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                          PERSONAL EXPLANATION

  Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Chairman, had I been able to get beyond the White 
House chains where we had the celebration on the Disabilities Act and, 
had I gotten one finger held up, as I ran down the aisle over here 
while the lights were still on, I would not have missed the vote. But 
had I been here on the Calvert vote, I would have voted ``yes.''
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that 
all debate on the remainder of the bill and all amendments thereto 
close at 2 p.m. today.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
California?
  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, reserving the right to object, I would 
like to get an understanding of what the chairman of the committee 
might have in mind here relative to his request.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman's request is that the total time for the 
debate on this bill and all amendments thereto would be concluded at 2 
p.m. today.
  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, I object.
  The CHAIRMAN. Objection is heard.


               motion offered by mr. miller of california

  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Chairman, I move that all debate on the 
remainder of the bill and all amendments thereto close at 2 p.m. today.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the motion offered by the gentleman 
from California [Mr. Miller].
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.


                             recorded vote

  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 246, 
noes 179, not voting 14, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 356]

                               AYES--246

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews (ME)
     Andrews (NJ)
     Andrews (TX)
     Applegate
     Bacchus (FL)
     Baesler
     Barlow
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bilbray
     Bishop
     Blackwell
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Brooks
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant
     Byrne
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carr
     Chapman
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Condit
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Coppersmith
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Danner
     Darden
     de la Garza
     de Lugo (VI)
     Deal
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Derrick
     Deutsch
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Dooley
     Durbin
     Edwards (CA)
     Edwards (TX)
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Faleomavaega (AS)
     Farr
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Fingerhut
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford (MI)
     Ford (TN)
     Frank (MA)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Glickman
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Green
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hamburg
     Hamilton
     Harman
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Hefner
     Hinchey
     Hoagland
     Hochbrueckner
     Holden
     Hoyer
     Hughes
     Hutto
     Inslee
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kleczka
     Klein
     Klink
     Kopetski
     Kreidler
     LaFalce
     Lambert
     Lancaster
     Lantos
     LaRocco
     Laughlin
     Lehman
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Lloyd
     Long
     Lowey
     Maloney
     Mann
     Manton
     Margolies-Mezvinsky
     Martinez
     Matsui
     McCloskey
     McCurdy
     McDermott
     McHale
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Mfume
     Miller (CA)
     Mineta
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Montgomery
     Moran
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Neal (MA)
     Neal (NC)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Parker
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Penny
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Pickett
     Pomeroy
     Poshard
     Price (NC)
     Quillen
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Ravenel
     Reed
     Richardson
     Ridge
     Roemer
     Romero-Barcelo (PR)
     Rose
     Rostenkowski
     Rowland
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sangmeister
     Sarpalius
     Sawyer
     Schenk
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Sharp
     Shepherd
     Sisisky
     Skaggs
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (IA)
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stenholm
     Stokes
     Strickland
     Studds
     Stupak
     Sundquist
     Swett
     Swift
     Synar
     Tanner
     Taylor (MS)
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torres
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Traficant
     Tucker
     Underwood (GU)
     Unsoeld
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Washington
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Williams
     Wilson
     Wise
     Woolsey
     Wyden
     Wynn
     Yates

                               NOES--179

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus (AL)
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barca
     Barcia
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bateman
     Beilenson
     Bereuter
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Brewster
     Bunning
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Canady
     Castle
     Clinger
     Coble
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Cox
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cunningham
     DeLay
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Ehlers
     Emerson
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fawell
     Fish
     Fowler
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Gallegly
     Gallo
     Gekas
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gingrich
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Goss
     Grams
     Grandy
     Greenwood
     Gunderson
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hefley
     Hobson
     Hoekstra
     Horn
     Houghton
     Huffington
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Inhofe
     Istook
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Kasich
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Klug
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kyl
     Lazio
     Leach
     Levy
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (FL)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     Livingston
     Lucas
     Machtley
     Manzullo
     Mazzoli
     McCandless
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDade
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     McMillan
     Meyers
     Mica
     Michel
     Miller (FL)
     Moorhead
     Morella
     Myers
     Nussle
     Orton
     Oxley
     Packard
     Paxon
     Petri
     Pickle
     Pombo
     Porter
     Portman
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roth
     Roukema
     Royce
     Santorum
     Saxton
     Schaefer
     Schiff
     Sensenbrenner
     Shaw
     Shays
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (OR)
     Smith (TX)
     Snowe
     Solomon
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stump
     Talent
     Tauzin
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas (CA)
     Thomas (WY)
     Torkildsen
     Upton
     Vucanovich
     Walker
     Walsh
     Weldon
     Whitten
     Wolf
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff
     Zimmer

                             NOT VOTING--14

     Bentley
     Clay
     Dellums
     Fields (TX)
     Herger
     Hilliard
     Hoke
     Markey
     Molinari
     Norton (DC)
     Reynolds
     Slattery
     Valentine
     Wheat

                              {time}  1213

  Mr. EWING changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
  Mrs. KENNELLY changed her vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the motion was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  The CHAIRMAN. The motion agreed to is that all debate on this bill 
and its printed amendments will conclude at 2 p.m. today.


                  amendment offered by mrs. vucanovich

  Mrs. VUCANOVICH. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Amendment offered by Mrs. Vucanovich: At the end of the 
     bill, add the following new section:

     ``SECTION 703. FOREIGN MINERAL DEPENDENCE.

       The Secretary shall waive any provision of this Act, in 
     whole or in part, if such provision is determined to require 
     importation of any mineral from any foreign nation in excess 
     of 90 percent of 1992 domestic consumption. Such 
     determination shall be made within one year of enactment of 
     this Act by the Director of the Bureau of Mines, Department 
     of the Interior, who shall consider all alternatives for 
     these minerals.''

  Mrs. VUCANOVICH. Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment to title VII of 
H.R. 518 which was printed in the Record on my behalf by Mr. Lewis of 
California, concerning the provisions of the California Desert 
Protection Act and our Nation's dependency on mineral imports from 
foreign nations.
  Mr. Chairman, my amendment would protect our Nation's strategic 
interests by simply requiring the Director of the Bureau of Mines to 
determine whether or not provisions of H.R. 518, if enacted, are 
causing the U.S. dependency on foreign imports to exceed 90 percent of 
our domestic consumption of any mineral product.
  Mr. Chairman, I have here a graph prepared from the U.S. Bureau of 
Mines annual summary of mineral commodities which depicts our net 
import reliance on selected nonfuel minerals for 1993. For some 
commodities such as bauxite, the ore of aluminum, graphite, manganese 
and the high-tech minerals, strontium and niobium, we were 100 percent 
dependent upon foreign sources for our domestic consumption last year. 
For industrial diamonds and asbestos, we were over 95 percent dependent 
on foreign sources. For platinum group metals used in catalytic 
converters in automobiles and other pollution controlling devices the 
United States imported 88 percent of its needs. Chromium and tungsten 
are steel-hardening agents for which we were over 82 percent dependent 
upon imports, as we were likewise for tin and fluorspar, the 
ingredients for the ubiquitous additive in toothpaste, stannous 
fluoride.
  And the list goes on and on. I might add that gold and silver are not 
on it however, because of successful exploration for and development of 
mines in my State and in the California desert, such as the Castle 
Mountain Mine for which the boundary of the proposed East Mojave 
Preserve was modified to exclude reserves for future years production. 
That was the amendment offered by my colleague from Nevada, and second 
degree amended by Chairman Miller to do likewise for mining claims 
adjacent to the Mountain Pass rare-earth mine astride Interstate 
Highway 15.
  I supported those boundary adjustments as necessary to protect 
identified reserves for future mining at those active mining 
operations, and I am appreciative that the authors of this bill came 
around to this same conclusion, albeit not during mark-up in the 
Natural Resources Committee. Likewise, both this bill and the one 
passed by the other body make a boundary adjustment in the Panamint 
Range to exclude from wilderness designation a couple of identified 
deposits of disseminated gold. I note President Bush's recommendation 
was to declare those lands not suitable for wilderness status anyway, 
but H.R. 518 would put them into the system regardless.

  Nonetheless, the amendment before us now remains necessary because 
the authors of this bill have not agreed to exclude from conservation 
units they would create in this bill many hundreds to thousands of 
mining claims that contain the potential to supply domestic needs for 
minerals. And that's just lands sufficiently prospected to date to be 
deemed worthy of claim-staking.
  Certainly, much of the area remains unknown geologically in the 
detail necessary to delineate orebodies. The U.S. Geological Survey and 
the Bureau of Mines have done studies in some wilderness study areas 
within the area swallowed up by H.R. 518, but not for all of them by 
any means. Why? Because the Department of the Interior decided a decade 
ago to study on-the-ground only those WSA's which were initially 
recommended suitable for inclusion in the Wilderness Preservation 
System. For those WSA's for which other factors lead to the 
recommendation to Congress to not put them into Wilderness the budget 
did not support detailed mineral surveys. Consequently, because H.R. 
518 would put into wilderness many areas recommended nonsuitable for 
such status, passage of this bill will ensure inclusion of undiscovered 
mineral deposits for which neither Government geologists nor private 
prospectors have had opportunity to assess.
  Mr. Chairman, the Bureau of Mines did complete an investigation of 
mineral potential in the East Mojave area of the desert in 1991. That 
review looked only at mineral prospects already identified--some 701 
occurrences--and filtered those down to 24 deposits for which mines 
were existing or could be profitably mined in the near future. The 
Bureau went on to analyze the impact of restrictions to development of 
just those 24 deposits and determined that setting aside the area as a 
National Park would likely leave two billion dollars of undeveloped 
resources in the ground. And, Mr. Chairman, that is assuming the 
protection of valid existing rights to develop the deposits at existing 
mines.
  Now, the Committee of the Whole has voted to make the area a 
preserve, not a park, but it would remain off-limits to mineral 
development nonetheless, so this assessment of economic impact remains 
valid today. But, even this huge impact is understated. The Bureau said 
``the greatest impact of restrictions on mining relate to the untapped 
potential.'' Mr. Chairman, that means the undiscovered mineral 
resources we can only speculate must exist in this highly mineralized 
piece of the Earth's crust.

                              {time}  1220

  The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentlewoman from Nevada [Mrs. 
Vucanovich] has expired.
  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that the 
gentlewoman from Nevada [Mrs. Vucanovich] be allowed to proceed for 3 
additional minutes.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
California?
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the right to 
object.


                         parliamentary inquiry

  Mr. McCANDLESS. I have a parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Chairman.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman will state his parliamentary inquiry.
  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, it is my understanding that the motion 
passed to limit debate to a period not to exceed 2 o'clock on all 
amendments, et cetera.
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman is correct.
  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, it would appear to me that the 
gentlewoman from Nevada [Mrs. Vucanovich] would certainly be entitled, 
under that rule, for a 3-minute extension to here remarks.
  The CHAIRMAN. The request of the gentleman from California [Mr. 
McCandless] requires unanimous consent. The Committee is operating 
under the 5-minute rule.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Chairman, reserving the right to 
object, the only reason I object is to know, since we do have a time 
limit, whether the gentleman's side is going to have other amendments 
or time for other Members to speak, or how he is going to handle this?
  Mrs. VUCANOVICH. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. MILLER of California. I yield to the gentleman from Nevada.
  Mrs. VUCANOVICH. Mr. Chairman, from my position, I would be happy to 
explain to the gentleman from California [Mr. Miller] that I have 
probably less than 1 minute.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Chairman, reserving the right to 
object, I am trying to get some information as to how the gentleman 
anticipates the time being apportioned. Most of the amendments, if not 
all, are the gentleman's amendments. I just did not know if Members 
were aware of the overall time limit and that the clock is now running 
down.
  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. MILLER of California. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, my response, if I understand the 
gentleman's question correctly, is that irrespective of whether the 
gentleman yields on the unanimous-consent request or not, or other 
factors that might follow, the limit for debate is 2 o'clock, 
irrespective, if I understood the motion the gentleman made earlier.
  Mr. MILLER of California. That is correct.
  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, that would mean that the 3 minutes that 
the gentlewoman from Nevada [Mrs. Vucanovich] is asking to have would 
come out of that time between now and 2 o'clock.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Chairman, if that is all right with the 
minority, that is fine. The gentleman from California [Mr. McCandless] 
has the most speakers.
  Mr. Chairman, I withdraw my reservation of objection.
  The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, the gentlewoman from Nevada [Mrs. 
Vucanovich] is recognized for 3 additional minutes.
  There was no objection.
  Mrs. VUCANOVICH. Mr. Chairman, the U.S. Geological Survey, in 
Circular No. 1024 of 1989, listed these metals commodities as having 
been produced from the desert in the past: antimony, bismuth, cadmium, 
gold, iron, lead, lithium, manganese, magnesium, mercury, rate-earths, 
tin, tungsten, uranium, vanadium, and zinc. A to Z. In addition 
nonmetallic minerals include borates, rare-earths, sand, gravel, 
pumice, cinders, limestone, and clay.
  My amendment is a reasonable step to assure some semblance of regard 
for our national interest in having domestic supplies of mineral 
commodities our society demands. I merely seek to have the Director of 
the Bureau of Mines report to Congress, within 1 year of enactment--I 
do not seek delay, whether or not the act would put us beyond the 90-
percent threshold on this chart if the parks, preserves, and wilderness 
so designated are forcing foreign mineral dependency. Do I believe the 
trigger of this amendment will be pulled? No, its not very likely. But 
neither is it likely a subsequent Congress will undo the designations 
in this bill which could prompt increased import dependency. So why not 
put in this provision and let a future Congress override it if they 
think necessary?
  Mr. Chairman, my friend, the gentleman from Youngstown, OH, is a true 
champion of the Buy-America Act. Well, this amendment is nothing more 
than the explicit application of that philosophy to our natural 
resources. I urge his support and the support of all our colleagues for 
the Lewis amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I include for the Record a chart setting forth the 1993 
net import reliance of selected nonfuel mineral materials as a percent 
of apparent consumption:

 1993 NET IMPORT RELIANCE\1\\2\ OF SELECTED NONFUEL MINERAL MATERIALS AS
                  A PERCENT OF APPARENT CONSUMPTION\3\                  
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                       Major sources (1989-92)          
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arsenic.............    100  Chile, China, Mexico, France.              
Bauxite and Alumina.    100  Australia, Jamaica, Guinea, Brazil, Guyana.
Columbium (niobium).    100  Brazil, Canada, Fed. Rep. of Germany.      
Graphite............    100  Mexico, China, Canada, Madagascar, Brazil. 
Manganese...........    100  Rep. of South Africa, France, Australia,   
                              Brazil.                                   
MICA (sheet)........    100  India, Belgium, Brazil, China.             
Strontium               100  Mexico, Fed. Rep. of Germany.              
 (celestite).                                                           
Thallium............    100  Belgium, Canada, United Kingdom (U.K).     
Diamond (industrial      98  Ireland, U.K., Zaire, Rep. of South Africa.
 stones).                                                               
Gemstones (natural       98  Israel, Belgium, India, U.K.               
 and synthetic).                                                        
Asbestos............     95  Canada, Rep. of South Africa.              
Fluorspar...........     89  Mexico, China, Rep. of South Africa,       
                              Canada, Morocco.                          
Platinum-Group           88  Rep. of South Africa, U.K., former U.S.S.R.
 Metals.                                                                
Tantalum............     86  Fed. Rep. of Germany, Australia, Canada,   
                              Brazil.                                   
Tungsten............     84  China, Bolivia, Peru, Fed. Rep. of Germany.
Chromium............     82  Rep. of South Africa, Turkey, Zimbabwe,    
                              Yugoslavia.                               
Tin.................     81  Brazil, Bolivia, China, Indonesia,         
                              Malaysia.                                 
Cobalt..............     75  Zambia, Zaire, Canada, Norway.             
Potash..............     71  Canada, Israel, former U.S.S.R., Fed. Rep. 
                              of Germany.                               
Cadmium.............     66  Canada, Mexico, Australia, France.         
Nickel..............     64  Canada, Norway, Australia, Dominican       
                              Republic.                                 
Barite..............     58  China, India, Mexico.                      
Antimony............     57  China, Mexico, Rep. of South Africa, Hong  
                              Kong.                                     
Peat................     56  Canada.                                    
Iodine..............     51  Japan, Chile.                              
Selenium............     46  Canada, Japan, Belgium-Luxembourg, U.K.    
Silicon.............     34  Brazil, Canada, Venezuela, Norway.         
Gypsum..............     29  Canada, Mexico, Spain.                     
Magnesium compounds.     26  China, Canada, Greece, Mexico, Japan.      
Zinc................     26  Canada, Mexico, Peru, Australia, Spain.    
Pumice and pumicite.     25  Greece, Ecuador, Mexico, Turkey.           
Vermiculite.........     16  Rep. of South Africa.                      
Nitrogen............     15  Canada, former U.S.S.R., Trinidad and      
                              Tobago, Mexico.                           
Sulfur (elemental)..     15  Canada, Mexico.                            
Iron and steel......     12  European Community, Canada, Japan, Brazil, 
                              Rep. of Korea.                            
Iron ore............     12  Canada, Brazil, Venezuela, Mauritania,     
                              Australia.                                
Salt................     12  Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Chile.            
Lead................     11  Canada, Mexico, Australia, Peru.           
Mica (scrap and          11  Canada, India.                             
 flake).                                                                
Cement..............      8  Canada, Mexico, Japan, Spain, Columbia.    
Perlite.............      3  Greece.                                    
------------------------------------------------------------------------

     \1\Estimated.
     \2\Net import reliance=imports--exports+ adjustments for 
     Government and industry stock changes.
     \3\Apparent consumption=U.S. primary+secondary production+net 
     import reliance.
  Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Vucanovich 
amendment dealing with foreign mineral dependence.
  This Congress is constantly debating ways to increase our ability to 
compete in the world marketplace and reduce our foreign trade deficit. 
Members on both sides of the aisle agree we must make progress in these 
areas to improve our own economy.
  As the chart of the gentlewoman from Nevada [Mrs. Vucanovich] 
indicates, the United States is already over 100 percent dependent on 
foreign sources for such important minerals as bauxite, graphite, and 
managanese. We are over 90 percent dependent on foreign sources of 
industrial diamonds.
  As this country painfully learned from our experience in the 1970's 
with OPEC, foreign dependence on natural resources can have devastating 
impacts on our fragile economy.
  The Vucanovich amendment merely empowers the Secretary of the 
Interior to waive any provision of this act which results in the United 
States becoming over 90 percent dependent on foreign sources for any 
mineral. With rapidly changing technologies and their resulting new 
demands on resources, we must assure that this act does not impede our 
ability to compete in the world marketplace. We must assure flexibility 
that we can produce important minerals for our Nation's future.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support the Vucanovich 
amendment.
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the last word.
  (Mr. HUNTER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the amendment 
offered by the gentlewoman from Nevada [Mrs. Vucanovich]. I think this 
is an amendment that is very, very important from a national defense 
perspective. There are a large number of items, of minerals and metals, 
that come from the California desert that are considered to be critical 
to our national defenses. Those are metals like chromium and tungsten 
and other materials that are used to make jet engines, to make other 
militarily critical items. I would like to review very briefly what 
some of these are.
  The gentlewoman has talked about bauxite and aluminum. We are now 100 
percent dependent on foreign sources for those.
  For manganese, we are 100 percent dependent, presently, on foreign 
sources for that particular item. Yet, the desert is known to have 
those resources.
  Tungsten is another item that is of militarily critical use to us. We 
are 85 percent dependent on foreign sources. Let me list some of the 
foreign sources we are dependent upon: China, Bolivia, the Federal 
Republic of Germany, and Peru. They are the major suppliers of 
tungsten.
  Tin, we are 73 percent dependent on Brazil, Bolivia, China, 
Indonesia, Malaysia.
  Antimony, we are 58 percent foreign-dependent, and those suppliers 
are China, Mexico, the Republic of South Africa, and Hong Kong.
  Cadmium, we are 49 percent foreign-dependent on Canada, Mexico, 
Australia, and the Federal Republic of Germany.
  Think, we are 34 percent foreign-dependent on Canada, Mexico, Peru, 
Spain, and we go down the line, Mr. Chairman.

                              {time}  1230

  The point is that the California desert has supplies and deposits of 
these militarily critical materials and unless we make an inventory of 
what we have, which is essentially what the gentlewoman is asking us to 
do, we are not going to be able to determine whether or not we have 
supplies that might be necessary to the Nation's defenses should we at 
some point be cut off from this foreign supply. That is the genesis or 
the justification for maintaining a national defense stockpile. Those 
items I listed are on the national defense stockpile.
  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. HUNTER. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, I feel it essential to bring to 
Members' attention a matter that is critical to what we are doing today 
in the world of computers, and that is rare earths. There is a goodly 
deposit of rare earths that is included in the modified Joshua Tree 
boundary lines. Rare earth is something we kind of have to explain. 
What it is, is an element of the process by which we ultimately 
develops computer chips and other components for electrical activity. I 
cannot overemphasize the importance of such things as this, 
irrespective of whether they are or are not in a wilderness area, 
whether they are or are not in the Joshua Tree National Monument, or 
whatever it ends up being. The gentleman speaking is graphically 
illustrating what it is that we have to have in the way of resources if 
we are going to continue to build our economy and offset our deficit of 
trade.
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Chairman, I would conclude by saying we are talking 
about basically locking up 7 million acres. We are doing that without 
taking the most basic of commonsense actions and, that is, to make a 
little inventory of what we have. Particularly, the gentlewoman's 
amendment goes to requiring the Director of the Bureau of Mines to 
determine whether or not provisions of this bill, if enacted, would 
cause the United States' dependency on foreign imports to exceed 90 
percent of the domestic consumption of any such mineral product. That 
is common sense. It is something that is important. It has been stated 
by the other side, the proponents of this bill, that we are stewards of 
our natural resources and that is the reason that Members of the House 
should support this desert bill. We are also stewards of national 
security. For that reason, everyone in the House should support the 
gentlewoman's amendment. I thank her for offering it and I urge its 
full support.
  Mr. VENTO. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to the 
amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, the bill the Members have been talking to is not 
included in the amendment that has been proposed by the gentlewoman. 
That we have critical minerals is a fact but this amendment before us 
does not talk about critical or strategic minerals. It says any 
mineral. That is the language of the amendment, any mineral from any 
foreign nation in excess of 90 percent of 1992 domestic consumption. It 
starts off by saying the Secretary shall await any provision of this 
act I whole or in part if such provision is determined to require 
importation of any mineral beyond that 90 percent number that we have. 
That is what the amendment says. There is nothing in here about an 
inventory of what is available, the sort of reasoned arguments that are 
being made, or about a report to Congress. This provides for the 
unilateral action by the Secretary of Interior under the advice of the 
Bureau of Mines to open up the California Desert Act, and he shall do 
it, not maybe, but shall do it. That is what this amendment provides.
  What is the effect of it? Read your amendment. Members well know that 
any mineral, it could be a list of the strategic ones we talked about, 
but what is mined there today? Sand, gravel, talc. Remember 20 Mule 
Team Borax? These are the strategic minerals. Is there some shortage of 
talc that occurs that causes us to then undo the provisions, any 
provision of this act? Eight million acres of wilderness is designated. 
Four million acres of parkland is designated in this act. And we are 
going to undo it because we have some sort of a critical shortage of 
talc or borax? I guess it might be a crisis someplace. Not enough for 
stone-washed jeans.
  The point is, this amendment undoes the designations that occur here 
with regard to wilderness. It does it in a unilateral way. In fact, of 
course, the boundaries of these wilderness areas, the boundaries of 
these parks are looked at as based on the information we have. Do we 
have enough information? Probably not. Will we ever have enough 
information? Probably not. Are we using the information that we have? 
Absolutely, in terms of making decisions in 1994. That is what we use. 
We have excluded claims. The gentleman from California that has been 
interested in this most specifically in this Congress [Mr. Lehman] has 
attempted, the Members of the other body, the Senate, have avoided 
this. They try to avoid claims and patents of areas. In fact what about 
the public lands and how they are being used today in terms of what the 
cost is? What about something called due diligence? Just speculative 
claims does not do it. It does not get us there. Of course if we look 
across the landscape at the public lands, we find it is a scandal. That 
is why we are in conference and the gentleman from California [Mr. 
Miller] and the gentleman from South Dakota [Mr. Johnson] are working 
to try to come up with a decent mineral law, rather than one that 
exploits and destroys the land in this country. Yet this amendment 
would put them before everything else and any other use. It is wrong. 
This amendment ought to be defeated and I urge my colleagues to defeat 
it.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of 
words.
  Mr. Chairman, mining is a major industry in my State and district--
and, it is a major source of wealth for the entire country.
  The minerals which exist below the surface of our Earth are not 
merely ornamental. There is more than just gold and silver in them 
there hills. There are bauxite, graphite, tungsten, and many other 
minerals of tremendous strategic importance.
  And, there are minerals which have uses we have yet to discover--
minerals which may contain substances that will provide a cure for 
cancer, heart disease, AIDS or other horrible diseases.
  Mr. Chairman, let us not lock up potential miracles. Let us not lock 
up our mineral wealth.
  I urge a ``yes'' vote on the Lewis-Vucanovich amendment.
  Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of 
words, and I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise as chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and 
Mineral Resources to oppose this amendment. I must tell Members the 
other night, I was reading from an old Congressional Record about the 
battle over the creation of Yosemite National Park in my district. The 
same type of argument we are hearing here was brought up at the 
creation of that great national treasure's legislation which protected 
it, an attempt to say that one certain value here is more important 
than anything else or than the legitimate public interest is.
  Mr. Chairman, this amendment is as mischievous as the last one was. 
It takes away all discretion from the Secretary with respect to his 
ability to make decisions on these lands. It says he shall waive any 
provision of the act. It does not say he may waive it, it does not say 
he may take anything else into consideration except the narrow 
provisions here. It ignores the fact that in putting this legislation 
together, we have excluded from the boundaries of the wilderness areas 
all operating mines. There are no operating mines within the boundaries 
of any wilderness area under this act. We have gone out of our way in 
every instance in fact to go beyond that where mining interests have 
had legitimate claims outside the boundaries to give them rights in 
those cases as well. It has not come to our attention at any time over 
the debate on this bill that there is any kind of mineral that is in 
the national interest that we ought to move and try to protect. Indeed, 
we certainly would have done that had it come to our attention, but it 
is not the case here. This is just an attempt to prevent this 
legislation from going forward.
  As the gentleman from Minnesota [Mr. Vento] just indicated, though 
the talk we hear on the floor is about protecting strategic minerals 
and things that might be vital to our national defense, that is not 
mentioned at all in this amendment. This amendment would apply to any 
minerals at all, to any kind of substance and not limit it to those 
that might have some strategic importance or value. That is certainly 
not the intent of the legislation.
  The intent of the legislation is not to protect strategic minerals. 
The intent of the legislation is to undo the legislation that is before 
us. I think we should reject the amendment and get on with passage of 
the bill.
  Mr. VENTO. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. LEHMAN. I yield to the gentleman from Minnesota.

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  Mr. VENTO. I thank the gentleman for his work and I know his efforts. 
He has been very concerned about patented claims that exist within the 
Mojave and other areas. But I think the one thing wrong with this 
amendment, if it were adopted, is you would have to change the name of 
the California Conservation Act to the California Mining and 
Exploitation Act. So it is an amendment that needs some correction, 
that is right.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite 
number of words.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the amendment offered by 
the gentlelady from Nevada [Mrs. Vucanovich]. I would like to thank 
Mrs. Vucanovich for her leadership in dealing with the complex issues 
involved in reforming the mining law of 1872. She is truly an expert in 
this field.
  This is a commonsense amendment. It simply states that if the United 
States becomes too dependent on minerals from foreign sources, certain 
provisions of this legislation could be waived.
  The reason this amendment is common sense is because there are a 
multitude of different minerals in the east Mojave Desert. In fact, 
according to the report completed by the Bureau of Mines study entitled 
``Minerals in the East Mojave,'' there are 701 mineral occurrences in 
the east Mojave. Of these, 24 are profitable deposits. However, the 
untapped mineral potential in the east Mojave is phenomenal.
  Unfortunately, under the Feinstein-Miller-Lehman bill we may never 
realize this potential. However, Mr. Miller and Mrs. Feinstein have 
said that all valid and existing rights are protected, no mines will be 
put out of business, and existing mines can still operate under the 
Mining in the Parks Act. If that is the case, why not adopt this 
amendment?
  Please allow me to step back just a bit. I presume Mr. Miller is 
familiar with Pluess-Staufer, Inc. of California?
  Pluess-Staufer's claims in the east Mojave represent the largest 
known deposit of high purity and high brightness calcium carbonate 
deposits in the Western United States. The claims held by Pluess-
Staufer's limestone deposits have a gross value of over $6 billion at 
today's market price.
  Pluess-Staufer has invested over $400,000 to develop these claims. 
They should be allowed to proceed with the permitting process. This 
process guarantees that their project complies with all environmental 
regulations.
  If this legislation is implemented in its current form, the 80 
employees at the Pluess-Staufer site in Lucerne Valley who earn 
approximately $20 per hour will be out of work. Contrary to what Mrs. 
Feinstein and Mr. Miller say, this bill will cost jobs. Just ask the 
employees at Pluess-Staufer.
  I urge my colleagues to support the Vucanovich amendment. Let's not 
be put in the position of being totally dependent on foreign sources 
for our minerals--including strategic minerals which are critical to 
our national defense effort.
  Keep in mind that the only other source outside the California desert 
that we have for rare earth minerals is the People's Republic of China.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the 
requisite number of words, and I rise in opposition to the amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, once again we are confronted with an amendment that 
goes far beyond the bounds that those who have spoken on behalf of it 
have suggested.
  This amendment allows the Secretary to waive any provision of this 
act if any mineral is found that we are 90 percent dependent on. I do 
not know if that means for a single nation or a group of nations.
  Mr. Chairman, I have spoken before and opposed such things as NAFTA, 
the trade act, and now provisions to extend NAFTA to China, to major 
mining companies so that we can engage in trade. We have GATT coming up 
that extends to mining activities and minerals. We have American 
companies that are seeking to mine in China, and Indonesia and 
everywhere else. Now somehow because of those actions which you want to 
give, what you want to give is the Director of the Bureau of Mines the 
right to waive any provision of this bill, to devastate the wilderness 
in this bill, to devastate the national parks based upon the finding of 
any mineral, not whether it is important to the United States, not 
whether it is critical to military needs, not whether it is strategic 
to the interests of this country, because the authors of this amendment 
know in fact those minerals are not present in the desert. And if they 
are, if they are being mined in the desert, they are grandfathered in. 
Those mines continue to exist. This committee has gone forward to see 
that that happens.
  We have an ambiguous situation where the gentleman from California 
has written to me to ask me to work that out in conference, and I told 
them that I would try to do that, because minerals are not threatened, 
because we allow them to continue. So what is really going on here?
  This is what we have seen in the last several amendments, to try to 
do indirectly what they cannot do directly, because the people of 
California overwhelmingly support the creation of these parks, Congress 
overwhelmingly supports it, and we have seen when we voted on this in 
the past, when we turned down these kinds of amendments, now to simply 
give blanket authority to override the Wilderness Act, to override the 
national park programs on the basis of some minerals that may be there 
sometime, let the Secretary come forward and tell this to the Congress, 
and let us not pretend that if the Secretary waived this and the 
Director of Minerals made this recommendation that that mine would be 
up and running in any short period of time. That is why we have 
stockpiles of strategic materials and minerals. That is why we have a 
petroleum reserve. That is why we have a stockpile of critical 
resources, so we can meet those needs.
  The gentleman in the well recently said that Bolivia, Germany, and 
China were responsible for one of the minerals on the list where we are 
already 100 percent dependent. The point being that is a decision that 
this country and this Congress have already made, previous 
administrations have made, that they have encouraged those imports into 
this country, encouraged those companies to go to work, American 
companies to work in those foreign lands. The fact is if all of those 
countries get together in a consortia to cut off our minerals, then 
there is something going on in the world that is far larger than this 
act.
  But the point is this: We have had the Geological Survey look at 
this, the National Academies have looked at this, and the probability 
of finding any commercial or strategic minerals is de minimis, it is 
essentially de minimis. Why? Because we have had people that have been 
exploring and that have been looking, and those who have found them are 
grandfathered in.

  The gentlewoman keeps putting forward the amendment saying they are 
going to do a little inventory and submit a report, but the fact is 
there is nothing in the amendment about that, and the amendment 
provides for a waiver of every provision in this act that sets up these 
national parks in the California desert, and it is essentially to 
override what the Congress is going to do here and what the people of 
California, all of the people in the State of California have supported 
in our efforts to do, and that is to manage these resources on a 
multiple-use basis so that they can be preserved for the future.

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  This would put any mineral in advance of all of those other interests 
of the desert lands and the people of the State of California.
  This amendment should be rejected, just as the last amendment was 
rejected, because it is simply an effort to try to delay or destroy the 
designation of these areas as wilderness, as parks, and to do again 
what they cannot do, and that is to kill this legislation.
  Mr. VENTO. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. MILLER of California. I yield to the gentleman from Minnesota.
  Mr. VENTO. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  I would just like to point out, and I concur, of course, with the 
chairman's comment, and this requires the action. But the point is the 
Congress can, and the Congress has, modified wildernesses to deal with 
problems that occur, has modified parks to deal with problems that 
occur, where there are mines occurring in parks, where there are active 
mines and wilderness, where there are claims, and we could act.
  The question here is not to turn this over to a unilateral, unelected 
bureaucrat in the Department of Interior who may or may not have the 
best interests of the areas and the American people at heart.
  The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from California [Mr. Miller] 
has expired. (By unanimous consent, Mr. Miller of California was 
allowed to proceed for 2 additional minutes.)
  Mr. LEHMAN. Will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. MILLER of California. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Chairman, I just point out that at the present time 
Joshua Tree and Death Valley National Monuments are managed by the 
Secretary of the Interior, and this amendment, if passed, would apply a 
new standard in those areas that is not present now and would allow the 
opening up of those areas to mineral activity that has been excluded 
there for about half a century. It does great harm to those two 
national treasures, Joshua Tree and Death Valley, and I urge its 
defeat.
  Mr. MILLER of California. I appreciate the gentleman's remarks.
  That is the point. This amendment is an attempt to stand on its head 
the previous actions of this Congress, the current action that we are 
currently debating, and the fact is it does not require any kind of 
finding. It is simply a determination. It does not require a public 
process to go through this.
  All of a sudden you can find the acts of this Congress and previous 
acts can be waived because one mineral somewhere was found to be in 90 
percent of excess of domestic consumption.
  Mr. VENTO. If the gentleman will yield further, this act covers 
certain military withdrawals. There has been an active problem between 
mining and the military reservations, and this amendment would provide 
for the mining of materials in military reservations and withdrawn 
areas in this act, and it would give the authority to the Secretary of 
the Interior to make that decision, not the President, not in 
consultation with the Department of Defense. It would be the Secretary 
of Interior in charge of those military reservations.
  Mr. MILLER of California. I thank the gentleman for his point.
  I hope our colleagues will reject this amendment. It is very, very 
bad policy and, again, it is an effort to kill this legislation, not to 
try to do, as we have done in the committee, as we have done on the 
floor, to accommodate those legitimate ongoing mining operations so 
they can continue. They are all taken care of in this legislation.
  This is way beyond that. The agenda here is to kill this legislation, 
to kill the designation of these parks, and we should reject this 
amendment.
  Mr. RAHALL. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this amendment.
  This amendment represents a thinly disguised effort to undermine the 
wilderness and park designations of this legislation.
  Let me remind my colleagues that we saw a similar type of amendment 
last November during debate on legislation to reform the mining law of 
1872.
  At the time, an amendment was offered to waive provisions of the bill 
if the Defense Department determined there is a national security 
necessity to ensure a sufficient supply of strategic and critical 
minerals.
  That amendment, rightly so, was defeated.
  Subsequent to that vote, it was revealed by the Cleveland Plain 
Dealer that the amendment could have benefited a Cleveland-based mining 
company that purportedly is seeking to obtain title to Federal lands--
in the form of mining claim patents--containing beryllium ore worth up 
to $15 billion * * * for a mere $26,487.
  And what does the Pentagon have to say? They want to sell 24,221 tons 
of beryllium materials they already have stockpiled.
  Yet, today, this same type of amendment has been reconfigured to the 
pending legislation.
  In this case, however, the Defense Department does not even get to 
make a national security call on whether or not the minerals are 
needed.
  Rather, it is the Bureau of Mines.
  The Defense Department could be sitting on tons of a given mineral, 
and may be trying to sell those minerals, yet if the Bureau of Mines 
says that if we are importing a certain percentage of that mineral, the 
wilderness and park designations contained in this bill could be 
waived.
  Let us not forget that we have in this country a strategic and 
critical materials stockpile to address the national security needs of 
the Nation as it relates to mineral dependency.
  And so I urge the defeat of this amendment. It is completely without 
justification.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the amendment offered by the 
gentlewoman from Nevada [Mrs. Vucanovich].
  The amendment was rejected.
  The CHAIRMAN. Are there further amendments to title VII?


    Amendment in the nature of a substitute offered by Mr. lewis of 
                               california

  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Amendment in the nature of a substitute offered by Mr. 
     Lewis of California:
     --Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
     following: That this Act may be cited as the ``California 
     Desert and Employment Preservation Act of 1994''.
       Sec. 2. The Congress finds that--
       (a) many areas of undeveloped public land in California and 
     one parcel in Washoe County, Nevada, administered by the 
     Bureau of Land Management have outstanding natural 
     characteristics that give them high value as wilderness and 
     that can, if properly managed, serve as an enduring resource 
     of wilderness for the benefit of the American people;
       (b) it is in the national interest that these areas be 
     promptly designated as components of the National Wilderness 
     Preservation System in order to preserve and maintain them as 
     an enduring resource of wilderness to be managed to promote 
     and perpetuate their wilderness character and their specific 
     multiple values for natural systems biodiversity, watershed 
     preservation, wildlife habitat protection, scenic and 
     historic preservation, scientific research and education use, 
     primitive recreation, solitude, physical and mental 
     challenge, and inspiration for the benefit of present and 
     future generations of the American people; and
       (c) certain areas of public lands located in Inyo and 
     Riverside Counties, California are appropriate for transfer 
     from the Bureau of Land Management to the National Park 
     Service as additions to the Death Valley and Joshua Tree 
     National Monuments.
       Sec. 3. (a) As used in this Act, the term ``public lands'' 
     shall have the same meaning as defined in section 103(e) of 
     the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.
       (b) As used in this Act the term ``Secretary'' means the 
     Secretary of the Interior.
       Sec. 4. (a) In furtherance of the purposes of the 
     Wilderness Act, the following public lands are hereby 
     designated as wilderness, and therefore, as components of the 
     National Wilderness Preservation System:
       (1) Certain public lands in the Bakersfield District of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately fifteen thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Owens Peak 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-1-026).
       (2) Certain public lands in the Bakersfield District of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately ten thousand seven hundred and twenty-one 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Sacatar 
     Meadows Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-010-027).
       (3) Certain public lands in the Bakersfield District of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-eight thousand two hundred and ninety-
     one acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Southern 
     Inyo Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-010-056).
       (4) Certain public lands in the Bakersfield District of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately one thousand nine hundred and eighty-three 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Pinnacles 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-040-303).
       (5) Certain public lands in the Susanville District of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately seven thousand four hundred and forty-three 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Pit River 
     Canyon Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-020-103).
       (6) Certain public lands in the Susanville District of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately seven thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Tunnison 
     Mountain Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-020-311).
       (7) Certain public lands in the Susanville District of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-seven thousand and fifty-five acres 
     located in Lassen County, California, and five hundred and 
     eighty-nine acres located in Washoe County, Nevada, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Skedaddle Proposal'', 
     dated June 1988 (CA-020-612). However, the designation of the 
     Skedaddle Wilderness Area will in no way be construed or used 
     to restrain current or future activities associated with the 
     adjacent Sierra Army Depot.
       (8) Certain public lands in the Susanville District of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately one thousand one hundred and sixty-one acres, 
     as generally depicted on a map entitled ``South Warner 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-020-708).
       (9) Certain public lands in the Ukiah District of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately four thousand one hundred and forty-three 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Chemise 
     Mountain Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-050-111).
       (10) Certain public lands in the Ukiah District of the 
     Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty thousand two hundred and forty-eight 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``King Range 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-050-112).
       (11) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately three hundred and forty-four acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Agua Tibia Proposal'' 
     dated June 1988 (CA-060-002).
       (12) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-two thousand eight hundred and seventy-
     five acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Sawtooth Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-060-
     024B).
       (13) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately fifteen thousand four hundred and eight acres, 
     as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Carrizo George 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-060-025A).
       (14) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately four thousand three hundred and twenty-three 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Western Otay 
     Mountain Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-060-028).
       (15) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately six thousand seven hundred and eighty-three 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Southern 
     Otay Mountain Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CA-060-029).
       (16) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately three hundred ninety-two thousand six hundred 
     forty-three acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Saline Valley Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-117). Of 
     this acreage approximately thirty thousand two hundred and 
     ninety-five acres are added to the National Park System 
     pursuant to section 4(a)(1) of this Act.
       (17) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately two thousand one hundred and fifty-four acres, 
     as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Lower Saline Valley 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-117A).
       (18) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately thirty five thousand seven hundred and ninety-
     two acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Little 
     Sand Spring Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-119A). All of 
     this acreage is hereby added to the National Park System 
     pursuant to section 4(a)(1) of this Act.
       (19) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately fifty eight thousand three hundred and ninety-
     two acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Inyo 
     Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-122).
       (20) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty thousand and thirty acres, as generally 
     depicted on a map entitled ``Hunter Mountain Proposal'', 
     dated June 1988 (CDCA-123).
       (21) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately ninety thousand six hundred and twenty-six 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Panamint 
     Dunes Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-127).
       (22) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately fourteen thousand and seventy-nine acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Wild Rose Canyon 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-134).
       (23) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately forty four thousand five hundred and thirty-six 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Slate Range 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-142).
       (24) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty three thousand four acres, as generally 
     depicted on a map entitled ``Funeral Mountains Proposal'', 
     dated June 1988 (CDCA-143). Of this acreage approximately 
     fifteen thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight acres are 
     added to the National Park System pursuant to section 4(a)(1) 
     of this Act.
       (25) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty two thousand eight hundred and eleven 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Greenwater 
     Valley Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-148).
       (26) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately seventy nine thousand eight hundred and sixty-
     eight acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Nopah 
     Range Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-150).
       (27) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately one hundred twenty one thousand nine hundred 
     and twelve acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Owlshead Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-156).
       (28) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately thirty two thousand one hundred and twenty-five 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Little Lake 
     Canyon Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-157).
       (29) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty six thousand one hundred and thirteen 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Owens Peak 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-158).
       (30) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately thirteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-six 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``El Paso 
     Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-164).
       (31) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty nine thousand one hundred and thirteen 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Golden 
     Valley Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-170).
       (32) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty thousand two hundred and ninety-one 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Newberry 
     Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-206).
       (33) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management California, which comprise 
     approximately seventeen thousand six hundred and thirty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Rodman 
     Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-207);.
       (34) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately eleven thousand six-eight acres, as generally 
     depicted on a map entitled ``Bighorn Mountains Proposal'', 
     dated June 1988 (CDCA-217);.
       (35) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately six thousand four hundred and ten acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Morongo Proposal'', 
     dated June 1988 (CDCA-218).
       (36) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately eleven thousand one hundred and sixty-nine 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Whitewater 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-218A).
       (37) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-four thousand three hundred and sixty-
     nine acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Kinston 
     Range Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-222).
       (38) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately forty-one thousand seven hundred and one acres, 
     as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Cinder Cones 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-239).
       (39) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately forty-six thousand four hundred and five acres, 
     as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Kelso Dunes 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-250).
       (40) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately forty-three thousand two hundred and thirty-two 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Bristol/
     Granite Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-256).
       (41) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-four thousand two hundred and thirty-
     eight acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``South 
     Providence Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-262).
       (42) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately fifty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty-one 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Providence 
     Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-263).
       (43) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately forty-three thousand five hundred and nineteen 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Castle Peaks 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-266).
       (44) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty-
     four acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Fort 
     Piute Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-267).
       (45) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately one hundred sixteen thousand four hundred and 
     eighty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Turtle Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-307).
       (46) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately sixty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty-
     three acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Chemehuevi Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-
     310).
       (47) Certain public lands in the Yuma, Arizona District of 
     the Bureau of Land Management, located in California, which 
     comprise approximately nine hundred and thirty-eight acres, 
     as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Chemehuevi/Needles 
     Addition Proposal'', dated June 1988 (AZ-050-004).
       (48) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, located in California, 
     which comprise approximately seventy two thousand sixty-three 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Whipple 
     Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-312).
       (49) Certain public lands in the Yuma, Arizona, District of 
     the Bureau of Land Management, located in California, which 
     comprise approximately one thousand three hundred and forty-
     three acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Whipple Mountains Addition Proposal'', dated June 1988 (AZ-
     050-010).
       (50) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately seventy-five thousand six hundred and sixty-
     five acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Palen/
     McCoy Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-325).
       (51) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately fifty-two thousand seven hundred and eighty-two 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Coxcomb 
     Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-328).
       (52) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately fifty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-four 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Eagle 
     Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-334).
       (53) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately forty-seven thousand one hundred and forty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Santa Rosa 
     Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-341).
       (54) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately seven thousand one hundred and ninety-nine 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Mecca Hills 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-343).
       (55) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-eight thousand two hundred and seven 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Orocopia 
     Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-344).
       (56) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately fifty-seven thousand thirty acres, as generally 
     depicted on a map entitled ``Chuckwalla Mountains Proposal'', 
     dated June 1988 (CDCA)-348).
       (57) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-one thousand four hundred and ninety-
     three acres, including eight hundred and ninety-one acres 
     adjacent to the Wilderness Study Area, as generally depicted 
     on a map entitled ``Julian Wash (formerly Indian Pass) 
     Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-355).
       (58) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately five thousand four hundred and fifty-five 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Gavilan 
     (formerly Picacho Peak) Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-
     355A).
       (59) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-five thousand seven hundred and sixteen 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``North 
     Algodones Dunes Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-360).
       (60) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-six thousand one hundred and twenty-
     eight acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Jacumba Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-368).
       (61) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately fifteen thousand three hundred and fifty-nine 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Fish Creek 
     Mountains Proposal'', dated June 1988 (CDCA-372).
       (62) Certain public lands in the Carson City, Nevada, 
     District of the Bureau of Land Management, located in 
     California, which comprise approximately five hundred and 
     fifty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Carson 
     Iceberg Proposal'', dated June 1988 (NV-030-532).
       (b) The acreages cited in this Act are approximate. In the 
     event of discrepancies between acreages cited in this Act and 
     the acreages depicted on the referenced maps, the maps shall 
     control.
       Sec. 5. As soon as practicable after enactment of this Act, 
     a map and a legal description for each designated wilderness 
     area and area added to the National Park System shall be 
     filed by the Secretary with the Committee on Energy and 
     Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the 
     Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of 
     Representatives, and each such map and legal description 
     shall have the same force and effect as if included in this 
     Act: Provided, That correction of clerical, and cartographic 
     errors in each such legal description and map may be made. 
     Each such map and legal description shall be on file and 
     available for public inspection in the Offices of the 
     Director and California State Director, Bureau of Land 
     Management, Department of the Interior.
       Sec. 6. (a) Subject to valid existing rights, each 
     wilderness area designated by section 4(a) of this Act shall 
     be administered by the Secretary of the Interior in 
     accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act (16 
     U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) and pursuant to the rules and 
     regulations promulgated in implementation thereof.
       (b) The following lands are hereby added to the National 
     Park System:
       (1) Certain public lands in the California Desert District 
     of the Bureau of Land Management, California, which comprise 
     approximately one hundred and three thousand eight hundred 
     acres, as described in the Bureau of Land Management's 
     Monument Environmental Impact Statement, 1989, and generally 
     depicted on maps entitled Proposed Additions to National Park 
     System Death Valley National Monument, 1989, are hereby 
     incorporated in, and shall be deemed to be a part of Death 
     Valley National Monument.
       (2) Certain public lands which comprise approximately four 
     thousand eight hundred acres, as described in the Bureau of 
     Land Management's Monument Environmental Impact Statement, 
     1989, and generally depicted on a map entitled: Proposed 
     Addition to National Park System Joshua Tree National 
     Monument, 1989, are hereby incorporated in, and shall be 
     deemed to be a part of Joshua Tree National Monument.
       (c) Upon enactment of this title, the lands described in 
     subsection (a) of this section, are, by operation of law and 
     without consideration, transferred to the administrative 
     jurisdiction of the National Park Service. The boundaries of 
     the California Desert District; Death Valley National 
     Monument and Joshua Tree National Monument are adjusted 
     accordingly. The areas added to the National Park System by 
     this section shall be administered in accordance with the 
     provisions of law generally applicable to units of the 
     National Park System.
       (d) The Secretary shall, within a reasonable period of 
     time, prepare plans to manage each designated wilderness 
     area.
       (e) For purposes of this Act, any reference in the 
     Wilderness Act to the effective date of that Act shall be 
     deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this Act.
       Sec. 7. Any lands within the boundaries of a wilderness 
     area established by this Act that are acquired by the United 
     States after the date of enactment of this Act 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. 8. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, and 
     subject to valid existing rights, all Federal lands 
     established as wilderness by this Act and all lands within 
     wilderness areas designated by this Act which are hereafter 
     acquired by the United States are hereby withdrawn from all 
     forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public 
     lands laws, including the mining, mineral leasing, geothermal 
     leasing, and material sales laws.
       Sec. 9. (a) Nothing in this Act designating lands as 
     wilderness shall constitute or be construed to constitute 
     either an express or implied reservation of water or water 
     rights for wilderness purposes. The United States may acquire 
     such water rights as it deems necessary to carry out its 
     responsibilities on any lands designated as wilderness 
     pursuant to the substantive and procedural requirements of 
     the laws of the States of California and Nevada as 
     appropriate.
       (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit the 
     exercise of water rights as provided under California and 
     Nevada State laws as appropriate.
       Sec. 10. (a) 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.
       (b) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to restrict, 
     forbid, or interfere with demilitarization activities and the 
     overflight of military aircraft over areas designated in this 
     Act as the components of the National Wilderness Preservation 
     System.
       (c) The designation by this Act of wilderness areas in the 
     State of California shall not restrict military overflights 
     of wilderness areas for the purposes of military testing and 
     training.
       (d) The fact that military overflights can be seen or heard 
     shall not preclude such activities over the wilderness areas 
     designated by this Act.
       (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to restrict, 
     forbid, or interfere with demilitarization activities at 
     Sierra Army Depot which is located adjacent to areas 
     designated in this Act as components of the National 
     Wilderness Preservation System and the fact that such 
     demilitarization activities can be detected from within the 
     adjacent wilderness areas shall not preclude such activities.
       Sec. 11. In recognition of the past use of portions of the 
     wilderness areas designated by this Act by Indian people for 
     traditional cultural and religious purposes, the Secretary 
     shall assure access to the wilderness areas by Indian people 
     for traditional cultural and religious purposes. In 
     implementing this section, the Secretary, upon the request of 
     an appropriate Indian tribe or Indian religious community, 
     may from time to time temporarily close to general public use 
     one or more specific portions of wilderness areas in order to 
     protect the privacy of religious cultural activities in such 
     areas by Indian people. Any such closure shall be made so as 
     to affect the smallest practicable area for the minimum 
     period necessary for such purposes.
       Sec. 12. The Congress finds and directs that all public 
     lands in the State of California administered by the Bureau 
     of Land Management have been adequately studied for 
     wilderness designation pursuant to sections 202 and 603 of 
     the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and those 
     lands not designated as wilderness by this Act are no longer 
     subject to the requirements contained in section 603 of the 
     Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 for management 
     of wilderness study areas in a manner that does not impair 
     the suitability of such areas for preservation as wilderness 
     and shall be managed for their other resource values in 
     accordance with land management plans developed pursuant to 
     the Federal Land Policy and Management Act; or as part of the 
     National Park System pursuant to section 6 of this Act.
       Sec. 13. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
     as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
  Mr. LEWIS of California (during the reading). Mr. Chairman, I ask 
unanimous consent that the amendment in the nature of a substitute be 
considered as read and printed in the Record.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
California?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Chairman, I will not at this point take 
all of my time.
  But this substitute presented to the House is by way of having some 
further discussion of the process that we have been going through here 
relative to the way this committee has chosen to bring this bill to the 
floor.
  First and foremost, I think my colleagues are aware of the fact that 
this legislation has a very long history in the House. This substitute 
is a reflection of much of that history. It was almost a decade ago 
that legislation was passed by this House that suggested that the 
California desert problems in terms of wilderness potential and park 
designation involved some very, very complex questions, and they were 
questions that should not be taken lightly by a committee or by action 
of the House. And so the House went out of its way, including this 
committee under different leadership, went out of its way to establish 
a commission that was given the charge to evaluate the problems of the 
California desert and to bring back recommendations to the House.
  That commission, made up of environmentalists, of grazers, recreation 
users, all citizens who care about the desert, understand it, and have 
an interest in it, that commission, over the 6 years of its meetings, 
took some 40,000 individual inputs, spent $10 million of the taxpayers' 
money, and at the very end of that process, a very small group within 
the environmental community were not happy with the way the bill went 
together, and so they created their own image of the West introduced by 
way of legislation, and eventually was picked up by Senator Feinstein.
  This bill brought by the committee to the floor is somewhat of a 
clumsy reflection of those years of efforts and the aftermath of that 
effort. Indeed, it is important for the Members to know the House has 
acted in the past and, indeed, the House has during this process over 
the last several weeks acted in a very positive fashion as well.
  The committee brought to the floor legislation that was a reflection 
of those extremes of which I have spoken.
  I must say that the House has been more than generous in recognizing 
that the committee had been arbitrary in terms of their dealings with 
the Members, the five Members of the House who were elected to 
represent the desert. In that process, the House decided to listen to 
those Members as we went forward with the debate.
  I could not be more pleased with both the dialog and discussion that 
has swirled around a number of the amendments that we have had, and in 
that discussion, it has caused the House to rather significantly 
improve the bill by changing the committee action. It is because of 
that that some of my colleagues are going to discuss further the past 
action of the House and the commission report which is my substitute.
  Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Lewis 
substitute which is also sponsored by all Members who represent the 
California desert.
  The Lewis substitute would essentially implement the recommendations 
of the BLM for the California desert, or designate approximately 2.3 
million acres of wilderness and parks.
  The professional land managers at the BLM spent 15 years and $8 
million and considered over 4,000 public comments in developing the 
recommendations which are known as the California desert plan.
  This plan has been endorsed by former Interior Secretaries Cecil 
Andrus, a Democrat, and James Watt, a Republican, and is clearly a 
compromise by all affected parties.
  H.R. 518 is clearly a thinly veiled attempt to replace the California 
desert plan with the wish list of the national preservation groups. 
H.R. 518 triples the acreage in wilderness and parks that was 
recommended by BLM.
  Mr. Chairman, I think the biggest waste of money we see in this 
Interior Committee or Natural Resources, we now call it, is in 1964 we 
passed the wilderness bill, and the wilderness bill and the FLPMA bill 
said the Forest Service, Park Service, the BLM would take it upon 
themselves to study these various areas. Then they would make a 
recommendation to Congress.
  Well, if we have ever wasted money, that is the biggest waste we have 
ever seen. In my home State, they spent $8 million. I have been 14 
years in Congress. I have been part of every wilderness bill that has 
passed.
  I have yet to see only one, which I was the sponsor of, that stayed 
even close to the recommendation of the entity, of the agency.
  So I really think what we ought to do, as we pass this bill, is the 
next bill we ought to agree on, with my friends on the other side, let 
us take national parks, let us take BLM, let us take Forest Service out 
of it. Why just throw this money down the drain? Because nobody pays 
any attention to it.
  Here is a classic example of the gentleman from California. Here we 
spent all of that money and we just ignore it. We trample it as if it 
is not even there.
  What an utter waste of money that the American taxpayers should see. 
True, it is the prerogative of Congress. But why do we go through this 
exercise, when we listen to them in a hearing for 15 minutes, we shove 
them out the door? Why do we even have these people?

  It is to me one of the biggest wastes I have ever seen in my years in 
Congress.
  To give you an example, in Utah the BLM exhaustive wilderness review 
mandated by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, found 1.9 
million acres of land suitable of wilderness as per the designation in 
the 1964 bill. The Utah delegation on a bipartisan basis has been 
trying to enact legislation, largely following these recommendations. 
Unfortunately, we have a freshman Member who comes in and put three 
times that amount who had never been west of the Mississippi River, if 
you can believe it, never seen the ground, but he thinks he ought to do 
it.
  Moreover, preservation groups who felt the BLM should have identified 
more land suitable for wilderness persuaded their friends and 
administration to force the BLM to treat it as nonwilderness, which 
flies in the face of the recommendations that came out from Andrus to 
Mr. Lujan.

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  In other words, they want to politically manipulate recommendations 
made by career civil servants who are professional land managers, BLM, 
and so forth. If I have learned anything from this bill, I think the 
first thing we should do is do away with waste of money, because we 
ignore it. It is a ``make us feel good'' thing. It is like the Brady 
bill, we all feel good even though it accomplishes nothing.
  Mr. Chairman, I speak in strong support of the Lewis amendment, which 
is a good amendment and recognizes the will of the people and all of 
the career people who worked so diligently to come up with their 
particular piece of legislation.
  Mr. HUFFINGTON. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. HANSEN. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. HUFFINGTON. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise to briefly revisit an issue the House considered 
recently regarding the unique land exchange included in this bill, 
specifically those provisions that would have granted to the Catellus 
Development Corp. exclusively an extremely beneficial preference.
  Mr. Chairman, it causes me great concern that this provision, such a 
patently unfair special interest, found its way into the bill in the 
first place. Over the past few months I have tried to gain an 
understanding of how this legislative gift for one politically 
influential company came to be written into the bill. Unfortunately, my 
inquiries were never fully answered. Now we are on the verge of final 
passage.
  I hope between now and the completion of the conference report we 
will finally learn how such a sweetheart deal was put into the bill. 
The American people have a right to see how back-room deals get made.
  Mr. Chairman, I include additional information in the Record at this 
point.
  The Desert Protection Act is perhaps one of the most important single 
pieces of wilderness legislation to come before the 103d Congress. This 
bill, proposed in the House by Congressman Richard Lehman and in the 
Senate by Senator Dianne Feinstein, also carries national implications. 
For, as presently drafted, that bill will determine how the Federal 
Government acquires land for public parks and whether the U.S. 
Department of the Interior gives fair treatment to landowners large and 
small.
  With all this at stake, last spring I instructed my staff to begin a 
thorough review of the bill: who stands to benefit the most, and who 
stands to lose.
  One the surface, treated superficially, the bill seems a 
straightforward proposition: transfer millions of acres of land in 
California into protection of the National Park System.
  But that is on the surface. And, here the surface is deceptive.
  Beneath the surface, a different story emerges.
  In fact, on close examination, H.R. 518 and its companion bill in the 
Senate, Senator Feinstein's S. 21, appear to be not dissimilar from a 
lot of legislation that has come out of Washington lately: down in the 
bowels of legalese formulations, can be found a pot of gold for a 
special interest, a very big--but little visible--payoff for a very 
large private company with excellent political connections.
  This bill provides for a major bailout, at taxpayer's expense, of a 
corporation owned in significant part by people who neither live nor 
work in California and indeed by many who neither live nor work in the 
United States.
  What first caught my eye was a section of the proposed legislation 
that took an extraordinary step: it directed the Secretary of Interior 
to treat a private corporation, the Catellus Development Corp. of San 
Francisco, CA, in a very preferential way.
  Now we all know that special language for specific industries is put 
into State and Federal legislation from time to time, but very few 
actually put the name of the corporate beneficiary right in the bill. 
Yet this is exactly what occurred here, albeit in small print.
  As I set about to learn more about this Catellus Corp., my study 
turned up some very, very disturbing questions. These questions are not 
only disturbing for their implications to the American taxpayer but are 
also disturbing for the nearly 1 million members of the California 
Public Employees Retirement System.

  Catellus, you might say, is the child of big railroads. Back in the 
1980's the Santa Fe Pacific Corp. needed money. It had just distributed 
one of the largest stock dividends in its history, $30 per share, and 
Santa Fe was heavily in debt, looking hard for money to pay for this 
largesse.
  The biggest single stockholder in Santa Fe was Olympia & York Corp., 
a giant Canadian real estate firm that has built several projects in 
the United States including a $1.5 billion hotel and office complex in 
downtown San Francisco, a bid they won not long after Dianne Feinstein 
became mayor of that city.
  Olympia & York received $30 for each of its shares in that 1988 
dividend.
  The head of Olympia & York, a Canadian named Paul Reichmann, 
suggested to the head of Santa Fe that they take some of the railroad's 
vacant land and form a development company. Santa Fe had millions of 
acres, a good deal of it in my State or California.
  What was interesting about this land, and what is so important to 
understand in voting on this bill, is where Santa Fe got these acres. 
It didn't pay for them. This land was free. This land was a gift of the 
U.S. Government.
  The land Santa Fe placed in the Catellus Development Corp., some 1 
million acres, was part of the land the U.S. Government gave the 
railroads in the 19th century. Santa Fe has had the advantageous use of 
this free Government land for nearly a century. Some of it the railroad 
used for rights of way, on other acres Santa Fe has developed rich gold 
and mineral deposits.
  Some of the land Santa Fe placed in Catellus is very valuable, a 
sliver of it on the coast, old rail yards and track areas in cities 
like San Francisco and San Diego. But, the bulk of the acreage is 
remote, in the desert or in the mountains and the land value of this 
remote portion is in question--to say the least. Some land experts 
think the land is close to worthless.
  So Catellus was born. It had a sliver of valuable land and a lot of 
desert. In 1989, the Santa Fe-Olympia & York managers of Catellus set 
out to raise money. Tye found two sources, and one was the members of 
the California Public Employees Retirement System, often called 
CALPERS; the other an insurance company.
  CALPERS is one of the largest pension funds in the country, a major 
investor in some of the best known publicly traded corporations in the 
United States, with nearly a million shareholders and over $80 billion 
in investments.
  But at the time, Catellus wasn't publicly traded and CALPERS's 
initial investment was what they call a private placement. It bought 
19.9 percent of Catellus at nearly $38 a share, an investment of $398 
million.
  From day one this was an unusual investment for CALPERS. It was, to 
begin with, the first speculative real estate company that CALPERS had 
invested in and one of the largest single investments it has ever made 
in anything but well known, Fortune 500, publicly traded firms.
  In addition to the investment of CALPERS, Catellus borrowed another 
$71 million from the pension fund and about $400 million from the 
Prudential Insurance Co., so even before it went public it had raised 
nearly $1 billion in funds.
  Now this is where they story becomes very interesting for anybody 
voting on this bill, paying taxes in the United States, or relying on 
CALPERS for his or her retirement.
  When I looked at documents Catellus had filed with the Securities and 
Exchange Commission over the years, it looked to me as if that money, 
approximately a billion dollars, didn't stay very long at Catellus. It 
was ``upstreamed'' to Santa Fe. Upstreamed is Wall Street talk for 
sending it to the home office. In this case, Chicago and Toronto. It 
went to help Santa Fe unload the debt it had incurred in paying the 
dividend, and it went to pay the dividend that Olympia & York, Santa 
Fe's biggest single stockholder had received 2 years earlier.
  In a sense, Santa Fe-Olympia & York had figured out a way to sell the 
free land they got from the Government. They sold it for approximately 
$1 billion to Catellus.
  The members of CALPERS may have thought they were in the Catellus 
Development Co. to develop real estate in California, but it looked as 
if the money that they had invested had soon gone elsewhere.
  Next, Santa Fe spun off Catellus. This is more Wall Street jargon. It 
gave every single stockholder in Santa Fe one free share of Catellus 
stock for every four shares of Santa Fe they owned.
  This meant that Olympia & York got 14 percent of this new company, 
Catellus, as well as the $30 dividend it enjoyed at Santa Fe.
  Then, in the fall of 1990, Catellus stock began to trade publicly on 
the New York Stock Exchange. It was at this moment that nearly 1 
million California public employees relying on CALPERS got a rude 
shock, that is, if they were paying attention. The Catellus shares 
began to trade not at the $38 a share, the price paid by CALPERS, but 
at $11 a share, less than one third the price.

  Other investors were more wary than the people who run CALPERS. 
Catellus stock which traded briefly at $11 a share has hardly ever 
traded at more than $8 a share and yet CALPERS has had $400 million 
invested in this company for nearly 5 years.
  How was such an investment made? A man named David Elder, a member of 
the California State Assembly, tried to find out back in December 1990. 
He held a hearing on this deal. I've read the transcript of that 
hearing. It shows he couldn't get a straight answer.
  But he was told a couple of interesting things: a major real estate 
management firm from Chicago named JMB Realty got $7.96 million from 
CALPERS to put CALPERS into this not-so-good investment and JMB gets 
nearly $2.5 million a year to watch the investment dwindle away. Two 
officials for JMB received $15,000 apiece to serve on the board and 
$1,000 a board meeting to attend.
  I've tried to get answers with no more success than Dave Elder. I 
sent a letter to Clatellus raising questions about my concerns. I've 
entered a copy in the Record. I've also entered the answer of James G. 
O'Gara, a senior vice president.
  But I've taken another step.
  The CALPERS decision to invest in Catellus smacks of something darker 
than poor judgment. It suggests that whoever made these decisions at 
CALPERS in 1988 and 1989 needs to explain just how and why they 
departed from cautious investment policy to enter this deal.
  I have sent a formal request to the chairman of the board of CALPERS 
asking for a full investigation. That request is attached for the 
Record. If CALPERS wants the U.S. taxpayer to bail Catellus out by 
making an expensive and extraordinary land swap, I want an explanation 
of why CALPERS can't recover its losses from the Santa Fe. From Olympia 
& York. Or from JMB.
  Moreover, I want to know why Senator Dianne Feinstein has seen fit to 
sponsor this bill as her maiden piece of legislation.
  I believe the people of California and the people of the United 
States have a right to know what has happened here.
  Catellus has not done well in these 5 years. Its major projects--like 
Mission Bay in San Francisco and Union Station in Los Angeles--are 
stalled.
  Earlier this year, Catellus's board fired its chairman, Andrew 
Schwartz. Schwartz, it was said in the press, had been handpicked for 
this job from a firm in San Diego. It appears Olympia & York than 
brought him to Canada to head another big project. I think Mr. Schwartz 
has some explaining to do before the U.S. taxpayers bail out Catellus.
  By now you can see why Catellus desperately, desperately needs money.
  This is where Congress and the U.S. taxpayer come in.
  Among the acres passed down to Catellus, the railroad's baby, are 
355,000 acres that would be covered by this bill.
  In section 609 of this bill as there was in section 610 of 
Feinstein's S. 21, there is a very unusual, very extraordinary, very 
nice little deal to help rescue Catellus:
  It would allow Catellus to swap any piece of its land for acres the 
Secretary of Interior holds. Catellus doesn't have to find something in 
California, it can choose land anywhere in 50 States.
  Ordinary citizens have to wait in line until the Department of 
Interior has enough money to buy them out and the Department is $9 
billion behind. But, through this swap Catellus can go to the head of 
the line.
  And, there's more.
  If Catellus doesn't like what it's offered, the Secretary of Interior 
will set up a bank and give Catellus credit. Catellus can use this 
credit to buy any kind of surplus or excess real estate from the U.S. 
Government being sold in California.
  This is a license to go hunting for the sweetest investments in the 
country.
  There's still more.
  If Catellus can't develop the surplus property or doesn't want to, it 
can sell these credits to anyone. It could sell its right to Olympia & 
York or anyone else, so that they could bid on U.S. Government property 
using Catellus's credit.
  What's this going to cost the American taxpayer? The estimates are 
all over the place, but I suggest that Catellus's modest guess at 
hearings that it could run as high as $189 million is low. I suspect 
that they think the amendment is worth millions more.
  My colleagues in the Senate did not buy Senator Feinstein's Catellus 
amendment. They knocked it out.
  But Congressmen Lehman and George Miller, the Democrats running 
things here, managed to keep it. All we could do was try to at least 
make the playing field even and give the small rancher, small landowner 
the same advantage.
  Throughout my research I kept wondering how such a preferential piece 
of legislation ended up in these two bills. Was Senator Feinstein not 
aware of the strange machinations at Catellus? Was Congressman Richard 
Lehman not aware? Why didn't they try to find out just who stood to 
benefit at Catellus before they offered this bailout?
  I confess I don't know the answer. But, I know we and the American 
taxpayer are entitled to an answer.
  In the course of this research, a very disturbing piece of evidence 
came into my hands. This is a letter from a vice president at JMB 
Institutional Realty Advisors, Inc., named Patrick J. Meara, to Dewitt 
Bowman, then chief investment officer at CALPERS.
  I am going to put the entire letter into the Record, but let me read 
you some portions:

       In November, 1991, the House passed an amended version of 
     the Act. Catellus was the only private landowner ``taken care 
     of'' in the bill. Management has worked with Congressman 
     Levine in developing the amendment. . . .
       Catellus planned on selling its desert land over at least 
     the next ten years. Desert sales were $5 million in the first 
     three quarters of 1991, representing 26 separate 
     transactions. With an average transaction size of $200,000, 
     Catellus would have to close more than 200 separate 
     transactions to sell the same land included under one 
     transaction through the Act.
       The Act creates a market for land which is very difficult 
     to sell in meaningful quantities. The area affected 
     represents nearly half of Catellus' desert land.
       Catellus can realize full value in a large transaction, 
     which often might carry ``bulk discount.''
       Catellus gets full benefit of land value appreciation 
     before 1996.
       Catellus management would certainly be interested in any 
     help (CAL)PERS might be able to offer in the Senate vote next 
     month.

  As it happened there was no Senate vote. But, 2 years later, Senator 
Feinstein made the introduction of the Desert Protection Act her first 
order of business as a Senator. Representative Lehman introduced it at 
the same time.
  Interestingly, the language they proposed was almost the same 
language Mr. Meara referred to when he said Catellus was ``taken care 
of'' in the 1991 bill.
  So, I ask again on behalf of the American taxpayer--was this 
legislation intended to ``take care of'' Catellus? Did those sponsoring 
legislation investigate where the $400 million of California public 
employees money had gone before they took care of Catellus? Did the 
officials of CALPERS help JMB lobby this bill?
                                                 JMB Institutional


                                        Realty Advisors, Inc.,

                              San Francisco, CA, December 5, 1991.
     Mr. DeWitt Bowman
     Chief Investment Officer CalPERS, 400 ``P'' Street, 
         Sacramento, CA.
       Dear DeWitt: Bill Ramseyer asked me to update you on recent 
     developments concerning the California Desert Protection Act 
     of 1991 (the ``Act''), formerly referred to as the Cranston 
     Act. This letter will brief you on the Act's history, the 
     amended bill passed by the House in November, and the Act's 
     impact on Catellus.
       History of the Act.
       Senator Cranston originally introduced the Act more than 
     five years ago, and until this year, the Act never made it 
     past the Subcommittee level. In previous forms, the Act would 
     have enabled the government to effectively take 200-300,000 
     acres of Catellus land for use as a wilderness area with no 
     means of compensating Catellus. Santa Fe Mineral Company 
     managed lobbying efforts to defeat the bill prior to 1990 on 
     behalf of the parent company.
       In 1990, Catellus management began handling the lobbying 
     efforts. Catellus saw opportunity in the Act, in that this 
     created a means of creating liquidity from its desert 
     holdings, which are scheduled for disposition. The challenge 
     was in structuring a means of compensation from the 
     government in a budget-pressured environment.
       The 1991 House Bill.
       In November 1991, the House passed an amended version of 
     the Act. Catellus was the only private landowner ``taken care 
     of'' in the bill. Management has worked with Congressman 
     Levine in developing the amendment. The amount of Catellus 
     land included in the wilderness area was increased to 400,000 
     acres out of the company's 875,000 acres owned in the desert. 
     The bill provided for compensation to Catellus in a somewhat 
     complicated manner, as follows:
       Through 1995, Catellus could in effect exchange its land 
     for developable land under the control of the U.S. Department 
     of Interior. Certain conditions make it unlikely any land 
     will be exchanged in this manner before 1996. In 1996, a 
     current law will expire which requires a ``pay as you go'' 
     concept for government expenditures.
       Beginning in 1996, the government will establish a ``credit 
     account'' for Catellus in an amount equal to Catellus' land's 
     then-current value, as determined through an appraisal 
     process. Catellus would then have the right to use its credit 
     account to bid for government property, using the account 
     just as cash. Catellus could sell its account to an outside 
     party if desired.
       The amended bill will be introduced in the Senate in 
     January 1992. I have enclosed a copy of the Congressional 
     Record, which includes a text of the bill before amendments 
     and a copy of the Catellus Amendment, which did pass.
       Impact on Catellus--
       In analyzing the impact of the Act on Catellus, it is 
     helpful to keep the following points in mind.
       As you may recall, Catellus' strategic plan envisions the 
     sale of its excess (i.e., agricultural, surplus, mountain and 
     desert) land, which represents 17% of the Company's real 
     estate value. Sales proceeds will be invested into new 
     development opportunities, thus creating appreciation in 
     Catellus' value.
       The pure land value today of Catellus holdings affected by 
     the Act is $40-50 million (less than 2% of the Company's real 
     estate value). By 1996, Catellus believes the land plus 
     underlying mineral value could be worth $100 to $200 million.
       Catellus planned on selling its desert land over at least 
     the next ten years. Desert sales were $5 million in the first 
     three quarters of 1991, representing 26 separate 
     transactions. With an average transaction size of $200,000. 
     Catellus would have to close more than 200 separate 
     transactions to sell the same land included under one 
     transaction through the Act.
       JMB believes the amended bill passed by the House is 
     extremely positive for Catellus based on the following:
       The Act creates a market for land which is very difficult 
     to sell in meaningful quantities. The area affected 
     represents nearly half of Catellus' desert land.
       Catellus can realize full value in a large transaction, 
     which often might carry a ``bulk discount''.
       A realistic means of creating liquidity in the investment 
     has been established by the Act, either through the 
     acquisition of developable land or by selling the credit 
     account.
       Catellus gets the full benefit of land value appreciation 
     before 1996.
       Catellus management would certainly be interested in any 
     help PERS might be able to offer in the Senate vote next 
     month. Please let me know of any thoughts you may have in 
     that regard. Also, feel free to call Darla Flanagan or me at 
     (415) 772-3500 if you need anything further.
           Sincerely,
                                                 Patrick J. Meara,
                                                   Vice President.
                                  ____

                                    Congress of the United States,


                                     House of Representatives,

                                    Washington, DC, June 22, 1994.
     Mr. James G. O'Gara,
     Senior Vice President, Catellus Development Corporation, San 
         Francisco, CA.
       Dear Mr. O'Gara: I appreciate the opportunity of being able 
     to meet with you on the issue of the Desert Protection Act 
     and the specific language regarding Catellus Development 
     Corporation.
       There are several questions that I would like to have 
     answered by noon next Monday, June 27, as we will probably be 
     voting on the bill next week. If your office could provide 
     the requested information by then, I would be most 
     appreciative.


                      financial status of catellus

       How many acres of land under the Desert Protection Act are 
     currently owned by Catellus?
       How many acres are being developed, able to be developed, 
     or cannot be developed?
       What is the value of the land, using the same breakdown as 
     question number two?
       How much revenue was generated by your desert holdings in 
     1993?
       Are there any appraisals of the land held by Catellus? If 
     so please provide my office with copies of them. Who 
     conducted them and per whose authority?
       Were there appraisals made when Santa Fe decided to spin 
     off its real estate into a separate company?
       Please provide my office with the appraisals conducted by 
     JMB in evaluating Catellus as an investment opportunity for 
     CALPERS.
       Do you have appraisals conducted by others which were used 
     in evaluating Catellus as an investment opportunity for 
     CALPERS?
       Do you have a report of the analysis conducted by the 
     Stephan Roulac Consulting Group? If so, please provide my 
     office with a copy of it.
       What other information was provided to CALPERS by Catellus 
     prior to the fund making its investment in Catellus? Please 
     provide my office with any relevant material.
       Does Catellus retain Roulac in any function?
       Did Catellus retain Roulac before it handled the assessment 
     for CALPERS and have you retained it since?


              how did calpers come to invest in catellus?

       Who first suggested Catellus as an investment opportunity 
     for CALPERS?
       Who was involved from Catellus/Santa Fe?
       Who represented CALPERS?
       Who represented JMB?
       Who represented Roulac?
       Did officials of Olympia & York take part in the CALPERS 
     investment process? If so, in what capacity?
       Did officials from Itel become involved? If so, who and 
     when?
       Were there any other entities, consultants, or individuals 
     involved with CALPERS' decision to invest in Catellus? If so, 
     please supply their names and roles.
       Did Santa Fe have any business dealings with JMB prior to 
     its being chosen as managing partner of the CALPERS 
     investment? Does JMB receive any fees, payments, rents, or 
     other financial remuneration from Catellus?


                         desert protection act

       Why did Santa Fe oppose the California Desert Protection 
     Act when it was first introduced in 1986?
       Why did Santa Fe continue to oppose the bill until 1990?
       What caused Catellus to support the bill?


                      catellus and olympia & york

       Does Catellus share any projects with Olympia & York? Are 
     you planning any?
       As the second largest shareholder, does Olympia & York 
     become involved in the management of Catellus?
       Why did Vernon Schwartz choose to join Olympia & York when 
     he stepped down from Catellus? Was his selection as chief 
     executive officer in 1988 directed or suggested by Olympia & 
     York?


                         Funds paid to santa fe

       Who decided to spin off Catellus from Santa Fe?
       Who decided how much money Catellus had to pay Santa Fe in 
     1988 and 1989? What was the process?
       How much money did Catellus pay to Santa Fe in 1988 and 
     1989?
       How much has been paid to Santa Fe since 1989?
       What was the tax sharing arrangement Catellus had with 
     Santa Fe?
       Why did Catellus pay approximately $7.6 million and $18.9 
     million to Santa Fe in 1991 and 1990, respectively, as part 
     of that tax sharing agreement?
       Is Catellus still encumbered by debt assumed in 1988 and 
     1989 and used to pay Santa Fe?


                           general questions

       What agents, representatives, etc. did Catellus retain to 
     draft and research language pertaining to Catellus in the 
     Desert Protection Act? Who directed the lobbying effort on 
     behalf of Catellus?
       Please provide any copies of drafts of Catellus language in 
     the bill and the correspondence by Catellus with any member 
     of Congress, staff aide, or California State officials and 
     legislators pertaining to the Catellus land swap.


                           specific questions

       Are any major shareholders of Catellus lobbying for the 
     bill? If so, who and through what mechanism?
       Has Catellus asked CALPERS to use its political influence 
     in California or in Washington, D.C. to gain support for the 
     bill?
       Has Catellus coordinated its political contributions with 
     Olympia & York, JMB, or any other investor in Catellus?
       How much money did Catellus direct to the campaigns of 
     former Representative Mel Levine, Senator Dianne Feinstein, 
     Representative Richard Lehman, and Representative George 
     Miller?
       Who from Catellus worked with Senator Alan Cranston's 
     office when the bill was first drafted? With Levine? Lehman? 
     Feinstein?
       The language in Senator Feinstein's bill is almost word for 
     word like an amendment to the 1991 bill proposed by 
     Representative Levine. Did Catellus prepare this langauge?
       Your company retains Assemblyman Willie Brown, the Speaker 
     of the California State Assembly. What work has he performed 
     for Catellus and its predecessors during the last 13 years? 
     How much did Catellus pay him in the years the Desert 
     Protection Act has been before the U.S. Congress (1986 
     through 1994)? Did he lobby members of Congress on behalf of 
     the Desert Protection Act? If so, please provide the dates, 
     times, and names.
       Is anyone else, including outside parties, working with 
     Senator Feinstein's or Representative Lehman's office on the 
     bill on Catellus' behalf?
       Who are your paid lobbyists on Capitol Hill and what was 
     their yearly remuneration for the years 1988, 1989, 1990, 
     1991, 1992, 1993, and 1994?
       Thank you for your assistance.
           Sincerely,
                                               Michael Huffington,
                                               Member of Congress.
                                  ____



                                                     Catellus,

                                                    June 27, 1994.
     By messenger.
     Hon. Michael Huffington,
     U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
       Dear Congressman Huffington: It was a pleasure to meet with 
     you last Tuesday to discuss Catellus' support for Section 609 
     of the California Desert Protection bill, H.R. 518. This 
     provision makes it possible to manage and protect nearly 10% 
     of the bill's wilderness and park areas, while protecting the 
     economic interests of the owner of the areas' private lands 
     and of its major shareholder, the California Public Employees 
     Retirement System (``CalPERS''). I am optimistic that after 
     you have had a chance to study the provision, you will 
     conclude that it deserves your support. Your vote for the 
     provision would not only be a vote for private property 
     rights but also a vote for California's 970,000 public 
     employees.
       The letter which you gave me at the conclusion of our 
     meeting contains a number of questions relevant to Catellus' 
     land ownership in the California Desert, the impact of H.R. 
     518 and earlier Desert protection proposals on its ownership 
     and the position taken by Catellus and its former parent 
     company, Santa Fe Pacific Corporation, with respect to these 
     proposals. I am pleased to provide you the following 
     information in response to these questions. You will find 
     attached to this letter statements given by Santa Fe Pacific 
     Corporation and by Catellus before Congressional committees 
     on H.R. 518 and earlier Desert protection proposals in 1987, 
     1989, 1991, 1992 and 1993.


            catellus land ownership in the california desert

       Catellus owns about 850,000 acres of land in the California 
     Desert. These lands were originally granted by the United 
     States to the Southern Pacific Railroad in the latter half of 
     the nineteenth century as an incentive to help finance the 
     construction of a transcontinental railroad. More recently, 
     the lands were held by Santa Fe Pacific Realty Corporation, 
     which had been a subsidiary of Santa Fe Pacific Corporation. 
     In 1989, Santa Fe Pacific Corporation sold nearly 20% of its 
     interest in Santa Fe Pacific Realty to CalPERS and in 1990 
     spun the remaining shares of the subsidiary off to its 
     stockholders. The company changed its name to ``Catellus 
     Development Corporation'' and it is now an independent, 
     publicly-held corporation traded on the New York Stock 
     Exchange. CalPERS has since increased its stock ownership in 
     Catellus to 41%.
       Catellus' California Desert lands have historically 
     supported a wide variety of development activities providing 
     income to Catellus. These include:
       Precious metal exploration and development,
       Oil and gas exploration and development,
       Geothermal development,
       Sand and gravel extraction for the construction of homes, 
     highways and office buildings, etc.,
       Solar power generation,
       Placement of rights-of-way for fiber optic cables, 
     pipelines, power lines, telephone lines and other utilities,
       Placement of communication sites for television and 
     transmitters with access roads in remote locations surrounded 
     by vacant lands free of electro-magnetic fields,
       Secret weapons testing,
       Grazing and forage for cattle and sheep,
       Agriculture, such as the growing of table grapes and
       Providing areas for off-road, recreational vehicles.


   the effect of california desert protection proposals on catellus 
                              landholdings

       The California Desert protection proposals pending in this 
     Congress, S. 21 and H.R. 518, place about 330,000 acres of 
     Catellus' Desert lands within the boundaries of the bill's 
     wilderness and national park units. This amounts to more than 
     65% of all of the private lands encompassed by the bill's 
     wilderness and park boundaries. California Desert protection 
     proposals introduced in earlier Congresses affected 
     approximately the same number of Catellus acres.
       Most of the Catellus acreage affected by these designations 
     is intermingled with federal lands in a checkerboard pattern 
     of ownership within which Catellus and the federal government 
     own every other section. This pattern of ownership results in 
     the placement of Catellus lands in wilderness or park 
     whenever the alternating federal sections are included within 
     the boundaries of these units.
       The practical effect of including Catellus's lands in the 
     Desert wilderness and park areas is to make it virtually 
     impossible to exercise the existing development rights in 
     those lands. This occurs for two reasons. First, federal 
     wilderness or park designation will subject development 
     activities within the areas to additional stringent 
     regulatory requirements designed to afford maximum protection 
     to wilderness and park values. These restrictions will make 
     development activities uneconomic. Second, should Catellus 
     attempt to conduct any development on these lands--
     notwithstanding these restrictions--it would be exposed to 
     costly litigation intended to frustrate any development and 
     stimulate adverse public reaction. The result will be that 
     the affected Catellus lands will suffer significant 
     diminution in value.


                           catellus' position

       Since 1987, when Catellus's former parent company, Santa Fe 
     Pacific Corporation, first submitted a statement on Senator 
     Cranston's S. 7, Santa Fe Pacific Corporation and then 
     Catellus have consistently taken the position that if 
     Congress places private lands in restrictive status, it 
     should ensure that the landowner is appropriately compensated 
     for the loss of use of the land. As Senator Bennett stated in 
     his additional views accompanying the Senate Energy and 
     Natural Resources Committee report on S. 21 in this Congress:
       [I]t is unfair to individual citizens for their government 
     to enact restrictive legislation and not compensate them for 
     the effect of those restrictions on their property.
       I am of the view that if we are prepared to impose those 
     restrictions in the ``national interest'', then the national 
     interest should demand that the landowner be compensated and 
     his land purchased if he wants to sell.
       S. Rept. No. 165, 103rd Congress, 1st Session, at 68-69 
     (1993).
       Both Santa Fe Pacific Corporation and Catellus suggested a 
     number of ways by which the Federal government could acquire 
     its Desert inholdings. Acquisition would not only provide 
     compensation to the landowner, but would also allow the 
     federal land managers to manage more efficiently its 
     checkerboarded federal lands and the intermingled private 
     lands for their wilderness and park values. Because the 
     Bureau of Land Management doubted it had enough land 
     classified for disposal under its jurisdiction in California 
     to exchange, we proposed that the Federal Land Policy and 
     Management Act's (``FLPMA'') prohibition on interstate 
     exchanges be relaxed and that surplus federal lands under the 
     jurisdiction of the General Services Administration be made 
     available for exchange.
       Catellus objected to the earlier Desert protection bills 
     because they failed to provide a realistic means by which 
     Catellus's lands could be acquired and Catellus could be 
     compensated.


             the house natural resources committee solution

       In the previous Congress, the House Natural Resources 
     Committee added a provision to the then pending Desert 
     protection bill, H.R. 2929, designed to enable the Secretary 
     of the Interior to acquire the State of California lands 
     included in the bill's wilderness and park designations. The 
     State of California Lands Commission manages these lands on 
     behalf of the State Teachers Retirement System. By a floor 
     amendment adopted without opposition, a similar provision 
     applicable to the Catellus lands was added to the bill when 
     the House passed the Desert protection bill in 1991.
       We believe that it is appropriate to treat the Catellus 
     lands in the same manner as the State lands. Just as the 
     State Lands Commission acts as a trustee for the benefit of 
     the State teachers in the management of the State land, 
     Catellus has a fiduciary responsibility to its largest 
     stockholder, the California public employees, in its 
     management of Catellus lands. Representative Jerry Lewis drew 
     this parallel during the House's consideration in 1991 of the 
     Catellus amendment:
       The Members should know that in this case the California 
     Teacher's Association has very sizable investments in 
     thousands of acres of land. The teachers have investments by 
     way of their retirement funds in thousands of acres of 
     lands, invested because they hoped they would be kept for 
     various natural resources to benefit their retirees. * * *
       As I understand, this amendment deals with public employees 
     who have a similar investment in acres of land. They invested 
     those retirement dollars in order to hope for future 
     potential resources that might be discovered. * * *
       Cong. Rec. H11396 (daily ed. Nov. 26, 1991).
       Section 609 of H.R. 518 reported by the House Natural 
     Resources Committee earlier this year is essentially the same 
     as the amendment adopted by the House in 1991. The provision 
     is two-pronged. First, it sets up a procedure which is 
     intended to facilitate an agreement or series of agreements 
     between Catellus and the Secretary of the Interior on land 
     exchanges. These land exchanges would permit the United 
     States to acquire Catellus landholdings included in the 
     bill's wilderness areas and parks and to compensate Catellus 
     by the transfer of federal lands under the jurisdiction of 
     the Secretary of the Interior. Exchanges would be governed by 
     FLPMA which requires that the fair market value of the land 
     to be transferred out of federal ownership equal the fair 
     market value of the private land to be acquired. Values would 
     be determined in accordance with standard appraisal 
     practices.
       To the extent that not all of Catellus' lands have been 
     acquired by exchange by 2004, the second prong of the 
     amendment directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish 
     an exchange account to acquire Catellus land. Under this 
     procedure, Catellus would transfer its lands to the United 
     States, just as it would in a land-for-land exchange, but 
     instead of receiving federal lands in return, it would obtain 
     exchange credits usable as payment for surplus federal 
     properties in the State of California offered in public 
     sales. These sales are designed according to existing law and 
     regulations to realize for the federal government the fair 
     market value of the property. The exchange account gives 
     Catellus no right to federal monies in payment for its lands.
       An important feature of section 609 of H.R. 518 is that it 
     directs the Secretary to consider lands outside the State of 
     California for possible exchange. Section 609 would allow the 
     Secretary of the Interior to negotiate an interstate land 
     exchange agreement with Catellus but would require that the 
     exchange be approved by a joint resolution of Congress before 
     it may take effect.
       The exchange account is patterned after similar accounts 
     established for the Cook Inlet Region, Incorporated (Sec. 12 
     of Public Law No. 94-204, 89 Stat. 1150 (January 2, 1976), 43 
     U.S.C. Sec. 1611 note) for the Haida Corporation (Sec. 15 of 
     Public Law No. 102-415, 106 Stat. 2123 (October 14, 1992)), 
     the Gold Creek Susitna Association, Incorporated (Sec. 20 of 
     Public Law No. 102-415, 106 Stat. 2127 (October 14, 1992)), 
     and for the private landowners within the Kaloko Honokohau 
     National Historical Park (Public Law No. 98-146, 97 Stat. 954 
     (November 4, 1983), 16 U.S.C. Sec. 396f). Our research 
     indicates that in all these instances, the exchange account 
     has proven to be an efficient and effective mechanism for 
     acquiring non-federal lands for national purposes and for 
     compensating the owners for the lands' value.


                     actions taken in this congress

       Senator Feinstein's Desert Protection bill introduced in 
     1993 included a provision identical to the Catellus provision 
     adopted by the House in 1991. However, in order to obtain the 
     votes needed to report the bill out of the Senate Energy and 
     Natural Resources Committee, Senator Feinstein agreed to the 
     deletion of the Catellus provision. Senator Hatfield had 
     opposed the provision because of his concern that it could 
     result in federal lands in his state of Oregon being 
     exchanged for Catellus' Desert inholdings. After the 
     provision was dropped, Senator Hatfield voted to report the 
     bill. Unfortunately, the Senate did not restore the provision 
     when it passed S. 21 last year.
       Congressman Lehman also included the Catellus provision in 
     H.R. 518 introduced in this Congress. The House Natural 
     Resources Committee amended the provision by limiting the use 
     of exchange credits to surplus federal property located in 
     the State of California.


                     congressman lewis' amendments

       Representative Jerry Lewis has proposed two amendments to 
     the Catellus provision contained in section 609 of H.R. 518. 
     The first would delete the provision altogether. By doing so, 
     his amendment would eliminate the only provision in the bill 
     which would compensate Catellus for making it possible to 
     create nearly 10% of the bill's wilderness and parks. We are 
     unable to understand Congressman Lewis' motivation. The 
     amendment is inimical to the interests of the public 
     employees and is clearly inconsistent with the concern he 
     expressed in 1991 for their investment in Catellus. It is 
     also detrimental to the interests of other private 
     property owners seeking the appropriation of scarce funds 
     for land acquisition, in that it increases the likelihood 
     that appropriated funds will eventually have to be used to 
     acquire the Catellus inholdings. We therefore urge you to 
     oppose the amendment.
       Mr. Lewis's second amendment extends the Catellus provision 
     to provide the same treatment to all other private inholders 
     in the designated areas. We have no objection to this 
     amendment, although we question whether the provision works 
     for the smaller inholders or whether they actually desire the 
     same treatment. As far as we know, none of those private 
     landowners has suggested that the provisions of FLPMA are 
     inadequate for the Secretary to negotiate an exchange or 
     purchase with them.
       Again, I appreciate the opportunity to have met with you to 
     explain the importance of section 609 to Catellus and to the 
     970,000 public employees who invested in Catellus.
           Sincerely,
                                                  James G. O'Gara,
                                            Senior Vice President.
                                  ____

                                    Congress of the United States,


                                     House of Representatives,

                                    Washington, DC, June 27, 1994.
     James G. O'Gara,
     Senior Vice President, Catellus Development Corporation, San 
         Francisco, CA.
       Dear Mr. O'Gara: Thank you for your letter of June 25, 
     which briefly addresses a few of the questions included in my 
     recent letter to you. Unfortunately, the vast majority of my 
     questions remain unanswered, and I would appreciate your 
     complete response to them as soon as possible.
       As this information is directly relevant to legislation 
     which the House of Representatives is currently considering, 
     I look forward to hearing from you soon.
           Sincerely,
                                               Michael Huffington,
                                               Member of Congress.
                                  ____

                                    Congress of the United States,


                                     House of Representatives,

                                    Washington, DC, July 19, 1994.
     Dr. William Crist,
     President of the Board, California Public Employees 
         Retirement System, Sacramento, CA.
       Dear Dr. Crist: As the Congressman from the 22nd District 
     of California, I have taken a great interest in the various 
     issues pertaining to the Desert Protection Act, currently 
     pending before the Congress. As you may be aware, the Desert 
     Protection Act contains a special interest provision for the 
     Catellus Corporation, in which the California Public 
     Employees Retirement System (CALPERS) has a major stake. I 
     have strongly opposed passage of that provision.
       As a result of my inquiries, certain information has come 
     to my attention that I feel compelled to share with CALPERS 
     as it relates to the vital interests of your members--a 
     subject of concern to me, as it is, of course, to CALPERS. I 
     would appreciate your careful and immediate review of these 
     disturbing facts as outlined below.
       As you know, in 1989 CALPERS initially invested $398 
     million for 20 percent of the common stock of the Catellus 
     Corporation, then a private real estate corporation owned by 
     the Santa Fe Pacific Corporation (Santa Fe). Indeed, through 
     purchases of preferred stock and the conversion of bonds, the 
     total amount invested to date in Catellus has risen to $544 
     million. The amount invested in common stock, $473 million 
     for 40 percent, is apparently one of the larger common stock 
     investments ever made by CALPERS.
       It appears that CALPERS first purchased Catellus stock for 
     $37.75 per share when the company was still private. Because 
     there was no public in market, CALPERS was limited in its 
     ability to sell its Catellus stock which, as a result, 
     increased the investment risk. This risk became painfully 
     evident when, less than one year later, Catellus became a 
     publicly traded corporation. Its stock first sold at only $11 
     a share and quickly dropped to $9, representing a 70 percent 
     decline from the price paid by CALPERS.
       In 1989, Catellus valued its developable and income 
     producing properties at $2.4 billion. At the end of 1993, 
     despite increasing its holdings, Catellus's properties were 
     worth only $1.4 billion. Even in 1989 when CALPERS invested 
     $398 million for 20 percent of Catellus's equity, the 
     company's book value was only $118.4 million.
       However, as an investment in Catellus was somewhat 
     speculative at best, that investment appears to differ 
     markedly from the sizable interests CALPERS has held in well-
     known American companies. At the end of each fiscal year from 
     1989 to 1993, the initial CALPERS investment in Catellus of 
     $398 million was only exceeded by equity investments in IBM, 
     Exxon Corporation, General Electric and AT&T. While CALPERS's 
     investment in publicly-traded companies appears prudent, its 
     investment in Catellus, a relatively unknown and financially 
     speculative real estate company, appears questionable at best 
     and underscores the need for review of the process by which 
     the pension fund came to invest so heavily in Catellus.
       It appears that CALPERS had at least two outside 
     consultants: Chicago-based JMB Realty Company, and the San 
     Francisco-based Roulac Consulting Group. As I understand it, 
     the JMB Realty Company received a fee of $8 million for 
     referring Catellus to CALPERS and continues to receive a 
     yearly management fee of $2.4 million from the pension fund 
     although its duties are not clear. It also appears unclear 
     what services were in fact provided by the Roulac Group and 
     what compensation was received.
       The facts detailed above raise serious questions concerning 
     the judgment of CALPERS in making the Catellus investment and 
     its impact on millions of California pensioners. I believe 
     therefore, that there is a need for an internal inquiry into 
     the process by which the decision to invest in Catellus was 
     taken. In such an inquiry, I suggest that one look into 
     circumstances of the sale of land by Santa Fe to Catellus 
     which was originally given to the railroad by the Federal 
     Government and the fees paid to JMB and others involved in 
     this investment, with a view to determining whether funds 
     could be recovered from the various corporate entities that 
     may have benefited at CALPERS's expense.
       I thank you for your attention to this matter and you have 
     my assurance of continued involvement to see that the 
     interests of the California retirees are not prejudiced.
           Sincerely,
                                               Michael Huffington,
                                               Member of Congress.

  Mr. VENTO. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of 
words.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to the Lewis of California 
amendment. This amendment--we have been working on this bill for a 
while, Mr. Chairman, as most Members know, and I think we are at the 
conclusion of it--the fact is that this amendment would really undo, 
disassemble the entire legislative proposal that we now have before us. 
It would eliminate the expansion of the parks that are in here, the 
designation of the new park; obviously, it would substantially reduce 
the amount of wilderness that is in the bill and which has been in the 
bills that have passed the House by a previous Congress. The fact is we 
spent a lot of time on this measure over the last 6 to 8 years.
  The commission that the gentleman refers to, which was set up in the 
early 1970's, obviously, events and circumstances have eclipsed 
whatever benefit and whatever judgments were made by that particular 
commission. It was probably a good intention on the part of Congress in 
the early seventies to set up the commission, but it did not work, it 
did not come together, it did not build the type of consensus and 
support that is necessary to in fact designate this California 
wilderness area, the California desert lands. It did not build up the 
type of legislative action. That is not unusual, but I think that is a 
failed model, that type of commission.
  We ought to think about that before we set up commissions, that 
expensive type of commission, and take it out of the hands of the BLM 
managers, the Park Service or the Forest Service, usually charged with 
the responsibilities to carry out studies. It was expensive and did not 
work. I think that is what is really at stake and what the gentleman's 
comments were here with regard to the commission.
  But this bill, to go back now and pick up a 15-year-old report that 
was controversial and unworkable at the time, and try to suggest that 
was going to be implemented in the law, especially after the Congress 
acted on more progressive measures and has a very progressive measure 
before them today, one that has been perfected. Some of the 
modifications, of course, Mr. Chairman, you realize and other Members, 
that I did not agree with, but nevertheless we are marching forward 
with that today, to see it enacted eventually into law after 
modifications with the Senate conferees.
  So I would hope we would reject this amendment. It fails to deal with 
many of the issues that we have. It is not responsive. It takes us back 
to the thrilling days of yesterday and not addressing where we are in 
1994.
  I think that the amendment simply does not do the job and deserves to 
be defeated, because of the tremendous work that has been done on this 
and the fact that it is a flawed amendment.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the Lewis amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.
  This is a very similar to a substitute offered by the gentleman from 
California, [Mr. Lewis] when the House considered the California desert 
legislation in the last Congress. That substitute was rejected by a 
wide margin, and this substitute should also be rejected.
  The substitute would designate some wilderness areas on BLM-managed 
public lands in the California desert and it would add some lands to 
the existing Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Monuments. However, 
it would omit from wilderness many important areas that would be 
protected under either the Senate-passed bill or the version adopted by 
the Natural Resources Committee. In addition, it totally omits the 
designation of a National Park System unit in the East Mojave Area.
  Earlier during our consideration of this bill there was considerable 
debate about the future management of the East Mojave. In particular, 
the LaRocco-Lewis amendment addressed the question of whether sport 
hunting should continue to be permitted on those lands.
  I did not support that amendment, Mr. Chairman. But on one point I 
was in complete agreement with the amendment's supporters. That point 
was that this is an area that should be under the management of the 
National Park Service.
  By adoption of the LaRocco amendment, the House, including the 
gentleman from California, [Mr. Lewis] has already shown clear support 
for placing those lands under the management of the National Park 
System. But this substitute would reverse that decision.
  The substitute also would undercut agreements that have been worked 
out on other aspects of the bill, including the one developed by 
Chairman Miller and Mr. Cunningham.
  The substitute also lacks many other important features of the Senate 
bill and the version reported by our committee;
  It fails to transfer lands to the State of California for expansion 
of the Red Rock Canyon State Park;
  It fails to establish a desert lily sanctuary, as would be done by 
the Senate bill and the version reported by the committee.
  It does not address the desire of the State of California to exchange 
its State school lands in the desert area for more developable lands, 
unlike the Senate bill and the version reported by the committee;
  Mr. Chairman, The Lewis substitute is an incomplete and inadequate 
product. After nearly a decade of hearings, discussion, and debate, the 
time has come for Congress to resolve the outstanding questions about 
the future management of the public lands in the California desert. The 
Senate bill and the bill reported by the Natural Resources Committee 
are comprehensive measures that would accomplish what needs to be done. 
This substitute falls far short, and it should be rejected.
  Mr. McCANDLESS. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number 
of words.
  Mr. Chairman, we have reached the final mile of the road on this long 
and arduous activity which I started with in 1975 as a Riverside County 
supervisor and as a person who has been born in and spent a great deal 
of his younger life in and most of his adult life in the desert. I must 
say in all candidness that those who are here and debating have 
characterized the current status of the desert as some type of a loose 
cannon in which everyone is taking advantage of a situation to the 
detriment of the desert and the environment surrounding it.
  Many of my friends belong to 4-wheel-drive recreational activity 
clubs and spend a great deal of time in the desert. These people are 
not wealthy people. They are just working people, businessmen who enjoy 
the desert and in so doing take along their families, spend the weekend 
camping.
  On many occasions they will handle in the desert some type of a 
project which actually results in the betterment of the desert.
  When we get involved with the desert plan, I was very appreciative 
that this came along, and those who took the many years that they did, 
Bob Mathias, Jerry Pettis, Shirley Pettis, others who were Members of 
Congress during that time, because they were addressing what I consider 
to be some of the needs of the desert properly.
  During that time I watched the activities of the formation of the 
Desert Protection Act and I then followed it very closely as a county 
board member of Riverside County, I monitored its evolution. If there 
ever was an activity which had a public forum, an input, better or more 
progressive or of more wide range than this particular activity, then I 
have yet to see such a thing take place.
  We have been led to believe here that if we do not pass the bill 
before us, that the desert is going to go to hell in a handbasket--
excuse the word, Mr. Chairman--and that it will degrade, become some 
type of a zoo for anybody who wishes to use it.
  I must take exception to that because we already have under the 
desert protection plan an activity that is in place, that has 
designated wilderness areas, that has designated this type of land use, 
that last designated that type of land use and, further, is patrolled 
by some 40-odd rangers under the jurisdiction of the BLM to enforce, 
when and where they can, over this vast area, the rules and regulations 
of the desert plan.
  Mr. Chairman, it is in force, it is there, it is on the ground, it is 
active. Not a bunch of people running across the desert with 
motorcycles, as many people would like you to picture.
  So when we talk about the extremes here, I have to relate to you a 
personal experience in that I took 2 full days by helicopter and toured 
the area with the then regional director of the BLM. In this helicopter 
we had our maps spread out and we went all through all the area in 
question, every cotton-picking square mile, almost. We looked at the 
wilderness area designation for this location, and I said to this 
gentleman, ``Let me understand, right down there is where we have a 
wilderness designation? And we have it on the maps,'' as Mr. Hansen 
said, ``a designation of wilderness.'' Well, then I said, ``I don't 
understand because you are telling me that wilderness is defined as a 
certain type of area which man has certain restrictive types of use 
in?'' Yes. I said, ``Well, there is a little house in that small canyon 
with a road leading off another road which leads off a larger road, and 
this area is going to be wilderness?'' Yes.
  That certainly does not fit the definition of wilderness as currently 
on the books.
  We found other areas all through the desert protection plan's 
locations, this same type of configuration. We no longer had 
wilderness, that man had been there, he had already gone through.
  These are the kind of things that kind of riled my blood a little bit 
because what we have in the way of an interpretation of ongoing and 
existing activity and those who use the desert as they have been 
outlined here by the opponents of our substitute amendment and the 
proponents of what we have in the way of a bill before us.
  Mr. Chairman, my time is limited, it has been limited, and so be it. 
I wanted to conclude by simply saying the desert is well, the desert is 
satisfied with what it has. The people who use it respect it. We are 
not a bunch of tramps running around like chickens with our heads cut 
off.
  I would suggest and certainly support the substitute offered by Mr. 
Lewis.
  Mr. LEHMAN. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of 
words, and I rise in opposition to the amendment and, hopefully, to 
bring the Members up to date on where we are right now in this process.
  The bill we have before us that, hopefully, we will be voting on very 
soon is similar to the bill that passed the House in 1991 and more 
recently the one that passed the Senate by a vote of 69 to 29.
  H.R. 518 is the product of a 18-year process that has been anything 
but exclusive. That process has included literally thousands of 
individual public comments and hundreds of changes to the original 
Desert Protection Act of 1987. We have held many hearings in Washington 
and in California on this bill. We have had 2 in 1987, one in 1989, 3 
in 1992 and 2 more in 1993.

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  The Committee on Rules granted an open rule on May 11, and there were 
45 amendments proposed to the bill, and during the 2\1/2\ months since 
then, Mr. Chairman, Members and their constituents have been treated to 
20 hours of lively debate. During that debate 22 amendments have been 
added to the bill. Some of them were in the Senate bill, and some of 
them were not.
  Looking at this bill today and the one that was originally 
introduced, we have eliminated 271,000 acres from wilderness. We 
eliminated 63,000 this year in committee. We have taken thousands more 
out here on the floor. We delete an additional 125 miles that was 
previously closed to off-road vehicle use, and I think we have 
aggressively tried to pursue the legitimate concerns regarding access 
to wilderness and park areas that are established by this legislation, 
and I suspect, as this bill goes to conference and individual problems 
come up, we will attempt to deal with them in the same vein.
  With respect to private property, Mr. Chairman, we have eliminated 
more than 90,000 acres of private lands from the boundaries of park and 
wilderness areas, provided assurances for reasonable access to private 
property, and provided protection for inholders from unreasonable 
treatment by the Park Service. We have also via amendment here on the 
floor assured landowners that the value of their land for purchase by 
the Federal Government will not be diminished by presence of an 
endangered species. We have given to individual landowners exchange 
mechanisms that apply to large landowners in the development bill, 
namely the Catellus Development Corp. and the State Lands Commission. 
We have also sent a clear message to inholders, especially those with 
land in the East Mojave: This bill will not prohibit you from building 
a house or adding an addition to your home if this is what you choose 
to do with your land. Activities on your lands will primarily be 
governed by State and county zoning laws.
  My colleagues, there can be no question that the desert is not the 
untouched, unspoiled land which was Yosemite or Yellowstone in the late 
1800s. The wheels of progress have churned forward and the region has 
been subject to a variety of multiple uses. However, the California 
desert remains one of the few oases of calm in a zone of urbanization 
and metropolitan sprawl. It is not the wasteland or giant mining pit as 
some would have us believe. It is an area inhabited by only the most 
hearty, some, including ranchers and homesteaders whose families have 
been there for generations. It is home to diverse people and species of 
animal and plant life as well as unique cultural and geographical 
features.
  Science dictates that the best way to protect this area for future 
generations to enjoy is to reduce certain extractive uses like mining 
and limit other heavy impacts. This management scheme contrasts with 
the requirements of other areas like the Sierra Nevada where active 
management is a necessity to sustain healthy forests and reduce threats 
of fire.
  According to economic figures developed by the National Park Service, 
this bill will total tax benefits of over $30 million per year. In 
addition, it will generate some 3,000 jobs and tremendous secondary 
economic benefits. H.R. 518 is a net job creator and will contribute to 
Federal, State and local treasuries. As one whose district includes two 
national parks, I can freely say that parks are priceless resources of 
which we need more, where warranted and properly and honestly debated 
here on the floor. I think it is high time we provided solid protection 
for this area.
  The substitute falls far short of this goal, and I want to say that 
the gentleman from California [Mr. Lewis] has fought hard here, and so 
have his allies. He has won some; he has lost some. I salute him for 
his efforts and certainly do not question his sincerity or dedication 
to his district and the values that he thinks ought to be maintained. 
But I suggest that years from now, when the history is written, it is 
going to be remembered that we at this moment had the foresight and the 
vision to act boldly to protect this vital area, this majestic and 
fragile area of our American landscape. The real beneficiaries of this 
bill are not the people that are in this room or not the people who are 
listening at home today. The real beneficiaries of this bill are people 
who are not yet born, who decades from now are going to enjoy the 
California desert and say, ``Thank God that Congress back then had the 
wisdom to protect this for us.''
  Mr. Chairman, I urge rejection of the substitute and passage of the 
bill.
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of 
words.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. HUNTER. I yield to the gentleman from California, my friend who 
has been our leader in opposing what we call the desert lockout bill.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Chairman, indeed it has been suggested 
throughout this debate by my colleague, the chairman, that somewhere 
near 75 percent of the people in California want this bill, that the 
reality is that that entire discussion has flowed around a question of:
  ``Do you want to have protection for the California desert?''
  Clearly, Mr. Chairman, 75 percent of the people want protection for 
our desert, but this bill, the question about this bill was asked of 
the people who live in, who work, who understand and love the desert 
the most, the people who were there, and this chart reflects their 
reaction to this specific piece of legislation, which, to say the 
least, is in excess well beyond anything that is needed regarding those 
who are concerned about the future of the desert. The substitute that 
we are considering here would, if passed, create the largest wilderness 
designation in the continental United States.
  I mean it is no small matter. It is well beyond that which is 
available in the continental United States at this point in terms of 
individual designation.
  Mr. HUNTER. Reclaiming my time, Mr. Chairman, for 1 second, just to 
reflect on what the gentleman has talked about with his chart up here 
that talks about 74 percent of the people in San Bernardino County 
objecting to the so-called Desert Protection Act. Now why would they do 
that? As my colleagues know, I think it is because the gentleman's 
constituents understand something that most Americans understand, and 
that is that the quality of our lives is largely a function of how much 
control we have over our lives, and they see this bill, not as 
something that protects the desert, but they see it as a function of 
the Federal Government taking away control from their lives.
  Over the last several weeks, Mr. Chairman, we have been debating this 
bill, I think with some pretty serious amendments, and we have talked 
about the freedom that is taken away from the gentleman's offroaders, 
those families who leave their work, mostly blue collar people, and 
drive every Sunday or Saturday out to their favorite place in the 
desert where they have spent literally years and years enjoying the 
desert in their particular place. Whether we are talking about the 
amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Nevada [Mrs. Vucanovich] that 
speaks to the fact that we are taking away the rights of our mining 
people, the people who have carried on our mining and mineral 
exploration heritage in the West, they are getting their rights taken 
away under this bill. The hunters who are getting their rights taken 
away under this bill, the people in the West understand this is part of 
President Clinton's war on the West. It is a war that is imposed by 
Government, and, like most of the artifices that the President and 
those who support him strongly use to take away power that Americans 
have and control that Americans have over their own lives, it is all 
done on the basis of giving them something, whether it is health care, 
where we give them security by taking away their choices with respect 
to medical care, or whether it is taking away their right to use the 
desert as they have used it for 100 years, doing it under the guise of 
protecting the desert, and I guess the people from San Bernardino 
County asked themselves a question: Protecting the desert from whom? 
And then they realize that President Clinton and the people who are 
proposing this bill are protecting the desert from them, the people of 
that county and the rest of the people of the United States who want to 
use this area.

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  So I thank the gentleman for his leadership on this debate we have 
had for a couple of weeks, and all the gentlemen who have participated 
in this debate, the gentlemen from California [Mr. McCandless], the 
gentleman from California [Mr. Thomas], the gentleman from California 
[Mr. McKeon], and the gentleman from Utah [Mr. Hansen] who has helped 
to run the debate. Thank you for making this strong point with the 
American people.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman will yield 
further, I asked for essentially additional time to make the point one 
more time; that is, the House has been extremely responsive to the 
interests and concerns of the Members who are elected to represent the 
desert by way of the debate that has gone before us. Several amendments 
have been passed by them as a result of their listening and 
participating that radically changed this legislation as it came from 
the committee, in broadly based bipartisan votes. The last major 
amendment passed involved a majority on both sides of the aisle, 
reflecting the reality that we needed to take steps to protect private 
property rights. The committee was not even willing to begin to listen 
to those concerns. The committee was extremely arbitrary with the 
Members from the desert, not willing to discuss this in any depth with 
us at all, despite the fact that 14 Members are freshmen Members and 
had never been through this debate before.
  In return, I want to express my deep appreciation to the House. The 
House has been responsive to all of us, and they shaped a better bill 
as a result of it. We are, as the chairman has suggested, well beyond 
this amendment at this point in time. The substitute is now a thing of 
the past.
  The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from California [Mr. Lewis] 
has expired.
  Mr. EVERETT. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the requisite number of 
words.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. EVERETT. I yield to the gentleman from California.
  Mr. LEWIS of California. Mr. Chairman, I would say to the chairman, 
we are well beyond this substitute, which was the work of a commission 
that spent a number of years evaluating the complexity of the problems 
in the desert and the west. There is little doubt that this legislation 
comes nowhere near reflecting the needs of those who would want to 
truly protect all of the resources of the desert. It is my view that in 
this process, I am hesitant to do what I was going to do, and I suggest 
that we are well beyond that commission report.
  I also suggest to the chairman that any communication at all, even 
today, would have had you know that no one was attempting to use up all 
kinds of extra time today. I do not remember on the floor when we had a 
motion to limit debate. It may have occurred sometime in the last 15 
years. But this is an outrageous exercise one more time of the kind of 
control that this committee likes to exercise.
  But, having said that, as we are beyond this amendment, I ask 
unanimous consent to withdraw the amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
California [Mr. Lewis]?
  There was no objection.
  The CHAIRMAN. Are there further amendments to the bill?
  Mrs. VUCANOVICH. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the 
substitute of our colleague from California and a Representative of the 
California desert area, Mr. Lewis.
  The Lewis substitute before us is the painstakingly formulated 
compromise plan for the management of the California Desert 
conservation Area which the 94th Congress dictated the Bureau of Land 
Management prepare in section 601 of the Federal Land Management and 
Policy Act of 1976.
  Mr. Chairman, FLPMA, the organic act for the BLM, is the public lands 
management bible for many Members from the other side of the aisle. 
FLPMA stands for retention of public lands rather than disposal as was 
the case generally prior to its passage. Yet, it is these very same 
Members that now wish to trash the mandate of section 601 because their 
environmentalist friends didn't get everything they wanted in the BLM's 
CDCA plan which was over a decade in the making.
  Mr. Chairman, the environmental community and miners, grazers, 
motorized recreationists, and other all had to compromise their desires 
in the BLM's plan. But the environmental special interest groups knew 
that if they didn't get everything they sought in the BLM plan, well, 
they would just go to their friends in the California delegation and 
win it back. That's what H.R. 518 is really all about. The Lewis 
substitute would say ``No'' to all interest groups. You had your shot 
to be persuasive in the administrative process that was many years in 
the making. The Lewis substitute is the congressional ratification of 
that process, and I support it fully.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Chairman, I move to strike the 
requisite number of words.
  Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the House for its persistence in 
sticking with us on this legislation. I deeply regret that this 
legislation had to be the subject of personal attacks on the chair of 
this committee, namely, me, because throughout the history of this 
legislation and the history of the Committee on Natural Resources, I 
have continued to run a very open committee, and any member of that 
committee could have offered any one of these amendments in committee 
and yet chose not to do that.
  The gentleman from California [Mr. Lehman] and the gentleman from 
Minnesota [Mr. Vento] have spent hours with their subcommittees on this 
legislation, as have the members of this committee. The gentleman from 
California [Mr. Dreier] likes to refer to me as Mr. Open Rule, because 
I continue to insist that these bills come before the House under an 
open rule. Clearly this bill has worn out its welcome on the floor, and 
that is why we put a time limitation on it.
  But I think we have developed the fact that this bill is necessary. 
As the gentleman who just spoke in the well said, we are way beyond the 
substitute that he was offering, way beyond the commission report, 
because when that commission report was issued, the difference between 
that and today is that California has 15 million more people. Open 
spaces and the utilization of those open spaces and the protection of 
those open spaces for the multiple uses that are in this bill is more 
and more difficult, but more and more urgent.
  Our colleague, the gentleman from California [Mr. Lehman], said it 
quite correctly. This bill, as all other bills that protect the 
wilderness of this country, that protect the national parks and create 
the national parks, will in the future again be recognized for what it 
did. It passed on as part of the heritage of this country the great 
natural assets to the next generation. We have the possibility with the 
designation of these areas as parks, with upgrading, if you will, the 
status of these lands, to start some rehabilitation where the lands 
have been abused, to change some uses from one area to another so the 
more sensitive areas can be protected, so that habitat can be 
protected, and so that the right of the public to access can be 
protected. Those who seek to use this for off-the-road vehicles, we 
have some 33,000 miles that they can use. We have to recognize mining. 
We must take some of these lands as we find them in 1994. This is not 
1894. We have had to grandfather existing mining operations in. It is 
good for the local economy. These people were there before. They have a 
right to continue those activities, and we have a right to preserve the 
lands around those to the best that we can.
  But what we could not allow is the continued unbridled misuse of many 
of these lands, and some are more critical than others. The misuse only 
comes by comparison to those lands and how frail they are. That is what 
the Committee on Natural Resources struggled with, that is what this 
House has struggled with, and I believe that when we pass this 
legislation, we will have done so successfully.
  It has been said time and again in this debate, and it is a fact, 
that the people of California overwhelmingly support the creation of 
these national parks. It has been said time and again that the people 
in the area do not exactly support the creation of these national 
parks. That would have been true when we created the Olympic National 
Park. That would have been true when we created Yellowstone, when we 
created the Everglades, when we created the Mojave, when we created the 
Grand Canyon, and, of course, when we created Yosemite.
  The people in the area kind of liked it the way it was. But we 
recognize that these were unique natural assets that are part of the 
heritage of this country, and they could not be squandered for timber 
interests, they could not be squandered for mineral interests, for oil 
interests, or for any single interest. They must be tried and preserved 
for the people of this Nation to enjoy. Whether those people come to 
these deserts or they come to our mountains or they come to the great 
canyons of this Nation, whether they come from the west coast or from 
the east coast or from the heartland of this country, they are entitled 
to have that heritage passed on, so that they can show it to their 
children and to their grandchildren, so that their grandchildren can 
show it to their grandchildren. And what the Desert Act points out is 
that unless we act now, we will not have that opportunity for the next 
generations.
  California is a very crowded place. If these deserts were not on the 
edge, on the virtual edge of massive populations, we might take a 
different approach.
  The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from California [Mr. Miller] 
has expired.
  (By unanimous consent, Mr. Miller of California was allowed to 
proceed for 3 additional minutes.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Chairman, but the fact is that these 
lands are on the edge of this huge, huge metropolitan population that 
seeks to use these lands, and rightfully so, as an outlet for their 
family activities, for their hobbies, for their exercise, for their own 
education, and for all of the other uses. That is what this act 
preserves. It preserves it in multiple uses, in multiple 
classifications, and for multiple access by the people of this Nation 
and the people of California.
  Let us also know that this bill has been under study for a 
considerable period of time, since the first recommendations in 1978 
and 1980, and during that time it has garnered the support of almost 
every newspaper in the State of California, suburban newspapers and 
urban newspapers, from San Bernardino County, from Inyo County, from 
San Diego, from Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, across the State.

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  Out of that opinion, out of that consensus, out of that support we 
have tried to put together a bill that would serve us well today and 
far, far into the future. It has been difficult. We have had to contend 
with these different uses.
  We had to contend with the fact that there are large landowners in 
the area that would like to get out of the area, that would like to 
move on. We had to contend with the fact that one of those cases, the 
Catellus Corp., the State's lands commission represented the 
investment, the savings, the future, the retirement of California's 
public employees, of its retired teachers. And we tried to find a way 
so that we could get them out of these areas should they decide to sell 
those lands.
  Somehow the gentleman from California [Mr. Huffington] sees those 
people as a special interest, people who should not be considered in 
this legislation, so that we cannot consider a means by which their 
retirement, their investments, their savings and their future can be 
considered as we transition the uses of these lands from one to another 
on a willing seller, a willing buyer basis. The same privilege that we 
have given to savings and loans and to corporations, somehow we were 
not going to give to the retired individuals in California.
  That is not a special interest. That is an interest that deserves to 
be taken care of and to be considered, at least, in this legislation as 
was the mining interest, as were the off-the-road vehicles, as were the 
campers, the rock hounds, the naturalists and everybody else, the 
military, all of those were the interests that make up the California 
desert.
  I would hope that my colleagues would support this legislation. It 
has been a lively debate, as the gentleman from California [Mr. Lehman] 
said, but I think we are right. I think we will create a product that 
not only has the overwhelming support of the House but of the Nation. 
It is compatible with the hard work, the stewardship and the effort 
that Senator Feinstein put into this legislation.
  The CHAIRMAN. The time of the gentleman from California [Mr. Miller] 
has again expired.
  (On request of Mr. Lewis of California and by unanimous consent, Mr. 
Miller of California was allowed to proceed for 2 additional minutes.)
  Mr. MILLER of California. Many said, after they threw out a Senator 
who built his career on rejecting this legislation, after the voters of 
California threw out a Senator that made the hallmark of his career his 
resistance to the Desert Act, she took this up. She took this up as a 
cause. And they said it would never come out of the Senate.
  The fact is, she was able to navigate this legislation through the 
Senate, to put it before us, and we are now acting in response to that.
  Over 69 Members of the Senate supported this on a bipartisan basis. 
We should do the same in this House. We should support this legislation 
on a bipartisan basis.
  Mr. Chairman, the California Desert Protection Act merits our 
support. Nearly identical to legislation which passed the House in the 
102d Congress, this bill designates almost 4 million acres as 
wilderness and transfers the existing 1.5 million acre East Mojave 
National Scenic Area from the Bureau of Land Management to the National 
Park System. In addition, the bill expands the existing Joshua Tree and 
Death Valley National Monuments by 234,000 acres and 1.3 million acres 
respectively, and redesignates the monuments as national parks.
  The California Desert Protection Act overwhelmingly passed the House 
in 1991 by a vote of 297 to 136. Since 1987, there have been 
approximately 15 hearings in Washington, DC and California on desert 
protection legislation. In this Congress, the Subcommittee on National 
Parks, Forests and Public Lands held a hearing June 15, 1993 on the 
bill we are considering today. The hearings have demonstrated the 
widespread support for desert protection from environmental 
organizations, cities, utilities, and scientists. A field poll taken 
last year showed that 71 percent of Californians favor National Park 
Service management in the existing East Mojave National Scenic Area.
  If the California Desert Protection Act is adopted, all existing uses 
of the desert will continue, sometimes in different areas under 
different management prescriptions. But there is no use of the desert 
land permitted today that will be precluded by enactment of this 
legislation.
  For those who like to backpack, the bill designates nearly 4 million 
acres of wilderness, and there are thousands of trail miles to walk 
along. All of the areas to be designated wilderness were classified as 
roadless by the Bureau of Land Management in its desert plan, and all 
of the areas qualify for wilderness, according to the BLM.
  For those who like to ride motorcycles and dune buggies, the 
legislation leaves open approximately 33,000 miles of roads, including 
18,000 miles of primitive routes and 15,000 miles of paved and 
unmentioned dirt roads. Approximately 430,000 acres of public land--an 
area approximately 10 times the size of Washington, DC--will remain 
open primarily for use as off-road play areas for trail bike and all-
terrain vehicle users.
  Of special interest to off-road vehicle users is the 61,630-acre 
South Algodones (pronounced ``Owl Go Dough Nays'') Dunes area which 
will remain open for motorcycle and other vehicle users. The previously 
passed House bill did not leave this area open.
  For those who presently enjoy the privilege of mining on public land, 
the legislation allows anyone with valid existing rights to continue 
operating. In addition, we exclude all known active mines within the 
park and wilderness areas designated by this bill.
  The privilege of grazing on public lands also will be permitted 
subject to existing laws and National Park Service regulations in Death 
Valley and Mojave National Parks.
  H.R. 518 also satisfies the concerns initially raised by utilities 
operating in the California Desert, including the Los Angeles 
Department of Water and Power, Southern California Edison, Southern 
California Gas Co., and the Metropolitan Water District. In addition, 
the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. owns and operates a natural gas 
pipeline known as line 300 on existing rights-of-way adjacent to but 
outside areas designated as wilderness. Since the right-of-way is 
outside any specific wilderness designation, statutory language with 
respect to its continued operation such as that included in the bill 
for other utility activities is unnecessary. It is our intent that the 
legislation will not affect the utility's operations, or the customary 
use and maintenance of the existing right-of-way.
  Mr. Chairman, the California Desert Protection Act has been debated 
in each successive Congress since 1986. And the debate existed as early 
as 1976 when Congress ordered the first study about future uses of the 
California desert. It is time to enact legislation so that all desert 
users--miners, hikers, educators, recreational vehicle users and 
others--will have some certainty about the future of the desert. At the 
same time as this legislation will preserve natural and scenic areas 
for the health, enjoyment and education of future generations, this 
legislation also maintains off-road vehicle recreational opportunities, 
and allows mining, grazing, and other activities to continue in 
specific areas.
  Mr. Chairman, the California desert encompasses 25 million acres--
approximately one-quarter the size of the State of California. Within 
the 25 million acres, there are three desert ecosystems known as the 
Sonoran, Mojave, and Great Basin, 90 mountain ranges, sand dunes as 
high as 700 feet, more than 2,000 species of plants and wildlife, and a 
wealth of archaeological sites.
  Every major newspaper in California including the Los Angeles Times, 
San Francisco Chronicle, San Bernardino Sun, Sacramento Bee and San 
Diego Tribune have expressed their support for the entire bill in 
general, or the Mojave National Park in particular.
  I commend Congressman Richard Lehman, the author of this legislation, 
as well as Subcommittee Chairman Bruce Vento who played a key role in 
crafting this legislation. In addition, former Senator Alan Cranston 
was instrumental in this effort as well.
  I encourage my colleagues to support this legislation.
  Mr. FAZIO. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of H.R. 518, the 
California Desert Protection Act. I believe that this legislation 
offers a compromise that respects the interests and the integrity of 
all those that use the California desert while continuing to protect 
the desert's unique natural resources.
  The bill we are debating here today is product of a peaceful accord--
not a line drawn in the sand. This bill represents literally years of 
debate and compromise.
  In the last Congress, we debated at length a similar measure. In this 
Congress, the careful consideration of this important piece of 
legislation continues. The bill has been debated at length. I want to 
praise the success of the members of the full committee and the 
subcommittee in providing an open forum for debate of the relevant 
issues. In addition, the Rules Committee has been extremely diligent in 
making sure that the debate today is ample yet focused.
  Mr. Speaker, this legislation will provide permanent protection and 
continued enhancement for a unique natural resource--the California 
desert. The bill designates wilderness areas on the Bureau of Land 
Management lands in the California desert, establishes three new 
national parks, and designates wilderness areas within those new parks. 
In all, the measure designates about 8 million acres of wilderness, 
making it the largest land conservation and protection measure since 
the 1980 Alaska Lands Act.
  Before we vote on final passage of this measure we will debate and 
vote on a host of amendments that cover the complete spectrum of 
interests at stake. We will look at the issue of roads and roadless 
areas. We will hear about military matters, especially the continuing 
use of military facilities and the impacts on military overflights. The 
contributions of Mr. Lehman and others ensure that law enforcement is 
not impaired by the legislation. We also ensure that the legislation is 
consistent with the needs of the Drug Enforcement Agency, the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Customs Service, and other 
Federal, State, and local law enforcement agencies.
  The bill and the amendments strive to find the proper mixture of 
continuing and new grazing arrangements that consider the suitability 
of grazing based on the site-specific analysis. Hunters and off-road 
enthusiasts have had and will have their concerns debated and addressed 
as well. Water rights, land exchanges, mining, and other management 
issues have all been thoroughly debated.
  In short, there are many issues in such an important piece of 
legislation. These issues have been thoroughly debated in subcommittee, 
in the full committee, and here today on the floor. I am impressed with 
the thoroughness of the discussion. While not everyone will be happy 
with the ultimate outcome, everyone has had the opportunity to make 
their case in an open and fair forum.
  This balanced legislation is the result on a reasonable process. 
While some seek confrontation by drawing a line in the sand, I believe 
that the process has produced a sound and principled piece of 
legislation.
  Mr. BROWN of California. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased once again to 
offer my support for H.R. 518, the California Desert Protection Act. 
After many years of effort on the part of those who appreciate the 
special qualities of the California desert we have the opportunity to 
grant to present and future generations of our citizens a unique and 
beautiful ecosystem for their benefit and enjoyment. The desert is a 
fragile system. It requires and it deserves our protection.
  Over the years, the expansion of communities in southern California 
has brought many benefits, but as a result the fragile desert ecosystem 
in this region has come under increasing pressure. I have long believed 
that unless we acted to protect this special resource that it would be 
destroyed. Assertions have been made on the House floor during the 
various debates that this legislation is solely supported by non-
Californians and Californians who are from areas outside the desert 
region. This is not true. As a native of southern California, I grew up 
in the desert, and I fully support the California Desert Protection 
Act.
  In 1978 I had the honor of sponsoring the original bill in Congress 
that sought to establish the east Mojave as a national scenic area. 
While this bill was not enacted, in 1980 this region of the California 
desert was designated the Nation's first national scenic area by the 
Secretary of the Interior.
  I feel a special attachment to these lands as a native Californian, 
born and raised in the desert of Imperial County. I think that all 
people to some degree feel that they belong to the land and that the 
land belongs to them. Especially the land of the region in which they 
live. But we must remember that the land which is the subject of this 
debate is land that is owned by all of the American people and not only 
by the citizens of California. I realize that not all of us will be 
able to enjoy a completely free range of activities on these lands. 
Some of us will bear a disproportionate part of the immediate costs of 
these restrictions. But, I believe that the preservation of this 
delicate system, complete with its specialized array of plant and 
animal life will in the long run provide an immeasurable benefit to the 
majority of us. This debate and the passage of this legislation can 
serve as a first step in the creation of alternative and lasting 
possibilities in this region. As the populations of southern California 
grows and our communities expand we need to explicitly reserve areas 
for contemplation, reflection, and recreation. We need these national 
parks and wilderness areas.
  There are those who suggest that we may be the last generation to 
have the privilege to make choices about resource use and protection. 
Let us choose to pass on the mystery and beauty of the California 
desert to our children and theirs by passing the California Desert 
Protection Act.
  Mr. THOMAS of California. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate this opportunity 
to speak on the California desert proposal, H.R. 518. Though the number 
of the bill has changed, unfortunately, its content is substantially 
the same as that of H.R. 2929 from the 102d Congress. As a result, I 
must once again express my opposition to this legislation and urge all 
Members to instead support H.R. 2379, the Lewis substitute.
  Contrary to what the sponsors of H.R. 518 would have everyone 
believe, their bill does not represent a compromise, nor does it 
represent how land management decisions should be made. Certainly the 
concerns of my constituents, and of others who actually live, work and 
recreate in the desert, have not been given adequate consideration in 
the development of this legislation. In fact, all four of the members 
of the California delegation who represent areas directly affected in 
H.R. 518 are opposed to the bill.
  The real compromise is the bill I am supporting, H.R. 2379, which 
protects not only the California desert, but the jobs of many who rely 
on the desert for their livelihood. The drafting of H.R. 2379 involved 
the kind of public input decisionmaking process that should be employed 
when major land use decisions are made. It represents the culmination 
of 15 years' effort to identify areas suitable for wilderness 
designation in accordance with a congressionally mandated plan, and 
takes into account the concerns of all groups interested in the 
desert's future.
  H.R. 2379 is the result of 100 public hearings, 16 environmental 
impact statements, mineral surveys and 40,000 comments reflecting the 
views of all who use the desert. This study surveyed 7.1 million acres 
of public land throughout California, and concluded that 4.8 million of 
those acres did not qualify for designation as wilderness because of 
existing roads and other factors. Therefore, through this process and 
as a result of public input, H.R. 2379 provides for the appropriate use 
and protection of public land in California, and designate 2.3 million 
acres of true wilderness.
  In marked contrast, H.R. 518 appears to make raw acreage figures, not 
wilderness values or consideration of other interests, the primary 
determinant for deciding on wilderness. There are numerous sections of 
this bill that demonstrate how a public process would better serve our 
needs. I want to mention some of these problems to show what happens 
when the balanced approach is ignored.
  The legislation creates wilderness and park land out of areas I never 
dreamed would be considered wilderness because they include sewage 
ponds, the Coachella water canal, private homes, abandoned trailer 
parks and areas with frequently used roads. When I helped produce the 
current Golden Trout, Machesna Mountain and Los Padres wilderness 
areas, I never thought it appropriate to include these kinds of things.
  The bill creates hundreds of thousands of acres of inholdings--
parcels of private and/or state property within the new wilderness and 
park areas. Inholdings, as anyone experienced with land use legislation 
knows, are a nightmare for the property owner and the Government. It 
will cost hundreds of millions of dollars to buy these people out. In 
many instances we do not have Federal land we can exchange for these 
properties.
  This bill also ignores the mineral potential of the California 
desert. Eighty-one different minerals can be recovered from the desert. 
The bill's authors do not even know what they are asking you to give 
up. Of the 7 million acres covered by H.R. 518, for example, 5 million 
acres have never been surveyed for minerals. Domestic industries that 
rely on minerals found in abundance in the California desert will have 
to seek other sources of supply both in the United States and abroad.
  For such reasons, H.R. 581 is not a compromise. It is clearly based 
on acreage rather than a thorough examination of the various interests 
and uses involved in the California desert. The wisdom of Congress' 
decision to mandate the process by which Bureau of Land Management 
conducted an exhaustive, thorough study of the California desert 
clearly shows that listening to all the public's interests and blending 
all of the factors included in the desert's future is the best way to 
reach a lasting agreement.
  Like the authors of H.R. 518, we are all seeking to achieve the same 
goal: Protection of a unique and remarkable resource. Millions of 
Americans use the California desert every year under current 
conditions. In order to ensure that all Americans and their children 
have a chance to enjoy and benefit from this resource in the future, we 
need to enact truly balanced legislation, the kind of product that H.R. 
518 clearly does not represent.
  Those of us who represent the California desert do not accept H.R. 
518 and as a result I urge all members to support H.R. 2379, which does 
represent the real compromise developed over years of effort.
  The CHAIRMAN. The question is on the committee amendment in the 
nature of a substitute, as amended.
  The committee amendment in the nature of a substitute, as amended, 
was agreed to.
  The CHAIRMAN. Under the rule, the Committee rises.
  Accordingly the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
Swift) having assumed the chair, Mr. Peterson of Florida, Chairman of 
the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, reported 
that that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 518) 
to designate certain lands in the California Desert as wilderness, to 
establish the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the 
Mojave National Monument, and for other purposes, pursuant to House 
Resolution 422, he reported the bill back to the House with an 
amendment adopted by the Committee of the Whole.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the rule, the previous question is 
ordered.
  Is a separate vote demanded on any amendment to the committee 
amendment in the nature of a substitute adopted by the Committee of the 
Whole? If not, the question is on the amendment.
  The amendment was agreed to.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the engrossment and third 
reading of the bill.
  The bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time, and was 
read the third time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. VENTO. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a 
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not 
present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 298, 
nays 128, not voting 8, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 357]

                               YEAS--298

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Andrews (ME)
     Andrews (NJ)
     Andrews (TX)
     Applegate
     Bacchus (FL)
     Baesler
     Barca
     Barcia
     Barlow
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Beilenson
     Bereuter
     Berman
     Bevill
     Bilbray
     Bishop
     Blackwell
     Blute
     Boehlert
     Bonior
     Borski
     Boucher
     Brewster
     Browder
     Brown (CA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant
     Byrne
     Cantwell
     Cardin
     Carr
     Castle
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coleman
     Collins (IL)
     Collins (MI)
     Condit
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Coppersmith
     Costello
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Danner
     Darden
     de la Garza
     Deal
     DeFazio
     DeLauro
     Dellums
     Derrick
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Dooley
     Dunn
     Durbin
     Edwards (CA)
     Ehlers
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Farr
     Fawell
     Fazio
     Fields (LA)
     Filner
     Fingerhut
     Fish
     Flake
     Foglietta
     Ford (MI)
     Ford (TN)
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (CT)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frost
     Furse
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Geren
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Glickman
     Gonzalez
     Gordon
     Goss
     Green
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Hall (OH)
     Hamburg
     Hamilton
     Harman
     Hastings
     Hayes
     Hefner
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hoagland
     Hobson
     Hochbrueckner
     Holden
     Horn
     Hoyer
     Hughes
     Hutto
     Inslee
     Jacobs
     Jefferson
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson (SD)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnston
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kennedy
     Kennelly
     Kildee
     Kleczka
     Klein
     Klink
     Klug
     Kopetski
     Kreidler
     LaFalce
     Lambert
     Lancaster
     Lantos
     LaRocco
     Laughlin
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lehman
     Levin
     Lewis (GA)
     Lipinski
     Livingston
     Lloyd
     Long
     Lowey
     Machtley
     Maloney
     Mann
     Manton
     Margolies-Mezvinsky
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mazzoli
     McCloskey
     McCrery
     McCurdy
     McDade
     McDermott
     McHale
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek
     Menendez
     Meyers
     Mfume
     Miller (CA)
     Mineta
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Montgomery
     Moran
     Morella
     Murphy
     Murtha
     Nadler
     Neal (MA)
     Neal (NC)
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Owens
     Pallone
     Parker
     Pastor
     Payne (NJ)
     Payne (VA)
     Pelosi
     Penny
     Peterson (FL)
     Peterson (MN)
     Petri
     Pickett
     Pickle
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Poshard
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quillen
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Ravenel
     Reed
     Regula
     Reynolds
     Richardson
     Ridge
     Roemer
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rose
     Rostenkowski
     Roukema
     Rowland
     Roybal-Allard
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Sangmeister
     Santorum
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Schaefer
     Schenk
     Schiff
     Schroeder
     Schumer
     Scott
     Serrano
     Shays
     Shepherd
     Sisisky
     Skaggs
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (IA)
     Smith (NJ)
     Snowe
     Spratt
     Stark
     Stokes
     Strickland
     Studds
     Stupak
     Sundquist
     Swett
     Swift
     Synar
     Tanner
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Tejeda
     Thompson
     Thornton
     Thurman
     Torkildsen
     Torres
     Torricelli
     Towns
     Traficant
     Tucker
     Unsoeld
     Upton
     Valentine
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Volkmer
     Walsh
     Washington
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Weldon
     Whitten
     Williams
     Wilson
     Wise
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wyden
     Wynn
     Yates
     Zimmer

                               NAYS--128

     Allard
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus (AL)
     Baker (CA)
     Baker (LA)
     Ballenger
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bateman
     Bentley
     Bilirakis
     Bliley
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bunning
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Canady
     Chapman
     Clinger
     Coble
     Collins (GA)
     Combest
     Cox
     Crane
     Crapo
     Cunningham
     DeLay
     Dickey
     Doolittle
     Dornan
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Edwards (TX)
     Emerson
     Everett
     Ewing
     Fields (TX)
     Fowler
     Gallegly
     Gekas
     Gingrich
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Grams
     Grandy
     Gunderson
     Hall (TX)
     Hancock
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hoekstra
     Houghton
     Huffington
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inglis
     Inhofe
     Istook
     Johnson, Sam
     Kasich
     Kim
     King
     Kingston
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kyl
     Levy
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (FL)
     Lewis (KY)
     Lightfoot
     Linder
     Lucas
     Manzullo
     McCandless
     McCollum
     McHugh
     McInnis
     McKeon
     McMillan
     Mica
     Michel
     Miller (FL)
     Molinari
     Moorhead
     Myers
     Orton
     Oxley
     Packard
     Paxon
     Pombo
     Quinn
     Roberts
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Roth
     Royce
     Sarpalius
     Sensenbrenner
     Shaw
     Shuster
     Skeen
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (OR)
     Smith (TX)
     Solomon
     Spence
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Stump
     Talent
     Taylor (NC)
     Thomas (CA)
     Thomas (WY)
     Vucanovich
     Walker
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Zeliff

                             NOT VOTING--8

     Brooks
     Gallo
     Hoke
     Matsui
     Nussle
     Sharp
     Slattery
     Wheat

                              {time}  1355

  Mr. SARPALIUS changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Mr. QUILLEN changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
  So the bill was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 
422, I call up from the Speaker's table the Senate 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, and ask for its immediate consideration in the House.
  The Clerk read the title of the Senate bill.
  The text of S. 21 is 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.


               motion offered by mr. miller of california

  Mr. MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 
422, I offer a motion.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. Miller of California moves to strike all after the 
     enacting clause of S. 21 and insert in lieu thereof the 
     provisions of H.R. 518 as passed by the House, as follows:
  Strike out all after the enacting clause, and insert:
     That this Act may be cited as the ``California Desert 
     Protection Act of 1994''.


                          findings and policy

       Sec. 2. (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--WILDERNESS ADDITIONS


                                findings

       Sec. 101. 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.


                       designation of wilderness

       Sec. 102. 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. If at any time 
     within 15 years after the date of enactment of this Act the 
     Secretary of the Navy notifies the Secretary of the Interior 
     that permission has been granted to use lands within the area 
     of the China Lake Naval Air Warfare Center for installation 
     of a space energy laser facility, and that establishment of a 
     right-of-way across lands within the Argus Range Wilderness 
     is desirable in order to facilitate access to the lands to be 
     used for such facility, the Secretary of the Interior, 
     pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
     1976, may grant a right-of-way for, and authorize 
     construction of, a road to be used solely for that purpose 
     across such lands, notwithstanding the designation of such 
     lands as wilderness. So far as practicable, any such road 
     shall be aligned in a manner that takes into account the 
     desirability of minimizing adverse impacts on wilderness 
     values.
       (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 two hundred acres, as generally depicted 
     on a map entitled ``Bighorn Mountain Wilderness--Proposed'', 
     dated September 1991, 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 May 1991, 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, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately eighty-four thousand four hundred acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Cady Mountains 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated July 1993, and which shall be 
     known as the Cady Mountains Wilderness.
       (10) 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.
       (11) 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.
       (12) 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 Peak Wilderness--Proposed 1'' 
     and ``Chimney Peak Wilderness--Proposed 2'', dated May 1991, 
     and which shall be known as the Chimney Peak Wilderness.
       (13) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately one hundred fifty-eight thousand nine hundred 
     and fifty acres, as generally depicted on two maps entitled 
     ``Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 1'' and 
     ``Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 2'', dated 
     January 1989, and which shall be known as the Chuckwalla 
     Mountains Wilderness.
       (14) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     thirty-four thousand three hundred and eighty acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Cleghorn Lakes 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated September 1991, 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 and utilities within the area depicted as 
     ``nonwilderness road corridor'' on such map.
       (15) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately forty thousand acres, as generally depicted on 
     a map entitled ``Clipper Mountain Wilderness--Proposed'', 
     dated May 1991, and which shall be known as Clipper Mountain 
     Wilderness.
       (16) 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.
       (17) 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.
       (18) 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.
       (19) 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.
       (20) 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'', dated February 1986 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.
       (21) 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.
       (22) 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.
       (23) 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.
       (24) 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.
       (25) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Grass Valley 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated February 1986 and which shall 
     be known as the Grass Valley Wilderness.
       (26) 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.
       (27) 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.
       (28) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-four thousand and fifty-five acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Indian Pass 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1994, and which shall be 
     known as the Indian Pass Wilderness.
       (29) 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 five thousand and twenty 
     acres, as generally depicted on three maps entitled ``Inyo 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', numbered in the title one 
     through three, and dated May 1991, and which shall be known 
     as the Inyo Mountains Wilderness.
       (30) 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.
       (31) 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.
       (32) 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 May 1991, and which shall be known as the 
     Kiavah Wilderness.
       (33) 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'', numbered in the title one 
     through four dated May 1994, and which shall be known as the 
     Kingston Range Wilderness.
       (34) 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.
       (35) 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.
       (36) 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.
       (37) 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.
       (38) 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.
       (39) 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.
       (40) 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.
       (41) 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.
       (42) 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.
       (43) 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.
       (44) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately one hundred forty-six thousand and seventy 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Old Woman 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 1'', dated May 1994 and a map 
     entitled ``Old Woman Mountains Wilderness--Proposed 2'', 
     dated October 1991, and which shall be known as the Old Woman 
     Mountains Wilderness.
       (45) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately fifty-seven thousand four hundred and eighty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Orocopia 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1994, and which 
     shall be known as the Orocopia Mountains Wilderness.
       (46) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area and the Bakersfield District, of the Bureau of Land 
     Management, which comprise approximately seventy-four 
     thousand six hundred and forty acres, as generally depicted 
     on a map entitled ``Owens Peak Wilderness--Proposed 1'', 
     dated February 1986, and two maps entitled ``Owens Peak 
     Wilderness--Proposed 2'' dated February 1986 and ``Owens Peak 
     Wilderness--Proposed 3'', dated May 1991, and which shall be 
     known as the Owens Peak Wilderness.
       (47) 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.
       (48) 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.
       (49) 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.
       (50) 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.
       (51) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately seventy-two thousand six hundred acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Piper Mountain 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1991, and which shall be 
     known as the Piper Mountain Wilderness.
       (52) 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.
       (53) 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.
       (54) 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.
       (55) 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.
       (56) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately twenty-seven thousand seven hundred acres, as 
     generally depicted on a map entitled ``Rodman Mountains 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated January 1989, and which shall 
     be known as the Rodman Mountains Wilderness.
       (57) 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.
       (58) 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.
       (59) 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.
       (60) 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.
       (61) 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.
       (62) 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 ``Sheep 
     Hole Valley Wilderness--Proposed 1'', dated July 1993, and 
     ``Sheep Hole Valley Wilderness--Proposed 2'', dated July 
     1993, and which shall be known as the Sheephole Valley 
     Wilderness.
       (63) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately forty-four thousand four hundred and ten acres, 
     as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Slate Range 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated October 1991, and which shall 
     be known as the Slate Range Wilderness.
       (64) 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.
       (65) 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.
       (66) 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.
       (67) 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.
       (68) 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.
       (69) Certain lands in the California Desert Conservation 
     Area, of the Bureau of Land Management, which comprise 
     approximately thirty-three thousand seven hundred and twenty 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Trilobite 
     Wilderness--Proposed'', dated May 1991, and which shall be 
     known as the Trilobite Wilderness.
       (70) 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.
       (71) 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.


                   administration of wilderness areas

       Sec. 103. Subject to valid existing rights, each wilderness 
     area designated under section 102 shall be administered by 
     the appropriate Secretary 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.


                                grazing

       Sec. 104. Within the wilderness areas designated under 
     section 102, the grazing of livestock, where established 
     prior to the 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 108 of Public Law 96-560 (16 U.S.C. 133 note).


                              buffer zones

       Sec. 105. 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 
     shall not, of itself, preclude such activities or uses up to 
     the boundary of the wilderness area.


                      mining claim validity review

       Sec. 106. The Secretary of the Interior shall not approve 
     any plan of operation prior to determining the validity of 
     the unpatented mining claims, mill sites, and tunnel sites 
     affected by such plan within any wilderness area designated 
     under section 102, and shall submit to Congress 
     recommendations as to whether any valid or patented claims 
     should be acquired by the United States, including the 
     estimated acquisition costs of such claims, and a discussion 
     of the environmental consequences of the extraction of 
     minerals from these lands.


                    filing of maps and descriptions

       Sec. 107. As soon as practicable after enactment of section 
     102, a map and a legal description on each wilderness area 
     designated under this title shall be filed by the Secretary 
     concerned with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 
     of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
     House of Representatives, and each such map and 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 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 is appropriate.


                           wilderness review

       Sec. 108. (a) The Congress hereby finds and directs that 
     except for those areas provided for in subsection (b), the 
     public lands in the California Desert Conservation Area, 
     managed by 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. 1782), and are no longer 
     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.
       (b) 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 acres, as generally 
     depicted on a map entitled ``Avawatz Mountains Wilderness--
     Proposed'', dated May 1991.
       (2) 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.
       (3) 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.
       (4) 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.
       (5) Certain lands which comprise approximately thirty-nine 
     thousand seven hundred and sixty acres, as generally depicted 
     on a map entitled ``Kingston Range Potential Future 
     Wilderness'', dated May 1994.
       (c) 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, 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).


                  designation of wilderness study area

       Sec. 109. In furtherance of the provisions of the 
     Wilderness Act, certain public lands in the California Desert 
     Conservation Area of the Bureau of Land Management which 
     comprise eleven thousand two hundred acres as generally 
     depicted on a map entitled ``White Mountains Wilderness Study 
     Area--Proposed'', dated May 1991, are hereby designated 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.


                           suitability report

       Sec. 110. 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.


 wilderness designation and management in the national wildlife refuge 
                                 system

       Sec. 111. (a) 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) Subject to valid existing rights, the wilderness areas 
     designated under this section 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 and any reference to the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
     be deemed to be a reference to the Secretary of the Interior.
       (c) As soon as practicable after enactment of this section, 
     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 Senate and Natural Resources and 
     Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the 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. 112. Law Enforcement Access.--Nothing in this Act, 
     including the wilderness designations made by this Act, may 
     be construed to preclude Federal, State, and local law 
     enforcement agencies from conducting law enforcement and 
     border operations as permitted before the enactment of this 
     Act, including the use of motor vehicles and aircraft, on any 
     lands designated as wilderness by this Act.
       Sec. 113. Fish and Wildlife Management.--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 fish and wildlife on the public 
     lands located in that State. 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 and shall 
     include the use of motorized vehicles by the appropriate 
     State agencies.

                  TITLE II--DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK


                                findings

       Sec. 201. 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 and 
     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.


              establishment of death valley national park

       Sec. 202. There is hereby established the Death Valley 
     National Park, as generally depicted on 23 maps entitled 
     ``Death Valley National Park Boundary and Wilderness--
     Proposed'', numbered in the title one through twenty-three, 
     and dated May 1994 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.


                  transfer and administration of lands

       Sec. 203. 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 202 
     of this title, without consideration, to the administrative 
     jurisdiction of the Director of the National Park Service for 
     administration as part of the National Park System. The 
     boundaries of the public lands and the national parks shall 
     be adjusted accordingly. The Secretary shall administer the 
     areas added to the National Park System 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. 
     1-4).


                       maps and legal description

       Sec. 204. 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 Energy and 
     Natural Resources Committee of the Senate and the Natural 
     Resources Committee of the 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 
     202. 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.


                               withdrawal

       Sec. 205. Subject to valid existing rights, the Federal 
     lands and interests therein added to the National Park System 
     by this title are withdrawn from disposition under the public 
     land laws and from entry or appropriation under the mining 
     laws of the United States, from the operation of the mineral 
     leasing laws of the United States, and from operation of the 
     Geothermal Steam Act of 1970.


                 study as to validity of mining claims

       Sec. 206. The Secretary shall not approve any plan of 
     operation prior to determining the validity of the unpatented 
     mining claims, mill sites, and tunnel sites affected by such 
     plan within the additions to the park and shall submit to 
     Congress recommendations as to whether any valid or patented 
     claims should be acquired by the United States, including the 
     estimated acquisition costs of such claims, and a discussion 
     of the environmental consequences of the extraction of 
     minerals from these lands.


                                grazing

       Sec. 207. (a) 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) 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.


             Death Valley National Park Advisory Commission

       Sec. 208. (a) The Secretary shall establish an Advisory 
     Commission of no more than 15 Members, to advise the 
     Secretary concerning the development and implementation of a 
     new or revised comprehensive management plan for Death Valley 
     National Park.
       (b)(1) The advisory commission shall include an elected 
     official for each County within which any part of the park is 
     located, a representative of the owners of private properties 
     located within or immediately adjacent to the park, and other 
     members representing persons actively engaged in grazing and 
     range management, mineral exploration and development, and 
     persons with expertise in relevant fields, including geology, 
     biology, ecology, law enforcement, and the protection and 
     management of National Park resources and values.
       (2) Vacancies in the Commission shall be filled by the 
     Secretary so as to maintain the full diversity of views 
     required to be represented on the Commission.
       (c) The Federal Advisory Committee Act shall apply to the 
     procedures and activities of the advisory commission.
       (d) The advisory commission shall cease to exist ten years 
     after the date of its establishment.
       Sec. 210. Boundary Adjustment.--In preparing the maps and 
     legal descriptions required by sections 204 and 502, the 
     Secretary shall adjust the boundaries of the Death Valley 
     National Park and Death Valley National Park Wilderness so as 
     to exclude from such National Park and Wilderness the lands 
     generally depicted on the map entitled ``Porter Mine 
     (Panamint Range) Exclusion Area'' dated June 1994.

                  TITLE III--JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK


                                findings

       Sec. 301. 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.


               establishment of joshua tree national park

       Sec. 302. There is hereby established the Joshua Tree 
     National 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.


                  transfer and administration of lands

       Sec. 303. 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 302 
     of this title, without consideration, to the administrative 
     jurisdiction of the Director of the National Park Service for 
     administration as part of the National Park System. The 
     boundaries of the public lands and the national parks shall 
     be adjusted accordingly. The Secretary shall administer the 
     areas added to the National Park System 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. 
     1-4).


                       maps and legal description

       Sec. 304. Within six months after the enactment of this 
     title, the Secretary shall file maps and legal description of 
     the park designated by this title with the Energy and Natural 
     Resources Committee of the Senate and the Natural Resources 
     Committee of the 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.


                               withdrawal

       Sec. 305. Subject to valid existing rights, Federal lands 
     and interests therein added to the National Park System by 
     this title are withdrawn from disposition under the public 
     lands laws and from entry or appropriation under the mining 
     laws of the United States, from the operation of the mineral 
     leasing laws of the United States, and from the operation of 
     the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970.


                         utility rights-of-way

       Sec. 306. 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 501(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 of 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 501(2). Such activities shall be conducted in a 
     manner which will minimize the impact on park resources. The 
     Secretary shall prepare within 180 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.


                 study as to validity of mining claims

       Sec. 307. The Secretary shall not approve any plan of 
     operation prior to determining the validity of the unpatented 
     mining claims, mill sites, and tunnel sites affected by such 
     plan within the park and shall submit to Congress 
     recommendations as to whether any valid or patented claims 
     should be acquired by the United States, including the 
     estimated acquisition costs of such claims, and a discussion 
     of the environmental consequences of the extraction of 
     minerals from these lands.


             joshua tree national park advisory commission

       Sec. 308. (a) The Secretary shall establish an Advisory 
     Commission of no more than 15 Members, to advise the 
     Secretary concerning the development and implementation of a 
     new or revised comprehensive management plan for Death Valley 
     National Park.
       (b)(1) The advisory commission shall include an elected 
     official for each County within which any part of the park is 
     located, a representative of the owners of private properties 
     located within or immediately adjacent to the park, and other 
     members representing persons actively engaged in grazing and 
     range management, mineral exploration and development, and 
     persons with expertise in relevant fields, including geology, 
     biology, ecology, law enforcement, and the protection and 
     management of National Park resources and values.
       (2) Vacancies in the Commission shall be filled by the 
     Secretary so as to maintain the full diversity of views 
     required to be represented on the Commission.
       (c) The Federal Advisory Committee Act shall apply to the 
     procedures and activities of the advisory commission.
       (d) The advisory commission shall cease to exist ten years 
     after the date of its establishment.

                   TITLE IV--MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE


                                findings

       Sec. 401. 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 area possesses outstanding natural, 
     cultural, historical, and recreational values meriting 
     statutory designation and recognition as a unit of the 
     National Park System;
       (3) the Mojave Desert area should be afforded full 
     recognition and statutory protection as a national preserve;
       (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.


             establishment of the mojave national preserve

       Sec. 402. (a) There is hereby established the Mojave 
     National Preserve, comprising approximately one million four 
     hundred nineteen thousand eight hundred acres, as generally 
     depicted on a map entitled ``Mojave National Park Boundary--
     Proposed'', dated May 17, 1994, which shall be on file and 
     available for inspection in the appropriate offices of the 
     Director of the National Park Service, Department of the 
     Interior.
       (b)(1) 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.
       (2) 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.


                           transfer of lands

       Sec. 403. 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 Director of the National Park Service. 
     The boundaries of the public lands shall be adjusted 
     accordingly.


                       maps and legal description

       Sec. 404. Within six months after the enactment of this 
     title, the Secretary shall file maps and a legal description 
     of the preserve designated under this title with the Energy 
     and Natural Resources Committee of the Senate and the Natural 
     Resources Committee of the 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 
     402. The maps and legal description shall be on file and 
     available for public inspection in the offices of the 
     National Park Service, Department of the Interior.


                       abolishment of scenic area

       Sec. 405. The East Mojave National Scenic Area, designated 
     on January 13, 1981 (46 FR 3994), and modified on August 9, 
     1983 (48 FR 36210), is hereby abolished.


                        administration of lands

       Sec. 406. (a) The Secretary shall administer the preserve 
     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. 1-4).
       (b) The Secretary shall permit hunting, fishing, and 
     trapping on lands and waters within the preserve designated 
     by this Act in accordance with applicable Federal and State 
     laws except that the Secretary may designate areas where, and 
     establish periods when, no hunting, fishing, or trapping will 
     be permitted for reasons of public safety, administration, or 
     compliance with provisions of applicable law. Except in 
     emergencies, regulations closing areas to hunting, fishing, 
     or trapping pursuant to this subsection shall be put into 
     effect only after consultation with the appropriate State 
     agency having responsibility for fish and wildlife. Nothing 
     in this Act shall be construed as affecting the jurisdiction 
     or responsibilities of the States with respect to fish and 
     wildlife on Federal lands and waters covered by this title 
     nor shall anything in this Act be construed as authorizing 
     the Secretary concerned to require a Federal permit to hunt, 
     fish, or trap on Federal lands and waters covered by this 
     title.


                               withdrawal

       Sec. 407. Subject to valid existing rights, Federal lands 
     within the preserve, and interests therein, are withdrawn 
     from disposition under the public land laws and from entry or 
     appropriation under the mining laws of the United States, 
     from the operation of the mineral leasing laws of the United 
     States, and from operation of the Geothermal Steam Act of 
     1970.


                 study as to validity of mining claims

       Sec. 408 (a) The Secretary shall not approve any plan of 
     operation prior to determining the validity of the unpatented 
     mining claims, mill sites, and tunnel sites affected by such 
     plan within the preserve and shall submit to Congress 
     recommendations as to whether any valid or patented claims 
     should be acquired by the United States, including the 
     estimated acquisition costs of such claims, and a discussion 
     of the environmental consequences of the extraction of 
     minerals from these lands.
       (b)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of the Interior shall permit the holder or holders 
     of mining claims identified on the records of the Bureau of 
     Land Management as Volco #A CAMC 105446 and Volco #B CAMC 
     105447 to continue exploration and development activities on 
     such claims for a period of two years after the date of 
     enactment of this Act, subject to the same regulations as 
     applied to such activities on such claims on the day before 
     such date of enactment.
       (2) At the end of the period specified in paragraph (1), or 
     sooner if so requested by the holder or holders of the claims 
     specified in such paragraph, the Secretary shall determine 
     whether there has been a discovery of valuable minerals on 
     such claims and whether, if such discovery had been made on 
     or before July 1, 1994, such claims would have been valid as 
     of such date under the mining laws of the United States in 
     effect on such date.
       (3) If the Secretary, pursuant to paragraph (2), makes an 
     affirmative determination concerning the claims specified in 
     paragraph (1), the holder or holders of such claims shall be 
     permitted to continue to operate such claims subject only to 
     such regulations as applied on July 1, 1994 to the exercise 
     of valid existing rights on patented mining claims within a 
     unit of the National Park System.
       Explanation.--This would allow the holder(s) of the 
     specified claims to continue exploration activities for 2 
     years after enactment of the bill in order to attempt to 
     prove up those claims. At the end of that period (or sooner 
     if the holder(s) request), there would be a validity 
     determination concerning those claims. If it is determined 
     that the claims would have been deemed valid if the validity 
     determination had taken place on or before July 1, 1994, the 
     holder(s) will be permitted to continue to mine as if they 
     were in operation on that date on a patented claim within a 
     National Park System unit.


                                grazing

       Sec. 409. (a) The privilege of grazing domestic livestock 
     on lands within the preserve shall continue to be exercised 
     at no more than the current level, subject to applicable laws 
     and National Park Service regulations.
       (b) 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 preserve, provided 
     agreement can be reached concerning the terms and conditions 
     of such acquisition. Any such base property which is located 
     outside the preserve 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.


                         utility rights of way

       Sec. 410. (a)(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, issued, granted, or 
     permitted to Southern California Edison Company, its 
     successors or assigns, which is located on lands included in 
     the Mojave National Preserve, but outside lands designated as 
     wilderness under section 501(3). Such activities shall be 
     conducted in a manner which will minimize the impact on 
     preserve 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 
     rights-of-way'') at no time shall there be more than three 
     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 
     preserve resources,
       (E) no more than 350 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 preserve resources, and
       (F) such upgrade activities, including helicopter aided 
     construction, shall be conducted in a manner which will 
     minimize the impact on preserve resources.
       (3) The Secretary shall prepare within 180 days after the 
     date of enactment of this Act, 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 Preserve, but outside lands 
     designated as wilderness under section 501(3). Such 
     activities shall be conducted in a manner which will minimize 
     the impact on preserve 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 Preserve, but outside lands 
     designated as wilderness under section 501(3). Such 
     activities shall be conducted in a manner which will minimize 
     the impact on preserve 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 Preserve, but outside lands designated as 
     wilderness under section 501(3). Such activities shall be 
     conducted in a manner which will minimize the impact on 
     preserve resources.


                     preparation of management plan

       Sec. 411. Within three years after the date of enactment of 
     this title, the Secretary shall submit to the Energy and 
     Natural Resources Committee of the Senate and the Natural 
     Resources Committee of the House of Representatives a 
     detailed and comprehensive management plan for the preserve. 
     Such plan shall place emphasis on historical and cultural 
     sites and ecological and wilderness values within the 
     boundaries of the preserve. Any development, including road 
     improvements, proposed by such plan shall be strictly limited 
     to that which is essential and appropriate for the 
     administration of the preserve and shall be designed and 
     located so as to maintain the primitive nature of the area 
     and to minimize the impairment of preserve resources or 
     ecological values. To the extent practicable, administrative 
     facilities, employee housing, commercial visitor services, 
     accommodations, and other preserve-related development shall 
     be located or provided for outside of the boundaries of the 
     preserve. Such plan 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 preserve. 
     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, Public Law 101-336, the 
     Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101), 
     and other appropriate laws and regulations.


                   granite mountains natural reserve

       Sec. 412. (a) There is hereby designated the Granite 
     Mountains Natural Reserve within the preserve comprising 
     approximately nine thousand acres as generally depicted on a 
     map entitled ``Mojave National Park Boundary and Wilderness--
     Proposed 6'', dated May 1991.
       (b) Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary of the 
     Interior 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 
     law generally applicable to units of the National Park 
     System.


                     construction of visitor center

       Sec. 413. The Secretary is authorized to construct a 
     visitor center in the preserve for the purpose of providing 
     information through appropriate displays, printed material, 
     and other interpretive programs, about the resources of the 
     preserve.


                          acquisition of lands

       Sec. 414. The Secretary is authorized to acquire all lands 
     and interest in lands within the boundary of the preserve by 
     donation, purchase, or exchange, except that--
       (1) any lands or interests therein within the boundary of 
     the preserve 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 the 
     California State Lands Commission; and
       (2) lands or interests therein within the boundary of the 
     preserve 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 preserve or which is 
     otherwise incompatible with the purposes of this title.


        acquired lands be made part of mojave national preserve

       Sec. 415. Any lands acquired by the Secretary under this 
     title shall become part of the Mojave National Park.


                mojave national park advisory commission

       Sec. 416. (a) The Secretary shall establish an Advisory 
     Commission of no more than 15 Members, to advise the 
     Secretary concerning the development and implementation of a 
     new or revised comprehensive management plan for Death Valley 
     National Park.
       (b)(1) The advisory commission shall include an elected 
     official for each County within which any part of the park is 
     located, a representative of the owners of private properties 
     located within or immediately adjacent to the park, and other 
     members representing persons actively engaged in grazing and 
     range management, mineral exploration and development, and 
     persons with expertise in relevant fields, including geology, 
     biology, ecology, law enforcement, and the protection and 
     management of National Park resources and values.
       (2) Vacancies in the Commission shall be filled by the 
     Secretary so as to maintain the full diversity of views 
     required to be represented on the Commission.
       (c) The Federal Advisory Committee Act shall apply to the 
     procedures and activities of the advisory commission.
       (d) The advisory commission shall cease to exist ten years 
     after the date of its establishment.


                no adverse affect on land until acquired

       Sec. 417. Unless and until acquired by the United States, 
     no lands within the boundaries of wilderness areas or 
     National Park System units designated or enlarged by this Act 
     that are owned by any person or entity other than the United 
     States shall be subject to any of the rules or regulations 
     applicable solely to the Federal lands within such boundaries 
     and may be used to the extent allowed by applicable law. 
     Neither the location of such lands within such boundaries nor 
     the possible acquisition of such lands by the United States 
     shall constitute a bar to the otherwise lawful issuance of 
     any Federal license or permit other than a license or permit 
     related to activities governed by 16 U.S.C. 460l-22(c). 
     Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the 
     applicability of any provision of the Mining in the Parks Act 
     (16 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.), the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 
     et seq.), or regulations applicable to oil and gas 
     development as set forth in 36 CFR 9B.

                   TITLE V--NATIONAL PARK WILDERNESS


                       designation of wilderness

       Sec. 501. The following lands are hereby designated as 
     wilderness in accordance with the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 
     890; 16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) and shall be administered by the 
     Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the applicable 
     provisions of the Wilderness Act:
       (1) Death Valley National Park Wilderness, comprising 
     approximately three million one hundred sixty-two thousand 
     one hundred and thirty-eight acres, as generally depicted on 
     23 maps entitled ``Death Valley National Park Boundary and 
     Wilderness'', numbered in the title one through twenty-three, 
     and dated May 1994 or prior, and three maps entitled ``Death 
     Valley National Park Wilderness'', numbered in the title one 
     through three, and dated May 1994 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 National Preserve Wilderness, comprising 
     approximately six hundred ninety-four thousand acres, as 
     generally depicted on ten maps entitled ``Mojave National 
     Park Boundary and Wilderness--Proposed'', numbered in the 
     title one through ten, and dated May 1994 or prior, and seven 
     maps entitled ``Mojave National Park Wilderness--Proposed'', 
     numbered in the title one through seven, and dated May 1994 
     or prior, and which shall be known as the Mojave Wilderness.
       (4) 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 a map in the Draft Plan 
     entitled ``Wilderness Plan Death Valley National Monument'', 
     dated January 1988, 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.


                    filing of maps and descriptions

       Sec. 502. Maps and a legal description of the boundaries of 
     the areas designated in section 501 of this title shall be on 
     file and available for public inspection in the Office of the 
     Director of the National Park Service, Department of the 
     Interior, and in the Office of the Superintendent of each 
     area designated in section 501. As soon as practicable after 
     this title takes effect, maps of the wilderness areas and 
     legal descriptions of their boundaries shall be filed with 
     the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
     and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
     Representatives, and such maps and 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 descriptions.


                   administration of wilderness areas

       Sec. 503. The areas designated by section 501 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 VI--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS


            transfer of lands to red rock canyon state park

       Sec. 601. Upon enactment of this title, the Secretary of 
     the Interior 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 the California Desert 
     Conservation Area to provide maximum protection for the 
     area's scenic and scientific values.


                         desert lily sanctuary

       Sec. 602. (a) 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 of the Interior shall administer the area 
     to provide maximum protection to the desert lily.
       (b) Subject to valid existing rights, Federal lands within 
     the sanctuary, and interests therein, are withdrawn from 
     disposition under the public land laws and from entry or 
     appropriation under the mining laws of the United States, 
     from the operation of the mineral leasing laws of the United 
     States, and from operation of the Geothermal Steam Act of 
     1970.


                        land tenure adjustments

       Sec. 603. In preparing land tenure adjustment decisions 
     within 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.


                          disposal prohibition

       Sec. 604. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
     Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture 
     may not dispose of any lands within the boundaries of the 
     wilderness, parks, or preserve designated under this Act or 
     grant a right-of-way in any lands within the boundaries of 
     the wilderness designated under this Act. Further, none of 
     the lands within the boundaries of the wilderness, parks, or 
     preserve designated under this Act shall be granted to or 
     otherwise made available for use by the Metropolitan Water 
     District and any other agencies or persons pursuant to the 
     Boulder Canyon Project Act (43 U.S.C. 617-619b) or any 
     similar Acts.


                   management of newly acquired lands

       Sec. 605. 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.


                          native american uses

       Sec. 606. (a) In recognition of the past use of the parks, 
     wilderness, and preserve areas designed under this Act by 
     Indian people for traditional cultural and religious 
     purposes, the Secretary shall ensure access to such parks, 
     wilderness, and preserve 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, wilderness, or preserve areas in order to protect the 
     privacy of traditional cultural and religious activities in 
     such areas by Indian people. 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)(1) 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.
       (2) Not later than two years after the date of enactment of 
     this Act, 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).


                              water rights

       Sec. 607. (a) 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 of the Interior 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 and which is 
     conducted in accordance with section 208 of the Act of July 
     10, 1952 (66 Stat. 560, 43 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 areas 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.
       (e) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the 
     operation of federally owned dams located on the Colorado 
     River in the Lower Basin.
       (f) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to amend, 
     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.
       (g) With respect to the Havasu and Imperial wilderness 
     areas designated by section 111 of title I of this Act, no 
     rights to water of the Colorado River are reserved, either 
     expressly, impliedly, or otherwise.


                           state school lands

       Sec. 608. (a) 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 (hereinafter in this section 
     referred to as ``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. 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) Within six months after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary shall send to the Commission and to the 
     Committees a list of the following:
       (1) The 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 under the Secretary's jurisdiction to be offered 
     for exchange, including 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 lands in California managed by the Bureau of 
     Reclamation that the Secretary determines are not needed for 
     any Bureau of Reclamation project.
       (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) 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.
       (c)(1) If an agreement under this section is for an 
     exchange involving five thousand acres or less of Federal 
     land or interests therein, or Federal lands valued at less 
     than $5,000,000, the Secretary may carry out the exchange in 
     accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 
     1976.
       (2) If an agreement under this section is for an exchange 
     involving more than five thousand acres of Federal land or 
     interests therein, or Federal land valued at more than 
     $5,000,000, the agreement shall be submitted to the 
     Committees, together with a report containing--
       (A) a complete list and appraisal of the lands or interests 
     in lands proposed for exchange; and
       (B) a determination that the State School Lands proposed to 
     be acquired by the United States do not contain any hazardous 
     waste, toxic waste, or radioactive waste.
       (d) An agreement submitted under subsection (c)(2) shall 
     not take effect unless approved by a joint resolution enacted 
     by the Congress.
       (e) If exchanges of all of the State School Lands are not 
     completed by October 1, 2004, the Secretary shall adjust the 
     appraised value of any remaining inholdings consistent with 
     the provisions of section 206 of the Federal Land Management 
     Policy Act of 1976. The Secretary shall establish an account 
     in the name of the Commission in the amount of such appraised 
     value. Title to the State School Lands shall be transferred 
     to the United States at the time such account is credited.
       (f) The Commission may use the credit in its account to 
     bid, as any other bidder, for excess or surplus Federal 
     property to be sold in the State of California in accordance 
     with the applicable laws and regulations of the Federal 
     agency offering such property for sale. The account shall be 
     adjusted to reflect successful bids under this section or 
     payments or forfeited deposits, penalties, or other costs 
     assessed to the bidder in the course of such sales. In the 
     event that the balance in the account has not been reduced to 
     zero by October 1, 2009, there are authorized to be 
     appropriated to the Secretary for payment to the California 
     State Lands Commission funds equivalent to the balance 
     remaining in the account as of October 1, 2009.
       (g) As used in this section, the term ``Committees'' means 
     the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources of the Senate.


                               exchanges

       Sec. 609. (a) Upon request of the holder of private lands 
     (hereafter in this section referred to as the ``landowner''), 
     the Secretary shall enter into negotiations for an agreement 
     or agreements to exchange Federal lands or interests therein 
     on the list referred to in subsection (b)(2) of this section 
     for lands of the landowner or interests therein which are 
     located within the boundaries of one or more of the 
     wilderness areas or park units designated by this Act.
       (b) Within six months after the date of enactment of this 
     Act, the Secretary shall send to the landowner and to the 
     Committees a report on the fulfillment of the obligations of 
     the Secretary pursuant to section 12 of Public Law 94-204, as 
     amended, and those Native American property accounts to be 
     fulfilled through that public law by assignment and the 
     proposed methods of fulfilling such obligations, and a list 
     of the following:
       (1) Lands of the landowner 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 under the Secretary's jurisdiction to be offered 
     for exchange, in the following priority:
       (A) Lands, including lands with mineral and geothermal 
     interests, which have the potential for commercial 
     development but which are not currently under lease or 
     producing Federal revenues.
       (B) Federal lands managed by the Bureau of Reclamation that 
     the Secretary determines are not needed for any Bureau of 
     Reclamation project.
       (C) Any public lands that the Secretary, pursuant to the 
     Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, has 
     determined to be suitable for disposal through exchange.
       (3) 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.
       (c)(1) If an agreement under this section is for (A) an 
     exchange involving lands outside the State of California, (B) 
     more than 5,000 acres of Federal land or interests therein in 
     California, or (C) Federal lands in any State valued at more 
     than $5,000,000, the Secretary shall provide to the 
     Committees a detailed report of each such land exchange 
     agreement.
       (2) All land exchange agreements shall be consistent with 
     the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.
       (3) Any report submitted to the Committees under this 
     subsection shall include the following:
       (A) A complete list and appraisal of the lands or interests 
     in land proposed for exchange.
       (B) A complete list of the lands, if any, to be acquired by 
     the United States which contain any hazardous waste, toxic 
     waste, or radioactive waste which requires removal or 
     remedial action under Federal or State law, together with the 
     estimated costs of any such action.
       (4) An agreement under this subsection shall not take 
     effect unless approved by a joint resolution enacted by the 
     Congress.
       (d) The Secretary shall provide the California State Lands 
     Commission with a one hundred eighty-day right of first 
     refusal to exchange for any Federal lands or interests 
     therein, located in the State of California, on the list 
     referred to in subsection (b)(2). Any lands with respect to 
     which a right of first refusal is not noticed within such 
     period or exercised under this subsection shall be available 
     to the landowner for exchange in accordance with this 
     section.
       (e) On January 3, 1999, the Secretary shall provide to the 
     Committees a list and appraisal consistent with the Federal 
     Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 of all private lands 
     eligible for exchange under this section for which an 
     exchange has not been completed and a list of the Native 
     American property accounts that have not been fully utilized. 
     With respect to any of such lands for which an exchange has 
     not been completed by October 1, 2004 (hereafter in this 
     section referred to as ``remaining lands''), the Secretary 
     shall establish an account in the name of each landowner 
     (hereafter in this section referred to as the ``exchange 
     account''). Upon the transfer of title by the landowner to 
     all or a portion of the remaining lands to the United States, 
     the Secretary shall credit the exchange account in the amount 
     of the appraised value of the transferred remaining lands at 
     the time of such transfer.
       (f) Upon 60-day written notice by the Secretary to the 
     holders of the Native American property accounts that have 
     not been fully utilized, the landowner may use the credit in 
     its account to bid, as any other bidder, for excess or 
     surplus Federal property to be sold in the State of 
     California in accordance with the applicable laws and 
     regulations of the Federal agency offering such property for 
     sale. The account shall be adjusted to reflect successful 
     bids under this section or payments or forfeited deposits, 
     penalties, or other costs assessed to the bidder in the 
     course of such sales. Upon approval by the Secretary in 
     writing, the credits in the landowner's exchange account may 
     be transferred or sold in whole or in part by the landowner 
     to any other party, thereby vesting such party with all the 
     rights formerly held by the landowner. The exchange account 
     shall be adjusted to reflect successful bids under this 
     section or payments or forfeited deposits, penalties, or 
     other costs assessed to the bidder in the course of such 
     sales.
       (g)(1) The Secretary shall not accept title pursuant to 
     this section to any lands unless such title includes all 
     right, title, and interest in and to the fee estate.
       (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the Secretary may accept 
     title to any subsurface estate where the United States holds 
     title to the surface estate.
       (3) This subsection does not apply to easements and rights-
     of-way for utilities or roads.
       (h) In no event shall the Secretary accept title under this 
     section to lands which contain any hazardous waste, toxic 
     waste, or radioactive waste which requires removal or 
     remedial action under Federal or State law unless such 
     remedial action has been completed prior to the transfer.
       (i) For purposes of the section, any appraisal shall be 
     consistent with the provisions of section 206 of the Federal 
     Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.
       (j) As used in this section, the term ``Committees'' means 
     the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
     Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
     Resources of the Senate.

       TITLE VII--DEFINITIONS AND AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS


                              definitions

       Sec. 701. For the purposes of this Act:
       (1) The term ``Secretary'', unless specifically designated 
     otherwise, means the Secretary of the Interior.
       (2) The term ``public lands'' means any land and interest 
     in land owned by the United States and administered by the 
     Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Land 
     Management.


                    authorization of appropriations

       Sec. 702. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to 
     the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management to 
     carry out the purposes of this Act an amount not to exceed 
     $36,000,000 over and above. That provided in fiscal year 1994 
     for additional administrative and construction costs over the 
     fiscal year 1995-1999 period and $300,000,000 for all land 
     acquisition costs. No funds in excess of these amounts may be 
     used for construction, administration, or land acquisition 
     authorized under this Act without a specific authorization in 
     an Act of Congress enacted after the date of enactment of 
     this Act.
            TITLE VIII--CALIFORNIA MILITARY LANDS WITHDRAWAL

     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) the Federal lands within the desert regions of 
     California have provided essential opportunities for military 
     training, research, and development for the Armed Forces of 
     the United States and allied nations;
       (2) alternative sites for military training and other 
     military activities carried out on Federal lands in the 
     California desert area are not readily available;
       (3) while changing world conditions have lessened to some 
     extent the immediacy of military threats to the national 
     security of the United States and its allies, there remains a 
     need for military training, research, and development 
     activities of the types that have been carried out on Federal 
     lands in the California desert area; and
       (4) continuation of existing military training, research, 
     and development 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. 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; and
       (D) 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 1,100,000 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, 
     and filed in accordance with section 803.
       (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 226,711 acres in Imperial 
     County, California, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range Proposed--
     Withdrawal'' dated July 1993 and filed in accordance with 
     section 803.
       (c) El Centro Ranges.--(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 boundaries 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) but not the mineral or geothermal 
     leasing laws. Such lands are reserved for use by the 
     Secretary of the Navy for--
       (A) defense-related purposes 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; 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 46,600 acres in Imperial 
     County, California, as generally depicted on a map entitled 
     ``Exhibit A, Naval Air Facility, El Centro, California, Land 
     Acquisition Map, Range 2510 (West Mesa) dated March 1993 and 
     a map entitled ``Exhibit B, Naval Air Facility, El Centro, 
     California, Land Acquisition Map Range 2512 (East Mesa)'' 
     dated March 1993.

     SEC. 803. MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIPTIONS.

       (a) Publication and Filing Requirement.--As soon as 
     practicable after the date of enactment of this title, the 
     Secretary of the Interior 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 of the 
     Interior 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 Office of the Director of the Bureau of 
     Land Management, Washington, District of Columbia; the Office 
     of the Director, California State Office of the Bureau of 
     Land Management, Sacramento, California; 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 of the Interior for the cost of 
     implementing this section.

     SEC. 804. 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 of the Interior shall manage the 
     lands withdrawn under section 802 pursuant to the Federal 
     Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et 
     seq.) and other applicable law, including this Act.
       (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 where 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 of the Interior 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 of the Interior (after 
     consultation with the Secretary of the Navy) shall develop a 
     plan for the management of each area withdrawn under section 
     802 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 of the 
     Interior and the Secretary of the Navy shall (with respect to 
     each land withdrawal under section 802) 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.--(1) Lands withdrawn by 
     section 802 may be used for defense-related uses other than 
     those specified in such section. The Secretary of Defense 
     shall promptly notify the Secretary of the Interior 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 of the 
     Interior 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 of the Interior and the 
     Secretary of the Navy. In the case that the Secretary of the 
     Interior 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 of the Interior) 
     shall develop such management plan. Nothing in this title 
     shall affect geothermal leases issued by the Secretary of the 
     Interior 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 title.
       (2) The Secretary of the Interior 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 of the Interior an annual report on the status 
     of the natural and cultural resources and values of the lands 
     withdrawn under section 802(a). The Secretary of the Interior 
     shall transmit such report to the Committee on Natural 
     Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
     on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.
       (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 of the Interior and 
     the Secretary of the Navy.
       (5) Neither this Act nor any other provision of law shall 
     be construed to prohibit the Secretary of the Interior 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 of the Interior before taking action under that 
     section with respect to the lands withdrawn under section 
     802(a).
       (7) Upon the expiration of the withdrawal made by 
     subsection (a) of section 802 or relinquishment of the lands 
     withdrawn by that subsection, Navy contracts for the 
     development of geothermal resources at China Lake then in 
     effect (including amendments or renewals by the Navy after 
     the date of enactment of this Act) shall remain in effect: 
     Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior, with the 
     consent of the Secretary of the Navy, may offer to substitute 
     a standard geothermal lease for any such contract.
       (h) Management of El Centro Ranges.--To the extent 
     consistent with this title, the lands and minerals within the 
     areas described in section 802(c) shall be managed in 
     accordance with the Cooperative Agreement entered into 
     between the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, 
     and the Department of the Navy, dated June 29, 1987.

     SEC. 805. DURATION OF WITHDRAWALS.

       (a) Duration.--The withdrawal and reservation established 
     by this title shall terminate 15 years after the date of 
     enactment of this Act.
       (b) Draft Environmental Impact Statement.--No later than 12 
     years after the date of enactment of this Act, 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 subsection. 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.

     SEC. 806. 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 Act 
     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 
     Senate and to the Committees on Appropriations, Armed 
     Services, and Natural Resources of the 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 decontamination of 
     such lands and the estimate of the time to complete such 
     decontamination.

     SEC. 807. 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 of the Interior 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 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 
     shall file a notice of intention to relinquish with the 
     Secretary of the Interior.
       (b) Contamination.--(1) Before transmitting a notice of 
     intention to relinquish pursuant to subsection (a), the 
     Secretary of Defense, acting through the Department of 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 of the Interior, 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 of the Interior, 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 of the Interior 
     shall not be required to accept the land proposed for 
     relinquishment.
       (e) Status of Contaminated Lands.--If, because of their 
     contaminated state, the Secretary of the Interior 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 
     of the Interior 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 
     of the Interior 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 of the Interior, 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 of the Interior 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 of the Interior; and
       (3) state the date upon which the lands will be opened to 
     the operation of some or all of the public lands laws, 
     including the mining laws.

     SEC. 808. DELEGABILITY.

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

     SEC. 809. 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. 810. 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. 811. MILITARY OVERFLIGHTS.

       (a) Effect of Act.--(1) Nothing in this Act shall be 
     construed to--
       (A) restrict or preclude continuation of low-level military 
     overflights, including those on existing flight training 
     routes; or
       (B) affect the designation of new units of special airspace 
     or the establishment of new flight training routes over the 
     lands designated by this Act for inclusion within new or 
     expanded units of the National Park System or National 
     Wilderness Preservation System.
       (2) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as requiring 
     revision of existing policies or procedures applicable to the 
     designation of units of special airspace or the establishment 
     of flight training routes over any Federal lands affected by 
     this Act.
       (b) Monitoring.--The Secretary of the Interior and the 
     Secretary of Defense shall monitor the effects of military 
     overflights on the resources and values of the units of the 
     National Park System and National Wilderness Preservation 
     System designated or expanded by this Act, and shall attempt, 
     consistent with national security needs, to resolve concerns 
     related to such overflights and to avoid or minimize adverse 
     impacts on resources and values and visitor safety associated 
     with such overflight activities.

     SEC. 812. TERMINATION OF PRIOR RECLAMATION WITHDRAWALS.

       Except to the extent that existing Bureau of Reclamation 
     withdrawals of public lands were identified for continuation 
     in Federal Register Notice Document 92-4838 (57 Federal 
     Register 7599, March 3, 1992), as amended by Federal Register 
     Correction Notices (57 Federal Register 19135, May 4, 1992; 
     57 Federal Register 19163, May 4, 1992; and 58 Federal 
     Register 30181, May 26, 1993), all existing Bureau of 
     Reclamation withdrawals made by Secretarial Orders and Public 
     Land Orders affecting public lands and Indian lands located 
     within the California Desert Conservation Area established 
     pursuant to section 601 of the Federal Land Policy and 
     Management Act of 1976 are hereby terminated.
                       TITLE IX--BUY AMERICAN ACT

     SEC. 901. COMPLIANCE WITH BUY AMERICAN ACT.

       None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
     expended in violation of sections 2 through 4 of the Act of 
     March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c, popularly known as the 
     ``Buy American Act''), which are applicable to those funds.
       Amend the title so as to read: ``An Act to designate 
     certain lands in the California Desert as wilderness, to 
     establish the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and 
     the Mojave National Monument, and for other purposes.''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Swift). The question is on the motion 
offered by the gentleman from California [Mr. Miller].
  The motion was agreed to.
  The Senate bill was ordered to be read a third time, was read the 
third time, and passed.
  The title of the Senate bill was amended so as to read: ``A bill to 
designate certain lands in the California Desert as wilderness, to 
establish the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the 
Mojave National Monument, and for other purposes.''
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  A similar House bill (H.R. 518) was laid on the table.

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