National Heritage Area Authorizations Extension Act of 2012

National Heritage Area Authorizations Extension Act of 2012 - Extends through FY2016 the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to make grants or provide assistance for the: (1) National Coal Heritage Area (West Virginia), (2) Tennessee Civil War Heritage Area, (3) Augusta Canal National Heritage Area (Georgia), (4) Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area (Pennsylvania), (5) Essex National Heritage Area (Massachusetts), (6) South Carolina National Heritage Corridor, (7) America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership (Iowa), (8) Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor, and (9) Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area (New York).

Amends the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area Act of 2000 to extend through FY2016 the authority of the Secretary to provide grants or other assistance for the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area in Pennsylvania.

Amends the Delaware and Lehigh Navigation Canal Heritage Corridor Act of 1988 to extend through FY2016 the authorization of appropriations for the management action plan respecting the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor in Pennsylvania.

Extends the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission (Massachusetts and Rhode Island) through FY2016.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6572 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6572

  To extend the authorizations of appropriations for certain national 
                heritage areas, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 12, 2012

  Mr. McGovern (for himself, Mr. LaTourette, Mr. Dent, and Mr. Tonko) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To extend the authorizations of appropriations for certain national 
                heritage areas, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Heritage Area 
Authorizations Extension Act of 2012''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA AUTHORIZATIONS.

    (a) Division II of Public Law 104-333 is amended by striking 
``2012'' each place it appears in sections 107, 208, 310, 408, 507, 
607, 707, 809, and 910 and inserting ``2016''.
    (b) Section 108 of Public Law 106-278 is amended by striking 
``2012'' and inserting ``2016''.
    (c) Section 12 of Public Law 100-692 is amended--
            (1) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``2012'' and 
        inserting ``2016''; and
            (2) by striking subsection (d).
    (d) Section 7 of Public Law 99-647 is amended by striking ``6 
years'' and inserting ``10 years''.

SEC. 3. FUNDING.

    Any amounts authorized to be appropriated to carry out the 
amendments made by section 2 shall be subject to a determination made 
by the National Park Service of the applicable funding amounts based on 
an annual distribution formula
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