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                CALIFORNIA DESERT PROTECTION ACT OF 1993

  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the hour 
of 9:45 a.m. having arrived, the Senate will now proceed to the 
consideration of S. 21, which the clerk will report.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 21) to designate certain lands in the California 
     Desert as wilderness, to establish Death Valley, Joshua Tree 
     and Mojave National Parks, and for other purposes.

  The Senate resumed consideration of the bill.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Under the previous order, the time 
between now and 10 a.m. is under the control of the Senator from West 
Virginia [Mr. Byrd].
  The Senator from West Virginia is recognized.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, how much time does the Senator need?
  Mr. NICKLES. Two minutes.
  Mr. BYRD. I yield 2 minutes.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Oklahoma is 
recognized for 2 minutes.
  Mr. NICKLES. Mr. President, I wish to compliment my colleagues for 
their bill, but I rise in opposition because of the position I have as 
ranking Republican on the Interior Appropriations Committee.
  I am afraid that by transferring a large amount of land from BLM to 
the Park Service with inholdings of thousands and thousands of acres, 
people are going to expect the Park Service to buy them, and this is 
going to greatly exceed the Park Service's funding capabilities.
  We do not appropriate enough money to fulfill commitments that were 
made in past years. We have a backlog of acquisition requests from our 
colleagues that we have not been able to fund. The additions that are 
required by the California Desert bill will greatly exceed our 
capability to fullfill those commitments.
  I am concerned that we are taking action which will cause people to 
expect the Federal Government to purchase these inholdings, and I can 
just say as a person who works on the subcommittee that appropriates 
money for the Park Service, I do not believe the money is there, not 
this year, and I doubt that the money will be there in the next several 
years. So I am afraid we are building false expectations and putting 
additional burdens on the Park Service which, frankly, already has more 
lands than it is able to adequately maintain.
  That bothers me. I think we should take care of the parks that we now 
have, and not add millions more acres.
  The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from West Virginia is 
recognized.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I thank my distinguished colleague from 
Oklahoma, the ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on the 
Department of the Interior.
  Mr. President, the legislation before the Senate today proposes to 
set aside more than 6.6 million acres of land in California as 
wilderness or national parks. The objective of the legislation is to 
protect the desert ecosystem of southern and eastern California. The 
worthiness of the resources of the California Desert and the need for 
their protection are not in question. In fact, much of the land 
involved in this legislation is already in Federal ownership and is 
already protected and managed pursuant to the California Desert 
protection plan developed by the Bureau of Land Management.
  The two distinguished Senators from California have been very 
steadfast in their dedication and their commitment to further 
protection for the California Desert. I commend them for their effort. 
Senator Feinstein, who is a member of the Appropriations Committee, has 
worked extensively to accommodate many of the concerns of various 
parties interested in the future of the California Desert.
  However, as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and more 
specifically, as chairman of the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, 
I must call attention to the potential costs of this legislation. The 
additional protection needs for the resources of the California Desert 
must be viewed in the context of the many other needs confronting the 
40 different agencies that are funded by the Interior Appropriations 
Subcommittee. These programs range all the way from resource 
protection, to scientific research, to health care for Indians, to arts 
and cultural programs. It is rare--extremely rare--for any of these 
agencies to testify before the Interior Appropriations Subcommittee 
that they have enough money to meet current responsibilities.
  In fact, overall, the major agencies funded in the Interior bill have 
identified a backlog of some $6 billion in maintenance and repair needs 
for their existing physical infrastructure. Moreover, within our 
existing national park boundaries, there are private lands totaling 
some 336,000 acres that have long been authorized for acquisition, but 
which have not been purchased due to funding constraints. The pending 
legislation would serve to increase these burdens by drawing yet 
another boundary within which it will be expected that the Federal 
Government will somehow provide the funding necessary to purchase and 
maintain these privately held lands.
  Operational requirements in the existing parks are already suffering 
because appropriations are not able to keep pace with the effect of 
inflation, as well as the increased costs for Federal pay and 
retirement benefits. On top of this, Mr. President, Governmentwide 
staffing is expected to decrease by 272,900 full-time equivalent 
employees, which will affect most immediately those agencies which use 
temporary and seasonal employees, such as the Park Service. While these 
positions are often the easiest to cut, they are among the most visible 
in the system--it is the work of the seasonal and temporary employees 
that is most noticed by visitors to the parks. These employees are the 
ones who conduct the tours, lead the nature hikes, staff the visitor 
centers, maintain the grounds, clean the restrooms, replace damaged 
signs, and pass out the maps. How can we ask existing parks to cut back 
on these types of services while at the same time establishing new 
parks such as those created in this bill?

  All of these factors affect our existing Park System. Expanding the 
System will add further burdens on the Interior Appropriations 
Subcommittee's ability to fund significant national resources, whether 
they be natural, cultural, or historic. The time has come for us to get 
realistic about our parks. We cannot expect everything to be protected 
and paid for 100 percent by the Federal Government. We have other 
national needs, as well as a huge deficit to contend with. We have to 
begin considering alternative means of protecting and maintaining our 
national treasures. Such options might include spending limits on 
capital development, prohibitions on land acquisition, local cost-
sharing, or making the long-term operations of an area the 
responsibility of an appropriate non-Federal entity.
  The California Desert legislation before the Senate takes none of 
these steps. Capital development costs are unknown, but current 
experience with the Park Service tells us it is likely to be expensive. 
Land acquisition costs vary, depending on who is doing the estimating, 
but range from $88 to $300 million. Operational and staffing needs, 
totaling in the millions of dollars, will exist in perpetuity--once an 
area is designated as part of the National Park System, it is rarely 
removed. The Interior Department has estimated the near-term management 
costs to implement this legislation to be an additional $53 million. 
The Department claims it can cover these costs within its fiscal year 
1995 budget request, but does so at the expense of the construction and 
land acquisition accounts that are intended to help address the 
existing backlog.
  When an area becomes designated as a unit of the National Park 
System, the American public has come to expect a quality of service of 
which they can be proud. The visitors to our parks expect the resources 
for which they were established to be protected, the laws to be 
enforced, interpretation and education to occur, visitor services to be 
provided, and safety to be protected. It takes money to fulfill these 
objectives--personnel in the form of biologists, hydrologists, 
historians, archaeologists, landscape architects; construction dollars 
for visitor facilities such as campgrounds, restrooms, kiosks, and 
interpretive displays; and equipment such as ambulances and 4-wheel-
drive vehicles to aid in search and rescue missions. If we are not able 
to fund these needs adequately in existing park units, which we clearly 
are not, is it responsible for us to create new expectations by passing 
the legislation before the Senate, when the resources necessary to 
fulfill these expectations will be difficult, if not impossible, to 
provide in the coming years?
  I realize that this legislation is going to pass this body. But, I 
feel that I would be somehow remiss in my duty as chairman of the 
Senate Appropriations Committee if I did not point out that there are 
critical competing needs in education, healthcare, transportation, and 
in fact, in almost every area of the Federal budget. As I have already 
explained, we cannot adequately maintain the parks that we now have, 
nor buy the lands which the authorizing committees have told us to buy. 
Having three new beautiful national parks would be nice. In an age when 
the United States enjoyed small deficits, creating those new parks 
would be desirable, but we, in this Chamber, have to come to grips with 
the realities of the age in which we live. One does not go out and buy 
a Cadillac when one cannot make the payments on the family Ford. One 
must learn to prioritize. A commitment this large is simply not 
appropriate in these times of desperately large deficits and so many, 
many pressing national needs. It is because of these concerns, and not 
because of a lack of appreciation about the significance of the 
California desert, that I must oppose S. 21.
  Mr. President,

     Thus we may see, how the world wags:
     'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine;
     And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
     And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe,
     And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;

  And as we proceed to pass this legislation, apparently from day to 
day and year to year we will spend and spend, ``and thereby hangs a 
tale.''
  Mr. BURNS. Mr. President, I rise today to voice my opposition to the 
California Desert bill, S. 21. I am greatly concerned by what this bill 
will do to already tight fiscal constraints on our National Park System 
and the question of private property.
  S. 21 will cause further fiscal hardships on Yellowstone and Glacier 
National Parks. These parks are already in need of repair, and we can't 
tighten our belts much more without jeopardizing the infrastructure and 
natural beauty of these parks. This bill adds 3 million new acres--or 
three new Yellowstones--to our National Park System, and I don't know 
how we are going to pay for the 80 million acres we already have.
  I would like to give two examples. This year, I am going to attempt 
to secure funding for the renovation of two chalets in Glacier National 
Park. These chalets are historic but are not in compliance with State 
environmental laws. Yet, the Park Service has not added these to their 
priority list--it doesn't rate high enough on their already long list. 
Our Nation's oldest park, Yellowstone National Park is in need of 
updated facilities to accommodate the growing use of the park in the 
winter. While millions of visitors come to the park in the summer, 
Yellowstone is increasingly attractive to visitors in the winter 
months, as well.
  Where are we going to get the funds to pay for these new parks? To me 
it is simple, Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks are going to 
suffer by the creation of these new national parks in California.
  Also, I am greatly concerned about the taking of private property by 
this bill. While these actions may be occurring in California, it does 
effect Montanans. Private property rights are protected by the fifth 
amendment of the Constitution which states ``nor shall private property 
be taken for public use, without just compensation.'' Yet, many laws 
have been encroaching further and further on this right because people 
in Washington do not respect or understand the importance of 
maintaining this right.
  This bill places 500,000 acres of private holdings inside of Federal 
conservation units. This means that these private property owners will 
be greatly restricted on what actions they can engage in on their own 
land. This bill authorizes the purchase of these lands--but that still 
doesn't fully protect private property rights.
  Last, the cost of this bill is too high. According to the 
Congressional Budget Office, the acquisition of private property alone 
which is authorized in this bill, would cost somewhere between $100 to 
$500 million. The administrative and construction costs over the next 5 
years would cost $36 million, and $1 million lost in offsetting 
receipts for fiscal years from 1995 to 1998.
  Mr. President, I cannot support this bill. I would urge my colleagues 
to vote against S. 21.
  I yield the floor.
  Mr. NUNN. Mr. President, I am pleased to be cosponsor of S. 21, the 
California Desert Protection Act. I congratulate Senator Feinstein for 
addressing and resolving the many issues that have been associated with 
protecting the California Desert. It has been a pleasure working with 
the Senator from California on this bill.
  This bill designates approximately 4 million acres of wilderness; 
adds 3 million acres of national park lands; designates 4 million acres 
of national park wilderness; adds 20,500 acres to an existing 
California park; and establishes a 2,040-acre Desert Lily Sanctuary.
  Several years ago, when this legislation was first introduced, by 
former Senator Cranston, the Department of Defense and the Armed 
Services Committee were concerned that the creation of new park and 
wilderness land might impact future expansion of military training 
areas, or interfere with existing testing and training activities, 
particularly those activities involving use of the air space above the 
desert. Last year Senator Cranston and the members of the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources began a discussion to address these 
concerns. Senator Feinstein continued this discussion and resolved the 
concerns of the Defense Department and the military services.
  The training and testing lands of the southern California Desert are 
a crucial component of maintaining readiness. Key military 
installations in southern California include the Marine Corps Base at 
Twenty-Nine Palms, the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range, Edwards 
Air Force Base, China Lake Naval Weapons Center, and Ft. Irwin, the 
home of the Army's National Training Center.
  As the U.S. military draws down its forces and closes bases and 
training and testing areas overseas, the training and testing lands of 
the southern California Desert increase in their importance to 
maintaining capable and ready forces. Senator Feinstein recognized the 
importance of the southern California Desert to military readiness. S. 
21 addresses this national requirement and ensures that the military 
can continue to train in the southern California Desert area.
  The Department of Defense and the military services are committed to 
training but they are equally committed to protecting and preserving 
the natural environment. I believe that the military's use of the 
desert land and the airspace above it is consistent with protecting and 
preserving the fragile desert ecosystems.
  This is a very complex bill Mr. President. It addresses critically 
important issues of development and environmental protection in the 
very special and unique lands of the southern California Desert. I want 
to thank Senator Feinstein for her work on this bill and specifically 
in addressing the needs of the military in the southern California 
Desert.
  Mr. DOLE. Mr. President, I will vote against final passage of this 
bill, but do so with some reservation. When considering public lands 
issues, the Senate has traditionally given great latitude to the two 
Senators from the State in which the land lies. In this instance, both 
Senators favor the bill.
  However, our former colleague and the current Governor of California, 
Pete Wilson, has serious objections to the bill. As well, all four 
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives who represent the area in 
question are opposed to the bill in its present form. I ask unanimous 
consent that letters from the House delegation and Governor Wilson 
appear at this point in the Record.
  I don't think there is much difference in opinion about whether the 
California Desert is a treasured national resource that deserves 
protection. But, as articulated by both the chairman and ranking 
members of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior have pointed 
out, we simply do not have the resources to pay for the management 
technique envisioned by this legislation.
  We have a responsibility to protect all of our natural treasures, and 
passing this bill will further exacerbate the lack of funds available 
to operate other national parks--including Yosemite, Death Valley, and 
the Golden Gate National Park in San Francisco. Until we find some way 
to better care for the parks we have already created, it would be a 
mistake to create additional park lands.
  Therefore, Mr. President, I will vote against final passage and hope 
a better protection plan can be devised.
  There being no objection, the letters were ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                                                State Capitol,

                                   Sacramento, CA, April 11, 1994.
     Hon. Malcolm Wallop,
     U.S. Senate,
     Washington, DC.
       Dear Senator Wallop: Thank you for your inquiry regarding 
     my views on the version of the California Desert Protection 
     Act being taken up by the Senate today. As you know, on 
     September 28, 1993, I sent a letter to Senator Feinstein and 
     the members of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee 
     outlining the problems with the legislation and requesting 
     nine specific and highly reasonable amendments. With the 
     exception of a provision permitting the continuation of 
     military overflights, none of the amendments requested have 
     been dealt with adequately, and new problems have been 
     created. For these reasons, I cannot support S. 21 in its 
     current form.
       As I have pointed out many times, it is ironic that under 
     S. 21 many who now visit and enjoy the desert and wish to see 
     it preserved will be barred from any further enjoyment 
     themselves. For many visitors, motor vehicles are the only 
     reasonable method of accessing the desert. By placing vast 
     areas off-limits to anyone but backpackers and those with 
     horses, many people will find their recreational 
     opportunities dramatically reduced.
       The negative economic impacts of S. 21 continue to be 
     troublesome to me as well. As California climbs out of a 
     painful recession, it is extremely important that all steps 
     possible be taken to maximize the state's future economic 
     vitality. Putting new mining off-limits in much of the 
     California Desert is a step in the wrong direction. 
     Provisions can be made in the legislation to promote future 
     mineral development in certain important areas without 
     significantly diminishing the overall preservation objectives 
     of the legislation.
       One of the most pressing issues that must be dealt with on 
     the Senate floor is a provision added to the bill in 
     committee that will allow the State Lands Commission to trade 
     its lands in the desert for surplus federal property 
     throughout California. The priority given to the State Lands 
     Commission threatens to seriously hinder our ongoing efforts 
     in the state to revitalize communities that have been 
     afflicted by military base closings. The state has been 
     supportive of transferring surplus property at closed bases 
     to local economic redevelopment authorities free of 
     charge. As S. 21 currently stands, surplus lands will be 
     used to pay for desert protection rather than to benefit 
     local communities that have been hard-hit by base 
     closures.
       As you know, the original reason a special provision was 
     included for the State Lands Commission was due to a fear 
     that surplus BLM and other lands that would normally be 
     offered up for exchange would be inadequate to deal with a 
     quantity of land as vast as that in S. 21. The State Lands 
     Commission has a fiduciary duty to maximize the value of its 
     holding to benefit California's retired school teachers. Many 
     former military properties are valuable real estate and would 
     be grabbed up quickly. It would be tragic if local 
     communities or businesses would have to buy the properties 
     back before redevelopment could proceed.
       A number of more specific concerns remain to be addressed 
     as well. California's Department of Transportation has 
     requested rapid emergency access to desert wilderness areas 
     to deal with accidents and hazardous materials spills. 
     Language must also be included to allow for the future 
     realignment of State Route 190 through Death Valley National 
     park. Current report language requires that any realignment 
     be accomplished within the existing right-of-way, something 
     that will be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve. The 
     inclusion of a provision allowing for a realignment that is 
     mutually acceptable to Caltrans and the Park Superintendent 
     would suffice.
       Additionally, active wildlife management is needed in the 
     desert to assist endangered, threatened, and sensitive 
     species and to mitigate the damage to natural springs caused 
     by wild burros and the invasion of non-native plants. Yet the 
     language included on fish and wildlife management continues 
     to be wholly inadequate. The California Department of Fish 
     and Game has requested that the East Mojave and the Hunter 
     Mountain expansion of Death Valley be left under the 
     jurisdiction of the BLM. Even simply designating these areas 
     as NPS ``National Preserves'' instead of the proposed park 
     status would permit continued hunting and access for 
     scientific research and wildlife management.
       California law enforcement entities, including the 
     California Highway Patrol, have also signaled their 
     objections to restrictions that will be placed on search and 
     rescue efforts, drug enforcement, Border Patrol interdiction, 
     and other related operations. The current provisions in 
     Section 103(g) of the bill place restrictions on law 
     enforcement that are unnecessary and unacceptable. Law 
     enforcement officials, including those representing local 
     agencies, must be given access to wilderness and park areas 
     throughout the southern desert area. Furthermore, the 
     proposed wilderness designation for Jacumba and Fish Creek 
     must be dropped entirely from the bill, given the proximity 
     of these areas to the border and their strategic importance 
     to smugglers.
       I fully share the desire of Senator Feinstein to preserve 
     California's precious desert areas for future generations. 
     However, in its current form, S. 21 will do more harm than 
     good. I urge your assistance in amending S. 21 to reconcile 
     the worthy goal of desert protection with the legitimate 
     economic and resource issues that remain as problems.
           Sincerely,
                                                      Pete Wilson,
                                                         Governor.
                                  ____

                                    Congress of the United States,


                                     House of Representatives,

                                   Washington, DC, April 11, 1994.
       Dear Senate Colleague: Prior to your consideration of the 
     California Desert Protection Act this week, we thought you 
     might be interested to learn our thoughts regarding S.21.
       Despite claims to the contrary, there are numerous problems 
     with S.21 as it is presently written. These problems include 
     the hindrance of law enforcement activities along the Mexican 
     border, the overwhelming administrative and financial backlog 
     of an already beleaguered National Park Service, and placing 
     new and questionable financial burdens on the U.S. taxpayer.
       Nearly every State contains at least one National Park 
     Service (NPS) venue. We are all aware of the funding backlog 
     which exists for such mundane things as routine operations 
     and maintenance, ranger and staff housing facilities, and 
     interpretive and visitor centers. For example, the Death 
     Valley National Monument is seeking $12 million to construct 
     employee housing for its current employees. The President's 
     FY 1995 budget contains no money for this initiative. If we 
     can not keep up with the demands placed on current units of 
     the NPS, why should we enlarge the system and cause further 
     backlogs?
       The woes of the NPS are well documented in the Vice 
     President's National Performance Review (NPR). One 
     recommendation in the NPR is to increase user and visitor 
     fees at existing National Park venues. One effect of S.21 
     would be to add roughly 2.7 million acres to the NPS, much of 
     which would be a 1.2 million acre Park in the East Mojave 
     Desert. This is an area which is presently being well managed 
     by the Bureau of Land Management in accordance with the 
     Congressionally designated California Desert Conservation 
     Area (CDCA).
       We question the logic of expanding the NPS in such dramatic 
     fashion at a time when so many of our existing Parks and 
     Monuments are in obvious and dire need of financial 
     attention. The President's FY 1995 budget contains only 
     minimal transition funding for the enactment of S.21. The 
     subsequent five years after its enactment, S.21 will cost at 
     least $125 million. This $125 million does not include land 
     acquisition or construction. Where will the money come from 
     to pay for the new demands created by S.21? Existing 
     resources will be siphoned off from other NPS facilities 
     around the country.
       We are not under any illusions about preventing a vote on 
     final passage of S.21 in the Senate. However, several 
     amendments to S.21 will be offered by Senator Wallop and 
     other members of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee 
     which we believe merit your support. These are not ``Killer'' 
     amendments, but rather sensible ones. We respectfully ask 
     that you give them your strongest consideration. After all, 
     as a result of thoughtful and deliberate debate, this 
     legislation has failed to pass since its introduction in 
     1986.
       We remain opposed to the bill as a whole because we have 
     yet to be invited to the table to offer our input on this 
     issue that so dramatically impacts our districts and ignores 
     the views of our constituents.
       Please don't hesitate to contact any one of us directly if 
     you have any questions or would like further details. 
     Combined, we have represented the vast majority of the 
     California desert in the House for well over 50 years. Thank 
     you for your attention.
           Sincerely,
     Jerry Lewis,
     Duncan Hunter,
     Al McCandless,
     Bill Thomas,
       Members of Congress.
                                  ____

                                    Congress of the United States,


                                     House of Representatives,

                                   Washington, DC, April 12, 1994.

               Support the East Mojave National Monument

       Dear Senate Colleague: The East Mojave National Scenic Area 
     (EMNSA) is currently being managed by the Bureau of Land 
     Management in accordance with the congressionally mandated 
     Federal Land Policy Management Act of 1976.
       Under S. 21, the National Park Service would be charged 
     with the responsibility of managing this 1.5 million acre 
     area. With the proposed personnel reductions at the NPS, an 
     estimated 3,700 park rangers and staff will be eliminated 
     over the next five years. The NPS is unable to meet its 
     existing obligations let alone adequately fund and manage 
     this massive addition. We have already witnessed facility 
     closures, reductions of interpretive and visitor service 
     programs, and basic maintenance projects--all within our 
     existing park system! All this is happening now.
       Why should we burden this system with 1.5 million 
     additional acres already being managed in accordance with 
     congressional intent!!
       Why should existing parks across the country sacrifice 
     their already scarce resources to pay for a 1.5 million acre 
     addition whose park quality is questioned by career employees 
     at both the NPS and BLM?
       Support the Wallop amendment to S.21. Upgrade the East 
     Mojave National Scenic Area to a National Monument to be 
     administered by existing BLM resources. If you want to really 
     protect the East Mojave, provide the BLM adequate resources 
     to do the job.
           Sincerely,
     Jerry Lewis,
     Duncan Hunter,
     Al McCandless,
     Bill Thomas,
       Members of Congress.

  Mr. BIDEN. I am pleased to have been a cosponsor of the California 
desert protection bill, which the Senate passed this morning. We have 
finally been able to secure lasting protection for the irreplaceable 
ecosystems in the desert of southern California.
  The California Desert Protection Act was first introduced in 1985. 
After more than 8 years of effort, the Senate vote today clears the way 
for establishment of the largest wilderness area ever created in the 
lower 48 States. The act will protect 6.4 million of the 25 million 
acres of the southern California desert as wilderness and national park 
areas.
  The desert teems with more than 760 species of wildlife, including 
bighorn sheep and the endangered desert tortoise. The topography of the 
desert includes giant dunes, extinct volcanoes, and more than 100,000 
archeological sites. The desert is also home to a vast array of plant 
life, including the oldest Joshua tree forest in the country. Careless 
exploitation of the desert's resources can destroy what has existed for 
tens of thousands of years.
  The vital task of preserving fragile ecosystems and the biodiversity 
that exists within them is one of the Federal Government's most 
important responsibilities. The citizens and scientists, 
environmentalists and government officials who worked so hard for the 
California Desert Protection Act over the years can be proud of their 
perseverance in getting this wilderness area established.
  The California Desert Protection Act of 1993 will ensure that the 
remarkable assets of the California desert will be treasured by our 
grandchildren. It will also serve as an example of the far-sighted 
environmentalism that provides hope for us all.
  Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I wish to briefly note my support for this 
bill, and for the efforts of Senator Feinstein, the sponsor, and 
Senator Johnston, chairman of the committee of jurisdiction, in 
bringing this bill to the floor.
  Because the California Desert Protection Act will affect the costs of 
managing Federal lands, we in Congress must retain authority over this 
legislation to ensure that any commitments for future Federal costs are 
responsible and necessary. This was a primary concern of the Energy and 
Natural Resources Committee when we considered this bill.
  Beyond the question of Federal costs, however, this is a California 
plan for public lands in that State, put together mostly by long 
discussions and debate among Californians. It is a plan on which former 
Senator Cranston of California worked with his constituents for many 
years to set aside some parts of that State as permanent wilderness, 
wildlife preserves, and public parks.
  Certainly, I understand that not all residents of California agree 
with this bill. However, in the main, this is a California plan for 
Californians, and we ought to allow Senator Feinstein and her 
constituents some latitude in determining the future of natural and 
scenic areas of their State.
  I would like to say that many of us in North Dakota are now 
considering ways in which we might set aside certain natural and scenic 
areas in our western counties, most of which are under the management 
of the U.S. Forest Service. Many in North Dakota want to preserve a few 
areas from oil exploration or other development that would disturb or 
mar those area. I share that desire and I hope we are able to produce a 
North Dakota plan, put together by a consensus of North Dakotans. I 
hope that this body one day will support such a plan for North Dakota 
if it is presented to Congress for approval.
  Thank you for this opportunity to express my support for California's 
wilderness plan.
  Mr. CHAFEE. Mr. President, I am proud to be listed as a cosponsor of 
the California desert bill now before us, and commend Senator Feinstein 
and the chairman of the Energy Committee, Senator Johnston, for their 
efforts to bring this measure to the floor.
  I have long supported legislation to conserve America's landscapes. 
Indeed, my keen interest in this area dates back to my time as Governor 
of Rhode Island during the mid-1960's, when I signed into law 
legislation to establish an open space program in my State.
  But as the Senator from California knows, I did not sign onto this 
bill until about a month ago. Many had raised concerns with me about 
the legislation, and before I joined as a cosponsor, I wanted to make 
sure that I had all the facts.
  One of the greatest concerns surrounding S. 21 has been its cost. As 
has been pointed out by many, the proposed new national parks and 
wilderness areas do contain some large privately owned parcels, and 
some have argued that acquiring those lands will be extremely 
expensive. Indeed, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that 
acquiring these lands could cost anywhere between $100 and $300 million 
over the next 10 years. That is not an insignificant amount of money.
  However, after looking at this issue in more detail, I have learned 
that there are some sizable holes in the CBO estimate. First, it does 
not take into account the fact that the Bureau of Land Management 
already has in place conservation plans developed during the Reagan and 
Bush administrations, under which the BLM has been acquiring, and will 
continue to acquire land in the California desert. Indeed, according to 
Secretary Babbitt, the land acquisition envisioned in S. 21 is less 
than originally planned by the BLM. Thus, as the Secretary points out, 
the acquisition costs of S. 21 are not new. They have been contemplated 
by the BLM for some time.
  A second point that should be made about these cost estimates is that 
they assume that the Federal Government will actually have to purchase 
every single private parcel within the boundaries established by this 
bill. This is a highly unlikely scenario, as a great many landowners 
likely will exchange their land for other nondesignated Federal 
parcels. Many also will be happy to keep their land and abide by the 
limitations that come with a park or wilderness area designation. Thus, 
while there is no question that the enactment of S. 21 will require new 
spending, it seems to me that money of the predictions about its cost 
have been greatly exaggerated.
  Before cosponsoring, I also wanted to know what was being done to 
address the concerns of those who currently use the desert in ways that 
would conflict with the national park or wilderness designations. I 
must say that I have been extremely impressed with the lengths to which 
Senator Feinstein has gone to accommodate those interests. She has not 
demagogued on this issue or tried to vilify her opponents as inflexible 
enemies of the environment. Instead, she has listened to their worries, 
and wherever possible, has modified her bill to address them. Dozens of 
amendments have been made to mitigate the impact of this legislation on 
miners, ranchers, private property owners, and off-road vehicle 
enthusiasts. I am satisfied that S. 21, as it now stands, is a 
thoroughly considered, well-balanced piece of legislation.
  Now, the opponents of this bill, particularly the Senator from 
Wyoming, have argued very forcefully that the Park Service is 
overburdened already, that there simply are no funds available to 
manage these new areas or to acquire the private inholdings within 
their boundaries.
  There is no question that times are very tight. Clearly, it would be 
ideal if there were more money to go around. But opportunities to 
preserve such a spectacular region as the California desert do not 
occur every day. It has taken 8 years to get to this point, and I 
believe we must take advantage of this historic opportunity while we 
have the chance. It may take some time before we can manage these areas 
in the manner in which we'd like to. But in my view, the important 
thing now is to take care of the designation--to draw the boundaries 
around the areas we want to protect for our children and their 
children.
  I can think of no instance where the Government has designated an 
area as a park and years later people have looked back, regretted the 
decision, and tried to reverse it. As we continue to develop and 
extract resources from the remaining open spaces in our Nation, it is 
important that we ensure that there will always be places where people 
can get away and renew their spirits, breathe fresh air, and appreciate 
nature's gifts.
  Mr. President, going back to Theodore Roosevelt, the Republican party 
has a great tradition of conserving our Nation's valuable landscapes. 
This bill is in keeping with that tradition, and I look forward to its 
approval by the Senate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Mathews). Under the previous order, the 
hour of 10 o'clock having arrived, the question occurs on passage of S. 
21, as amended. On this question, the yeas and nays have been ordered, 
and the clerk will call the roll.
  Mr. BYRD. Mr. President, I suggest the absence of a quorum.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk proceeded to call the roll.
  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for 
the quorum call be rescinded.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  Under the previous order, the question occurs on passage of S. 21, as 
amended. On this question, the yeas and nays have been ordered, and the 
clerk will call the roll.
  The assistant legislative clerk called the roll.
  Mr. FORD. I announce that the Senator from Delaware [Mr. Biden] is 
necessarily absent.
  I also announce that the Senator from Alabama [Mr. Shelby] is absent 
because of illness.
  I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from 
Delaware [Mr. Biden] would vote ``yea.''
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber 
who desire to vote?
  The result was announced--yeas 69, nays 29, as follows:

                      [Rollcall Vote No. 89 Leg.]

                                YEAS--69

     Akaka
     Baucus
     Bingaman
     Bond
     Boren
     Boxer
     Bradley
     Breaux
     Bryan
     Bumpers
     Campbell
     Chafee
     Cohen
     Conrad
     Danforth
     Daschle
     DeConcini
     Dodd
     Domenici
     Dorgan
     Durenberger
     Exon
     Feingold
     Feinstein
     Ford
     Glenn
     Gorton
     Graham
     Grassley
     Gregg
     Harkin
     Hatfield
     Heflin
     Hollings
     Inouye
     Jeffords
     Johnston
     Kassebaum
     Kennedy
     Kerrey
     Kerry
     Kohl
     Lautenberg
     Leahy
     Levin
     Lieberman
     Lugar
     Mathews
     Metzenbaum
     Mikulski
     Mitchell
     Moseley-Braun
     Moynihan
     Murray
     Nunn
     Pell
     Pryor
     Reid
     Riegle
     Robb
     Rockefeller
     Roth
     Sarbanes
     Sasser
     Simon
     Specter
     Warner
     Wellstone
     Wofford

                                NAYS--29

     Bennett
     Brown
     Burns
     Byrd
     Coats
     Cochran
     Coverdell
     Craig
     D'Amato
     Dole
     Faircloth
     Gramm
     Hatch
     Helms
     Hutchison
     Kempthorne
     Lott
     Mack
     McCain
     McConnell
     Murkowski
     Nickles
     Packwood
     Pressler
     Simpson
     Smith
     Stevens
     Thurmond
     Wallop

                             NOT VOTING--2

     Biden
     Shelby
       
  So the bill (S. 21), as amended, was passed, as follows:

                                 S. 21

       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 ``California Desert Protection 
     Act of 1994''.

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND POLICY.

       (a) The Congress finds and declares that--
       (1) the federally owned desert lands of southern California 
     constitute a public wildland resource of extraordinary and 
     inestimable value for this and future generations;
       (2) these desert wildlands display unique scenic, 
     historical, archeological, environmental, ecological, 
     wildlife, cultural, scientific, educational, and recreational 
     values used and enjoyed by millions of Americans for hiking 
     and camping, scientific study and scenic appreciation;
       (3) the public land resources of the California desert now 
     face and are increasingly threatened by adverse pressures 
     which would impair, dilute, and destroy their public and 
     natural values;
       (4) the California desert, embracing wilderness lands, 
     units of the National Park System, other Federal lands, State 
     parks and other State lands, and private lands, constitutes a 
     cohesive unit posing unique and difficult resource protection 
     and management challenges;
       (5) through designation of national monuments by 
     Presidential proclamation, through enactment of general 
     public land statutes (including section 601 of the Federal 
     Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, 90 Stat. 2743, 43 
     U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and through interim administrative 
     actions, the Federal government has begun the process of 
     appropriately providing for protection of the significant 
     resources of the public lands in the California desert; and
       (6) statutory land unit designations are needed to afford 
     the full protection which the resources and public land 
     values of the California desert merit.
       (b) In order to secure for the American people of this and 
     future generations an enduring heritage of wilderness, 
     national parks, and public land values in the California 
     desert, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the 
     Congress that--
       (1) appropriate public lands in the California desert shall 
     be included within the National Park System and the National 
     Wilderness Preservation System, in order to--
       (A) preserve unrivaled scenic, geologic, and wildlife 
     values associated with these unique natural landscapes;
       (B) perpetuate in their natural state significant and 
     diverse ecosystems of the California desert;
       (C) protect and preserve historical and cultural values of 
     the California desert associated with ancient Indian 
     cultures, patterns of western exploration and settlement, and 
     sites exemplifying the mining, ranching and railroading 
     history of the Old West;
       (D) provide opportunities for compatible outdoor public 
     recreation, protect and interpret ecological and geological 
     features and historic, paleontological, and archeological 
     sites, maintain wilderness resource values, and promote 
     public understanding and appreciation of the California 
     desert; and
       (E) retain and enhance opportunities for scientific 
     research in undisturbed ecosystems.

  TITLE I--DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE 
                       BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

     SEC. 101. FINDINGS.

       The Congress finds and declares that--
       (1) wilderness is a distinguishing characteristic of the 
     public lands in the California desert, one which affords an 
     unrivaled opportunity for experiencing vast areas of the Old 
     West essentially unaltered by man's activities, and which 
     merits preservation for the benefit of present and future 
     generations;
       (2) the wilderness values of desert lands are increasingly 
     threatened by and especially vulnerable to impairment, 
     alteration, and destruction by activities and intrusions 
     associated with incompatible use and development; and
       (3) preservation of desert wilderness necessarily requires 
     the highest forms of protective designation and management.

     SEC. 102. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS.

       In furtherance of the purpose of the Wilderness Act (78 
     Stat. 890, 16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), and sections 601 and 603 
     of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (90 
     Stat. 2743, 43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the following lands in 
     the State of California, as generally depicted on maps 
     referenced herein, are hereby designated as wilderness, and 
     therefore, as components of the National Wilderness 
     Preservation System:
       (1) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately seventy-four thousand eight hundred and ninety 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Argus Range 
     Wilderness--Proposed 1'', dated May 1991, and two maps 
     entitled ``Argus Range Wilderness--Proposed 2'' and ``Argus 
     Range Wilderness--Proposed 3'' dated January 1989, and which 
     shall be known as the Argus Range Wilderness.
       (2) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately ten thousand three hundred and eighty acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Bigelow Cholla Garden 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness.
       (3) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, and within the San 
     Bernardino National Forest, which comprise approximately 
     thirty-nine thousand one hundred and eighty-five acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Bighorn Mountain 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Bighorn Mountain Wilderness.
       (4) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area and the Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Management, 
     which comprise approximately forty-seven thousand five 
     hundred and seventy acres, as generally depicted on a map 
     entitled ``Big Maria Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated 
     February 1986, and which shall be known as the Big Maria 
     Mountains Wilderness.
       (5) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirteen thousand nine hundred and forty acres, 
     as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Black Mountain 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Black Mountain Wilderness.
       (6) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately nine thousand five hundred and twenty acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Bright Star 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated October 1993, and which shall 
     be known as the Bright Star Wilderness.
       (7) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately sixty-eight thousand five hundred and fifteen 
     acres, as generally depicted on two maps entitled ``Bristol 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 1'', and ``Bristol Mountains 
     Wilderness--Proposed 2'', dated September 1991, and which 
     shall be known as Bristol Mountains Wilderness.
       (8) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-nine thousand seven hundred and forty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Cadiz Dunes 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Cadiz Dunes Wilderness.
       (9) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area and Eastern San Diego County, of the Bureau of Land 
     Management, which comprise approximately fifteen thousand 
     seven hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Carrizo Gorge Wilderness--Proposed'', dated February 1986, 
     and which shall be known as the Carrizo Gorge Wilderness.
       (10) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area and Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Management, 
     which comprise approximately sixty-four thousand three 
     hundred and twenty acres, as generally depicted on a map 
     entitled ``Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated 
     July 1993, and which shall be known as the Chemehuevi 
     Mountains Wilderness.
       (11) Certain lands in the Bakersfield District, of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, which comprise approximately 
     thirteen thousand seven hundred acres, as generally depicted 
     on two maps entitled ``Chimney Park Wilderness--Proposed 1'' 
     and ``Chimney Peak Wilderness--Proposed 2'', dated May 1991, 
     and which shall be known as the Chimney Peak Wilderness.
       (12) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately eighty thousand seven hundred and seventy 
     acres, as generally depicted on two maps entitled 
     ``Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 1'' and 
     ``Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 2'', dated July 
     1992, and which shall be known as the Chuckwalla Mountains 
     Wilderness.
       (13) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     thirty-three thousand nine hundred and eighty acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Cleghorn Lakes 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness. The Secretary may, 
     pursuant to an application filed by the Department of 
     Defense, grant a right-of-way for, and authorize construction 
     of, a road within the area depicted as ``nonwilderness road 
     corridor'' on such map.
       (14) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-six thousand acres, as generally 
     depicted on a map entitled ``Clipper Mountain Wilderness--
     Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be known as 
     Clipper Mountain Wilderness.
       (15) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately fifty thousand five hundred and twenty acres, 
     as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Coso Range 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1991, and which shall be 
     known as Coso Range Wilderness.
       (16) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately seventeen thousand acres, as generally depicted 
     on a map entitled ``Coyote Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', 
     dated July 1993, and which shall be known as Coyote Mountains 
     Wilderness.
       (17) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately eight thousand six hundred acres, as generally 
     depicted on a map entitled ``Darwin Falls Wilderness--
     Proposed'', dated May 1991, and which shall be known as 
     Darwin Falls Wilderness.
       (18) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area and the Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Management, 
     which comprise approximately forty-eight thousand eight 
     hundred and fifty acres, as generally depicted on a map 
     entitled ``Dead Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated 
     October 1991, and which shall be known as Dead Mountains 
     Wilderness.
       (19) Certain lands in the Bakersfield District, of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, which comprise approximately 
     thirty-six thousand three hundred acres, as generally 
     depicted on two maps entitled ``Domeland Wilderness 
     Additions--Proposed 1'' and ``Domeland Wilderness Additions--
     Proposed 2'', and which are hereby incorporated in, and which 
     shall be deemed to be a part of, the Domeland Wilderness as 
     designated by Public Laws 93-632 and 98-425.
       (20) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-three thousand seven hundred and eighty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``El Paso 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which 
     shall be known as the El Paso Mountains Wilderness.
       (21) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-five thousand nine hundred and forty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Fish Creek 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which 
     shall be known as Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness.
       (22) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-eight thousand one hundred and ten 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Funeral 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1991, and which 
     shall be known as Funeral Mountains Wilderness.
       (23) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-seven thousand seven hundred acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Golden Valley 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated February 1986, and which shall 
     be known as Golden Valley Wilderness.
       (24) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-one thousand six hundred and ninety-five 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Grass Valley 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Grass Valley Wilderness.
       (25) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-two thousand two hundred and forty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Hollow Hills 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1991, and which shall be 
     known as the Hollow Hills Wilderness.
       (26) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-six thousand four hundred and sixty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Ibex 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1991, and which shall be 
     known as the Ibex Wilderness.
       (27) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-three thousand eight hundred and fifty-
     five acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Indian 
     Pass Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall 
     be known as the Indian Pass Wilderness.
       (28) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area and the Bakersfield District, of the Bureau of Land 
     Management, and within the Inyo National Forest, which 
     comprise approximately two hundred and five thousand and 
     twenty acres, as generally depicted on three maps entitled 
     ``Inyo Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 1'', ``Inyo Mountains 
     Wilderness--Proposed 2'', ``Inyo Mountains Wilderness--
     Proposed 3'', dated May 1991, and which shall be known as the 
     Inyo Mountains Wilderness.
       (29) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-three thousand six hundred and seventy 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Jacumba 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Jacumba Wilderness.
       (30) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately one hundred and twenty-nine thousand five 
     hundred and eighty acres, as generally depicted on a map 
     entitled ``Kelso Dunes Wilderness--Proposed 1'', dated 
     October 1991, a map entitled ``Kelso Dunes Wilderness--
     Proposed 2'', dated May 1991, and a map entitled ``Kelso 
     Dunes Wilderness--Proposed 3'', dated September 1991, and 
     which shall be known as the Kelso Dunes Wilderness.
       (31) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, and the Sequoia 
     National Forest, which comprise approximately eighty-eight 
     thousand two hundred and ninety acres, as generally depicted 
     on a map entitled ``Kiavah Wilderness--Proposed 1'', dated 
     February 1986, and a map entitled ``Kiavah Wilderness--
     Proposed 2'', dated October 1993, and which shall be known as 
     the Kiavah Wilderness.
       (32) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately two hundred nine thousand, six hundred and 
     eight acres, as generally depicted on four maps entitled 
     ``Kingston Range Wilderness--Proposed 1'', ``Kingston Range 
     Wilderness--Proposed 2'', ``Kingston Range Wilderness--
     Proposed 3'', ``Kingston Range Wilderness--Proposed 4'', 
     dated July 1993, and which shall be known as the Kingston 
     Range Wilderness.
       (33) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-nine thousand eight hundred and eighty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Little 
     Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, 
     and which shall be known as the Little Chuckwalla Mountains 
     Wilderness.
       (34) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area and the Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Management, 
     which comprise approximately thirty-three thousand six 
     hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Little Picacho Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and 
     which shall be known as the Little Picacho Wilderness.
       (35) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-two thousand three hundred and sixty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Malpais Mesa 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated September 1991, and which shall 
     be known as the Malpais Mesa Wilderness.
       (36) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately sixteen thousand one hundred and five acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Manly Peak 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated October 1991, and which shall 
     be known as the Manly Peak Wilderness.
       (37) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-four thousand two hundred acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Mecca Hills 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Mecca Hills Wilderness.
       (38) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately forty-seven thousand three hundred and thirty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Mesquite 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1991, and which shall be 
     known as the Mesquite Wilderness.
       (39) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-two thousand nine hundred acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Newberry Mountains 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated February 1986, and which shall 
     be known as the Newberry Mountains Wilderness.
       (40) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately one hundred ten thousand eight hundred and 
     sixty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Nopah 
     Range Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which 
     shall be known as the Nopah Range Wilderness.
       (41) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-two thousand two hundred and forty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``North 
     Algodones Dunes Wilderness--Proposed'', dated October 1991, 
     and which shall be known as the North Algodones Dunes 
     Wilderness.
       (42) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-five thousand five hundred and forty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``North 
     Mesquite Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1991, 
     and which shall be known as the North Mesquite Mountains 
     Wilderness.
       (43) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately one hundred forty-six thousand and twenty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Old Woman 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 1'', dated July 1993 and a map 
     entitled ``Old Woman Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 2'', 
     dated July 1993, and which shall be known as the Old Woman 
     Mountains Wilderness.
       (44) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately forty thousand seven hundred and thirty-five 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Orocopia 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which 
     shall be known as the Orocopia Mountains Wilderness.
       (45) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area and the Bakersfield District, of the Bureau of Land 
     Management, which comprise approximately seventy-four 
     thousand and sixty acres, as generally depicted on a map 
     entitled ``Owens Peak Wilderness--Proposed 1'', dated 
     February 1986, a map entitled ``Owens Peak Wilderness--
     Proposed 2'', dated March 1994, and a map entitled ``Owens 
     Peak Wilderness--Proposed 3'', dated May 1991, and which 
     shall be known as the Owens Peak Wilderness.
       (46) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately seventy-four thousand eight hundred acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Pahrump Valley 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated February 1986, and which shall 
     be known as the Pahrump Valley Wilderness.
       (47) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately two hundred seventy thousand six hundred and 
     twenty-nine acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Palen/McCoy Wilderness--Proposed 1'', dated July 1993, and 
     a map entitled ``Palen/McCoy Wilderness--Proposed 2'', dated 
     July 1993, and which shall be known as the Palen/McCoy 
     Wilderness.
       (48) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-two thousand three hundred and ten 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Palo Verde 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which 
     shall be known as the Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness.
       (49) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately seven thousand seven hundred acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Picacho Peak 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1991, and which shall be 
     known as the Picacho Peak Wilderness.
       (50) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately seventy-two thousand five hundred and seventy-
     five acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Piper 
     Mountain Wilderness--Proposed'', dated October 1993, and 
     which shall be known as the Piper Mountain Wilderness.
       (51) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-six thousand eight hundred and forty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Piute 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which 
     shall be known as the Piute Mountains Wilderness.
       (52) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately seventy-eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-
     eight acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Resting Spring Range Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 
     1991, and which shall be known as the Resting Spring Range 
     Wilderness.
       (53) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately forty thousand eight hundred and twenty acres, 
     as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Rice Valley 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1991, and which shall be 
     known as the Rice Valley Wilderness.
       (54) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     area and the Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Management, 
     which comprise approximately twenty-two thousand three 
     hundred eighty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Riverside Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1991, 
     and which shall be known as the Riverside Mountains 
     Wilderness.
       (55) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-one thousand three hundred acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Rodman Mountains 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Rodman Mountains Wilderness.
       (56) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area and the Bakersfield District, of the Bureau of Land 
     Management, which comprise approximately fifty-one thousand 
     nine hundred acres, as generally depicted on two maps 
     entitled ``Sacatar Trail Wilderness--Proposed 1'' and 
     ``Sacatar Trail Wilderness--Proposed 2'', dated May 1991, and 
     which shall be known as the Sacatar Trail Wilderness.
       (57) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately one thousand four hundred and forty acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Saddle Peak Hills 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness.
       (58) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and eighty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``San Gorgonio 
     Wilderness Additions--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which 
     are hereby incorporated in, and which shall be deemed to be a 
     part of, the San Gorgonio Wilderness as designated by Public 
     Laws 88-577 and 98-425.
       (59) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately sixty-four thousand three hundred and forty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Santa Rosa 
     Wilderness Additions--Proposed'', dated March 1994, and which 
     are hereby incorporated in, and which shall be deemed to be 
     part of, the Santa Rosa Wilderness designated by Public Law 
     98-425.
       (60) Certain lands in the California Desert District, of 
     the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise approximately 
     thirty-five thousand and eighty acres, as generally depicted 
     on a map entitled ``Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness--
     Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be known as the 
     Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness.
       (61) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately one hundred seventy-four thousand eight hundred 
     acres, as generally depicted on two maps entitled ``Sheephole 
     Valley Wilderness--Proposed 1'', dated July 1993, and 
     ``Sheephole Valley Wilderness--Proposed 2'', dated July 1993, 
     and which shall be known as the Sheephole Valley Wilderness.
       (62) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately sixteen thousand seven hundred and eighty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``South Nopah 
     Range Wilderness--Proposed'', dated February 1986, and which 
     shall be known as the South Nopah Range Wilderness.
       (63) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately seven thousand and fifty acres, as generally 
     depicted on a map entitled ``Stateline Wilderness--
     Proposed'', dated May 1991, and which shall be known as the 
     Stateline Wilderness.
       (64) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately eighty-one thousand six hundred acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Stepladder Mountains 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated February 1986, and which shall 
     be known as the Stepladder Mountains Wilderness.
       (65) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-nine thousand one hundred and eighty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Surprise 
     Canyon Wilderness--Proposed'', dated September 1991, and 
     which shall be known as the Surprise Canyon Wilderness.
       (66) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately seventeen thousand eight hundred and twenty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Sylvania 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated February 1986, and 
     which shall be known as the Sylvania Mountains Wilderness.
       (67) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-one thousand one hundred and sixty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Trilobite 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Trilobite Wilderness.
       (68) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately one hundred forty-four thousand five hundred 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Turtle 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 1'', dated February 1986 and a 
     map entitled ``Turtle Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 2'', 
     dated May 1991, and which shall be known as the Turtle 
     Mountains Wilderness.
       (69) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area and the Yuma District, of the Bureau of Land Management, 
     which comprise approximately seventy-seven thousand five 
     hundred and twenty acres, as generally depicted on a map 
     entitled ``Whipple Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated 
     July 1993, and which shall be known as the Whipple Mountains 
     Wilderness.

     SEC. 103. ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS.

       (a) Management.--Subject to valid existing rights, each 
     wilderness area designated under section 102 shall be 
     administered by the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter in 
     this Act referred to as the ``Secretary'') or the Secretary 
     of Agriculture, as appropriate, in accordance with the 
     provisions of the Wilderness Act, except that any reference 
     in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness 
     Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date 
     of this title and any reference to the Secretary of 
     Agriculture shall be deemed to be a reference to the 
     Secretary who has administrative jurisdiction over the area.
       (b) Map and Legal Descriptions.--As soon as practicable 
     after the date of enactment of section 102, the Secretary 
     concerned shall file a map and legal description for each 
     wilderness area designated under this title with the 
     Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United 
     States Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
     United States House of Representatives. Each such map and 
     description shall have the same force and effect as if 
     included in this title, except that the Secretary or the 
     Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate, may correct 
     clerical and typographical errors in each such legal 
     description and map. Each such map and legal description 
     shall be on file and available for public inspection in the 
     office of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, 
     Department of the Interior, or the Chief of the Forest 
     Service, Department of Agriculture, as appropriate.
       (c) Livestock.--Within the wilderness areas designated 
     under section 102, the grazing of livestock, where 
     established prior to the date of enactment of this Act, shall 
     be permitted to continue subject to such reasonable 
     regulations, policies, and practices as the Secretary deems 
     necessary, as long as such regulations, policies, and 
     practices fully conform with and implement the intent of 
     Congress regarding grazing in such areas as such intent is 
     expressed in the Wilderness Act and section 101(f) of Public 
     Law 101-628.
       (d) No Buffer Zones.--The Congress does not intend for the 
     designation of wilderness areas in section 102 of this Act to 
     lead to the creation of protective perimeters or buffer zones 
     around any such wilderness area. The fact that nonwilderness 
     activities or uses can be seen or heard from areas within a 
     wilderness area shall not, of itself, preclude such 
     activities or uses up to the boundary of the wilderness area.
       (e) Fish and Wildlife.--As provided in section 4(d)(7) of 
     the Wilderness Act, nothing in this title shall be construed 
     as affecting the jurisdiction of the State of California with 
     respect to wildlife and fish on the public lands located in 
     that State.
       (f) Wildlife Management.--In furtherance of the purposes of 
     the Wilderness Act, management activities to maintain or 
     restore fish and wildlife populations and the habitats to 
     support such populations may be carried out within wilderness 
     areas designated by this title, where consistent with 
     relevant wilderness management plans, in accordance with 
     appropriate policies and guidelines, as set forth in section 
     101(h) of Public Law 101-628.
       (g) Law Enforcement Border Activities.--Nothing in this 
     Act, including the designation as wilderness of lands within 
     the Coyote, Fish Creek Mountains, and Jacumba wilderness 
     areas designated in section 102 of this Act, the Wilderness 
     Act, or other land management laws generally applicable to 
     such areas, shall restrict or preclude continued law 
     enforcement and border operations within such areas, 
     including the use of motor vehicles and aircraft by the 
     Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Drug Enforcement 
     Administration, the United States Customs Service, or State 
     and local law enforcement agencies in such manner and subject 
     to such restrictions as may be determined by the Attorney 
     General of the United States or Secretary of the Treasury, as 
     appropriate, in consultation with the Secretary.

     SEC. 104. WILDERNESS REVIEW.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the 
     Congress hereby finds and directs that lands in the 
     California Desert Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land 
     Management, not designated as wilderness or wilderness study 
     areas by this Act have been adequately studied for wilderness 
     designation pursuant to section 603 of the Federal Land 
     Policy and Management Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2743, 43 U.S.C. 
     1701 et seq.), and are no longer subject to the requirement 
     of section 603(c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management 
     Act of 1976 pertaining to the management of wilderness study 
     areas in a manner that does not impair the suitability of 
     such areas for preservation as wilderness.
       (b) Areas Not Released.--The following areas shall continue 
     to be subject to the requirements of section 603(c) of the 
     Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, pertaining to 
     the management of wilderness study areas in a manner that 
     does not impair the suitability of such areas for 
     preservation as wilderness--
       (1) certain lands which comprise approximately sixty-one 
     thousand three hundred and twenty, as generally depicted on a 
     map entitled ``Avawatz Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', 
     dated May 1991;
       (2) certain lands which comprise approximately thirty-nine 
     thousand seven hundred and fifty acres, as generally depicted 
     on a map entitled ``Kingston Range Wilderness--Proposed 4'', 
     dated July 1993;
       (3) certain lands which comprise approximately eighty 
     thousand four hundred and thirty acres, as generally depicted 
     on two maps entitled ``Soda Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 
     1'', dated May 1991, and ``Soda Mountains Wilderness--
     Proposed 2'', dated January 1989;
       (4) certain lands which compromise approximately twenty-
     three thousand two hundred and fifty acres, as generally 
     depicted on a map entitled ``South Avawatz Mountains--
     Proposed'', dated May 1991;
       (5) certain lands which comprise approximately seventeen 
     thousand two hundred and eighty acres, as generally depicted 
     on a map entitled ``Death Valley National Park Boundary and 
     Wilderness 17--Proposed'', dated July 1993;
       (6) certain lands which comprise approximately eight 
     thousand eight hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map 
     entitled ``Great Falls Basin Wilderness--Proposed'', dated 
     February 1986; and
       (7) certain lands which comprise approximately eighty-four 
     thousand four hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map 
     entitled ``Cady Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 
     1993.
       (c) Withdrawal.--Subject to valid existing rights, the 
     Federal lands referred to in subsection (b) are hereby 
     withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal 
     under the public land laws; from location, entry, and patent 
     under the United States mining laws; and from disposition 
     under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing, 
     and mineral materials, and all amendments thereto.

     SEC. 105. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREA.

       In furtherance of the provisions of the Wilderness Act, 
     certain lands in the California Desert Conservation Area, of 
     the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise approximately 
     eleven thousand two hundred acres as generally depicted on a 
     map entitled ``White Mountains Wilderness Study Area--
     Proposed'', dated May 1991, are hereby designated as the 
     White Mountains Wilderness Study Area and shall be 
     administered by the Secretary in accordance with the 
     provisions of section 603(c) of the Federal Land Policy and 
     Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1782).

     SEC. 106. SUITABILITY REP0RT.

       The Secretary is required, ten years after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, to report to Congress on current and 
     planned exploration, development or mining activities on, and 
     suitability for future wilderness designation of, the lands 
     as generally depicted on maps entitled ``Surprise Canyon 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', ``Middle Park Canyon Wilderness--
     Proposed'', and ``Death Valley National Park Boundary and 
     Wilderness 15'', dated September 1991 and a map entitled 
     ``Manly Peak Wilderness--Proposed'', dated October 1991.

     SEC. 107. DESERT LILY SANCTUARY.

       (a) Designation.--There is hereby established the Desert 
     Lily Sanctuary within the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, California, of the Bureau of Land Management, 
     comprising approximately two thousand forty acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Desert Lily 
     Sanctuary'', dated February 1986. The Secretary shall 
     administer the area to provide maximum protection to the 
     desert lily.
       (b) Withdrawal.--Subject to valid existing rights, all 
     Federal lands within the Desert Lily Sanctuary are hereby 
     withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal 
     under the public land laws; from location, entry, and patent 
     under the United States mining laws; and from disposition 
     under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing, 
     and mineral materials, and all amendments thereto.

     SEC. 108. DINOSAUR TRACKWAY AREA OF CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL 
                   CONCERN.

       (a) Designation.--There is hereby established the Dinosaur 
     Trackway Area of Critical Environmental Concern within the 
     California Desert Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land 
     Management, comprising approximately five hundred and ninety 
     acres as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Dinosaur 
     Trackway Area of Critical Environmental Concern'', dated July 
     1993. The Secretary shall administer the area to preserve the 
     paleontological resources within the area.
       (b) Withdrawal.--Subject to valid existing rights, the 
     Federal lands within and adjacent to the Dinosaur Trackway 
     Area of Critical Environmental Concern, as generally depicted 
     on a map entitled ``Dinosaur Trackway Mineral Withdrawal 
     Area'', dated July 1993, are hereby withdrawn from all forms 
     of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land 
     laws; from location, entry, and patent under the United 
     States mining laws; and from disposition under all laws 
     pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing, and mineral 
     materials, and all amendments thereto.

  TITLE II--DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS TO BE ADMINISTERED BY THE 
                UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

     SEC. 201. DESIGNATION AND MANAGEMENT.

       (a) Designation.--In furtherance of the purposes of the 
     Wilderness Act, the following lands are hereby designated as 
     wilderness and therefore, as components of the National 
     Wilderness Preservation System:
       (1) Certain lands in the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge, 
     California, which comprise approximately three thousand one 
     hundred and ninety-five acres, as generally depicted on a map 
     entitled ``Havasu Wilderness--Proposed'', and dated October 
     1991, and which shall be known as the Havasu Wilderness.
       (2) Certain lands in the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, 
     California, which comprise approximately five thousand eight 
     hundred and thirty-six acres, as generally depicted on two 
     maps entitled ``Imperial Refuge Wilderness--Proposed 1'' and 
     ``Imperial Refuge Wilderness--Proposed 2'', and dated October 
     1991, and which shall be known as the Imperial Refuge 
     Wilderness.
       (b) Management.--Subject to valid existing rights, the 
     wilderness areas designated under this title shall be 
     administered by the Secretary in accordance with the 
     provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas designated 
     by that Act as wilderness, except that any reference in such 
     provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act (or 
     any similar reference) shall be deemed to be a reference to 
     the date of enactment of this Act.
       (c) Maps and Legal Description.--As soon as practicable 
     after enactment of this title, the Secretary shall file a map 
     and a legal description of each wilderness area designated 
     under this section with the Committees on Energy and Natural 
     Resources and Environment and Public Works of the United 
     States Senate and Natural Resources and Merchant Marine and 
     Fisheries of the United States House of Representatives. Such 
     map and description shall have the same force and effect as 
     if included in this Act, except that correction of clerical 
     and typographical errors in such legal description and map 
     may be made. Such map and legal description shall be on file 
     and available for public inspection in the Office of the 
     Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Department 
     of the Interior.

     SEC. 202. NO EFFECT ON COLORADO RIVER DAMS.

       Nothing in this title shall be construed to affect the 
     operation of federally owned dams located on the Colorado 
     River in the Lower Basin.

     SEC. 203. NO EFFECT ON UPPER BASIN.

       Nothing in this Act shall amend, construe, supersede, or 
     preempt any State law, Federal law, interstate compact, or 
     international treaty pertaining to the Colorado River 
     (including its tributaries) in the Upper Basin, including, 
     but not limited to the appropriation, use, development, 
     storage, regulation, allocation, conservation, exportation, 
     or quality of those rivers.

     SEC. 204. COLORADO RIVER.

       With respect to the Havasu and Imperial wilderness areas 
     designated by subsection 201(a) of this title, no rights to 
     water of the Colorado River are reserved, either expressly, 
     impliedly, or otherwise.

                 TITLE III--DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK

     SEC. 301. FINDINGS.

       The Congress hereby finds that--
       (1) proclamations by Presidents Herbert Hoover in 1933 and 
     Franklin Roosevelt in 1937 established and expanded the Death 
     Valley National Monument for the preservation of the unusual 
     features of scenic, scientific, and educational interest 
     therein contained;
       (2) Death Valley National Monument is today recognized as a 
     major unit of the National Park System, having extraordinary 
     values enjoyed by millions of visitors;
       (3) the monument boundaries established in the 1930's 
     exclude and thereby expose to incompatible development and 
     inconsistent management, contiguous Federal lands of 
     essential and superlative natural, ecological, geological, 
     archeological, paleontological, cultural, historical ad 
     wilderness values;
       (4) Death Valley National Monument should be substantially 
     enlarged by the addition of all contiguous Federal lands of 
     national park caliber and afforded full recognition and 
     statutory protection as a National Park; and
       (5) the wilderness within Death Valley should receive 
     maximum statutory protection by designation pursuant to the 
     Wilderness Act.

     SEC. 302. ESTABLISHMENT OF DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK.

       There is hereby established the Death Valley National Park, 
     (hereinafter in this title referred to as the ``park'') as 
     generally depicted on twenty-three maps entitled ``Death 
     Valley National Park Boundary and Wilderness--Proposed'', 
     numbered in the title one through twenty-three, and dated 
     July 1993 or prior, which shall be on file and available for 
     public inspection in the offices of the Superintendent of the 
     park and the Director of the National Park Service, 
     Department of the Interior. The Death Valley National 
     Monument is hereby abolished as such, the lands and interests 
     therein are hereby incorporated within and made part of the 
     new Death Valley National Park, and any funds available for 
     purposes of the monument shall be available for purposes of 
     the park.

     SEC. 303. TRANSFER AND ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS.

       Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary shall transfer 
     the lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land 
     Management depicted in the maps described in section 302 of 
     this title, without consideration, to the administrative 
     jurisdiction of the National Park Service for administration 
     as part of the National Park System, and the boundary of the 
     park shall be adjusted accordingly. The Secretary shall 
     administer the areas added to the park by this title in 
     accordance with the provisions of law generally applicable to 
     units of the National Park System, including the Act entitled 
     ``An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other 
     purposes'', approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 
     1, 2-4).

     SEC. 304. MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.

       Within six months after the enactment of this title, the 
     Secretary shall file maps and a legal description of the park 
     designated under this title with the Committee on Energy and 
     Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the 
     Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of 
     Representatives. Such maps and legal description shall have 
     the same force and effect as if included in this title, 
     except that the Secretary may correct clerical and 
     typographical errors in such legal description and in the 
     maps referred to in section 302. The maps and legal 
     description shall be on file and available for public 
     inspection in the offices of the Superintendent of the park 
     and the Director of the National Park Service, Department of 
     the Interior.

     SEC. 305. WITHDRAWAL.

       Subject to valid existing rights, all Federal lands within 
     the park are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, 
     appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; from 
     location, entry, and patent under the United States mining 
     laws; and from disposition under all laws pertaining to 
     mineral and geothermal leasing, and mineral materials, and 
     all amendments thereto.

     SEC. 306. GRAZING.

       (a) In General.--The privilege of grazing domestic 
     livestock on lands within the park shall continue to be 
     exercised at no more than the current level, subject to 
     applicable laws and National Park Service regulations.
       (b) Sale of Property.--If a person holding a grazing permit 
     referred to in subsection (a) informs the Secretary that such 
     permittee is willing to convey to the United States any base 
     property with respect to which such permit was issued and to 
     which such permittee holds title, the Secretary shall make 
     the acquisition of such base property a priority as compared 
     with the acquisition of other lands within the park, provided 
     agreement can be reached concerning the terms and conditions 
     of such acquisition. Any such base property which is located 
     outside the park and acquired as a priority pursuant to this 
     section shall be managed by the Federal agency responsible 
     for the majority of the adjacent lands in accordance with the 
     laws applicable to such adjacent lands.

                  TITLE IV--JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK

     SEC. 401. FINDINGS.

       The Congress hereby finds that--
       (1) a proclamation by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 
     established Joshua Tree National Monument to protect various 
     objects of historical and scientific interest;
       (2) Joshua Tree National Monument today is recognized as a 
     major unit of the National Park System, having extraordinary 
     values enjoyed by millions of visitors;
       (3) the monument boundaries as modified in 1950 and 1961 
     exclude and thereby expose to incompatible development and 
     inconsistent management, contiguous Federal lands of 
     essential and superlative natural, ecological, archeological, 
     paleontological, cultural, historical, and wilderness values;
       (4) Joshua Tree National Monument should be enlarged by the 
     addition of contiguous Federal lands of national park 
     caliber, and afforded full recognition and statutory 
     protection as a national park; and
       (5) the nondesignated wilderness within Joshua Tree should 
     receive statutory protection by designation pursuant to the 
     Wilderness Act.

     SEC. 402. ESTABLISHMENT OF JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK.

       There is hereby established the Joshua Tree National Park, 
     (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ``park''), as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Joshua Tree National 
     Park Boundary--Proposed'', dated May 1991, and four maps 
     entitled ``Joshua Tree National Park Boundary and 
     Wilderness'', numbered in the title one through four, and 
     dated October 1991 or prior, which shall be on file and 
     available for public inspection in the offices of the 
     Superintendent of the park and the Director of the National 
     Park Service, Department of the Interior. The Joshua Tree 
     National Monument is hereby abolished as such, the lands and 
     interests therein are hereby incorporated within and made 
     part of the new Joshua Tree National Park, and any funds 
     available for purposes of the monument shall be available for 
     purposes of the park.

     SEC. 403. TRANSFER AND ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS.

       Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary shall transfer 
     the lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land 
     Management depicted on the maps described in section 402 of 
     this title, without consideration, to the administrative 
     jurisdiction of the National Park Service for administration 
     as part of the National Park System. The boundaries of the 
     park shall be adjusted accordingly. The Secretary shall 
     administer the areas added to the park by this title in 
     accordance with the provisions of law generally applicable to 
     units of the National Park System, including the Act entitled 
     ``An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other 
     purposes'', approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 
     1, 2-4).

     SEC. 404. MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.

       Within six months after the date of enactment of this 
     title, the Secretary shall file maps and legal description of 
     the park with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
     of the United States Senate and the Committee on Natural 
     Resources of the United States House of Representatives. Such 
     maps and legal description shall have the same force and 
     effect as if included in this title, except that the 
     Secretary may correct clerical and typographical errors in 
     such legal description and maps. The maps and legal 
     description shall be on file and available for public 
     inspection in the appropriate offices of the National Park 
     Service, Department of the Interior.

     SEC. 405. WITHDRAWAL.

       Subject to valid existing rights, all Federal lands within 
     the park are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, 
     appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; from 
     location, entry, and patent under the United States mining 
     laws; and from disposition under all laws pertaining to 
     mineral and geothermal leasing, and mineral materials, and 
     all amendments thereto.

     SEC. 406. UTILITY RIGHTS-OF-WAY.

       Nothing in this title shall have the effect of terminating 
     any validly issued right-of-way or customary operation 
     maintenance, repair, and replacement activities in such 
     right-of-way, issued, granted, or permitted to the 
     Metropolitan Water District pursuant to the Boulder Canyon 
     Project Act (43 U.S.C. 617-619b), which is located on lands 
     included in the Joshua Tree National Park, but outside lands 
     designated as wilderness under section 601(2). Such 
     activities shall be conducted in a manner which will minimize 
     the impact on park resources. Nothing in this title shall 
     have the effect of terminating the fee title to lands or 
     customary operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement 
     activities on or under such lands granted to the Metropolitan 
     Water District pursuant to the Act on June 18, 1932 (47 Stat. 
     324), which are located on lands included in the Joshua Tree 
     National Park, but outside lands designated as wilderness 
     under section 601(2). Such activities shall be conducted in a 
     manner which will minimize the impact on park resources. The 
     Secretary shall prepare within one hundred and eighty days 
     after the date of enactment of this Act, in consultation with 
     the Metropolitan Water District, plans for emergency access 
     by the Metropolitan Water District to its lands and rights-
     of-way.

                     TITLE V--MOJAVE NATIONAL PARK

     SEC. 501. FINDINGS.

       The Congress hereby finds that--
       (1) Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks, as 
     established by this Act, protect unique and superlative 
     desert resources, but do not embrace the particular 
     ecosystems and transitional desert type found in the Mojave 
     Desert area lying between them on public lands now afforded 
     only impermanent administrative designation as a national 
     scenic area;
       (2) the Mojave desert possesses outstanding natural, 
     cultural, historical, and recreational values meriting 
     statutory designation and recognition as a unit of the 
     National Park System;
       (3) portions of the Mojave desert should be afforded full 
     recognition and statutory protection as a National Park;
       (4) the wilderness within the Mojave desert should receive 
     maximum statutory protection by designation pursuant to the 
     Wilderness Act; and
       (5) the Mojave desert area provides an outstanding 
     opportunity to develop services, programs, accommodations and 
     facilities to ensure the use and enjoyment of the area by 
     individuals with disabilities, consistent with section 504 of 
     the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Public Law 101-336, the 
     Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101), 
     and other appropriate laws and regulations.

     SEC. 502. ESTABLISHMENT OF MOJAVE NATIONAL PARK.

       There is hereby established the Mojave National Park 
     (hereinafter in this title referred to as the ``park'') 
     comprising approximately one million one hundred eighty-one 
     thousand three hundred and fifty acres, as generally depicted 
     on a map entitled ``Mojave National Park Boundary--
     Proposed'', dated March 1994, which shall be on file and 
     available for inspection in the appropriate offices of the 
     National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

     SEC. 503. TRANSFER OF LANDS.

       Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary shall transfer 
     the lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land 
     Management depicted on the maps described in section 502 of 
     this title, without consideration, to the administrative 
     jurisdiction of the National Park Service.

     SEC. 504. MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTION.

       Within six months after the date of enactment of this 
     title, the Secretary shall file maps and a legal description 
     of the park with the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on 
     Natural Resources of the United States House of 
     Representatives. Such maps and legal descriptions shall have 
     the same force and effect as if included in this title, 
     except that the Secretary may correct clerical and 
     typographical errors in such legal descriptions and maps. The 
     maps and legal description shall be on file and available for 
     public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National 
     Park Service, Department of the Interior.

     SEC. 505. ABOLISHMENT OF SCENIC AREA.

       The East Mojave Scenic Area, designated on January 13, 1981 
     (46 FR 3994), and modified on August 9, 1983 (48 FR 36210), 
     is hereby abolished.

     SEC. 506. ADMINISTRATION OF PARK.

       The Secretary shall administer the park in accordance with 
     this title and with the provisions of law generally 
     applicable to units of the National Park System, including 
     the Act entitled ``An Act to establish a National Park 
     Service, and for other purposes'', approved August 25, 1916 
     (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1, 2-4).

     SEC. 507. WITHDRAWAL.

       Subject to valid existing rights, all Federal lands within 
     the park are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, 
     appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; from 
     location, entry, and patent under the United States mining 
     laws; and from disposition under all laws pertaining to 
     mineral and geothermal leasing, and mineral materials, and 
     all amendments thereto.

     SEC. 508. REGULATION OF MINING.

       Subject to valid existing rights, all mining claims located 
     within the park shall be subject to all applicable laws and 
     regulations applicable to mining within units of the National 
     Park System, including the Mining in the Parks Act (16 U.S.C. 
     1901 et seq.), and any patent issued after the date of 
     enactment of this title shall convey title only to the 
     minerals together with the right to use the surface of lands 
     for mining purposes, subject to such laws and regulations.

     SEC. 509. GRAZING.

       (a) In General.--The privilege of grazing domestic 
     livestock on lands within the park shall continue to be 
     exercised at no more than the current level, subject to 
     applicable laws and National Park Service regulations.
       (b) Offers to Sell.--If a person holding a grazing permit 
     referred to in subsection (a) informs the Secretary that such 
     permittee is willing to convey to the United States any base 
     property with respect to which the permit was issued and to 
     which such permittee holds title, the Secretary shall make 
     the acquisition of such base property a priority as compared 
     with the acquisition of other lands within the park, provided 
     agreement can be reached concerning the terms and conditions 
     of such acquisition. Any such base property which is located 
     outside the park and acquired as a priority pursuant to this 
     section shall be managed by the Federal agency responsible 
     for the majority of the adjacent lands in accordance with the 
     laws applicable to such adjacent lands.

     SEC. 510. UTILITY RIGHTS OF WAY.

       (a)(1) Nothing in this title shall have the effect of 
     terminating any validly issued rights-of-way or customary 
     operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement activities in 
     such rights-of-way, issued, granted, or permitted to Southern 
     California Edison Company, its successors or assigns, which 
     is located on lands included in the Mojave National Park, but 
     outside lands designated as wilderness under section 601(3). 
     Such activities shall be conducted in a manner which will 
     minimize the impact on park resources.
       (2) Nothing in this title shall have the effect of 
     prohibiting the upgrading of an existing electrical 
     transmission line for the purpose of increasing the capacity 
     of such transmission line in the Southern California Edison 
     Company validly issued Eldorado-Lugo Transmission Line right-
     of-way and Mojave-Lugo Transmission Line right-of-way, or in 
     a right-of-way if issued, granted, or permitted by the 
     Secretary adjacent to the existing Mojave-Lugo Transmission 
     Line right-of-way (hereafter in this section referred to as 
     ``adjacent right-of-way''), including construction of a 
     replacement transmission line: Provided, That--
       (A) in the Eldorado-Lugo Transmission Line rights-of-way 
     (hereafter in this section referred to as the ``Eldorado-Lugo 
     right-of-way'') at no time shall there be more than 3 
     electrical transmission lines,
       (B) in the Mojave-Lugo Transmission Line right-of-way 
     (hereafter in this section referred to as the ``Mojave right-
     of-way'') and adjacent right-of-way, removal of the existing 
     electrical transmission line and reclamation of the site 
     shall be completed no later than three years after the date 
     on which construction of the upgraded transmission line 
     begins, after which time there may be only one electrical 
     transmission line in the lands encompassed by Mojave right-
     of-way and adjacent right-of-way,
       (C) if there are no more than two electrical transmission 
     lines in the Eldorado rights-of-way, two electrical 
     transmission lines in the lands encompassed by the Mojave 
     right-of-way and adjacent right-of-way may be allowed,
       (D) in the Eldorado rights-of-way and Mojave right-of-way 
     no additional land shall be issued, granted, or permitted for 
     such upgrade unless an addition would reduce the impacts to 
     park resources,
       (E) no more than three hundred and fifty feet of additional 
     land shall be issued, granted, or permitted for an adjacent 
     right-of-way to the south of the Mojave right-of-way unless a 
     greater addition would reduce the impacts to park resources, 
     and
       (F) such upgrade activities, including helicopter aided 
     construction, shall be conducted in a manner which will 
     minimize the impact on park resources.
       (3) The Secretary shall prepare within one hundred and 
     eighty days after the date of enactment of this title, in 
     consultation with the Southern California Edison Company, 
     plans for emergency access by the Southern California Edison 
     Company to its rights-of-way.
       (b)(1) Nothing in this title shall have the effect of 
     terminating any validly issued right-of-way, or customary 
     operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement activities in 
     such right-of-way; prohibiting the upgrading of and 
     construction on existing facilities in such right-of-way for 
     the purpose of increasing the capacity of the existing 
     pipeline; or prohibiting the renewal of such right-of-way; 
     issued, granted, or permitted to the Southern California Gas 
     Company, its successors or assigns, which is located on lands 
     included in the Mojave National Park, but outside lands 
     designated as wilderness under section 601(3). Such 
     activities shall be conducted in a manner which will minimize 
     the impact on park resources.
       (2) The Secretary shall prepare within one hundred and 
     eighty days after the date of enactment of this title, in 
     consultation with the Southern California Gas Company, plans 
     for emergency access by the Southern California Gas Company 
     to its rights-of-way.
       (c) Nothing in this title shall have the effect of 
     terminating any validly issued right-of-way or customary 
     operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement activities of 
     existing facilities issued, granted, or permitted for 
     communications cables or lines, which are located on lands 
     included in the Mojave National Park, but outside lands 
     designated as wilderness under section 601(3). Such 
     activities shall be conducted in a manner which will minimize 
     the impact on park resources.
       (d) Nothing in this title shall have the effect of 
     terminating any validly issued right-of-way or customary 
     operation, maintenance, repair, and replacement activities of 
     existing facilities issued, granted, or permitted to 
     Molybdenum Corporation of America; Molycorp, Incorporated; or 
     Union Oil Company of California (d/b/a Unocal Corporation); 
     or its successors or assigns, or prohibiting renewal of such 
     right-of-way, which is located on lands included in the 
     Mojave National Park, but outside lands designated as 
     wilderness under section 601(3). Such activities shall be 
     conducted in a manner which will minimize the impact on park 
     resources.

     SEC. 511. GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN.

       (a) In General.--Within three years of the date of 
     enactment of this title, the Secretary shall submit to the 
     Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United 
     States Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
     United States House of Representatives a detailed and 
     comprehensive management plan for the park.
       (b) Kelso Depot.--Such plan shall place emphasis on 
     historical and cultural sites and ecological and wilderness 
     values within the boundaries of the park, and shall evaluate 
     the feasibility of using the Kelso Depot and existing 
     railroad corridor to provide public access to and a facility 
     for special interpretive, educational, and scientific 
     programs within the park.
       (c) Needs of Individuals With Disabilities.--Such plan 
     shall specifically address the needs of individuals with 
     disabilities in the design of services, programs, 
     accommodations and facilities consistent with section 504 of 
     the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Americans with 
     Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101), and other 
     appropriate laws and regulations.

     SEC. 512. GRANITE MOUNTAINS NATURAL RESERVE.

       (a) Establishment.--There is hereby designated the Granite 
     Mountains Natural Reserve within the park comprising 
     approximately nine thousand acres as generally depicted on a 
     map entitled ``Mojave National Park Boundary and Wilderness--
     Proposed 6'', dated May 1991.
       (b) Cooperative Management Agreement.--Upon enactment of 
     this title, the Secretary shall enter into a cooperative 
     management agreement with the University of California for 
     the purposes of managing the lands within the Granite 
     Mountains Natural Reserve. Such cooperative agreement shall 
     ensure continuation of arid lands research and educational 
     activities of the University of California, consistent with 
     the provisions of this title and laws generally applicable to 
     units of the National Park System.

     SEC. 513. SODA SPRINGS DESERT STUDY CENTER.

       Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary shall enter 
     into a cooperative management agreement with California State 
     University for the purposes of managing facilities at the 
     Soda Springs Desert Study Center. Such cooperative agreement 
     shall ensure continuation of the desert research and 
     educational activities of California State University, 
     consistent with the provisions of this title and laws 
     generally applicable to units of the National Park System.

     SEC. 514. CONSTRUCTION OF VISITOR CENTER.

       The Secretary is authorized to construct a visitor center 
     in the park for the purpose of providing information through 
     appropriate displays, printed material, and other 
     interpretive programs, about the resources of the park.

     SEC. 515. ACQUISITION OF LANDS.

       In General.--The Secretary is authorized to acquire all 
     lands and interests therein within the boundary of the park 
     by donation, purchase, or exchange, except that--
       (1) any lands or interests therein within the boundary of 
     the park which are owned by the State of California, or any 
     political subdivision thereof, may be acquired only by 
     donation or exchange except for lands managed by California 
     State Lands Commission; and
       (2) lands or interests therein within the boundary of the 
     park which are not owned by the State of California or any 
     political subdivision thereof may be acquired only with the 
     consent of the owner thereof unless the Secretary determines, 
     after written notice to the owner and after opportunity for 
     comment, that the property is being developed, or proposed to 
     be developed, in a manner which is detrimental to the 
     integrity of the park or which is otherwise incompatible with 
     the purposes of this title: Provided, however, That the 
     construction, modification, repair, improvement, or 
     replacement of a single-family residence shall not be 
     determined to be detrimental to the integrity of the park or 
     incompatible with the purposes of this title.

     SEC. 516. SUITABILITY REPORT.

       The Secretary is required, twenty years after the date of 
     enactment of this title, to report to Congress on current and 
     planned exploration, development or mining activities on, and 
     suitability for future park designation of, the lands as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Mojave National Park 
     Study Area-- Proposed'', dated July 1992.

     SEC. 517. ADVISORY COMMISSION.

       (a) There is hereby established the Mojave National Park 
     Advisory Commission (hereinafter in this section referred to 
     as the ``Advisory Commission'').
       (b) The Advisory Commission shall be composed of fifteen 
     members appointed by the Secretary for terms of three years 
     each.
       (c) Any vacancy in the Advisory Commission shall be filled 
     in the same manner in which the original appointment was 
     made.
       (d) Members of the Advisory Commission shall serve without 
     compensation as such, but the Secretary may pay, upon 
     vouchers signed by the Chairman, the expenses reasonably 
     incurred by the Commission and its members in carrying out 
     their responsibilities under this Act.
       (e) The Secretary, or his designee, shall from time to 
     time, but at least annually, meet and consult with the 
     Advisory Commission on general policies and specific matters 
     related to planning, administration and development affecting 
     the park.
       (f) The Advisory Commission shall act and advise by 
     affirmative vote of the majority of the members thereof.
       (g) The Advisory Commission shall cease to exist ten years 
     after the enactment of this Act.

                   TITLE VI--NATIONAL PARK WILDERNESS

     SEC. 601. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS.

       (a) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act 
     (78 Stat. 890; 16 U.S.C. 1311 et seq.), the following lands 
     within the units of the National Park System designated by 
     this Act are hereby designated as wilderness, and therefore, 
     as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System:
       (1) Death Valley National Park Wilderness, comprising 
     approximately three million one hundred fifty-eight thousand 
     thirty-eight acres, as generally depicted on twenty-three 
     maps entitled ``Death Valley National Park Boundary and 
     Wilderness'', numbered in the title one through twenty-three, 
     and dated October 1993 or prior, and three maps entitled 
     ``Death Valley National Park Wilderness'', numbered in the 
     title one through three, and dated July 1993 or prior, and 
     which shall be known as the Death Valley Wilderness.
       (2) Joshua Tree National Park Wilderness Additions, 
     comprising approximately one hundred thirty-one thousand 
     seven hundred and eighty acres, as generally depicted on four 
     maps entitled ``Joshua Tree National Park Boundary and 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', numbered in the title one through 
     four, and dated October 1991 or prior, and which are hereby 
     incorporated in, and which shall be deemed to be a part of 
     the Joshua Tree Wilderness as designated by Public Law 94-
     567.
       (3) Mojave Naional Park Wilderness, comprising 
     approximately six hundred ninety-five thousand two hundred 
     acres, as generally depicted on ten maps entitled ``Mojave 
     National Park Boundary and Wilderness--Proposed'', and 
     numbered in the title one through ten, and dated March 1994 
     or prior, and seven maps entitled ``Mojave National Park 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', numbered in the title one through 
     seven, and dated March 1994 or prior, and which shall be 
     known as the Mojave Wilderness.
       (b) Potential Wilderness.--Upon cessation of all uses 
     prohibited by the Wilderness Act and publication by the 
     Secretary in the Federal Register of notice of such 
     cessation, potential wilderness, comprising approximately six 
     thousand eight hundred and forty acres, as described in 
     ``1988 Death Valley National Monument Draft General 
     Management Plan Draft Environmental Impact Statement'' 
     (hereafter in this title referred to as ``Draft Plan'') and 
     as generally depicted on map in the Draft Plan entitled 
     ``Wilderness Plan Death Valley National Monument'', dated 
     January 1988, and which shall be deemed to be a part of the 
     Death Valley Wilderness as designated in paragraph (1). Lands 
     identified in the Draft Plan as potential wilderness shall be 
     managed by the Secretary insofar as practicable as wilderness 
     until such time as said lands are designated as wilderness.

     SEC. 602. FILING OF MAPS AND DESCRIPTIONS.

       Maps and a legal description of the boundaries of the areas 
     designated in section 601 of this title shall be on file and 
     available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of 
     the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. As 
     soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this title 
     takes effect, maps and legal descriptions of the wilderness 
     areas shall be filed with the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on 
     Natural Resources of the United States House of 
     Representatives, and such maps and legal descriptions shall 
     have the same force and effect as if included in this title, 
     except that the Secretary may correct clerical and 
     typographical errors in such maps and legal descriptions.

     SEC. 603. ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS.

       The areas designated by section 601 of this title as 
     wilderness shall be administered by the Secretary in 
     accordance with the applicable provisions of the Wilderness 
     Act governing areas designated by that title as wilderness, 
     except that any reference in such provision to the effective 
     date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference 
     to the effective date of this title, and where appropriate, 
     and reference to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be deemed 
     to be a reference to the Secretary of the Interior.

                  TITLE VII--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

     SEC. 701. TRANSFER OF LANDS TO RED ROCK CANYON STATE PARK.

       Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary shall transfer 
     to the State of California certain lands within the 
     California Desert Conservation Area, California, of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, comprising approximately twenty 
     thousand five hundred acres, as generally depicted on two 
     maps entitled ``Red Rock Canyon State Park Additions 1'' and 
     ``Red Rock Canyon State Park Additions 2'', dated May 1991, 
     for inclusion in the State of California Park System. Should 
     the State of California cease to manage these lands as part 
     of the State Park System, ownership of the lands shall revert 
     to the Department of the Interior to be managed as part of 
     California Desert Conservation Area to provide maximum 
     protection for the area's scenic and scientific values.

     SEC. 702. LAND TENURE ADJUSTMENTS.

       In preparing land tenure adjustment decisions with the 
     California Desert Conservation Area, of the Bureau of Land 
     Management, the Secretary shall give priority to 
     consolidating Federal ownership within the national park 
     units and wilderness areas designated by this Act.

     SEC. 703. LAND DISPOSAL.

       Except as provided in section 406, none of the lands within 
     the boundaries of the wilderness or park areas designated 
     under this Act shall be granted to or otherwise made 
     available for use by the Metropolitan Water District or any 
     other agencies or persons pursuant to the Boulder Canyon 
     Project Act (43 U.S.C. 617-619b) or any similar acts.

     SEC. 704. MANAGEMENT OF NEWLY ACQUIRED LANDS.

       Any lands within the boundaries of a wilderness area 
     designated under this Act which are acquired by the Federal 
     Government, shall become part of the wilderness area within 
     which they are located and shall be managed in accordance 
     with all the provisions of this Act and other laws applicable 
     to such wilderness area.

     SEC. 705. NATIVE AMERICAN USES AND INTERESTS.

       (a) Access.--In recognition of the past use of the parks 
     and wilderness areas designed under this Act by Indian people 
     for traditional cultural and religious purposes, the 
     Secretary shall ensure access to such parks and wilderness 
     areas by Indian people for such traditional cultural and 
     religious purposes. In implementing this section, the 
     Secretary, upon the request of an Indian tribe or Indian 
     religious community, shall temporarily close to the general 
     public use of one or more specific portions of park or 
     wilderness in order to protect the privacy of traditional 
     cultural and religious activities in such areas by Indian 
     people. 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) commonly 
     referred to as the ``American Indian Religious Freedom Act'', 
     and with respect to areas designated as wilderness, the 
     Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890; 16 U.S.C. 1131).
       (b) Cook Inlet Regional Corporation.--Section 12 of the Act 
     of January 2, 1976 (Public Law 94-204; 38 U.S.C. 1611 note), 
     as amended, is further amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsections (c) through (i) as 
     subsections (d) through (j), respectively;
       (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(c) The Native landowner shall be required to determine 
     the fair value of subsurface interests conveyed to it 
     pursuant to subsection (b) utilizing the appraisal 
     methodology customarily used by the Minerals Management 
     Service for valuing similar interests (such as discounted 
     cash flow based methodology). The fair value of any 
     subsurface interests in land determined by a qualified 
     independent appraiser designated by the Region utilizing the 
     methodology described above shall be binding for all 
     purposes, except for Federal tax matters, and provided that 
     this exception shall create no inference about the 
     appropriate methodology for establishing fair value in such 
     matters.''; and
       (3) in paragraph (9) of subsection (b), by striking 
     ``section 12(h)'' and inserting in lieu thereof ``section 
     12(i)''.
       (c) Study.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary, in consultation with the 
     Timbisha Shoshone Tribe and relevant Federal agencies, shall 
     conduct a study, subject to the availability of 
     appropriations, to identify lands suitable for a reservation 
     for the Timbisha Shoshone Tribe that are located within the 
     Tribe's aboriginal homeland area within and outside the 
     boundaries of the Death Valley National Monument and the 
     Death Valley National Park, as described in title III of the 
     California Desert Protection Act of 1993.
       (2) Report.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
     enactment of the California Desert Protection Act of 1993, 
     the Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee on Indian 
     Affairs of the Senate, and the Committee on Natural Resources 
     of the House of Representatives on the results of the study 
     conducted under paragraph (1).

     SEC. 706. FEDERAL RESERVE WATER RIGHTS.

       (a) Except as otherwise provided in section 204, with 
     respect to each wilderness area designated by this Act, 
     Congress hereby reserves a quantity of water sufficient to 
     fulfill the purposes of this Act. The priority date of such 
     reserved water rights shall be the date of enactment of this 
     Act.
       (b) The Secretary and all other officers of the United 
     States shall take all steps necessary to protect the rights 
     reserved by this section, including the filing by the 
     Secretary of a claim for the quantification of such rights in 
     any present or future appropriate stream adjudication in the 
     courts of the State of California in which the United States 
     is or may be joined in accordance with section 208 of the Act 
     of July 10, 1952 (66 Stat. 560, 44 U.S.C. 666), commonly 
     referred to as the McCarran Amendment.
       (c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as a 
     relinquishment or reduction of any water rights reserved or 
     appropriated by the United States in the State of California 
     on or before the date of enactment of this Act.
       (d) The Federal water rights reserved by this Act are 
     specific to the wilderness area located in the State of 
     California designated under this Act. Nothing in this Act 
     related to the reserved Federal water rights shall be 
     construed as establishing a precedent with regard to any 
     future designations, nor shall it constitute an 
     interpretation of any other Act or any designation made 
     thereto.

     SEC. 707. CALIFORNIA STATE SCHOOL LANDS.

       (a) Negotiations to Exchange.--Upon request of the 
     California State Lands Commission (hereinafter in this 
     section referred to as the ``Commission''), the Secretary 
     shall enter into negotiations for an agreement to exchange 
     Federal lands or interests therein on the list referred to in 
     subsection (b) (2) for California State School lands or 
     interests therein which are located within the boundaries of 
     one or more of the wilderness areas or park units designated 
     by this Act (hereinafter in this section referred to as 
     ``State School lands.''). The Secretary shall negotiate in 
     good faith to reach a land exchange agreement consistent with 
     the requirements of section 206 of the Federal Land Policy 
     and Management Act of 1976.
       (b) Preparation of List.--Within six months after the date 
     of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall send to the 
     Commission and to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on 
     Natural Resources of the United States House of 
     Representatives a list of the following:
       (1) State School lands or interests therein (including 
     mineral interests) which are located within the boundaries of 
     the wilderness areas or park units designated by this Act.
       (2) Lands within the State of California under the 
     jurisdiction of the Secretary that the Secretary determines 
     to be suitable for disposal for exchange, identified in the 
     following priority--
       (A) lands with mineral interests, including geothermal, 
     which have the potential for commercial development but which 
     are not currently under mineral lease or producing Federal 
     mineral revenues;
       (B) Federal claims in California managed by the Bureau of 
     Reclamation that the Secretary determines are not needed for 
     any Bureau of Reclamation project; and
       (C) any public lands in California that the Secretary, 
     pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
     1976, has determined to be suitable for disposal through 
     exchange.
       (3) Any other Federal land, or interest therein, within the 
     State of California, which is or becomes surplus to the needs 
     of the Federal Government. The Secretary may exclude, in his 
     discretion, lands located within, or contiguous to, the 
     exterior boundaries of lands held in trust for a federally 
     recognized Indian tribe located in the State of California.
       (4) The Secretary shall maintain such list and shall 
     annually transmit such list to the Committee on Energy and 
     Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the 
     Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of 
     Representatives until all of the State School lands 
     identified in paragraph (1) have been acquired.
       (c) Disposal of Surplus Federal Property.--(1) Effective 
     upon the date of enactment of this Act and until all State 
     School lands identified in paragraph (b)(1) of this section 
     are acquired, no Federal lands or interests therein within 
     the State of California may be disposed of from Federal 
     ownership unless--
       (A) the Secretary is notified of the availability of such 
     lands or interest therein;
       (B) the Secretary has notified the Commission of the 
     availability of such lands or interests therein for exchange; 
     and
       (C) the Commission has not notified the Secretary within 
     six months that it wishes to consider entering into an 
     exchange for such lands or interests therein.
       (2) If the Commission notifies the Secretary that it wishes 
     to consider an exchange for such lands or interests therein, 
     the Secretary shall attempt to conclude such exchange in 
     accordance with the provisions of this section as quickly as 
     possible.
       (3) If an agreement is reached and executed with the 
     Commission, then upon notice to the head of the agency having 
     administrative jurisdiction over such lands or interests 
     therein, the Secretary shall be vested with administrative 
     jurisdiction over such lands or interests therein for the 
     purpose of concluding such exchange.
       (4) Upon the acquisition of all State School lands or upon 
     notice by the Commission to the Secretary that it no longer 
     has an interest in such lands or interests therein, such 
     lands or interests shall be released to the agency that 
     originally had jurisdiction over such lands or interests for 
     disposal in accordance with the laws otherwise applicable to 
     such lands or interests.
       (d) No Effect on Military Base Closures.--The provisions of 
     this section shall not apply to the disposal of property 
     under title II of the Defense Authorization Amendments and 
     Base Closure and Realignment Act (Public Law 100-526; 102 
     Stat. 2627; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) or the Defense Base Closure 
     and Realignment Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-510; 104 Stat. 
     1808; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note).

     SEC. 708. ACCESS TO PRIVATE PROPERTY.

       The Secretary shall provide adequate access to nonfederally 
     owned land or interests in land within the boundaries of the 
     conservation units and wilderness areas designated by this 
     Act which will provide the owner of such land or interest the 
     reasonable use and enjoyment thereof.

     SEC. 709. FEDERAL FACILITIES FEE EQUITY.

       (a) Policy Statement.--It is the intent of Congress that 
     entrance, tourism or recreational use fees for use of Federal 
     lands and facilities not discriminate against any State or 
     any region of the country.
       (b) Fee Study.--The Secretary of the Interior, in 
     cooperation with other affected agencies, shall prepare and 
     submit a report to the appropriate committees of the House of 
     Representatives and the Senate Committee on Energy and 
     Natural Resources of the United States Senate and any other 
     relevant committees by May 1, 1996, which shall--
       (1) identify all Federal lands and facilities that provide 
     recreational or tourism use; and
       (2) analyze by State and region any fees charged for 
     entrance, recreational or tourism use, if any, on Federal 
     lands or facilities in a State or region, individually and 
     collectively.
       (c) Recommendations.--Following completion of the report in 
     subsection (b), the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation 
     with other affected agencies, shall prepare and submit a 
     report to the appropriate committees of the House and the 
     Energy and Natural Resource Committee of the United States 
     Senate and any other relevant committees by May 1, 1997, 
     which shall contain recommendations which the Secretary deems 
     appropriate for implementing the congressional intent 
     outlined in subsection (a).

               TITLE VIII--MILITARY LANDS AND OVERFLIGHTS

     SEC. 801. SHORT TITLE AND FINDINGS.

       (a) Short Title.--This title may be cited as the 
     ``California Military Lands Withdrawal and Overflights Act of 
     1994''.
       (b) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
       (1) military aircraft testing and training activities as 
     well as demilitarization activities in California are an 
     important part of the national defense system of the United 
     States, and are essential in order to secure for the American 
     people of this and future generations an enduring and viable 
     national defense system;
       (2) the National Parks and wilderness areas designated by 
     this Act lie within a region critical to providing training, 
     research, and development for the Armed Forces of the United 
     States and its allies;
       (3) there is a lack of alternative sites available for 
     these military training, testing, and research activities;
       (4) continued use of the lands and airspace in the 
     California desert region is essential for military purposes; 
     and
       (5) contination of these military activities, under 
     appropriate terms and conditions, is not incompatible with 
     the protection and proper management of the natural, 
     environmental, cultural, and other resources and values of 
     the Federal lands in the California desert area.

     SEC. 802. MILITARY OVERFLIGHTS.

       (a) Overflights.--Nothing in this Act, the Wilderness Act, 
     or other land management laws generally applicable to the new 
     units of the National Park or Wilderness Preservation Systems 
     (or any additions to existing units) designated by this Act, 
     shall restrict or preclude low-level overflights of military 
     aircraft over such units, including military overflights that 
     can be seen or heard within such units.
       (b) Special Airspace.--Nothing in this Act, the Wilderness 
     Act, or other land management laws generally applicable to 
     the new units of the National Park or Wilderness Preservation 
     Systems (or any additions to existing units) designated by 
     this Act, shall restrict or preclude the designation of new 
     units of special airspace or the use or establishment of 
     military flight training routes over such new park or 
     wilderness units.
       (c) No Effect on Other Laws.--Nothing in this section shall 
     be construed to modify, expand, or diminish any authority 
     under other Federal law.

     SEC. 803. WITHDRAWALS.

       (a) China Lake.--(1) Subject to valid existing rights and 
     except as otherwise provided in this title, the Federal lands 
     referred to in paragraph (2), and all other areas within the 
     boundary of such lands as depicted on the map specified in 
     such paragraph which may become subject to the operation of 
     the public land laws, are hereby withdrawn from all forms of 
     appropriation under the public land laws (including the 
     mining laws and the mineral leasing laws). Such lands are 
     reserved for use by the Secretary of the Navy for--
       (A) use as a research, development, test, and evaluation 
     laboratory;
       (B) use as a range for air warfare weapons and weapon 
     systems;
       (C) use as a high hazard training area for aerial gunnery, 
     rocketry, electronic warfare and countermeasures, tactical 
     maneuvering and air support;
       (D) geothermal leasing and development and related power 
     production activities; and
       (E) subject to the requirements of section 804(f), other 
     defense-related purposes consistent with the purposes 
     specified in this paragraph.
       (2) The lands referred to in paragraph (1) are the Federal 
     lands located within the boundaries of the China Lake Naval 
     Weapons Center, comprising approximately one million one 
     hundred thousand acres in Inyo, Kern, and San Bernardino 
     Counties, California, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``China Lake Naval Weapons Center Withdrawal--Proposed'', 
     dated January 1985.
       (b) Chocolate Mountain.--(1) Subject to valid existing 
     rights and except as otherwise provided in this title, the 
     Federal lands referred to in paragraph (2), and all other 
     areas within the boundary of such lands as depicted on the 
     map specified in such paragraph which may become subject to 
     the operation of the public land laws, are hereby withdrawn 
     from all forms of appropriation under the public land laws 
     (including the mining laws and the mineral leasing and the 
     geothermal leasing laws). Such lands are reserved for use by 
     the Secretary of the Navy for--
       (A) testing and training for aerial bombing, missile 
     firing, tactical maneuvering and air support; and
       (B) subject to the provisions of section 804(f), other 
     defense-related purposes consistent with the purposes 
     specified in this paragraph.
       (2) The lands referred to in paragraph (1) are the Federal 
     lands comprising approximately two hundred twenty-six 
     thousand seven hundred and eleven acres in Imperial County, 
     California, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range Proposed--
     Withdrawal'' dated July 1993.

     SEC. 804. MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.

       (a) Publication and Filing Requirement.--As soon as 
     practicable after the date of enactment of this title, the 
     Secretary shall--
       (1) publish in the Federal Register a notice containing the 
     legal description of the lands withdrawn and reserved by this 
     title; and
       (2) file maps and the legal description of the lands 
     withdrawn and reserved by this title with the Committee on 
     Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate and 
     with the Committee on Natural Resources of the United States 
     House of Representatives.
       (b) Technical Corrections.--Such maps and legal 
     descriptions shall have the same force and effect as if they 
     were included in this title except that the Secretary may 
     correct clerical and typographical errors in such maps and 
     legal descriptions.
       (c) Availability for Public Inspection.--Copies of such 
     maps and legal descriptions shall be available for public 
     inspection in the appropriate offices of the Bureau of Land 
     Management; the office of the commander of the Naval Weapons 
     Center, China Lake, California; the office of the commanding 
     officer, Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Arizona; and the 
     Office of the Secretary of Defense, Washington, District of 
     Columbia.
       (d) Reimbursement.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     reimburse the Secretary for the cost of implementing this 
     section.

     SEC. 805. MANAGEMENT OF WITHDRAWN LANDS.

       (a) Management by the Secretary of the Interior.--(1) 
     Except as provided in subsection (g), during the period of 
     the withdrawal the Secretary shall manage the lands withdrawn 
     under section 802 of this title pursuant to the Federal Land 
     Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) 
     and other applicable law, including this title.
       (2) To the extent consistent with applicable law and 
     Executive orders, the lands withdrawn under section 802 may 
     be managed in a manner permitting--
       (A) the continuation of grazing pursuant to applicable law 
     and Executive orders were permitted on the date of enactment 
     of this title;
       (B) protection of wildlife and wildlife habitat;
       (C) control of predatory and other animals;
       (D) recreation (but only on lands withdrawn by section 
     802(a) (relating to China Lake));
       (E) the prevention and appropriate suppression of brush and 
     range fires resulting from nonmilitary activities; and
       (F) geothermal leasing and development and related power 
     production activities on the lands withdrawn under section 
     802(a) (relating to China Lake).
       (3)(A) All nonmilitary use of such lands, including the 
     uses described in paragraph (2), shall be subject to such 
     conditions and restrictions as may be necessary to permit the 
     military use of such lands for the purposes specified in or 
     authorized pursuant to this title.
       (B) The Secretary may issue any lease, easement, right-of-
     way, or other authorization with respect to the nonmilitary 
     use of such lands only with the concurrence of the Secretary 
     of the Navy.
       (b) Closure to Public.--(1) If the Secretary of the Navy 
     determines that military operations, public safety, or 
     national security require the closure to public use of any 
     road, trail, or other portion of the lands withdrawn by this 
     title, the Secretary may take such action as the Secretary 
     determines necessary or desirable to effect and maintain such 
     closure.
       (2) Any such closure shall be limited to the minimum areas 
     and periods which the Secretary of the Navy determines are 
     required to carry out this subsection.
       (3) Before and during any closure under this subsection, 
     the Secretary of the Navy shall--
       (A) keep appropriate warning notices posted; and
       (B) take appropriate steps to notify the public concerning 
     such closures.
       (c) Management Plan.--The Secretary (after consultation 
     with the Secretary of the Navy) shall develop a plan for the 
     management of each area withdrawn under section 802 of this 
     title during the period of such withdrawal. Each plan shall--
       (1) be consistent with applicable law;
       (2) be subject to conditions and restrictions specified in 
     subsection (a)(3);
       (3) include such provisions as may be necessary for proper 
     management and protection of the resources and values of such 
     area; and
       (4) be developed not later than three years after the date 
     of enactment of this title.
       (d) Brush and Range Fires.--The Secretary of the Navy shall 
     take necessary precautions to prevent and suppress brush and 
     range fires occurring within and outside the lands withdrawn 
     under section 802 as a result of military activities and may 
     seek assistance from the Bureau of Land Management in the 
     suppression of such fires. The memorandum of understanding 
     required by subsection (e) shall provide for Bureau of Land 
     Management assistance in the suppression of such fires, and 
     for a transfer of funds from the Department of the Navy to 
     the Bureau of Land Management as compensation for such 
     assistance.
       (e) Memorandum of Understanding.--(1) The Secretary and the 
     Secretary of the Navy shall (with respect to each land 
     withdrawal under section 802 of this title) enter into a 
     memorandum of understanding to implement the management plan 
     developed under subsection (c). Any such memorandum of 
     understanding shall provide that the Director of the Bureau 
     of Land Management shall provide assistance in the 
     suppression of fires resulting from the military use of lands 
     withdrawn under section 802 if requested by the Secretary of 
     the Navy.
       (2) The duration of any such memorandum shall be the same 
     as the period of the withdrawal of the lands under section 
     802.
       (f) Additional Military Uses.--Lands withdrawn under 
     section 802 of this title may be used for defense-related 
     uses other than those specified in such section. The 
     Secretary of Defense shall promptly notify the Secretary in 
     the event that the lands withdrawn by this title will be used 
     for defense-related purposes other than those specified in 
     section 802. Such notification shall indicate the additional 
     use or uses involved, the proposed duration of such uses, and 
     the extent to which such additional military uses of the 
     withdrawn lands will require that additional or more 
     stringent conditions or restrictions be imposed on otherwise-
     permitted nonmilitary uses of the withdrawn land or portions 
     thereof.
       (g) Management of China Lake.--(1) The Secretary may assign 
     the management responsibility for the lands withdrawn under 
     section 802(a) to the Secretary of the Navy who shall manage 
     such lands, and issue leases, easements, rights-of-way, and 
     other authorizations, in accordance with this title and 
     cooperative management arrangements between the Secretary and 
     the Secretary of the Navy: Provided, That nothing in this 
     subsection shall affect geothermal leases issued by the 
     Secretary prior to the date of enactment of this title, or 
     the responsibility of the Secretary to administer and manage 
     such leases, consistent with the provisions of this section. 
     In the case that the Secretary assigns such management 
     responsibility to the Secretary of the Navy before the 
     development of the management plan under subsection (c), the 
     Secretary of the Navy (after consultation with the Secretary) 
     shall develop such management plan.
       (2) The Secretary shall be responsible for the issuance of 
     any lease, easement, right-of-way, and other authorization 
     with respect to any activity which involves both the lands 
     withdrawn under section 802(a) and any other lands. Any such 
     authorization shall be issued only with the consent of the 
     Secretary of the Navy and, to the extent that such activity 
     involves lands withdrawn under section 802(a), shall be 
     subject to such conditions as the Secretary of the Navy may 
     prescribe.
       (3) The Secretary of the Navy shall prepare and submit to 
     the Secretary an annual report on the status of the natural 
     and cultural resources and values of the lands withdrawn 
     under section 802(a). The Secretary shall transmit such 
     report to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
     the United States Senate and the Committee on Natural 
     Resources of the United States House of Representatives.
       (4) The Secretary of the Navy shall be responsible for the 
     management of wild horses and burros located on the lands 
     withdrawn under section 802(a) and may utilize helicopters 
     and motorized vehicles for such purposes. Such management 
     shall be in accordance with laws applicable to such 
     management on public lands and with an appropriate memorandum 
     of understanding between the Secretary and the Secretary of 
     the Navy.
       (5) Neither this title nor any other provision of law shall 
     be construed to prohibit the Secretary from issuing and 
     administering any lease for the development and utilization 
     of geothermal steam and associated geothermal resources on 
     the lands withdrawn under section 802(a) pursuant to the 
     Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 (30 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) and 
     other applicable law, but no such lease shall be issued 
     without the concurrence of the Secretary of the Navy.
       (6) This title shall not affect the geothermal exploration 
     and development authority of the Secretary of the Navy under 
     section 2689 of title 10, United States Code, except that the 
     Secretary of the Navy shall obtain the concurrence of the 
     Secretary before taking action under that section with 
     respect to the lands withdrawn under section 802(a).
       (7) Upon the expiration of the withdrawal or relinquishment 
     of China Lake, Navy contracts for the development of 
     geothermal resources at China Lake then in effect (as amended 
     or renewed by the Navy after the date of enactment of this 
     title) shall remain in effect: Provided, That the Secretary, 
     with the consent of the Secretary of the Navy, may offer to 
     substitute a standard geothermal lease for any such contract.

     SEC. 806. DURATION OF WITHDRAWALS.

       (a) Duration.--The withdrawals and reservations established 
     by this title shall terminate twenty-five years after the 
     date of enactment of this title.
       (b) Draft Environmental Impact Statement.--No later than 
     twenty-two years after the date of enactment of this title, 
     the Secretary of the Navy shall publish a draft environmental 
     impact statement concerning continued or renewed withdrawal 
     of any portion of the lands withdrawn by this title for which 
     that Secretary intends to seek such continued or renewed 
     withdrawal. Such draft environmental impact statement shall 
     be consistent with the requirements of the National 
     Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) 
     applicable to such a draft environmental impact statement. 
     Prior to the termination date specified in subsection (a), 
     the Secretary of the Navy shall hold a public hearing on any 
     draft environmental impact statement published pursuant to 
     this section. Such hearing shall be held in the State of 
     California in order to receive public comments on the 
     alternatives and other matters included in such draft 
     environmental impact statement.
       (c) Extensions or Renewals.--The withdrawals established by 
     this title may not be extended or renewed except by an Act or 
     joint resolution of Congress.

     SEC. 807. ONGOING DECONTAMINATION.

       (a) Program.--Throughout the duration of the withdrawals 
     made by this title, the Secretary of the Navy, to the extent 
     funds are made available, shall maintain a program of 
     decontamination of lands withdrawn by this title at least at 
     the level of decontamination activities performed on such 
     lands in fiscal year 1986.
       (b) Reports.--At the same time as the President transmits 
     to the Congress the President's proposed budget for the first 
     fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of this 
     title and for each subsequent fiscal year, the Secretary of 
     the Navy shall transmit to the Committees on Appropriations, 
     Armed Services, and Energy and Natural Resources of the 
     United States Senate and to the Committees on Appropriations, 
     Armed Services, and Natural Resources of the United States 
     House of Representatives a description of the decontamination 
     efforts undertaken during the previous fiscal year on such 
     lands and the decontamination activities proposed for such 
     lands during the next fiscal year including--
       (1) amounts appropriated and obligated or expended for 
     decontamination of such lands;
       (2) the methods used to decontaminate such lands;
       (3) amount and types of contaminants removed from such 
     lands;
       (4) estimated types and amounts of residual contamination 
     on such lands; and
       (5) an estimate of the costs for full contamination of such 
     lands and the estimate of the time to complete such 
     decontamination.

     SEC. 808. REQUIREMENTS FOR RENEWAL.

       (a) Notice and Filing.--(1) No later than three years prior 
     to the termination of the withdrawal and reservation 
     established by this title, the Secretary of the Navy shall 
     advise the Secretary as to whether or not the Secretary of 
     the Navy will have a continuing military need for any of the 
     lands withdrawn under section 802 after the termination date 
     of such withdrawal and reservation.
       (2) If the Secretary of the Navy concludes that there will 
     be a continuing military need for any of such lands after the 
     termination date, the Secretary of the Navy shall file an 
     application for extension of the withdrawal and reservation 
     of such needed lands in accordance with the regulations and 
     procedures of the Department of the Interior applicable to 
     the extension of withdrawals of lands for military uses.
       (3) If, during the period of withdrawal and reservation, 
     the Secretary of the Navy decides to relinquish all or any of 
     the lands withdrawn and reserved by this title, the Secretary 
     of the Navy shall file a notice of intention to relinquish 
     with the Secretary.
       (b) Contamination.--(1) Before transmitting a notice of 
     intention to relinquish pursuant to subsection (a), the 
     Secretary of Defense, acting through the Department of the 
     Navy, shall prepare a written determination concerning 
     whether and to what extent the lands that are to be 
     relinquished are contaminated with explosive, toxic, or other 
     hazardous materials.
       (2) A copy of such determination shall be transmitted with 
     the notice of intention to relinquish.
       (3) Copies of both the notice of intention to relinquish 
     and the determination concerning the contaminated state of 
     the lands shall be published in the Federal Register by the 
     Secretary of the Interior.
       (c) Decontamination.--If any land which is the subject of a 
     notice of intention to relinquish pursuant to subsection (a) 
     is contaminated, and the Secretary, in consultation with the 
     Secretary of the Navy, determines that decontamination is 
     practicable and economically feasible (taking into 
     consideration the potential future use and value of the land) 
     and that upon decontamination, the land could be opened to 
     operation of some or all of the public land laws, including 
     the mining laws, the Secretary of the Navy shall 
     decontaminate the land to the extent that funds are 
     appropriated for such purpose.
       (d) Alternatives.--If the Secretary, after consultation 
     with the Secretary of the Navy, concludes that 
     decontamination of any land which is the subject of a notice 
     of intention to relinquish pursuant to subsection (a) is not 
     practicable or economically feasible, or that the land cannot 
     be decontaminated sufficiently to be opened to operation of 
     some or all of the public land laws, or if Congress does not 
     appropriate a sufficient amount of funds for the 
     decontamination of such land, the Secretary shall not be 
     required to accept the land proposed for relinquishment.
       (e) Status of Contaminated Lands.--If, because of their 
     contaminated state, the Secretary declines to accept 
     jurisdiction over lands withdrawn by this title which have 
     been proposed for relinquishment, or if at the expiration of 
     the withdrawal made by this title the Secretary determines 
     that some of the lands withdrawn by this title are 
     contaminated to an extent which prevents opening such 
     contaminated lands to operation of the public land laws--
       (1) the Secretary of the Navy shall take appropriate steps 
     to warn the public of the contaminated state of such lands 
     and any risks associated with entry onto such lands;
       (2) after the expiration of the withdrawal, the Secretary 
     of the Navy shall undertake no activities on such lands 
     except in connection with decontamination of such lands; and
       (3) the Secretary of the Navy shall report to the Secretary 
     and to the Congress concerning the status of such lands and 
     all actions taken in furtherance of this subsection.
       (f) Revocation Authority.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, the Secretary, upon deciding that it is in 
     the public interest to accept jurisdiction over lands 
     proposed for relinquishment pursuant to subsection (a), is 
     authorized to revoke the withdrawal and reservation 
     established by this title as it applies to such lands. Should 
     the decision be made to revoke the withdrawal and 
     reservation, the Secretary shall publish in the Federal 
     Register an appropriate order which shall--
       (1) terminate the withdrawal and reservation;
       (2) constitute official acceptance of full jurisdiction 
     over the lands by the Secretary; and
       (3) state the date upon which the lands will be opened to 
     the operation of some or all of the public lands law, 
     including the mining laws.

     SEC. 809. DELEGABILITY.

       (a) Department of Defense.--The functions of the Secretary 
     of Defense or the Secretary of the Navy under this title may 
     be delegated.
       (b) Department of the Interior.--The functions of the 
     Secretary under this title may be delegated, except that an 
     order described in section 807(f) may be approved and signed 
     only by the Secretary, the Under Secretary of the Interior, 
     or an Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior.

     SEC. 810. HUNTING, FISHING, AND TRAPPING.

       All hunting, fishing, and trapping on the lands withdrawn 
     by this title shall be conducted in accordance with the 
     provisions of section 2671 of title 10, United States Code.

     SEC. 811. IMMUNITY OF UNITED STATES.

       The United States and all departments or agencies thereof 
     shall be held harmless and shall not be liable for any injury 
     or damage to persons or property suffered in the course of 
     any geothermal leasing or other authorized nonmilitary 
     activity conducted on lands described in section 802 of this 
     title.

     SEC. 812. EL CENTRO RANGES.

       The Secretary is authorized to permit the Secretary of the 
     Navy to use until January 1, 1997, the approximately forty-
     four thousand eight hundred and seventy acres of public lands 
     in Imperial County, California, known as the East Mesa and 
     West Mesa ranges, in accordance with the Memorandum of 
     Understanding dated June 29, 1987, between the Bureau of Land 
     Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Department of 
     the Navy. All military uses of such lands shall cease on 
     January 1, 1997, unless authorized by a subsequent Act of 
     Congress.

 TITLE IX--INITIATIVES PERTAINING TO THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI DELTA REGION

     SEC. 901. FINDINGS.

       (a) The Congress finds that--
       (1) in 1988, Congress enacted Public Law 100-460, 
     establishing the Lower Mississippi Delta Development 
     Commission, to assess the needs, problems, and opportunities 
     of people living in the Lower Mississippi Delta Region that 
     includes 219 counties and parishes within the States of 
     Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, 
     Missouri, and Tennessee;
       (2) the Commission conducted a thorough investigation to 
     assess these needs, problems, and opportunities, and held 
     several public hearings throughout the Delta Region;
       (3) on the basis of these investigations, the Commission 
     issued the Delta Initiatives Report, which included 
     recommendations on natural resource protection, historic 
     preservation, and the enhancement of educational and other 
     opportunities for Delta residents;
       (4) the Delta Initiatives Report recommended--
       (A) designating the Great River Road as a scenic byway, and 
     designating other hiking and motorized trails throughout the 
     Delta Region;
       (B) that the Federal Government identify sites and 
     structures of historic and prehistoric importance throughout 
     the Delta Region;
       (C) the further study of potential new units of the 
     National Park System within the Delta Region; and
       (D) that Federal agencies target more monies in selected 
     areas to institutions of higher education in the Delta 
     Region, especially Historically Black Colleges and 
     Universities.

     SEC. 902. DEFINITIONS.

       As used in this title, the term--
       (1) ``Commission'' means the Lower Mississippi Delta 
     Development Commission established pursuant to Public Law 
     100-460;
       (2) ``Delta Initiatives Report'' means the May 14, 1990 
     Final Report of the Commission entitled ``The Delta 
     Initiatives: Realizing the Dream . . . Fulfilling the 
     Potential'';
       (3) ``Delta Region'' means the Lower Mississippi Delta 
     Region including the 219 counties and parishes within the 
     States of Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, 
     Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee, as defined in the Delta 
     Initiatives Report, except that, for any State for which the 
     Delta Region as defined in such report comprises more than 
     half of the geographic area of such State, the entire State 
     shall be considered part of the Delta Region for purposes of 
     this title;
       (4) ``Historically Black College or University'' means a 
     college or university that would be considered a ``part B 
     institution'' by section 322(2) of the Higher Education Act 
     of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061(2)); and
       (5) ``minority college or university'' means a Historically 
     Black College or University that would be considered a ``part 
     B institution'' by section 322(2) of the Higher Education Act 
     of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061(2)) or a ``minority institution'' as 
     that term is defined in section 1046 of the Higher Education 
     Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1135d-5(3)).

     SEC. 903. DEFINITIONS.

       As used in this title, the term--
       (1) ``Department'' means the United States Department of 
     the Interior, unless otherwise specifically stated; and
       (2) ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Interior, 
     unless otherwise specifically stated.

     SEC. 904. NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONAL 
                   INITIATIVES.

       (a) Office of Education.--(1) There shall be established 
     within the Department an Office of Education to encourage, 
     support, and coordinate education programs of the Department 
     at the elementary, secondary, college and university, and 
     graduate levels.
       (2) The goals of the Office of Education shall be to--
       (A) enhance the quality of education in the areas of 
     natural resources, the environment, the sciences, cultural 
     resource management, historic preservation, archeology, 
     aquaculture, and related subjects;
       (B) establish initiatives at minority colleges or 
     universities;
       (C) encourage the consideration of careers in the areas of 
     natural resources, the environment, the sciences, cultural 
     resource management, historic preservation, archeology, 
     aquaculture, and related subjects;
       (D) enhance teacher development and recruitment;
       (E) increase research opportunities for teachers and 
     students;
       (F) enhance curriculum development; and
       (G) improve laboratory instrumentation and equipment 
     through purchase, loan, or other transfer mechanisms.
       (b) Duties.--The duties of the Secretary, through the 
     Office of Education, shall be to--
       (1) coordinate the educational programs within the 
     Department, including implementation of programs established 
     under this title, in order to ensure the goals of the Office 
     of Education are met; and
       (2) inventory existing education programs within the 
     Department.
       (c) The Secretary shall report to Congress, within one year 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act and annually 
     thereafter, on an inventory of existing education programs of 
     the Department, the status of such programs, and progress 
     toward meeting the goals of the Office of Education as 
     established in this Act.
       (d) Minority College and University Initiative.--(1) Within 
     one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 
     annually thereafter, the Secretary, through the Office of 
     Education, shall submit to the Committee on Energy and 
     Natural Resources of the United States Senate and to the 
     United States House of Representatives a report identifying 
     opportunities for minority colleges or universities to 
     participate in programs and activities carried out by the 
     Department. The Secretary, through the Office of Education, 
     shall consult with representatives of minority colleges or 
     universities in preparing the report. Such report shall--
       (A) describe ongoing education and training programs 
     carried out by the Department with respect to, or in 
     conjunction with, minority colleges or universities in the 
     areas of natural resources, the environment, the sciences, 
     cultural resource management, historic preservation, 
     archeology, aquaculture, and related subjects;
       (B) describe ongoing research, development or demonstration 
     programs involving the Department and minority colleges or 
     universities;
       (C) describe funding levels for the programs referred to in 
     subparagraphs (A) and (B);
       (D) include specific proposals and recommendations for 
     providing assistance to minority colleges and universities to 
     enter into memoranda of understanding and other appropriate 
     forms of agreement with the Department in order to plan and 
     develop programs to foster greater involvement of these 
     schools in the contract, research, education, training, and 
     recruitment activities of the Department;
       (E) address the need for, and potential role of, the 
     Department in providing minority colleges or universities 
     with the following--
       (i) increased research opportunities for facility and 
     students;
       (ii) assistance in faculty development and recruitment;
       (iii) curriculum enhancement and development; and
       (iv) improved laboratory instrumentation and equipment, 
     through purchase, loan, or other transfer mechanisms;
       (F) address the need for, and potential role of, the 
     Department in providing financial and technical assistance 
     for the development of infrastructure facilities, including 
     buildings and laboratory facilities, at minority colleges or 
     universities; and
       (G) include specific proposals and recommendations, 
     together with estimates of necessary funding levels, for 
     initiatives to be carried out by the Department in order to 
     assist minority colleges or universities in providing 
     education and training in the areas of natural resources, the 
     environment, the sciences, cultural resource management, 
     historic preservation, archeology, aquaculture, and related 
     subjects.
       (2) The Secretary, through the Office of Education, shall 
     encourage memoranda of understanding and other appropriate 
     forms of agreement between the Department and minority 
     colleges or universities directed at jointly planning and 
     developing programs to foster greater involvement of minority 
     colleges or universities in the research, education, 
     training, and recruitment activities of the Department.
       (e) Scholarship Program.--The Secretary, through the Office 
     of Education, shall establish a scholarship program for 
     students pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees in 
     natural resource and environmental related fields including, 
     but not limited to: biology, wildlife biology, forestry, 
     botany, horticulture, historic preservation, cultural 
     resource management, archeology, anthropology, aquaculture, 
     geology, engineering, the environment, the sciences, and 
     ecology at minority colleges and universities in the Delta 
     Region. The scholarship program shall include tuition 
     assistance. Recipients of such scholarships shall be students 
     deemed by the Secretary to have demonstrated (1) a need for 
     such assistance; and (2) academic potential in the particular 
     area of study.
       (f) Pre-College Education.--The Secretary, through the 
     Office of Education, shall undertake activities to encourage 
     pre-college education programs in subjects relating to 
     natural resources, the environment, the sciences, cultural 
     resource management, historic preservation, archeology, 
     aquaculture, and related subjects, for students in the Delta 
     Region. Such activities shall include, but not be limited to, 
     the following--
       (1) cooperation with, and assistance to, State departments 
     of education and local school districts in the Delta Region 
     to develop and carry out after school and summer education 
     programs for elementary, middle, and secondary school 
     students;
       (2) cooperation with, and assistance to, institutions of 
     higher education in the Delta Region to develop and carry out 
     pre-college education programs for elementary, middle, and 
     secondary school students;
       (3) cooperation with, and assistance to, State departments 
     of education and local school districts in the Delta Region 
     in the development and use of curriculum and educational 
     materials; and
       (4) the establishment of education programs for elementary, 
     middle, and secondary school teachers in the Delta Region at 
     research facilities of the Department.
       (g) Volunteer Program.--The Secretary, through the Office 
     of Education, shall establish and carry out a program to 
     encourage the involvement on a voluntary basis of qualified 
     employees of the Department in educational enrichment 
     programs relating to natural resources, the environment, the 
     sciences, cultural resource management, historic 
     preservation, archeology, aquaculture, and related subjects, 
     in cooperation with State departments of education and local 
     school districts in the Delta Region.
       (h) Women and Minorities in the Sciences.--The Secretary, 
     through the Office of Education, shall establish a Center for 
     Excellence in the Sciences at Alcorn State in Lorman, 
     Mississippi, in cooperation with Southern University in Baton 
     Rouge, Louisiana, and the University of Arkansas at Pine 
     Bluff, Arkansas, and other minority colleges or universities 
     for purposes of encouraging women and minority students in 
     the Delta Region to study and pursue careers in the sciences. 
     The Center shall enter into cooperative agreements with 
     Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the 
     University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and other 
     minority colleges and universities in the Delta Region, to 
     carry out affiliated programs and coordinate program 
     activities at such colleges and universities. The Secretary 
     is authorized to provide grants and other forms of financial 
     assistance to the Center.
       (i) Center for Aquaculture Studies.--The Secretary, through 
     the Office of Education, shall establish a Center for 
     Aquaculture Studies at the University of Arkansas at Pine 
     Bluff, Arkansas, in cooperation with Southern University in 
     Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Alcorn State in Lorman, 
     Mississippi, and other minority colleges or universities for 
     purposes of encouraging women and minority students in the 
     Delta Region to study and pursue careers in the field of 
     aquaculture. The Center shall enter into cooperative 
     agreements with Southern University in Baton Rouge, 
     Louisiana, and Alcorn State in Lorman, Mississippi, and other 
     minority colleges or universities in the Delta Region to 
     carry out affiliated programs and coordinate program 
     activities at such colleges or universities.
       (j) Coordination With Other Federal Agencies.--The 
     Secretary, through the Office of Education, shall ensure that 
     the programs authorized in this section are coordinated with, 
     and complimentary to, educational assistance programs 
     administered by other Federal agencies. These agencies 
     include, but are not limited to, the Department of Energy, 
     the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Education, 
     the Department of Defense, the National Science Foundation, 
     and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

     SEC. 905. LOWER MISSISSIPPI DELTA REGION HERITAGE STUDY.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary, in consultation with the 
     States of the Delta Region, the Lower Mississippi Delta 
     Development Center, and other appropriate Delta Region 
     institutions, is directed to prepare and transmit to the 
     Congress within three years after the date of the enactment 
     of this Act, a study of significant natural, recreational, 
     historical or prehistorical, and cultural lands, waters, 
     sites, and structures located within the Delta Region. This 
     study shall take into consideration the research and 
     inventory of resources conducted by the Mississippi River 
     Heritage Corridor Study Commission.
       (b) Transportation Routes.--(1) The study shall include 
     recommendations on appropriate designation and interpretation 
     of historically significant roads, trails, byways, waterways, 
     or other routes within the Delta Region.
       (2) In order to provide for public appreciation, education, 
     understanding, interpretation, and enjoyment of the 
     significant sites identified pursuant to subsection (a), 
     which are accessible by public roads, the Secretary shall 
     recommend in the study vehicular tour routes along existing 
     public roads linking such sites within the Delta Region.
       (3) Such recommendations shall include an analysis of 
     designating the Great River Road (as depicted on the map 
     entitled ``Proposed Delta Transportation Network'' on pages 
     102-103 of the Delta Initiatives Report) and other sections 
     of the Great River Road between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, 
     Louisiana and an analysis of designating that portion of the 
     Old Antonio Road and the Louisiana Natchez Trace which 
     extends generally along Highway 84 from Vidalia, Louisiana, 
     to Clarence, Louisiana, and Louisiana Highway 6 from 
     Clarence, Louisiana, to the Toledo Bend Reservoir, Louisiana, 
     as a National Scenic Byway, or as a component of the National 
     Trails System, or such other designation as the Secretary 
     deems appropriate.
       (4) The Secretary shall also recommend in the study an 
     appropriate route along existing public roads to commemorate 
     the importance of timber production and trade to the economic 
     development of the Delta Region in the early twentieth 
     century, and to highlight the continuing importance of timber 
     production and trade to the economic life of the Delta 
     Region. Recommendations shall include an analysis of 
     designating that portion of US 165 which extends from 
     Alexandria, Louisiana, to Monroe, Louisiana, as a National 
     Scenic Byway, or as a component of the National Trails 
     System, or such other designation as the Secretary deems 
     appropriate.
       (5) The study shall also include a comprehensive 
     recreation, interpretive, and visitor use plan for the routes 
     described in the above paragraphs, including bicycle and 
     hiking paths, and make specific recommendations for the 
     acquisition and construction or related interpretive and 
     visitor information facilities at selected sites along such 
     routes.
       (6) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to States 
     for work necessary to stabilize, maintain, and widen public 
     roads to allow for adequate access to the nationally 
     significant sites and structures identified by the study, to 
     allow for proper use of the vehicular tour route, trails, 
     byways, including the routes defined in paragraphs (3) and 
     (4) or other public roads within the Delta Region and to 
     implement the comprehensive recreation, interpretive, and 
     visitor use plan required in paragraph (5).
       (c) Listing.--On the basis of the study, and in 
     consultation with the National Trust for Historic 
     Preservation, the Secretary shall inventory significant 
     structures and sites in the Delta Region. The Secretary shall 
     further recommend and encourage cooperative preservation and 
     economic development efforts such as the establishment of 
     preservation districts linking groups of contiguous counties 
     or parishes, especially those that lie along the 
     aforementioned designated routes. The Secretary shall prepare 
     a list of the sites and structures for possible inclusion by 
     the National Park Service as National Historic Landmarks or 
     such other designation as the Secretary deems appropriate.

     SEC. 906. DELTA REGION HERITAGE CORRIDORS AND HERITAGE AND 
                   CULTURAL CENTERS.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that--
       (1) in 1990, the Congress authorized the Institute of 
     Museum Services to prepare a report assessing the needs of 
     small, emerging, minority, and rural museums in order to 
     identify the resources such museums needed to meet their 
     educational mission, to identify the areas of museum 
     operation in which the needs were greatest, and to make 
     recommendations on how these needs could best be met;
       (2) the Institute of Museum Services undertook a 
     comprehensive eighteen month study of such needs with the 
     assistance of two advisory groups, surveyed 524 museums from 
     throughout the Nation, held discussion groups in which 
     representatives of 25 museum groups participated, and 
     conducted case studies of 12 museum facilities around the 
     Nation;
       (3) on the basis of this assessment, the Institute of 
     Museum Services issued a report in September, 1992, entitled, 
     ``National Needs Assessment of Small, Emerging, Minority and 
     Rural Museums in the United States'' (hereinafter ``National 
     Needs Assessment'') which found that small, emerging, 
     minority, and rural museums provide valuable educational and 
     cultural resources for their communities and contain a 
     reservoir of the Nation's material, cultural and historical 
     heritage, but due to inadequate resources are unable to meet 
     their full potential or the demands of the surrounding 
     communities;
       (4) the needs of these institutions are not being met 
     through existing Federal programs;
       (5) fewer than half of the participants in the survey had 
     applied for Federal assistance in the past two years and that 
     many small, emerging, minority and rural museums believe 
     existing Federal programs do not meet their needs;
       (6) based on the National Needs Assessment, that funding 
     agencies should increase support available to small, 
     emerging, minority, and rural museums and make specific 
     recommendations for increasing technical assistance in order 
     to identify such institutions and provide assistance to 
     facilitate their participation in Federal programs;
       (7) the Delta Initiatives Report made specific 
     recommendations for the creation and development of centers 
     for the preservation of the cultural, historical, and 
     literary heritage of the Delta Region, including 
     recommendations for the establishment of a Delta Region 
     Native American Heritage and Cultural Center and a Delta 
     Region African American Heritage and Cultural Center with 
     additional satellite centers or museums linked throughout the 
     Delta Region;
       (8) the Delta Initiatives Report stated that new ways of 
     coordinating, preserving, and promoting the Delta Region's 
     literature, art, and music should be established including 
     the creation of a network to promote the Delta Region's 
     literary, artistic, and musical heritage; and
       (9) wholesale destruction and attrition of archeological 
     sites and structures has eliminated a significant portion of 
     Native American heritage as well as the interpretive 
     potential of the Delta Region's parks and museums. 
     Furthermore, site and structure destruction is so severe that 
     an ambitious program of site and structure acquisition in the 
     Delta Region is necessary.
       (b) General.--The Secretary, in consultation with the 
     States of the Delta Region, the Chairman of the National 
     Endowment for the Arts, the Chairman of the National 
     Endowment for the Humanities, the Director of the Smithsonian 
     Institution, the Lower Mississippi Delta Development Center, 
     Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and appropriate 
     African American, Native American and other relevant 
     institutions or organizations in the Delta Region, is further 
     directed to prepare and transmit to the Congress a plan 
     outlining specific recommendations, including recommendations 
     for necessary funding, for the establishment of a Delta 
     Region Native American Heritage Corridor and Heritage and 
     Cultural Center and a Delta Region African American Heritage 
     Corridor and Heritage and Cultural Center with a network of 
     satellite or cooperative units.
       (c) Delta Region Native American Heritage Corridor and 
     Cultural Center.--(1) The plan referred to in subsection (b) 
     of this section shall include recommendations for 
     establishing a network of parks, museums, and other centers 
     to interpret Native American culture and heritage in the 
     Delta Region, including a ten year development strategy for 
     such a network.
       (2) Such plan shall include specific proposals for the 
     development of a Native American Heritage Corridor and 
     Heritage and Cultural Center in the Delta Region, along with 
     recommendations for the appropriate Federal role in such a 
     center including matching grants, technical and interpretive 
     assistance.
       (3) Such plan shall be conducted in consultation with 
     tribal leaders in the Delta Region.
       (4) Such plan shall also include specific proposals for 
     educational and training assistance for Delta Region Native 
     Americans to carry out the recommendations provided in the 
     study.
       (d) Delta Region African American Heritage Corridor and 
     Heritage and Cultural Center.--(1) The plan referred to in 
     subsection (b) of this section shall include recommendations 
     for establishing a heritage corridor or trail system, 
     consisting of one or two major north-south routes and several 
     east-west-spur loops to preserve, interpret and commemorate 
     the African American heritage and culture in the Delta Region 
     during all significant historical periods.
       (2) Such plan shall make specific recommendations for 
     representing all forms of expensive culture including the 
     musical, folklore, literary, artistic, scientific, 
     historical, educational, and political contributions and 
     accomplishments of African Americans in the Delta Region.
       (3) Such plan shall make specific recommendations for 
     implementing the findings of the Delta Initiatives Report 
     with respect to establishing an African American Heritage 
     Corridor and Heritage and Cultural Center and related 
     satellite museums in the Delta Region, together with specific 
     funding levels necessary to carry out these recommendations 
     and shall also include recommendations for improving access 
     of small, emerging, minority or rural museums to technical 
     and financial assistance.
       (4) Such plan shall be conducted in consultation with 
     institutions of higher education in the Delta Region with 
     expertise in African American studies, Southern studies, 
     archeology, anthropology, history and other relevant fields.
       (5) Such plan shall make specific recommendations for 
     improving educational programs offered by existing cultural 
     facilities and museums as well as establishing new outreach 
     programs for elementary, middle and secondary schools, 
     including summer programs for youth in the Delta Region.
       (e)(1) In furtherance of the purposes of this section, the 
     Secretary is authorized to make planning grants to State 
     Humanities Councils in the Delta Region to assist small, 
     emerging, minority and rural museums selected on a financial 
     needs basis in the development of a comprehensive long term 
     plan for these institutions. The Secretary is also authorized 
     to make implementation grants to State Humanities Councils in 
     the Delta Region who, in consultations with State Museum 
     Associations, shall make grants to small, emerging, minority 
     or rural museums for the purpose of carrying out an approved 
     plan for training personnel, improving exhibits or other 
     steps necessary to assure the integrity of collections in 
     their facilities, for educational outreach programs, or for 
     other activities the Secretary deems appropriate including 
     the promotion of tourism in the region. Such institutions 
     shall be selected competitively and on the basis of 
     demonstrated financial need. The Secretary is also authorized 
     to make grants to State Humanities Councils to update, 
     simplify and coordinate the respective State Works Progress 
     Administration guides and to develop a single comprehensive 
     guide for the Delta Region.
       (2) The Secretary is authorized to provide grants and other 
     appropriate technical assistance to State Humanities 
     Councils, State museum Associations, and State Arts Councils 
     in the Delta Region for the purpose of assessing the needs of 
     such institutions. Such grants may be used by these 
     institutions to undertake such an assessment and to provide 
     other technical, administrative and planning assistance to 
     small, emerging, minority or rural institutions seeking to 
     preserve the Delta Region's literary, artistic, and musical 
     heritage.
       (f) Music Heritage Program.--(1) The plan referred to in 
     subsection (b) of this section shall include recommendations 
     for establishing a Music Heritage Program, with specific 
     emphasis on the Mississippi Delta Blues. The plan shall 
     include specific recommendations for developing a network of 
     heritage sites, structures, small museums, and festivals in 
     the Delta Region.
       (2) The plan shall include an economic strategy for the 
     promotion of the Delta Region's music, through the 
     participation of musicians, festival developers, museum 
     operators, universities, and other relevant individuals and 
     organizations.
       (g) Completion Date.--The plan authorized in this section 
     shall be completed not later than three years after the date 
     funds are made available for such plan.

     SEC. 907. HISTORIC AND PREHISTORIC STRUCTURES AND SITES 
                   SURVEY.

       (a) Assistance.--The Secretary is authorized to provide 
     technical and financial assistance to Historically Black 
     Colleges and Universities to undertake a comprehensive survey 
     of historic and prehistoric structures and sites located on 
     their campuses, including recommendations as to the inclusion 
     of appropriate structures and sites on the National Register 
     of Historic Places, designation as National Historic 
     Landmarks, or other appropriate designation as determined by 
     the Secretary. The Secretary shall also make specific 
     proposals and recommendations, together with estimates of 
     necessary funding levels, for a comprehensive plan to be 
     carried out by the Department to assist Historically Black 
     Colleges and Universities in the preservation and 
     interpretation of such sites and structures.
       (b) Grants.--In furtherance of the purposes of this 
     section, the Secretary is authorized to provide technical and 
     financial assistance to Historically Black Colleges and 
     Universities for stabilization, preservation and 
     interpretation of such sites and structures.

     SEC. 908. DELTA ANTIQUITIES SURVEY.

       (a) General.--(1) The Secretary is directed to prepare and 
     transmit to the Congress, in cooperation with the States of 
     the Delta Region, State Archaeological Surveys and Regional 
     Archeological Centers, a study of the feasibility of 
     establishing a Delta Antiquities Trail or Delta Antiquities 
     Heritage Corridor in the Delta Region.
       (2) Such study shall, to the extent practicable, use 
     nonintrusive methods of identifying, surveying, inventorying, 
     and stabilizing ancient archeological sites and structures.
       (3) In undertaking this study, the Secretary is directed to 
     enter into cooperative agreements with the States of the 
     Delta Region, the State Archeological Surveys, and Regional 
     Archeological Centers located in Delta Region institutions of 
     higher education for on-site activities including surveys, 
     inventories, and stabilization and other activities which the 
     Secretary deems appropriate.
       (4) In addition to the over 100 known ancient archeological 
     sites located in the Delta Region including Watson's Brake, 
     Frenchman's Bend, Hedgepeth, Monte Sano, Banana Bayou, 
     Hornsby, Parkin, Toltec, Menard-Hodges, Eaker, Blytheville 
     Mound, Nodena, Taylor Mounds, DeSoto Mound and others, such 
     study shall also employ every practical means possible, 
     including assistance from the National Aeronautics and Space 
     Administration, the Forest Service and Soil Conservation 
     Service of the Department of Agriculture, the Army Corps of 
     Engineers of the Department of Defense, and other appropriate 
     Federal agencies, to locate and confirm the existence of a 
     site known as Balbansha in southern Louisiana and a site 
     known as Autiamque in Arkansas. The heads of these Federal 
     agencies shall cooperate with the Secretary as the Secretary 
     requires on a non-reimbursable basis.
       (b) In furtherance of the purposes of this section, the 
     Secretary is authorized to provide technical assistance and 
     grants to private landowners for necessary stabilization 
     activities of identified sites and for preparing 
     recommendations for designating such sites as National 
     Landmarks or other appropriate designations as the Secretary, 
     with the concurrence of the landowners, determines to be 
     appropriate.
       (c) The Secretary is authorized to enter into cooperative 
     agreements with the States, State Archeological Surveys, and 
     Regional Archeological Centers of the Delta Region to develop 
     a ten-year plan for the stabilization, preservation and 
     interpretation of those sites and structures as may be 
     identified by the Secretary.

     SEC. 909. HISTORIC AND ARCHEOLOGICAL RESOURCES PROGRAM.

       (a) Program.--The Secretary shall conduct a comprehensive 
     program for the research, interpretation, and preservation of 
     significant historic and archeological resources in the Delta 
     Region.
       (b) Elements of the Program.--The program shall include, 
     but not be limited to--
       (1) identification of research projects related to historic 
     and archeological resources in the Delta Region and a 
     proposal for the regular publication of related research 
     materials and publications;
       (2) the development of a survey program to investigate, 
     inventory and further evaluate known historic and 
     archeological sites and structures and identify those sites 
     and structures that require additional study;
       (3) identification of a core system of interpretive sites 
     and structures that would provide a comprehensive overview of 
     historic and archeological resources of the Delta Region;
       (4) preparation of educational materials to interpret the 
     historical and archeological resources of the Delta Region;
       (5) preparation of surveys and archeological and historical 
     investigations of sites, structures, and artifacts relating 
     to the Delta Region, including the preparation of reports, 
     maps, and other related activities.
       (c) Grants and Technical Assistance.--(1) The Secretary is 
     authorized to award grants to qualified tribal, governmental 
     and non-governmental entities and individuals to assist the 
     Secretary in carrying out those elements of the program which 
     the Secretary deems appropriate.
       (2) The Secretary is further authorized to award grants and 
     provide other types of technical and financial assistance to 
     such entities and individuals to conserve and protect 
     historic and archeological sites and structures in the Delta 
     Region identified in the program prepared pursuant to this 
     section.
       (d) The Secretary shall establish a national demonstration 
     project for the conservation and curation of the 
     archeological records and collections of Federal and State 
     management agencies in the Delta Region.

                TITLE X--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

     SEC. 1001. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

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

          TITLE XI--NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

     SEC. 1101. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``New Orleans Jazz National 
     Historical Park Act of 1994''.

     SEC. 1102. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress finds that:
       (1) Jazz is the United States' most widely recognized 
     indigenous music and art form. Congress previously recognized 
     jazz in 1987 through Senate Concurrent Resolution 57 as a 
     rare and valuable national treasure of international 
     importance.
       (2) The city of New Orleans is widely recognized as the 
     birthplace of jazz. In and around this city, cultural and 
     musical elements blended to form the unique American music 
     that is known as New Orleans jazz, which is an expression of 
     the cultural diversity of the lower Mississippi Delta Region.
       (3) Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve was 
     established to commemorate the cultural diversity of the 
     lower Mississippi Delta Region including a range of cultural 
     expressions like jazz.
       (b) Purpose.--In furtherance of the need to recognize the 
     value and importance of jazz, it is the purpose of this title 
     to establish a New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park to 
     preserve the origins, early history, development and 
     progression of jazz; provide visitors with opportunities to 
     experience the sights, sounds, and places where jazz evolved; 
     and implement innovative ways of establishing jazz 
     educational partnerships that will help to ensure that jazz 
     continues as a vital element of the culture of New Orleans 
     and our Nation.

     SEC. 1103. ESTABLISHMENT.

       (a) In General.--In order to assist in the preservation, 
     education, and interpretation of jazz as it has evolved in 
     New Orleans, and to provide technical assistance to a broad 
     range of organizations involved with jazz music and its 
     history, there is hereby established the New Orleans Jazz 
     National Historical Park (hereinafter referred to as the 
     ``historical park''). The historical park shall be 
     administered in conjunction with the Jean Lafitte National 
     Historical Park and Preserve, which was established to 
     preserve and interpret the cultural and natural resources of 
     the lower Mississippi Delta Region.
       (b) Area Included.--The historical park shall consist of 
     lands and interests therein as follows:
       (1) Lands which the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter 
     referred to as ``the Secretary'') may designate for an 
     interpretive visitor center complex.
       (2) Sites that are the subject of cooperative agreements 
     with the National Park Service for the purposes of 
     interpretive demonstrations and programs associated with the 
     purposes of this title.
       (3)(A) Sites designated by the Secretary as provided in 
     subparagraph (B).
       (B)(i) No later than 18 months after the date of enactment 
     of this title, the Secretary is directed to complete a 
     national historic landmark evaluation of sites associated 
     with jazz in and around New Orleans as identified in the 
     document entitled ``New Orleans Jazz Special Resource 
     Study'', prepared by the National Park Service pursuant to 
     Public Law 101-499. In undertaking the evaluation, the 
     Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, utilize existing 
     information relating to such sites.
       (ii) If any of the sites evaluated are found to meet the 
     standards of the National Historic Landmark program and 
     National Park Service tests of suitability and feasibility, 
     and offer outstanding opportunities to further the purposes 
     of this title, the Secretary may designate such sites as part 
     of the historical park, following consultation with the 
     owners of such sites, the city of New Orleans, the 
     Smithsonian Institution, and the New Orleans Jazz Commission, 
     and notification to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on 
     Natural Resources of the United States House of 
     Representatives.

     SEC. 1104. ADMINISTRATION.

       (a)(1) In General.--The Secretary shall administer the 
     historical park in accordance with this title and with 
     provisions of law generally applicable to units of the 
     National Park System, including the Act entitled ``An Act to 
     establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes'', 
     approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1, 2-4); 
     and the Act of August 21, 1935 (49 Stat. 666; 16 U.S.C. 461-
     467). The Secretary shall manage the historical park in such 
     a manner as will preserve and perpetuate knowledge and 
     understanding of the history of jazz and its continued 
     evolution as a true American art form.
       (2) To minimize operational costs associated with the 
     management and administration of the historical park and to 
     avoid duplication of effort, the Secretary shall, to the 
     maximum extent practicable, utilize the facilities, 
     administrative staff and other services of the Jean Lafitte 
     National Historical Park and Preserve.
       (b) Donations.--The Secretary may accept and retain 
     donations of funds, property, or services from individuals, 
     foundations, corporations, or other public entities for the 
     purposes of providing services, programs, and facilities that 
     further the purposes of this title.
       (c) Interpretive Center.--The Secretary is authorized to 
     construct, operate, and maintain an interpretive center in 
     the historical park on lands identified by the Secretary 
     pursuant to section 1103(b)(1). Programs at the center shall 
     include, but need not be limited to, live jazz interpretive 
     and educational programs, and shall provide visitors with 
     information about jazz-related programs, performances, and 
     opportunities.
       (d) Jazz Heritage Districts.--The Secretary may provide 
     technical assistance to the city of New Orleans and other 
     appropriate entities for the designation of certain areas in 
     and around New Orleans as jazz heritage districts. Such 
     districts shall include those areas with an exceptional 
     concentration of jazz historical sites and established 
     community traditions of jazz street parades.
       (e) Cooperative Agreements, Grants and Technical 
     Assistance.--In furtherance of the purposes of this title--
       (1) the Secretary, after consultation with the New Orleans 
     Jazz Commission established pursuant to section 1107, is 
     authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with owners 
     of properties that are designated pursuant to section 
     1103(b)(3) which provide outstanding educational and 
     interpretive opportunities relating to the evolution of jazz 
     in New Orleans. The Secretary may assist in rehabilitating, 
     restoring, marking, and interpreting and may provide 
     technical assistance for the preservation and interpretation 
     of such properties. Such agreements shall contain, but need 
     not be limited to, provisions that the National Park Service 
     will have reasonable rights of access for operational and 
     visitor use needs, that rehabilitation and restoration will 
     meet the Secretary's standards for rehabilitation of historic 
     buildings, and that specify the roles and responsibilities of 
     the Secretary for each site or structure;
       (2) the Secretary is authorized to enter into cooperative 
     agreements with the city of New Orleans, the State of 
     Louisiana, and other appropriate public and private 
     organizations under which the other parties to the agreement 
     may contribute to the acquisition, construction, operation, 
     and maintenance of the interpretive center and to the 
     operation of educational and interpretive programs to further 
     the purposes of this title; and
       (3) the Secretary, in consultation with the New Orleans 
     Jazz Commission, is authorized to provide grants or technical 
     assistance to public and private organizations.
       (f) Jazz Educational Programs.--The Secretary shall, in the 
     administration of the historical park, promote a broad range 
     of educational activities relating to jazz and its history. 
     The Secretary shall cooperate with schools, universities, and 
     organizations supporting jazz education to develop 
     educational programs that provide expanded public 
     understanding of jazz and enhanced opportunities for public 
     appreciation. The Secretary may assist appropriate entities 
     in the development of an information base including archival 
     material, audiovisual records, and objects that relate to the 
     history of jazz.

     SEC. 1105. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY.

       (a) General Authority.--The Secretary may acquire lands and 
     interests therein within the sites designated pursuant to 
     section 1103(b)(1) and (3) by donation or purchase with 
     donated or appropriated funds or long term lease: Provided, 
     That sites designated pursuant to section 1103(b)(3) shall 
     only be acquired with the consent of the owner thereof.
       (b) State and Local Properties.--Lands and interests in 
     lands which are owned by the State of Louisiana, or any 
     political subdivision thereof, may be acquired only by 
     donation.

     SEC. 1106. GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN.

       Within 3 years after the date funds are made available 
     therefor and concurrent with the national landmark study 
     referenced in section 1103(b)(3), the Secretary, in 
     consultation with the New Orleans Jazz Commission, shall 
     prepare a general management plan for the historical park. 
     The plan shall include, but need not be limited to--
       (1) a visitor use plan indicating programs and facilities 
     associated with park programs that will be made available to 
     the public;
       (2) preservation and use plans for any structures and sites 
     that are identified through the historic landmark study for 
     inclusion within the historical park;
       (3) the location and associated cost of public facilities 
     that are proposed for inclusion within the historical park, 
     including a visitor center;
       (4) identification of programs that the Secretary will 
     implement or be associated with through cooperative 
     agreements with other groups and organizations;
       (5) a transportation plan that addresses visitor use access 
     needs to sites, facilities, and programs central to the 
     purpose of the historical park;
       (6) plans for the implementation of an archival system for 
     materials, objects, and items of importance relating to the 
     history of jazz; and
       (7) guidelines for the application of cooperative 
     agreements that will be used to assist in the management of 
     historical park facilities and programs.

     SEC. 1107. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ COMMISSION.

       (a) Establishment.--To assist in implementing the purposes 
     of this title and the document entitled ``New Orleans Jazz 
     Special Resource Study'', there is established the New 
     Orleans Jazz Commission (hereinafter referred to as the 
     ``Commission'').
       (b) Membership.--The Commission shall consist of 17 members 
     to be appointed no later than 6 months after the date of 
     enactment of this Act. The Commission shall be appointed by 
     the Secretary as follows:
       (1) One member from recommendations submitted by the Mayor 
     of New Orleans.
       (2) Two members who have recognized expertise in music 
     education programs that emphasize jazz.
       (3) One member, with experience in and knowledge of tourism 
     in the greater New Orleans area, from recommendations 
     submitted by local businesses.
       (4) One member from recommendations submitted by the Board 
     of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation.
       (5) One member, with experience in and knowledge of 
     historic preservation within the New Orleans area.
       (6) Two members, one from recommendations submitted by the 
     Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and one member from 
     recommendations submitted by the Chairman of the National 
     Endowment of the Arts, who are recognized musicians with 
     knowledge and experience in the development of jazz in New 
     Orleans.
       (7) Two members, one from recommendations submitted by the 
     Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and one member from 
     recommendations submitted by the Director of the Louisiana 
     State Museum with recognized expertise in the interpretation 
     of jazz history or traditions related to jazz in New Orleans.
       (8) Two members who represent local neighborhood groups or 
     other local associations; from recommendations submitted by 
     the Mayor of New Orleans.
       (9) One member representing local mutual aid and benevolent 
     societies as well as local social and pleasure clubs, from 
     recommendations submitted by the Board of the New Orleans 
     Jazz and Heritage Foundation.
       (10) One member from recommendations submitted by the 
     Governor of the State of Louisiana, who shall be a member of 
     the Louisiana State Music Commission.
       (11) One member representing the New Orleans Jazz Club from 
     recommendations submitted by the club.
       (12) One member who is a recognized local expert on the 
     history, development and progression of jazz in New Orleans 
     and is familiar with existing archival materials from 
     recommendations submitted by the Librarian of Congress.
       (13) The Director of the National Park Service, or the 
     Director's designee, ex officio.
       (c) Duties of the Commission.--The Commission shall--
       (1) advise the Secretary in the preparation of the general 
     management plan for the historical park; assist in public 
     discussions of planning proposals; and assist the National 
     Park Service in working with individuals, groups, and 
     organizations including economic and business interests in 
     determining programs in which the Secretary should 
     participate through cooperative agreement;
       (2) in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary, 
     develop partnerships with educational groups, schools, 
     universities, and other groups to furtherance of the purposes 
     of this title;
       (3) in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary, 
     develop partnerships with city-wide organizations, and raise 
     and disperse funds for programs that assist mutual aid and 
     benevolent societies, social and pleasure clubs and other 
     traditional groups in encouraging the continuation of and 
     enhancement of jazz cultural traditions;
       (4) acquire or lease property for jazz education, and 
     advise on hiring brass bands and musical groups to 
     participate in education programs and help train young 
     musicians;
       (5) in consultation and cooperation with the Secretary, 
     provide recommendations for the location of the visitor 
     center and other interpretive sites;
       (6) assist the Secretary in providing funds to support 
     research on the origins and early history of jazz in New 
     Orleans; and
       (7) notwithstanding any other provision of law, seek and 
     accept donations of funds, property, or services from 
     individuals, foundations, corporations, or other public or 
     private entities and expend and use the same for the purposes 
     of providing services, programs, and facilities for jazz 
     education, or assisting in the rehabilitation and restoration 
     of structures identified in the national historic landmark 
     study referenced in section 1103(b)(3) as having outstanding 
     significance to the history of jazz in New Orleans.
       (d) Appointment.--Members of the Commission shall be 
     appointed for staggered terms of 3 years, as designated by 
     the Secretary at the time of the initial appointment.
       (e) Chairman.--The Commission shall elect a chairman from 
     among its members. The term of the chairman shall be for 3 
     years.
       (f) Terms.--Any member of the Commission appointed by the 
     Secretary for a 3-year term may serve after the expiration of 
     his or her term until a successor is appointed. Any vacancy 
     shall be filled in the same manner in which the original 
     appointment was made. Any member appointed to fill a vacancy 
     shall serve for the remainder of the term for which the 
     predecessor was appointed.
       (g) Per Diem Expenses.--Members of the Commission shall 
     serve without compensation. Members shall be entitled to 
     travel expenses under section 5703, title 5, United States 
     Code, when engaged in Commission business, including per diem 
     in lieu of subsistence in the same manner as persons employed 
     intermittently.
       (h) Administrative Support.--The Secretary shall provide 
     the Commission with assistance in obtaining such personnel, 
     equipment, and facilities as may be needed by the Commission 
     to carry out its duties.
       (i) Annual Report.--The Commission shall submit an annual 
     report to the Secretary identifying its expenses and income 
     and the entities to which any grants or technical assistance 
     were made during the year for which the report is made.

     SEC. 1108. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
     necessary to carry out this title.
  Mr. JOHNSTON. Mr. President, I move to reconsider the vote by which 
the bill was passed.
  Mrs. BOXER. I move to lay that motion on the table.
  The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

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