Home > 106th Congressional Bills > H.R. 898 (ih) Designating certain land in the San Isabel National Forest in the State of Colorado as the ``Spanish Peaks Wilderness''. [Introduced in House] ...H.R. 898 (ih) Designating certain land in the San Isabel National Forest in the State of Colorado as the ``Spanish Peaks Wilderness''. [Introduced in House] ...
In the Senate of the United States,
October 19 (legislative day, September 22), 2000.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R.
898) entitled ``An Act designating certain land in the San Isabel
National Forest in the State of Colorado as the `Spanish Peaks
Wilderness.''', do pass with the following
AMENDMENT:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
SECTION 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Table of contents.
TITLE I--SPANISH PEAKS WILDERNESS, COLORADO
Sec. 101. Short title.
Sec. 102. Designation of Spanish Peaks Wilderness.
Sec. 103. Force and effect clause.
Sec. 104. Access.
Sec. 105. Conforming amendment.
TITLE II--VIRGINIA WILDERNESS
Sec. 201. Short title.
Sec. 202. Designation of wilderness areas.
TITLE III--WASHOE TRIBE LAND CONVEYANCE
Sec. 301. Washoe Tribe land conveyance.
TITLE IV--SAINT CROIX ISLAND REGIONAL HERITAGE CENTER
Sec. 401. Short title.
Sec. 402. Findings and purposes.
Sec. 403. Definitions.
Sec. 404. Saint Croix Island Regional Heritage Center.
Sec. 405. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE V--PARK AREA BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENTS
Sec. 501. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Sec. 502. Corrections in designations of Hawaiian national parks.
Sec. 503. Hamilton Grange National Memorial.
Sec. 504. Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site.
Sec. 505. Fort Matanzas National Monument.
TITLE VI--ALASKA NATIONAL PARK UNIT REPORTS
Sec. 601. Mt. McKinley high altitude rescue fee study.
Sec. 602. Alaska Native hiring report.
Sec. 603. Pilot program.
TITLE VII--GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Sec. 701. Short title.
Sec. 702. Definitions.
Sec. 703. Commercial fishing.
Sec. 704. Sea gull egg collection study.
Sec. 705. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE I--SPANISH PEAKS WILDERNESS, COLORADO
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ``Spanish Peaks Wilderness Act of
2000''.
SEC. 102. DESIGNATION OF SPANISH PEAKS WILDERNESS.
Section 2(a) of the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 (Public Law
103-77; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
``(20) Spanish Peaks Wilderness.--Certain land in the San
Isabel National Forest that comprises approximately 18,000
acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled `Proposed
Spanish Peaks Wilderness', dated February 10, 1999, and which
shall be known as the Spanish Peaks Wilderness.''.
SEC. 103. FORCE AND EFFECT CLAUSE.
The map and boundary description of the Spanish Peaks Wilderness
shall have the same force and effect as if included in the Colorado
Wilderness Act of 1993 (Public Law 103-77; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note), except
that the Secretary of Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as the
``Secretary'') may correct clerical and typographical errors in the map
and boundary description.
SEC. 104. ACCESS.
(a) Bulls Eye Mine Road.--(1) With respect to the Bulls Eye Mine
Road, the Secretary shall allow the continuation of those historic uses
of the road which existed prior to the date of enactment of this title,
subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary deems necessary.
(2) Nothing in this section--
(A) requires the Secretary to open the Bulls Eye Mine Road
or otherwise restricts or limits the Secretary's management
authority with respect to the road; or
(B) requires the Secretary to improve or maintain the road.
(3) The Secretary shall consult with local citizens and other
interested parties regarding the implementation of this title with
respect to the road.
(b) Private Lands.--Access to any privately-owned land within the
Spanish Peaks Wilderness shall be provided in accordance with section 5
of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1134 et seq.).
SEC. 105. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.
Section 10 of the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 (Public Law 103-
77; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note) is repealed.
TITLE II--VIRGINIA WILDERNESS
SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE
This title may be cited as the ``Virginia Wilderness Act of 2000''.
SEC. 202 DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS.
Section 1 of the Act entitled ``An Act to designate certain
National Forest System lands in the States of Virginia and West
Virginia as wilderness areas'' (Public Law 100-326; 102 Stat. 584) is
amended--
(1) in paragraph (5), by striking ``and'' at the end;
(2) in paragraph (6), by striking the period and inserting
a semicolon; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
``(7) certain land in the George Washington National
Forest, comprising approximately 5,963 acres, as generally
depicted on a map entitled `The Priest Wilderness Study Area',
dated June 6, 2000, to be known as the `Priest Wilderness
Area'; and
``(8) certain land in the George Washington National
Forest, comprising approximately 4,608 acres, as generally
depicted on a map entitled `The Three Ridges Wilderness Study
Area', dated June 6, 2000, to be known as the `Three Ridges
Wilderness Area'.''.
TITLE III--WASHOE TRIBE LAND CONVEYANCE
SEC. 301. WASHOE TRIBE LAND CONVEYANCE.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) the ancestral homeland of the Washoe Tribe of Nevada
and California (referred to in this section as the ``Tribe'')
included an area of approximately 5,000 square miles in and
around Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada, and Lake Tahoe was
the heart of the territory;
(2) in 1997, Federal, State, and local governments,
together with many private landholders, recognized the Washoe
people as indigenous people of Lake Tahoe Basin through a
series of meetings convened by those governments at 2 locations
in Lake Tahoe;
(3) the meetings were held to address protection of the
extraordinary natural, recreational, and ecological resources
in the Lake Tahoe region;
(4) the resulting multiagency agreement includes objectives
that support the traditional and customary uses of Forest
Service land by the Tribe; and
(5) those objectives include the provision of access by
members of the Tribe to the shore of Lake Tahoe in order to
reestablish traditional and customary cultural practices.
(b) Purposes.--The purposes of this section are--
(1) to implement the joint local, State, tribal, and
Federal objective of returning the Tribe to Lake Tahoe; and
(2) to ensure that members of the Tribe have the
opportunity to engage in traditional and customary cultural
practices on the shore of Lake Tahoe to meet the needs of
spiritual renewal, land stewardship, Washoe horticulture and
ethnobotony, subsistence gathering, traditional learning, and
reunification of tribal and family bonds.
(c) Conveyance.--Subject to valid existing rights and subject to
the easement reserved under subsection (d), the Secretary of
Agriculture shall convey to the Secretary of the Interior, in trust for
the Tribe, for no consideration, all right, title, and interest in the
parcel of land comprising approximately 24.3 acres, located within the
Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit north of Skunk Harbor, Nevada, and
more particularly described as Mount Diablo Meridian, T15N, R18E,
section 27, lot 3.
(d) Easement.--
(1) In general.--The conveyance under subsection (c) shall
be made subject to reservation to the United States of a
nonexclusive easement for public and administrative access over
Forest Development Road #15N67 to National Forest System land.
(2) Access by individuals with disabilities.--The Secretary
shall provide a reciprocal easement to the Tribe permitting
vehicular access to the parcel over Forest Development Road
#15N67 to--
(A) members of the Tribe for administrative and
safety purposes; and
(B) members of the Tribe who, due to age,
infirmity, or disability, would have difficulty
accessing the conveyed parcel on foot.
(e) Use of Land.--
(1) In general.--In using the parcel conveyed under
subsection (c), the Tribe and members of the Tribe--
(A) shall limit the use of the parcel to
traditional and customary uses and stewardship
conservation for the benefit of the Tribe;
(B) shall not permit any permanent residential or
recreational development on, or commercial use of, the
parcel (including commercial development, tourist
accommodations, gaming, sale of timber, or mineral
extraction); and
(C) shall comply with environmental requirements
that are no less protective than environmental
requirements that apply under the Regional Plan of the
Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
(2) Reversion.--If the Secretary of the Interior, after
notice to the Tribe and an opportunity for a hearing, based on
monitoring of use of the parcel by the Tribe, makes a finding
that the Tribe has used or permitted the use of the parcel in
violation of paragraph (1) and the Tribe fails to take
corrective or remedial action directed by the Secretary of the
Interior, title to the parcel shall revert to the Secretary of
Agriculture.
TITLE IV--SAINT CROIX ISLAND REGIONAL HERITAGE CENTER
SECTION 401. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ``Saint Croix Island Heritage Act''.
SEC. 402. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
(1) Saint Croix Island is located in the Saint Croix River,
a river that is the boundary between the State of Maine and
Canada;
(2) the Island is the only international historic site in
the National Park System;
(3) in 1604, French nobleman Pierre Dugua Sieur de Mons,
accompanied by a courageous group of adventurers that included
Samuel Champlain, landed on the Island and began the
construction of a settlement;
(4) the French settlement on the Island in 1604 and 1605
was the initial site of the first permanent settlement in the
New World, predating the English settlement of 1607 at
Jamestown, Virginia;
(5) many people view the expedition that settled on the
Island in 1604 as the beginning of the Acadian culture in North
America;
(6) in October, 1998, the National Park Service completed a
general management plan to manage and interpret the Saint Croix
Island International Historic Site;
(7) the plan addresses a variety of management
alternatives, and concludes that the best management strategy
entails developing an interpretive trail and ranger station at
Red Beach, Maine, and a regional heritage center in downtown
Calais, Maine, in cooperation with Federal, State, and local
agencies;
(8) a 1982 memorandum of understanding, signed by the
Department of the Interior and the Canadian Department for the
Environment, outlines a cooperative program to commemorate the
international heritage of the Saint Croix Island site and
specifically to prepare for the 400th anniversary of the
settlement in 2004; and
(9) only four years remain before the 400th anniversary of
the settlement at Saint Croix Island, an occasion that should
be appropriately commemorated.
(b) Purpose.--The purpose of this title is to direct the Secretary
of the Interior to take all necessary and appropriate steps to work
with Federal, State, and local agencies, historical societies, and
nonprofit organizations to facilitate the development of a regional
heritage center in downtown Calais, Maine before the 400th anniversary
of the settlement of Saint Croix Island.
SEC. 403. DEFINITIONS.
In this title:
(1) Island.--The term ``Island'' means Saint Croix Island,
located in the Saint Croix River, between Canada and the State
of Maine.
(2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary
of the Interior, acting through the Director of the National
Park Service.
SEC. 404. SAINT CROIX ISLAND REGIONAL HERITAGE CENTER.
(a) In General.--The Secretary shall provide assistance in
planning, constructing, and operating a regional heritage center in
downtown Calais, Maine, to facilitate the management and interpretation
of the Saint Croix Island International Historic Site.
(b) Cooperative Agreements.--To carry out subsection (a), in
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