[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 127 (Tuesday, September 22, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Pages S10723-S10724]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. McCAIN (for himself, Mr. Thurmond, Mr. Burns, and Mrs. 
        Hutchison):
  S. 2507. A bill to stimulate increased domestic cruise ship 
opportunities for the American cruising public by temporarily reducing 
barriers for entry into the domestic cruise ship trade; to the 
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.


           The United States Cruise Ship Tourism Act of 1998

 Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, today I, with Senators Thurmond, 
Burns, and Hutchison, introduce the United States Cruise Ship Tourism 
Act of 1998. The purpose of this bill is to stimulate increased 
domestic cruise vessel opportunities for the American cruising public 
by temporarily reducing barriers for entry into the domestic cruise 
ship trade.
  The oceangoing cruise ship industry offers the American cruising 
public with a multitude of itineraries in international trade. However, 
due to barriers to entry such as the Passenger Vessel Services Act, 
large cruise ship domestic trade options are limited to one oceangoing 
cruise ship in Hawaii. Also, the U.S. port calls of these international 
itineraries are heavily concentrated in Florida and Alaska due to the 
proximity of these states to neighboring countries. This means that 
America's cruising public is denied the opportunity to cruise to many 
attractive U.S. port destinations, and those ports are denied the 
economic benefits of those visits, due to these domestic cruise ship 
trade barriers to entry.
  Three separate bills addressing the domestic cruise ship trade have 
been referred to the Commerce Committee this Congress: S. 668, S. 803, 
and S. 2290. Each of these bills takes a different approach to removing 
barriers and stimulating growth in this area. Senator Hutchison, the 
Chairman of the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant 
Marine, held a hearing last year on this subject. I would prefer we 
take the approach proposed in S. 803, of which I am a cosponsor, but I 
understand that bill does not address the concerns of some other 
members. We have been working with representatives of all industries 
concerned with this legislation for several months in an attempt to 
reach a consensus on this issue.
  While a consensus has not yet been achieved, I believe it is time to 
take another step forward in the legislative process. My bill would 
allow the Secretary of Transportation to waive certain current 
coastwise trade restrictions on a limited basis to stimulate the 
domestic cruise ship trade. I expect some of my colleagues on the on 
the Commerce Committee may want to make additional changes to this bill 
in Committee. I look forward to working these issues out with them in 
the next week so that we may report this bill to the Senate later this 
month.
  I believe it is important for this Congress to take action on this 
issue this year. We should maximize the economic growth potential of 
the domestic cruise ship trade and the cruising opportunities for 
America's public.
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      By Mr. WYDEN:
  S. 2509. A bill to provide further protections for the watershed of 
the Little Sandy River as part of the Bull Run Watershed Management 
Unit, and for other purposes; to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources.

                   LITTLE SANDY WATERSHED PROTECTION

 Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I am today, along with Congressman 
Blumenauer in the U.S. House, introducing legislation to make sure that 
in the next century the children of Portland can go to their kitchen 
faucet and take a glass of drinking water that is as safe and pure as 
any that the pioneers found when they got here.
  Why protect the Little Sandy? The answer is as clear as the water in 
that stream. Essentially, what we are proposing is to finish the job 
begun two years ago with passage of the Oregon Resources and 
Conservation Act of

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1996, which brought statutory protection to the Bull Run Watershed.
  Portland's city fathers acted in 1890 to protect Bull Run, and it is 
fitting that we continue that effort today. More than one-third of the 
Little Sandy watershed has already been logged; clearly, this drainage 
has already been pushed, and pushed hard, in terms of past timber 
harvest.
  The protection our bill would offer will not only affect clean 
drinking water, but salmon recovery as well. I am hopeful that this 
legislation will become an important part of our region's approach to 
restoring steelhead habitat.
  Finally, I want to commend the leadership of Mayor Vera Katz, 
Commissioner Erik Sten, and former Commissioner Mike Lindberg, whose 
vision for Portland's future laid the foundation for the introduction 
of this bill.
  I first introduced legislation to protect the Little Sandy when I was 
in the House. In passing the Oregon Resource Conservation Act of 1996, 
I made a compromise with Senator Hatfield in which we would designate 
the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit as a protected area that is off 
limits to commercial timber harvest, and designate the Little Sandy as 
a study area. I am now asking the Congress to approve the addition of 
the Little Sandy study area to the Bull Run Management Unit, and to be 
subject to the management prescriptions which were established under 
the ORCA governing the Bull Run.
  Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of the bill be 
printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the bill was ordered to be printed in the 
Record, as follows:

                                S. 2509

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. INCLUSION OF ADDITIONAL PORTION OF THE LITTLE 
                   SANDY RIVER WATERSHED IN THE BULL RUN WATERSHED 
                   MANAGEMENT UNIT, OREGON.

       (a) In General.--Public law 95-200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is 
     amended by striking section 1 and inserting the following:

     ``SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 
                   UNIT; DEFINITION OF SECRETARY.

       ``(a) Establishment.--
       ``(1) In general.--There is established, subject to valid 
     existing rights, a special resources management unit in the 
     State of Oregon comprising approximately 98,272 acres, as 
     depicted on a map dated September, 1998, and entitled `Bull 
     Run Watershed Management Unit'.
       ``(2) Map.--The map described in paragraph (1) shall be on 
     file and available for public inspection in the offices of 
     the Regional Forester-Pacific Northwest Region, Forest 
     Service, Department of Agriculture, and in the offices of the 
     State Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the 
     Interior.
       ``(3) Boundary adjustments.--Minor adjustments in the 
     boundaries of the unit may be made from time to time by the 
     Secretary after consultation with the city and appropriate 
     public notice and hearings.
       ``(b) Definition of Secretary.--In this Act, the term 
     `Secretary' means--
       ``(1) with respect to land administered by the Secretary of 
     Agriculture, the Secretary of Agriculture; and
       ``(2) with respect to land administered by the Secretary of 
     the Interior, the Secretary of the Interior.''.
       (b) Conforming and Technical Amendments.--
       (1) Secretary.--Public Law 95-200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is 
     amended by striking ``Secretary of Agriculture'' each place 
     it appears (except subsection (b) of section 1, as added by 
     subsection (a), and except in the amendments made by 
     paragraph (2)) and inserting ``Secretary''.
       (A) In general.--Section 2(a) of Public Law 95-200 (16 
     U.S.C. 482b note) is amended by striking ``applicable to 
     National Forest System lands'' and inserting ``applicable to 
     National Forest System land (in the case of land administered 
     by the Secretary of Agriculture) or applicable to land under 
     the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land 
     Management (in the case of land administered by the Secretary 
     of the Interior)''.
       (B) Management plans.--The first sentence of section 2(c) 
     of Public Law 95-200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is amended--
       (i) by striking ``subsection (a) or (b)'' and inserting 
     ``subsections (a) and (b)''; and
       (ii) by striking ``, through the maintenance'' and 
     inserting ``(in the case of land administered by the 
     Secretary of Agriculture) or section 202 of the Federal Land 
     Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712) (in the 
     case of land administered by the Secretary of the Interior), 
     through the maintenance.''.

     SEC. 2. MANAGEMENT.

       (a) Timber Harvesting Restrictions.--Section 2(b) of Public 
     Law 95-200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is amended by striking 
     paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
       ``(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary 
     shall prohibit the cutting of trees on Federal land in the 
     entire unit, as designated in section 1 and depicted on the 
     map referred to in that section.''.
       (b) Repeal of Management Exception.--The Oregon Resource 
     Conservation Act of 1996 (division B of Public Law 104-208) 
     is amended by striking section 606 (110 Stat. 3009-543).
       (c) Repeal of Duplicative Enactment.--Section 1026 of 
     division I of the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management 
     Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-333, 110 Stat. 4228) and the 
     amendments made by that section are repealed.
       (d) Water Rights.--Nothing in this section strengthens, 
     diminishes, or has any other effect on water rights held by 
     any person or entity.

     SEC. 3. LAND EXCHANGE.

       (a) Land Exchange.--Upon application by the city of 
     Portland, Oregon (referred to in this section as the 
     ``city''), the Secretary of Agriculture shall enter into 
     negotiations with the city for the transfer of National 
     Forest System land underlying the city's Bull Run water 
     supply facilities to the city in exchange for city-owned land 
     lying within the boundaries of any unit of the National 
     Forest System in Oregon or Washington.
       (b) Time for Exchange.--Subject to subsection (c), the 
     Secretary shall expedite the negotiations, if the city 
     applies for a land exchange under subsection (a), and shall 
     complete such a land exchange not later than September 30, 
     2001.
       (c) Applicability of Other Laws.--Except as provided in 
     subsection (d), any land exchange under this section shall be 
     carried out in accordance with section 206 of the Federal 
     Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716) and 
     other applicable law.
       (d) Exception to Single State Limitation on Exchange.--The 
     requirement that Federal and non-Federal parcels of land 
     exchanged for each other must be located within the same 
     State, as specified in the Act entitled ``An Act to 
     Consolidate National Forest Lands'', approved March 20, 1922 
     (16 U.S.C. 485), and the first sentence of section 206(b) of 
     the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
     1716(b)), shall not apply to the land exchange authorized by 
     this section.
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