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                                                 Union Calendar No. 608
115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5751

                          [Report No. 115-782]

To redesignate Golden Spike National Historic Site and to establish the 
                   Transcontinental Railroad Network.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2018

    Mr. Bishop of Utah (for himself, Mr. Curtis, Mrs. Love, and Mr. 
   Stewart) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

                             June 25, 2018

  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 May 10, 
                                 2018]


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                                 A BILL


 
To redesignate Golden Spike National Historic Site and to establish the 
                   Transcontinental Railroad Network.


 


    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 ``Golden Spike 150th Anniversary 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Adjacent landowner.--The term ``adjacent landowner'' 
        means the non-Federal owner of property that directly abuts the 
        Park boundaries.
            (2) Historical crossing.--The term ``historical crossing'' 
        means a corridor with a maximum width of 30 feet across former 
        railroad rights-of-way within the Park--
                    (A) that has been used by adjacent landowners in an 
                open manner multiple times in more than 1 of the past 
                10 years for vehicle, farm machinery, or livestock 
                travel; or
                    (B) where existing utility or pipelines have been 
                placed.
            (3) Network.--The term ``Network'' means the 
        Transcontinental Railroad Network established under section 4.
            (4) Park.--The term ``Park'' means the Golden Spike 
        National Historical Park designated under section 3.
            (5) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National 
        Park Service.
            (6) Transcontinental railroad.--The term ``Transcontinental 
        Railroad'' means the approximately 1,912-mile continuous 
        railroad constructed between 1863 and 1869 from Council Bluffs, 
        Iowa, to San Francisco, California.

SEC. 3. REDESIGNATION.

    (a) Redesignation.--The Golden Spike National Historic Site 
designated April 2, 1957, and placed under the administration of the 
National Park Service under the Act of July 10, 1965 (79 Stat. 426), 
shall be known and designated as the ``Golden Spike National Historical 
Park''.
    (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the Golden Spike 
National Historic Site shall be considered a reference to the ``Golden 
Spike National Historical Park''.
    (c) Network.--The Park shall be part of the Network.

SEC. 4. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD NETWORK.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall establish, within the National 
Park Service, the Transcontinental Railroad Network. The Network shall 
not include properties used in active freight railroad operations (or 
other ancillary purposes) or reasonably anticipated to be used for 
freight railroad operations in the future.
    (b) Study.--The Secretary shall--
            (1) inventory National Park Service sites, facilities, and 
        programs; and
            (2) identify other sites, facilities, and programs,
to determine their suitability for inclusion in the Network, as 
delineated under subsection (e).
    (c) Duties of the Secretary.--In carrying out the Network, the 
Secretary shall--
            (1) produce and disseminate appropriate education materials 
        relating to the history, construction, and legacy of the 
        Transcontinental Railroad, such as handbooks, maps, 
        interpretive guides, or electronic information;
            (2) enter into appropriate cooperative agreements and 
        memoranda of understanding to provide technical assistance 
        under subsection (d); and
            (3) create and adopt an official, uniform symbol or device 
        for the Network and issue guidance for the use of such symbol 
        or device.
    (d) Elements.--The Network shall encompass the following elements:
            (1) All units and programs of the National Park Service 
        that are determined by the Secretary to relate to the history, 
        construction, and legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad.
            (2) With the consent of each person owning any legal 
        interest in the property, other Federal, State, local, and 
        privately owned properties that have a verifiable connection to 
        the history, construction, and legacy of the Transcontinental 
        Railroad and are included in, or determined by the Secretary to 
        be eligible for inclusion in, the National Register of Historic 
        Places.
            (3) Other governmental and nongovernmental programs of an 
        educational, research, or interpretive nature that are directly 
        related to the history, construction, and legacy of the 
        Transcontinental Railroad.
    (e) Cooperative Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding.--To 
achieve the purposes of this section and to ensure effective 
coordination of the Federal and non-Federal elements of the Network 
described in subsection (d) with National Park System units and 
programs of the National Park Service, the Secretary may enter into 
cooperative agreements and memoranda of understanding with, and provide 
technical assistance to, the heads of other Federal agencies, States, 
units of local government, regional governmental bodies, and private 
entities.

SEC. 5. AGREEMENTS AFFECTING CERTAIN HISTORICAL CROSSINGS.

    (a) Programmatic Agreement.--No later than 6 months after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall enter into a Programmatic 
Agreement with the Utah State Historic Preservation Office and other 
consulting parties to add certain undertakings in the Park to the list 
of those eligible for streamlined review under section 106 of the 
Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (54 U.S.C. 306108). In the 
development of the Programmatic Agreement, the Secretary shall 
collaborate with adjacent landowners, Tribes, and other consulting 
parties.
    (b) Adjacent Landowners.--After the completion of the Programmatic 
Agreement under subsection (a), an adjacent landowner shall give the 
Secretary notice of proposed certain undertakings. The Programmatic 
Agreement shall include provision for a 30-day approval or disapproval 
process for the proposed certain undertaking.
    (c) Definition of Certain Undertakings.--As used in this section, 
the term ``certain undertakings'' means those activities that take 
place on, within, or under a historical crossing and--
            (1) will last less than 1 month and will have limited 
        physical impact on the surface of the historical crossing;
            (2) have been implemented by an adjacent landowner or other 
        adjacent landowners in the past; or
            (3) is the subject of a categorical exclusion under the 
        National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 
        seq.).

SEC. 6. INVASIVE SPECIES CONTROL.

    At the request of an adjacent landowner, within 30 days of such a 
request, the Secretary shall authorize the adjacent landowner to 
participate in the eradication of invasive species in the Park for a 
period of up to 10 years, subject to renewal. Such an authorization 
shall provide--
            (1) that the invasive species proposed for eradication is 
        identified as such by the National Park Service;
            (2) that the method, timing, and location of the 
        eradication must be approved by the Secretary; and
            (3) appropriate indemnification of the adjacent landowner.

SEC. 7. FUNDING CLARIFICATION.

    No additional funds are authorized to carry out the requirements of 
this Act. Such requirements shall be carried out using amounts 
otherwise authorized.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 608

115th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 5751

                          [Report No. 115-782]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To redesignate Golden Spike National Historic Site and to establish the 
                   Transcontinental Railroad Network.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             June 25, 2018

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