[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4988 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4988

  To amend the Act popularly known as the Antiquities Act of 1906 to 
     provide for congressional approval of national monuments and 
      restrictions on the use of national monuments, to establish 
  requirements for declaration of marine national monuments, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 26, 2014

 Mr. Southerland (for himself and Mr. Young of Alaska) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Act popularly known as the Antiquities Act of 1906 to 
     provide for congressional approval of national monuments and 
      restrictions on the use of national monuments, to establish 
  requirements for declaration of marine national monuments, 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 ``Marine Access and State 
Transparency'' or the ``MAST Act''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF NATIONAL MONUMENTS.

    The Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 431 et seq.), popularly known as 
the ``Antiquities Act of 1906'', is amended--
            (1) in section 2 (16 U.S.C. 431)--
                    (A) by striking ``sec. 2. That the'' and inserting 
                the following:

``SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF NATIONAL MONUMENTS.

    ``(a) In General.--After obtaining congressional approval of the 
proposed national monument and certifying compliance with the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) with respect 
to the proposed national monument, the''; and
                    (B) in subsection (a) (as designated by the 
                amendment made by paragraph (1)), by inserting 
                ``subject to subsection (b),'' after ``is hereby 
                authorized,''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) Requirements for Declaration of Marine National Monuments.--
            ``(1) Requirements.--The President may not declare any area 
        of the exclusive economic zone to be a national monument 
        unless--
                    ``(A) such declaration is specifically authorized 
                by an Act of Congress;
                    ``(B) the President has submitted a proposal to 
                make such declaration to the Governor of each State, 
                and of each territory, any part of which is located 
                within 100 nautical miles of that area;
                    ``(C) each such Governor submits to the President 
                notice that the legislature of that State or territory 
                has approved the proposal; and
                    ``(D) the declaration is substantially the same as 
                the proposal.
            ``(2) Exclusive economic zone defined.--In this subsection 
        the term `exclusive economic zone' means the zone established 
        by Proclamation Numbered 5030, dated March 10, 1983.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 5. RESTRICTIONS ON PUBLIC USE.

    ``The Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Commerce with 
respect to any area of the exclusive economic zone (as defined in 
section 2(b)) designated as a national monument, shall not implement 
any restrictions on the public use of a national monument until the 
expiration of an appropriate review period (as determined by such 
Secretary) providing for public input and congressional approval.''.
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