S. 1333 (es) To amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to allow national park units that cannot charge an entrance or admission fee to retain other fees and charges. ...

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        S.1333

                       One Hundred Fifth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-
                                  eight


                                 An Act


 
   To amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to allow 
 national park units that cannot charge an entrance or admission fee to 
                     retain other fees and charges.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. USE OF CERTAIN RECREATIONAL FEES.

    Section 4(i)(1) of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 
(16 U.S.C. 460l-6a(i)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
            ``(C) Units at which entrance fees or admissions fees 
        cannot be collected.--
                ``(i) Withholding of amounts.--Notwithstanding 
            subparagraph (A), section 315(c) of section 101(c) of the 
            Omnibus Consolidated Recessions and Appropriations Act of 
            1996 (16 U.S.C. 460l-6a note; Public Law 104-134), or 
            section 107 of the Department of the Interior and Related 
            Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998 (16 U.S.C. 460l-6a note; 
            Public Law 105-83), the Secretary of the Interior shall 
            withhold from the special account under subparagraph (A) 
            100 percent of the fees and charges collected in connection 
            with any unit of the National Park System at which entrance 
            fees or admission fees cannot be collected by reason of 
            deed restrictions.
                ``(ii) Use of amounts.--Amounts withheld under clause 
            (i) shall be retained by the Secretary and shall be 
            available, without further Act of appropriation, for 
            expenditure by the Secretary for the unit with respect to 
            which the amounts were collected for the purposes of 
            enhancing the quality of the visitor experience, protection 
            of resources, repair and maintenance, interpretation, 
            signage, habitat or facility enhancement, resource 
            preservation, annual operation (including fee collection), 
            maintenance, and law enforcement.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.

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