[106th Congress Public Law 119]
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Public Law 106-119
106th Congress

                                 An Act


 
 To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct and operate a 
 visitor center for the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River on 
   land owned by the State of New York. <<NOTE: Dec. 3, 1999 -  [H.R. 
                                 20]>> 

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, <<NOTE: Upper Delaware 
Scenic and Recreational River Mongaup Visitor Center Act of 1999. 16 USC 
1274 note.>> 

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Upper Delaware Scenic and 
Recreational River Mongaup Visitor Center Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Secretary of the Interior approved a management plan 
        for the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, as 
        required by section 704 of Public Law 95-625 (16 U.S.C. 1274 
        note), on September 29, 1987.
            (2) The river management plan called for the development of 
        a primary visitor contact facility located at the southern end 
        of the river corridor.
            (3) The river management plan determined that the visitor 
        center would be built and operated by the National Park Service.
            (4) The Act that designated the Upper Delaware Scenic and 
        Recreational River and the approved river management plan limits 
        the Secretary of the Interior's authority to acquire land within 
        the boundary of the river corridor.
            (5) The State of New York authorized on June 21, 1993, a 99-
        year lease between the New York State Department of 
        Environmental Conservation and the National Park Service for the 
        construction and operation of a visitor center by the Federal 
        Government on State-owned land in the Town of Deerpark, Orange 
        County, New York, in the vicinity of Mongaup, which is the 
        preferred site for the visitor center.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF VISITOR CENTER FOR UPPER DELAWARE SCENIC AND 
            RECREATIONAL RIVER.

    For the purpose of constructing and operating a visitor center for 
the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River and subject to the 
availability of appropriations, the Secretary of the Interior may--
            (1) enter into a lease with the State of New York, for a 
        term of 99 years, for State-owned land within the boundaries of 
        the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River located at an 
        area known as Mongaup near the confluence of the

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        Mongaup and Upper Delaware Rivers in the State of New York; and
            (2) construct and operate such a visitor center on land 
        leased under paragraph (2).

    Approved December 3, 1999.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 20:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 106-361 (Comm. on Resources).
SENATE REPORTS: No. 106-211 (Comm. on Energy and Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 145 (1999):
            Oct. 12, considered and passed House.
            Nov. 19, considered and passed Senate.

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