[House Report 111-598]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]


111th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     111-598

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 CASA GRANDE RUINS NATIONAL MONUMENT BOUNDARY MODIFICATION ACT OF 2010

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 September 16, 2010.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on 
            the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

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         Mr. Rahall, from the Committee on Natural Resources, 
                        submitted the following

                              R E P O R T

                        [To accompany H.R. 5110]

      [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

  The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the 
bill (H.R. 5110) to modify the boundary of the Casa Grande 
Ruins National Monument, and for other purposes, having 
considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amendment 
and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
  The amendment is as follows:
  Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the 
following:

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

  This Act may be cited as the ``Casa Grande Ruins National Monument 
Boundary Modification Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

  In this Act:
          (1) Map.--The term ``map'' means the map entitled ``Proposed 
        Casa Grande Ruins Boundary Modification'', numbered 303/
        100,934, and dated January 2010.
          (2) Monument.--The term ``Monument'' means the Casa Grande 
        Ruins National Monument in the State of Arizona.
          (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
        the Interior.
          (4) State.--The term ``State'' means the State of Arizona.

SEC. 3. ACQUISITION AND TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION OF 
                    LANDS.

  (a) Acquisition of Lands.--The Secretary is authorized to acquire by 
donation, exchange, or purchase with donated or appropriate funds from 
willing owners only, the private or State lands or interests in lands 
generally depicted on the map, to be administered as part of the 
Monument.
  (b) Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction to NPS.--The following 
Federal lands as generally depicted on the map are hereby withdrawn 
from all forms of entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public 
land laws; location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and 
operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws and 
mineral materials laws, and administrative jurisdiction of such Federal 
lands is hereby transferred to the National Park Service to be 
administered as part of the Monument:
          (1) The approximately 3.8 acres of Federal land administered 
        by the Bureau of Land Management.
          (2) The approximately 7.41 acres of Federal land of 
        administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  (c) Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction to BIA.--Administrative 
jurisdiction of the approximately 3.5 acres of Federal land 
administered by the National Park Service as generally depicted on the 
map as ``Lands to be Transferred to BIA'' are hereby transferred to the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs for the purposes of the San Carlos Irrigation 
Project.
  (d) Administration.--Upon acquisition or transfer of the lands 
identified in subsections (a) and (b), the Secretary shall administer 
those lands as part of the Monument in accordance with the laws 
generally applicable to units of the National Park System, including--
          (1) the National Park Service Organic Act (16 U.S.C. 1 et 
        seq.); and
          (2) the Act of August 21, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 461 et seq.).
  (e) Boundary and Map Update.--
          (1) Transfers.--Upon completion of the transfers pursuant to 
        subsection (b), the Secretary shall modify the boundary of the 
        Monument accordingly, and shall update the map to reflect such 
        transfers.
          (2) Acquisitions.--Upon completion of any of the acquisitions 
        pursuant to subsection (a), the Secretary shall modify the 
        boundary of the Monument accordingly, and shall update the map 
        to reflect such acquisitions.
  (f) Map on File.--The map shall be on file and available for 
inspection in the appropriate offices of the National Park Service, 
U.S. Department of the Interior.

SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATION OF STATE TRUST LANDS.

  The Secretary may enter in to an agreement with the State to provide 
for cooperative management of the approximately 200 acres of State 
trust lands generally depicted on the map.

SEC. 5. BOUNDARY STUDY.

  (a) In General.--The Secretary shall conduct a study to identify any 
additional lands that the Secretary considers appropriate to be a part 
of any future adjustments to the boundary of the Monument.
  (b) Criteria.--The study shall examine the natural, cultural, 
recreational, and scenic values and characteristics of the lands 
identified under subsection (a).
  (c) Report.--Not later than 3 years after the date funds are made 
available for the study under this section, the Secretary shall submit 
to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a 
report on the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the study.

                          PURPOSE OF THE BILL

    The purpose of H.R. 5110 is to modify the boundary of the 
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.

                  BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION

    The Casa Grande Ruins Reservation was proclaimed as the 
United States' first archaeological preserve on June 22, 1892; 
the site was redesignated as a national monument on August 13, 
1918. The monument preserves one of the finest architectural 
examples of 13th and 14th century Hohokam culture in the 
Southwest. The core of the monument is a massive, four-story 
earthen walled house, one of the largest prehistoric structures 
ever found in North America. Archeologists have discovered 
evidence that the ancient Sonoran Desert people who built the 
``casa grande'' also developed wide-scale irrigation farming 
and extensive trade connections which lasted over a thousand 
years, until around 1450.
    The 472 acres included within the current monument 
represent only part of that community. A 2003 National Park 
Service (NPS) report identified seven parcels for potential 
addition to the monument, including the 200-acre, state-owned 
Adamsville tract, a large village site with ball courts located 
two miles upstream from Casa Grande that is already listed on 
the National Register of Historic Places. Two other large 
tracts adjacent to the current monument both include the 
remains of residential neighborhoods, cemeteries, large 
roasting pits, refuse pits, and portions of the extensive canal 
system that encircled the community.
    H.R. 5110 authorizes the acquisition of all three 
properties ``by donation, exchange, or purchase with donated or 
appropriated funds from willing owners only.'' The bill also 
transfers two small parcels--totaling 11.2 acres and currently 
owned by other federal agencies--into the monument. The bill 
would add 415 acres to the monument in total. Additionally, 
H.R. 5110 transfers another 3.5 acres that are currently part 
of the monument to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to correct an 
unintentional trespass on the southern boundary of the monument 
and allow for the widening and paving of the San Carlos 
Irrigation Project's Pima Lateral Canal, a tribal water 
project.
    Finally, the bill directs the Secretary to conduct a study 
to identify additional lands in the area that might be 
appropriate additions to the monument. The study would examine 
properties on the north side of the prehistoric canal not 
assessed in the 2003 NPS study, which according to local 
archaeological groups include civic plazas, adobe-walled 
compounds, ball court villages, smaller clusters of houses, 
irrigated fields and rock-mulch agricultural features 
indicative of dryland farming.

                            COMMITTEE ACTION

    H.R. 5110 was introduced by Representative Ann Kirkpatrick 
(D-AZ) on March 11, 2010. The bill was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources, and within the Committee to the 
Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands. At a 
June 10, 2010, hearing before the Subcommittee, a 
representative of the Department of the Interior testified in 
favor of the bill but requested it be amended to require the 
standard three years after funding is appropriated for 
completion of the study.
    On July 22, 2010, the Subcommittee was discharged from 
further consideration of H.R. 5110 and the full Natural 
Resources Committee met to consider the bill. Subcommittee 
Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) offered an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute to set the length of the study at three 
years, as requested by the Department of the Interior. The 
amendment in the nature of a substitute also strikes the 
findings section of the original bill and makes several 
technical corrections.
    Subcommittee Ranking Member Rob Bishop (R-UT) offered an 
amendment to the amendment in the nature of a substitute to 
require that the three properties authorized for acquisition be 
acquired ``only by donation from willing owners.'' The 
amendment was not agreed to by voice vote.
    The amendment in the nature of a substitute was then agreed 
to by voice vote. The bill, as amended, was then ordered 
favorably reported to the House of Representatives by voice 
vote.

            COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

    Regarding clause 2(b)(1) of rule X and clause 3(c)(1) of 
rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the 
Committee on Natural Resources' oversight findings and 
recommendations are reflected in the body of this report.

                   CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY STATEMENT

    Article I, section 8 and Article IV, section 3 of the 
Constitution of the United States grants Congress the authority 
to enact this bill.

                    COMPLIANCE WITH HOUSE RULE XIII

    1. Cost of Legislation. Clause 3(d)(2) of rule XIII of the 
Rules of the House of Representatives requires an estimate and 
a comparison by the Committee of the costs which would be 
incurred in carrying out this bill. However, clause 3(d)(3)(B) 
of that rule provides that this requirement does not apply when 
the Committee has included in its report a timely submitted 
cost estimate of the bill prepared by the Director of the 
Congressional Budget Office under section 402 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.
    2. Congressional Budget Act. As required by clause 3(c)(2) 
of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives and 
section 308(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, this 
bill does not contain any new budget authority, spending 
authority, credit authority, or an increase or decrease in 
revenues or tax expenditures.
    3. General Performance Goals and Objectives. As required by 
clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII, the general performance goal or 
objective of this bill, as ordered reported, is to modify the 
boundary of the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.
    4. Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate. Under clause 
3(c)(3) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives and section 403 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974, the Committee has received the following cost estimate 
for this bill from the Director of the Congressional Budget 
Office:

H.R. 5110--Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Modification 
        Act of 2010

    H.R. 5110 would authorize the Department of the Interior 
(DOI) to expand the boundary of the Casa Grande Ruins National 
Monument in Arizona by 417 acres. The bill also would authorize 
DOI to conduct a study to identify other potential adjustments 
to the boundary. CBO estimates that implementing H.R. 5110 
would cost $7 million over the 2011-2015 period, assuming 
appropriation of the necessary amounts. Enacting this 
legislation would not affect direct spending or revenues; 
therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.
    H.R. 5110 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector 
mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and 
would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal governments.
    Under the bill, DOI would be authorized to acquire 417 
acres of land through donation, exchange, or purchase (using 
donated or appropriated funds) to expand the boundary of the 
monument. About 205 acres of that land is owned by private 
entities, of which CBO expects roughly two-thirds would be 
acquired through purchase. About 200 acres of land is owned by 
the state of Arizona and would most likely be jointly 
administered by the state and the federal government (as 
authorized by the bill) over the next few years. Other land 
that would be added to the monument is currently administered 
by the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Indian 
Affairs. The legislation would transfer administrative 
jurisdiction of that land to the National Park Service. Based 
on information from DOI, CBO estimates that land acquisition 
costs would total $6 million; however, actual costs would vary 
depending on the amount of land acquired by exchange or 
donation and market conditions at the time of any purchase.
    H.R. 5110 also would direct DOI to report to the Congress 
within three years whether other pieces of land should be 
included within the monument boundary. Based on information 
from DOI, CBO estimates that the cost of this study, as well as 
the cost of administering land acquired under the bill, would 
total about $1 million over the next five years.
    The CBO staff contact for this estimate is Daniel Hoople. 
The estimate was approved by Theresa Gullo, Deputy Assistant 
Director for Budget Analysis.

                    COMPLIANCE WITH PUBLIC LAW 104-4

    This bill contains no unfunded mandates.

                           EARMARK STATEMENT

    H.R. 5110 does not contain any congressional earmarks, 
limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined in 
clause 9 of rule XXI.

                PREEMPTION OF STATE, LOCAL OR TRIBAL LAW

    This bill is not intended to preempt any State, local or 
tribal law.

                        CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW

    If enacted, this bill would make no changes in existing 
law.

                                  
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