[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3619-3620]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SUPPORT LOCAL ACT

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in the House

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as an original cosponsor of H.R. 4100, the Local Organization 
Cooperative Agreement and Facility Maintenance Act, or the LOCAL Act.
  For the past several years, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has 
partnered with local nonprofit organizations to cooperatively manage 
and maintain recreational facilities at lakes and reservoirs on these 
Federal lands.
  In my district, the Friends of Raystown Lake Group in Huntingdon 
County have been able to collect and retain user fees generated from 
the public's use of the lake, which they then reinvest to perform 
operations and maintenance on that site. Recently, an administrative 
ruling forced the Army Corps to terminate these agreements at 
facilities across the country. The Friends of Raystown should be 
commended for their volunteerism, not penalized by Washington's 
bureaucracy. The LOCAL Act will allow these and other agreements to 
remain in force.
  I would encourage my colleagues to support the LOCAL Act to ensure 
the Army Corps can continue these cooperative agreements that are good 
for the community and good for taxpayers.

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