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  CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 21, CALIFORNIA DESERT PROTECTION ACT OF 1994

  Mr. MILLER of California submitted the following conference report 
and statement on 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:

                 Conference Report (H.R Rept. 103-832)

       The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the 
     two Houses on the amendments of the House to the 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, having met, 
     after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and 
     do recommend to their respective Houses as follows:
       That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the House to the text of the bill and agree to 
     the same with an amendment as follows:
       In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the House 
     amendment, insert the following:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

       Sections 1 and 2, and titles I through IX of 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. If at any time 
     within fifteen years after the date of enactment of this Act 
     the Secretary of the Navy notifies the Secretary 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, and 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 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'', 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.
       (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 
     approximetly 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 thousands 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 ad 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 1933, 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 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 tree 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 Wildernes--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-seven thousand six hundred and ninety 
     acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled ``Rodman 
     Mountains Wilderness--Proposed'', dated October 1994, 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 title 
     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) Fish and Wildlife Management.--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.
       (g) Law Enforcement Access.--Nothing in this Act, including 
     the wilderness designations made by such Act, may be 
     construed to preclude Federal, State, and local law 
     enforcement agencies from conducting law enforcement and 
     border operations as permitted before the date of enactment 
     of this Act, including the use of motorized vehicles and 
     aircraft, on any lands designated as wilderness by this Act.

     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 REPORT.

       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 furthermore 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, 
     archaeological, 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 stand 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 Burau of Land 
     Management depicted in the maps describe din 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 Parks 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 based 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 based 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. 307. DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK ADVISORY COMMISSION.

       (a) The Secretary shall establish an Advisory Commission of 
     no more than fifteen 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 advisory commission shall be filled by 
     the Secretary so as to maintain the full diversity of views 
     required to be represented on the advisory 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. 308. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.

       In preparing the maps and legal descriptions required by 
     sections 304 and 602 of this Act, 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 IV--JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK.

     SEC. 401. FINDINGS.

       The Congress 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 is 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(a)(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 601(a)(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.

     SEC. 407. JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK ADVISORY COMMISSION.

       (a) The Secretary shall establish an Advisory Commission of 
     no more than fifteen members, to advise the Secretary 
     concerning the development and implementation of a new or 
     revised comprehensive management plan for Joshua Tree 
     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 advisory commission shall be filled by 
     the Secretary so as to maintain the full diversity of views 
     required to be represented on the advisory 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 V--MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE

     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 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.

     SEC. 502. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE.

       Ther is hereby established the Majave 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.

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

     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 preserve 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 502. 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 National Scenic Area, designated on January 
     13, 1981 (46 FR 3994), and modified on August 9, 1983 (48 FR 
     36210), is hereby abolished.

     SEC. 406. ADMINISTRATION OF LANDS.

       (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, 2-4).
       (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.

     SEC. 507. WITHDRAWAL.

       Subject to valid existing rights, all Federal lands within 
     the preserve 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 preserve 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 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. STUDY AS TO VALIDITY OF MINING CLAIMS.

       (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 shall permit the holder or holders of mining claims 
     identified on the records of the Bureau of Land Management as 
     Volco #A CAMC 105446, Volco #B CAMC 105447, Volco 1 CAMC 
     80155, Volco 2 CAMC 80156, Volco 3 CAMC 170259, Volco 4 CAMC 
     170260, Volco 5 CAMC 78405, Volco 6 CAMC 78404, and Volco 7 
     CAMC 78403, Volco Placer 78332, to continue exploration and 
     development activities on such claims for a period of two 
     years after the date of enactment of this title, 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.

     SEC. 510. GRAZING.

       (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.

     SEC. 511. UTILITY RIGHTS OF WAY.

       (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 
     601(a)(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 
     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 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 Preserve, but outside lands 
     designated as wilderness under section 601(A)(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 601(a)(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 601(a)(3). Such activities shall be 
     conducted in a manner which will minimize the impact of 
     preserve resources.

     SEC. 512. PREPARATION OF MANAGEMENT PLAN.

       Within three years after 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 preserve. Such plan shall place emphasis on 
     historical and cultural sites and ecological and wilderness 
     values within 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.

     SEC. 513 GRANITE MOUNTAINS NATURAL RESERVE.

       (a) Establishment.--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) 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. 514. 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. 515. CONSTRUCTION OF VISITOR CENTER.

       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.

     SEC. 516. ACQUISITION OF LANDS.

       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 purpose 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 preserve or incompatible with the purposes 
     of this title.

     SEC. 517. ACQUIRED LANDS TO BE MADE PART OF MOJAVE NATIONAL 
                   PRESERVE.

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

     SEC. 518. MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE ADVISORY COMMISSION.

       (a) The Secretary shall establish an Advisory Commission of 
     no more than fifteen members, to advise the Secretary 
     concerning the development and implementation of a new or 
     revised comprehensive management plan for the Mojave National 
     Preserve.
       (b)(1) The advisory commission shall include an elected 
     official for each County within which any part of the 
     preserve is located, a representative of the owners of 
     private properties located within or immediately adjacent to 
     the preserve, 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 advisory commission shall be filled by 
     the Secretary so as to maintain the full diversity of views 
     required to be represented on the advisory 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. 519. NO ADVERSE AFFECT ON LAND UNTIL ACQUIRED.

       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. 4601-22(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 VI--NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM 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, an 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 National Preserve 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 (a)(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, maps and legal descriptions of the wilderness areas 
     shall be filed with the Committee on Energy and National 
     Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on 
     National 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 Areas to provide maximum 
     protection for the area's scenic and scientific values.

     SEC. 702. LAND TENURE ADJUSTMENTS.

       In preparing land tenure adjustment decision 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 designed by this Act.

     SEC. 703. LAND DISPOSAL.

       Except as provided in section 406 of this Act, 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 National 
     Park System units and wilderness areas designated under this 
     Act by Indian people for traditional cultural and religious 
     purposes, the Secretary shall ensure access to such park 
     system units 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 
     the park system unit or wilderness area 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) Study.--(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 within and outside the 
     boundaries of the Death Valley National Monument and the 
     Death Valley National Park, as described in title III of this 
     Act.
       (2) Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of 
     this title, the Secretary shall submit a report to the 
     Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Committee 
     on Indian Affairs of the United States Senate, and the 
     Committee on Natural Resources of the United States House of 
     Representatives on the results of this study conducted under 
     paragraph (1).

     SEC. 706. FEDERAL RESERVED WATER RIGHTS.

       (a) Except as otherwise provided in section 204 of this 
     Act, 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 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 right 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) Negtiations 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 system 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 system 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 the 
     Secretary's 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 title 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 land 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, in cooperation with other 
     affected agencies, shall prepare and submit a report by May 
     1, 1996 to the Committee on energy and Natural Resources of 
     the United States Senate, the Committee on Natural Resources 
     of the United States House of Representatives, and any other 
     relevant committees, 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, in cooperation with other 
     affected agencies, shall prepare and submit a report by May 
     1, 1997 to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resource of 
     the United States Senate, the Committee on Natural Resources 
     of the United States House of Representatives, and any other 
     relevant committees, which shall contain recommendations 
     which the Secretary deems appropriate for implementing the 
     congressional intent outlined in subsection (a).

     SEC. 710. LAND APPRAISAL.

       Lands and interests in lands acquired pursuant to this Act 
     shall be appraised without regard to the presence of a 
     species listed as threatened or endangered pursuant to the 
     Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).

     SEC. 711. DEFINITION.

       Any reference to the term ``this Act'' in titles I through 
     IX shall be deemed to be solely a reference to sections 1 and 
     2, and titles I through IX.

              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 Park System units 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) continuation 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 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 system 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) of this 
     title, 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 with 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 law, 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) of this 
     title, 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 
     the Committee on Nature 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 office 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.

       (2) 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 of 
     this title 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) of this title (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) of this title (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 of this title 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) of this title 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) of this title 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) of this title 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) of this title 
     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 years after the date of 
     enactment of this title.
       (b) Draft Environmental Impact Statement.--No later than 
     eighteen years after the date of enactment of this title, the 
     Secretary of the Navy shall publish a draft environmental 
     impact statement concerning continue 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 lands law--
       (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 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--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

     SEC. 901. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There is authorized to be appropriated to the National Park 
     Service and to the Bureau of Land Management to carry out 
     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 X--PROTECTION OF BODIE BOWL

     SEC. 1001. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Bodie Protection Act of 
     1994''.

     SEC. 1002. FINDINGS.

       The Congress finds that--
       (1) the historic Bodie gold mining district in the State of 
     California is the site of the largest and best preserved 
     authentic ghost town in the Western United States;
       (2) the Bodie Bowl area contains important natural, 
     historical, and aesthetic resources;
       (3) Bodie was designated as a National Historical Landmark 
     in 1961 and a California State Historic Park in 1962, is 
     listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is 
     included in the Federal Historic American Buildings Survey;
       (4) nearly 200,000 persons visit Bodie each year, providing 
     the local economy with important annual tourism revenues;
       (5) the town of Bodie is threatened by proposals to explore 
     and extract minerals: mining in the Bodie Bowl area may have 
     adverse physical and aesthetic impacts on Bodie's historical 
     integrity, cultural values, and ghost town character as well 
     as on its recreational values and the area's flora and fauna;
       (6) the California State Legislature, on September 4, 1990, 
     requested the President and the Congress to direct the 
     Secretary of the Interior to protect the ghost town 
     character, ambience, historic buildings, and scenic 
     attributes of the town of Bodie and nearby areas;
       (7) the California State Legislature also requested the 
     Secretary, if necessary to protect the Bodie bowl area, to 
     withdraw the Federal lands within the area from all forms of 
     mineral entry and patent;
       (8) the National Park Service listed Bodie as a priority 
     one endangered National Historic Landmark in its fiscal year 
     1990 and 1991 report to Congress entitled ``Threatened and 
     Damaged National Historic Landmarks'' and recommended 
     protection of the Bodie area; and
       (9) it is necessary and appropriate to provide that all 
     Federal lands within the Bodie Bowl area are not subject to 
     location, entry, and patent under the mining laws of the 
     United States, subject to valid existing rights, and to 
     direct the Secretary to consult with the Governor of the 
     State of California before approving any mining activity plan 
     within the Bodie Bowl.

     SEC. 1003. DEFINITIONS.

       For the purposes of this title--
       (1) The term ``Bodie Bowl'' means the Federal lands and 
     interests therein within the area generally depicted on the 
     map referred to in section 1004(a).
       (2) The term ``mineral activities'' means any activity 
     involving mineral prospecting, exploration, extraction, 
     milling, beneficiation, processing, reclamation.
       (3) The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the 
     Interior.

     SEC. 1004. APPLICABILITY OF MINERAL MINING, LEASING AND 
                   DISPOSAL LAWS.

       (a) Restriction.--Subject to valid existing rights, after 
     the date of enactment of this title Federal lands and 
     interests in lands within the area generally depicted on the 
     map entitled ``Bodie Bowl'' and dated June 12, 1992, shall 
     not be--
       (1) open to the location of mining and mill site claims 
     under the general mining laws of the United States;
       (2) subject to any lease under the Mineral Leasing Act (30 
     U.S.C. 181 and following) or the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 
     (30 U.S.C. 100 and following), for lands within the Bodie 
     Bowl; and
       (3) available for disposal of mineral materials under the 
     Act of July 31, 1947, commonly known as the Materials Act of 
     1947 (30 U.S.C. 601 and following).
     Such map shall be on file and available for public inspection 
     in the Office of the Secretary, and appropriate offices of 
     the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service. 
     As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this 
     title, the Secretary shall publish a legal description of the 
     Bodie Bowl area in the Federal Register.
       (b) Valid Existing Rights.--As used in this section, the 
     term ``valid existing rights'' in reference to the general 
     mining laws means that a mining claim located on lands within 
     the Bodie Bowl was properly located and maintained under the 
     general mining laws prior to the date of enactment of this 
     title, was supported by a discovery of a valuable mineral 
     deposit within the meaning of the general mining laws on the 
     date of enactment of this title, and that such claim 
     continues to be valid.
       (c) Validity Review.--The Secretary shall undertake an 
     expedited program to determine the validity of all unpatented 
     mining claims located within the Bodie Bowl. The expected 
     program shall include an examination of all unpatented mining 
     claims, including those for which a patent application has 
     not been filed. If a claim is determined to be invalid, the 
     Secretary shall promptly declare the claim to be null and 
     void, except that the Secretary shall not challenge the 
     validity of any claim located within the Bodie Bowl for the 
     failure to do assessment work for any period after the date 
     of enactment of this title. The Secretary shall make a 
     determination with respect to the validity of each claim 
     referred to under this subsection within two years after the 
     date of enactment of this title.
       (d) Limitation on Patent Issuance.--
       (1) Mining claims.--(A) After January 11, 1993, no patent 
     shall be issued by the United States for any mining claim 
     located under the general mining laws within the Bodie Bowl 
     unless the Secretary determines that, for the claim 
     concerned--
       (i) a patent application was filed with the Secretary on or 
     before such date; and
       (ii) all requirements established under sections 2325 and 
     2326 of the Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 29 and 30) for vein 
     or lode claims and sections 2329, 2330, 2331, and 2333 of the 
     Revised Statutes (30 U.S.C. 35, 36, 37) for placer claims 
     were fully complied with by that date.
       (B) If the Secretary makes the determinations referred to 
     in subparagraph (A) for any mining claim, the holder of the 
     claim shall be entitled to the issuance of a patent in the 
     same manner and degree to which such claim holder would have 
     been entitled to prior to the enactment of this title, unless 
     and until such determinations are withdrawn or invalidated by 
     the Secretary or by a court of the United States.
       (2) Mill site claims.--(A) After January 11, 1993, no 
     patent shall be issued by the United States for any mill site 
     claim located under the general mining laws within the Bodie 
     Bowl unless the Secretary determines that, for the claim 
     concerned--
       (i) a patent application was filed with the Secretary on or 
     before January 11, 1993; and
       (ii) all requirements applicable to such patent application 
     were fully complied with by that date.
       (B) If the Secretary makes the determinations referred to 
     in subparagraph (A) for any mill site claim, the holder of 
     the claim shall be entitled to the issuance of a patent in 
     the same manner and degree to which such claim holder would 
     have been entitled to prior to the enactment of this title, 
     unless and until such determinations are withdrawn or 
     invalidated by the Secretary or by a court of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 1005. MINERAL ACTIVITIES.

       (a) In General.--Notwithstanding the last sentence of 
     section 302(b) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
     of 1976, and in accordance with this title and other 
     applicable law, the Secretary shall require that mineral 
     activities be conducted in the Bodie Bowl so as to--
       (1) avoid adverse effects on the historic cultural, 
     recreational, and natural resource values of the Bodie Bowl; 
     and
       (2) minimize other adverse impacts to the environment.
       (b) Restoration of Effects of Mining Exploration.--As soon 
     as possible after the date of enactment of this Act, visible 
     evidence or other effects of mining exploration activity 
     within the Bodie Bowl conducted on or after September 1, 
     1988, shall be reclaimed by the operator in accordance with 
     regulations prescribed pursuant to subsection (d).
       (c) Annual Expenditures; Filing.--The requirements for 
     annual expenditures on unpatented mining claims imposed by 
     Revised Statute 2324 (30 U.S.C. 28) shall not apply to any 
     such claim located within the Bodie Bowl. In lieu of filing 
     the affidavit of assessment work referred to under section 
     314(a)(1) of the Federal land Policy and Management Act of 
     1976 (43 U.S.C. 1744(a)(1)), the holder of any unpatented 
     mining or mill site claim located within the Bodie Bowl shall 
     only be required to file the notice of intention to hold the 
     mining claim referred to in such section 314(a)(1).
       (d) Regulations.--The Secretary shall promulgate rules to 
     implement this section, in consultation with the Governor of 
     the State of California, within 180 days after the date of 
     enactment of this title. Such rules shall be no less 
     stringent that the rules promulgated pursuant to the Act of 
     September 28, 1976 entitled ``An Act to provide for the 
     regulation of mining activity within, and to repeal the 
     application of mining laws to, areas of the National Park 
     System, and for other purposes'' (Public Law 94-429; 16 
     U.S.C. 1901-1912).

     SEC. 1006. STUDY.

       Beginning as soon as possible after the date of enactment 
     of this title, the Secretary shall review possible actions to 
     preserve the scenic character, historical integrity, cultural 
     and recreational values, flora and fauna, and ghost town 
     characteristics of lands and structures within the Bodie 
     Bowl. No later than 3 years after the date of such enactment, 
     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 report that discusses the results of such 
     review and makes recommendations as to which steps (including 
     but not limited to acquisition of lands or valid mining 
     claims) should be undertaken in order to achieve these 
     objectives.

     SEC. 1007. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
     necessary to carry out this title.

         TITLE XI-- LOWER MISSISSIPPI DELTA REGION INITIATIVES.

     SEC. 1101. 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. 1102. 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 he Delta Region for purposes of 
     this title;
       (4) ``Department'' means the United States Department of 
     the Interior, unless otherwise specifically stated;
       (5) ``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));
       (6) ``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));
       (7) ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of the Interior, 
     unless otherwise specifically stated.

     SEC. 1103. 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 title, 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. 1105. 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) In 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, 
     archaeology, 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) Grants.--(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, economic development districts, 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. 1106. 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. 1107. DELTA ANTIQUITIES SURVEY.

       (a) In General.--(1) The Secretary is directed to prepare 
     and transmit to the Congress, in cooperation with the States 
     of the Delta Region, State Archeological 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) Technical Assistance.--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) Cooperative Agreements.--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. 1108. 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) Demonstration Project.--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.

     SEC. 1109. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
     necessary to carry out this title.

         TITLE XII--NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK.

     SEC. 1201. SHORT TITLE.

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

     SEC. 1202. 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. 1203. 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 Resources 
     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. 1204. 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 1203(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 
     1203(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. 1205. ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY.

       (a) General Authority.--The Secretary may acquire lands and 
     interests therein within the sites designated pursuant to 
     section 1203(b) (1) and (3) by donation or purchase with 
     donated or appropriated funds or long term lease: Provided, 
     That sites designated pursuant to section 1203(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. 1206. GENERAL MANAGEMENT PLAN.

       Within three years after the date funds are made available 
     therefor and concurrent with the national landmark study 
     referenced in section 1203(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. 1207. 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 six months after the date of 
     enactment of this title. 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 tile;
       (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 1203(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. 1208. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       There is authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
     necessary to carry out this title.
       And the House agree to the same.
       That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the 
     amendment of the House to the title of the bill and agree to 
     the same with an amendment as follows:
       In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted by the House 
     amendment to the title of the bill insert the following: ``An 
     Act to designate certain lands in the California Desert as 
     wilderness, to establish the Death Valley and Joshua Tree 
     National Parks, to establish the Mojave National Preserve, 
     and for other purposes.''.
       And the House agree to the same.

     From the Committee on Natural Resources, for consideration of 
     the Senate bill, and the House amendment, and modifications 
     committed to conference:
     George Miller,
     Bruce Vento,
     Rick Lehman,
     Bill Richardson,
     Sam Farr,
     Nick Rahall,
     As additional conferees from the Committee on Armed Services, 
     for consideration of title VIII of the Senate bill, and title 
     VIII of the House amendment, and modifications committed to 
     conference:
     Ronald V. Dellums,
     As additional conferees from the Committee on Education and 
     Labor, for consideration of sections 901-04, 906, and 907 of 
     the Senate bill, and modifications committed to conference:
     William L. Clay,
     As additional conferees from the Committee on Merchant Marine 
     and Fisheries, for consideration of title II, sections 
     103(e), 103(f), and 805(a)(2)(B) of the Senate bill, and 
     sections 111, 113 and 804(a)(2)(B) of the House amendment, 
     and modifications committed to conference:
     Gerry Studds,
     Lynn Schenk,
     As additional conferees from the Committee on Public Works 
     and Transportation, for consideration of sections 901, 905 
     and 906 of the Senate bill, and modifications committed to 
     conference:
     Norman Y. Mineta,
     Robert E. Wise, Jr.,
                                Managers on the Part of the House.

     From the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, for 
     consideration of the Senate bill, and the House amendment, 
     and modifications committed to conference:
     J. Bennett Johnston,
     Dale Bumpers,
                               Managers on the Part of the Senate.

       JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

       The managers on the part of the House and the Senate at the 
     conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the 
     amendments of the House to the 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, submit the following joint 
     statement to the House and the Senate in explanation of the 
     effect of the action agreed upon by the managers and 
     recommended in the accompanying conference report:
       The House amendment to the text of the bill struck all of 
     the Senate bill after the enacting clause and inserted a 
     substitute text.
       The Senate recedes from its disagreement to the amendment 
     of the House with an amendment that is a substitute for the 
     Senate bill and the House amendment. The differences between 
     the Senate bill, the House amendment, and the substitute 
     agreed to in conference are noted below, except for clerical 
     corrections, conforming changes made necessary by agreements 
     reached by the conferees, and minor drafting and clerical 
     changes.

                         Statement of Managers


                         section 1. short title

       The Senate bill, the House amendment and the Conference 
     substitute all designate the short title as the California 
     Desert Protection Act of 1994.


                     section 2. findings and policy

       The Senate bill, the House amendment and the Conference 
     substitute have identical findings.

  Title I--Designation of Wilderness Areas to be Administered by the 
                       Bureau of Land Management

     Senate bill
       The Senate bill designates 69 wilderness areas comprised of 
     approximately 3.5 million acres.
     House amendment
       The House amendment designates 71 wilderness areas 
     comprised of approximately 4 million acres.
     Conference agreement
       The conference substitute designates 69 wilderness areas 
     comprised of approximately 3.5 million acres.

  Title II--Designation of Wilderness Areas to be Administered by the 
                       Fish and Wildlife Service

       The Senate bill, the House amendment and the conference 
     substitute establish identical wilderness designations in 
     Havasu and Imperial National Wildlife Refuges.

                 Title III--Death Valley National Park

       The Senate bill, the House amendment, and the conference 
     substitute abolish the Death Valley National Monument, and 
     establish the Death Valley National Park.

                  Title IV--Joshua Tree National Park

       The Senate bill, the House amendment, and the conference 
     substitute abolish the Joshua Tree National Monument, and 
     establish the Death Valley National Park.

                   Title V--Mohave National Preserve

     Senate bill
       The Senate bill establishes the 1,181,350 acre Mojave 
     National Park.
     House amendment
       The House amendment establishes the 1,419,800 acre Mojave 
     National Preserve.
     Conference agreement
       Same as House amendment.

               Title VI--National Park System Wilderness

     Senate bill
       The Senate bill designates 3,158,038 acres as Death Valley 
     National Park Wilderness, 131,780 acres as Joshua Tree 
     National Park wilderness additions, and 695,200 acres as 
     Mojave National Park Wilderness.
     House amendment
       The House amendment designates 3,162,038 acres as Death 
     Valley National Park Wilderness, 131,780 acres as Joshua Tree 
     National Park Wilderness Additions, and 694,000 acres as 
     Mojave National Park Preserve Wilderness.
     Conference agreement
       The conference substitute designates 3,158,038 acres as 
     Death Valley National Park Wilderness, 131,780 acres as 
     Joshua Tree National Park Wilderness Additions, and 695,200 
     acres as Mojave National Preserve Wilderness.

                  Title VII--Miscellaneous Provisions

       The Senate bill, House amendment and conference substitute 
     transfer approximately 20,500 acres to the state of 
     California for inclusion in the state park system, direct the 
     Secretary to give priority to consolidating Federal ownership 
     within the national park units and wilderness areas 
     designated, and recognize past uses of Indian people for 
     traditional cultural and religious purposes.

               Title VIII--Military Lands and Overflights

     Senate bill
       The Senate bill withdraws for 25 years lands within China 
     Lake Naval Weapons Center and Chocolate Mountain Aerial 
     Gunnery Range from all forms of appropriation under the 
     public land laws.
     House amendment
       The House bill withdraws for 15 years lands within China 
     Lake Naval Weapons Center and Chocolate Mountain Aerial 
     Gunnery Range from all forms of appropriation under the 
     public land laws.
     Conference agreement
       The conference substitute withdraws for 20 years lands 
     within China Lake Naval Weapons Center and Chocolate Mountain 
     Aerial Gunnery Range from all forms of appropriation under 
     the public land laws.

               Title IX--Authorization of Appropriations

     Senate bill
       No provision.
     House amendment
       The House amendment authorizes to be appropriated to the 
     National Park Service and to the Bureau of Land Management 
     not more than $36 million over that provided in Fiscal Year 
     1994 for additional administrative and constructive costs in 
     Fiscal years 1995 through 1999, and $300,000,000 for all land 
     acquisition costs.
     Conference agreement
       Same as House amendment.

                   Title X--Protection of Bodie Bowl

     Senate bill
       No provision.
     House amendment
       The House amendment withdrawals from the mineral leasing 
     laws all lands within the Bodie Bowl in California.
     Conference agreement
       Same as House amendment.

          Title XI--Lower Mississippi Delta Region Initiatives

     Senate bill
       The Senate bill establishes initiatives pertaining to the 
     Lower Mississippi Delta Region.
     House amendment
       No provision.
     Conference agreement
       Same as Senate bill, with amendment.

          Title XII--New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

     Senate bill
       The Senate bill establishes the New Orleans Jazz National 
     Historical Park.
     House amendment
       No provision.
     Conference agreement
       Same as Senate bill.

     From the Committee on Natural Resources, for consideration of 
     the Senate bill, and the House amendment, and modifications 
     committed to conference:
     George Miller,
     Bruce Vento,
     Rick Lehman,
     Bill Richardson,
     Sam Farr,
     Nick Rahall,
     As additional conferees from the Committee on Armed Services, 
     for consideration of title VIII of the Senate bill, and title 
     VIII of the House amendment, and modifications committed to 
     conference:
     Ronald V. Dellums,
     As additional conferees from the Committee on Education and 
     Labor, for consideration of sections 901-04, 906, and 907 of 
     the Senate bill, and modifications committed to conference:
     William L. Clay,
     As additional conferees from the Committee on Merchant Marine 
     and Fisheries, for consideration of title II, sections 
     103(e), 103(f), and 805(a)(2)(B) of the Senate bill, and 
     sections 111, 113 and 804(a)(2)(B) of the House amendment, 
     and modifications committed to conference:
     Gerry Studds,
     Lynn Schenk,
     As additional conferees from the Committee on Public Works 
     and Transportation, for consideration of sections 901, 905 
     and 906 of the Senate bill, and modifications committed to 
     conference:
     Norman Y. Mineta,
     Robert E. Wise, Jr.,
                                Managers on the Part of the House.

     From the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, for 
     consideration of the Senate bill, and the House amendment, 
     and modifications committed to conference:
     J. Bennett Johnston,
     Dale Bumpers,
     Managers on the Part of the Senate.

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