) Withdrawal.--Subject to valid existing rights, the Federal 
lands and interests in lands included within the Outstanding Natural 
Area are hereby withdrawn from--
            (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under 
        the public land laws;
            (2) location, entry, and patent under the public land 
        mining laws; and
            (3) operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing 
        laws and the mineral materials laws.

SEC. 3. MANAGEMENT OF THE STORNETTA OUTSTANDING NATURAL AREA.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall manage the Outstanding Natural 
Area in a manner that conserves, protects, and enhances the unique and 
nationally important historical, natural, cultural, scientific, 
educational, scenic, and recreational values of that area, consistent 
with the requirements section of 2(c).
    (b) Uses.--Subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary shall 
only allow such uses of the Outstanding Natural Area as the Secretary 
finds are likely to further the purposes for which the Outstanding 
Natural Area is established as set forth in section 2(a).
    (c) Management Plan.--Not later than 3 years after funds are made 
available for this purpose, the Secretary shall complete a 
comprehensive management plan consistent with the requirements of 
section 202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
U.S.C. 1712) to provide long-term management guidance for the public 
lands within the Outstanding Natural Area and fulfill the purposes for 
which it is established, as set forth in section 2(a). The management 
plan shall be developed in consultation with appropriate Federal, 
State, and local government agencies, with full public participation, 
and shall include--
            (1) provisions designed to ensure the protection of the 
        resources and values described in section 2(a);
            (2) a proposal for minimal administrative and public 
        facilities to be developed or improved at a level compatible 
        with achieving the resources objectives for the Outstanding 
        Natural Area as described in subsection (a) and with other 
        proposed management activities to accommodate visitors and 
        researchers to the Outstanding Natural Area; and
            (3) cultural resources management strategies for the 
        Outstanding Natural Area, prepared in consultation with 
        appropriate departments of the State of California, with 
        emphasis on the preservation of the resources of the 
        Outstanding Natural Area and the interpretive, education, and 
        long-term scientific uses of the resources, giving priority to 
        the enforcement of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act 
        of 1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa et seq.) and the National Historic 
        Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.) within the Outstanding 
        Natural Area.
    (d) Cooperative Agreements.--In order to better implement the 
management plan and to continue the successful partnerships with local 
communities, the California Coastal National Monument and Manchester 
State Park, administered by the California Department of Parks and 
Recreation, the Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with 
the appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies pursuant to section 
307(b) of the Federal Land Management Policy and Management Act of 1976 
(43 U.S.C. 1737(b)).
    (e) Research Activities.--In order to continue the successful 
partnership with research organizations and agencies and to assist in 
the development and implementation of the management plan, the 
Secretary may authorize within the Outstanding Natural Area appropriate 
research activities for the purposes identified in section 2(a) and 
pursuant to section 307(a) of the Federal Land Policy and Management 
Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1737(a)).
    (f) Acquisition.--State and privately held lands or interests in 
lands adjacent to the Outstanding Natural Area and identified as 
appropriate for acquisition in the management plan may be acquired by 
the Secretary as part of the Outstanding Natural Area only by--
            (1) donation;
            (2) exchange with a willing party; or
            (3) purchase from a willing seller.
    (g) Additions to the Outstanding Natural Area.--Any lands or 
interest in lands adjacent to the Outstanding Natural Area acquired by 
the United States after the date of the enactment of this Act shall be 
added to and administered as part of the Outstanding Natural Area.
    (h) Overflights.--Nothing in this Act or the management plan shall 
be construed to--
            (1) restrict or preclude overflights, including low-level 
        overflights, military, commercial, and general aviation 
        overflights that can be seen or heard within the Outstanding 
        Natural Area;
            (2) restrict or preclude the designation or creation of new 
        units of special use airspace or the establishment of military 
        flight training routes over the Outstanding Natural Area; or
            (3) modify regulations governing low-level overflights 
        above the adjacent Gulf of the Farallones National Marine 
        Sanctuary.
    (i) Law Enforcement Activities.--Nothing in this Act shall be 
construed to preclude or otherwise affect coastal border security 
operations or other law enforcement activities by the Coast Guard or 
other agencies within the Department of Homeland Security, the 
Department of Justice, or any other Federal, State, and local law 
enforcement agencies within the Outstanding Natural Area.
    (j) Native American Uses and Interests.--In recognition of the past 
use of the Outstanding Natural Area by Indians and Indian tribes for 
traditional cultural and religious purposes, the Secretary shall ensure 
reasonable access to the Outstanding Natural Area by Indians and Indian 
tribes for such traditional cultural and religious purposes. In 
implementing this section, the Secretary, upon the request of a 
federally recognized Indian tribe or Indian religious community, may 
temporarily close to the general public use of one or more specific 
portions of the Outstanding Natural Area in order to protect the 
privacy of traditional cultural and religious activities in such areas 
by the federally recognized Indian tribe or Indian religious community. 
Any such closure shall be made to affect the smallest practicable area 
for the minimum period necessary for such purposes. Such access shall 
be consistent with the purpose and intent of Public Law 95-341 (42 
U.S.C. 1996 et seq.; commonly referred to as the ``American Indian 
Religious Freedom Act'').
    (k) No Buffer Zones.--The designation of the Outstanding Natural 
Area is not intended to lead to the creation of protective perimeters 
or buffer zones around the area. The fact that activities outside the 
Outstanding Natural Area and not consistent with the purposes of this 
Act can be seen or heard within the Outstanding Natural Area shall not, 
of itself, preclude such activities or uses up to the boundary of the 
Outstanding Natural Area.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 253

111th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 4192

                          [Report No. 111-437]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To designate the Stornetta Public Lands as an Outstanding Natural Area 
  to be administered as a part of the National Landscape Conservation 
                    System, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             March 11, 2010

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed