[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 23, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E156]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT TO THE SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN DELTA NATIONAL 
                             HERITAGE AREA

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                          HON. JOHN GARAMENDI

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 23, 2021

  Mr. GARAMENDI. Madam Speaker, today I introduce legislation to adjust 
the Congressional designated boundary of the Sacramento-San Joaquin 
Delta National Heritage Area.
  In March 2019, Congress enacted into law (Public Law 116-9) my 
legislation with U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein designating California's 
first national heritage area. The Delta is a crown jewel of our state 
and an iconic working landscape, which my family has been fortunate to 
call home for over 40 years. It is the most productive watershed in the 
western United States and among the most ecologically important in the 
Western Hemisphere. Together, we must safeguard the Delta and the 
historic communities that make it such a special place.
  The legislation I introduce today, at the request of the City of Rio 
Vista, would expand the National Heritage Area's boundary to include 
approximately 62 acres of adjacent publicly owned land encompassing: 
the decommissioned United States Army Reserve Center (City of Rio 
Vista), U.S. Coast Guard Station Rio Vista, Beach Drive Wastewater 
Treatment Plant (City of Rio Vista), and Sandy Beach County Park 
(Solano County).
  Two of these parcels--the decommissioned United States Army Reserve 
Center and Beach Drive Wastewater Treatment Plant--are owned by the 
City of Rio Vista but technically outside the city limits. As such, it 
appears that these parcels were omitted inadvertently when the National 
Park Service prepared the legislative map for the then-proposed Delta 
National Heritage Area in 2010.
  I hope that Congress will enact my boundary adjustment before 
California's Delta Protection Commission completes the management plan 
for the National Heritage Area.

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