National Park and Recreation Act of 1980

(Measure passed House, amended, roll Call #243 (300-102))

National Park and Recreation Act of 1980 - =Title I: Establishment of New Areas= - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a cooperative agreement with the Western Reserve Historical Society to establish the James A. Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor, Ohio.

Establishes the Georgia O'Keeffe National Historic Site at Abiquiu, New Mexico.

Establishes the Salinas National Monument in the State of New Mexico. Abolishes the Gran Quivira National Monument and makes any funds available therefore available for purposes of the Salinas National Monument.

Establishes the Women's Rights National Historical Park which shall consist initially of specified sites in Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New York. Authorizes the Secretary, with the concurrence of the owners, to designate other sites in the United States which he determines illustrate the development of the struggle for women's rights. Declares that sites so designated shall become part of the park.

Establishes the Women's Rights National Historical Park Advisory Commission to advise the Secretary with respect to matters relating to the administration of the park. Terminates the Commission 10 years from the effective date of this section.

Establishes the Chaco Culture National Historical Park in the Chaco area of the San Juan Basin of New Mexico. Directs the Secretary, in the establishment and adjustment of the boundaries for such Park, to recognize two categories of units: (1) Research Units, whose principal purpose shall be for the protection of cultural resources for scientific and research purposes; and (2) Visitor Use and Interpretation Units, for the protection of cultural resources for scientific and research purposes and for interpretation, use, and appreciation by visitors.

Authorizes the Secretary to designate sites within the region containing historic, archaeological, and cultural resources which are related to the history and prehistory of the region and which are necessary or appropriate for protection and interpretation for the inspiration, education, and benefit of the public as part of the Park. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire property within such sites and to enter into cooperative agreements with the owner, including the beneficial owner, of such property pursuant to which the Secretary may in whole or in part protect, preserve, maintain, or administer such property.

Establishes the Chaco Culture National Historical Park Advisory Commission. Requires the Secretary to consult with such Commission with respect to the administration of the Park.

Requires the Secretary, within six months of the effective date of this section, to submit to specified Congressional committees a plan for the continued operational program of the Division of Cultural Research of the Southwest Cultural Resources Center.

Establishes the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site, Atlanta, Georgia. Establishes the Martin Luther King, Junior, Preservation District. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with the owners of properties of historical or cultural significance as determined by the Secretary, pursuant to which the Secretary may mark, interpret, improve, restore, and provide technical assistance with respect to the preservation and interpretation of such properties.

Establishes the Martin Luther King, Junior, National Historic Site Advisory Commission to: (1) advise the Secretary with respect to the formulation and execution of plans for and the overall administration of the national historic site and preservation district; (2) prepare a generalized impact area plan for a one-mile radius outside the district; and (3) prepare a detailed development plan for the neighborhoods and outlying commercial areas immediately outside the district. Terminates the Commission 20 years from the effective date of this section. Prohibits the charging of fees for entrance or admission to the national historic site or the preservation district.

Establishes the Mary McLeod Bethune National Historic Site in Daytona Beach, Florida. Authorizes the Secretary, directly or by means of cooperative agreements with the Mary McLeod Bethune Foundation, to preserve, interpret, restore, adapt for public use, and provide technical assistance for such site.

Requires the Secretary to submit to specified Congressional committees, within three fiscal years from the effective date of this Act, comprehensive general management plans for the areas established pursuant to this title.

=Title II: Minor Boundary Changes= - Revises the boundaries of the Big Bend National Park in the State of Texas.

Revises the boundaries of the Mound City Group National Monument, Ohio. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to investigate other sites in the region which contain archaeological data illustrating the prehistoric Hopewellian civilization that flourished in the eastern United States, and as a part of such investigation to identify those sites which the Secretary determines should be protected as part of the Mound City Group National Monument.

Authorizes the use of appropriated funds for the acquisition of lands for the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Site, Texas, and revises the boundaries of such site. Redesignates such site as a national historical park.

Amends the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 to revise the boundaries of the Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site in Brownsville, Texas. Revises the boundaries of the Grant Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Montana.

Authorizes the Secretary to acquire specified land in Henrico County, Virginia for addition to the Richmond National Battlefield Park.

Revises the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California. Increases the membership of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area Advisory Commission and lengthens the term of office for Commission members from three to five years. Specifies that the term of those Commission members who have been either appointed or reappointed subsequent to January 1, 1979, shall be extended so as to expire not before June 1, 1985.

Revises the boundaries of the Monocacy National Battlefield, Maryland, the Boston National Historical Park, Massachusetts, and the Pinnacles National Monument, California.

Revises the boundaries of the Golden Spike National Historic Site, Utah. Requires the Secretary, within two years from the effective date of this section, to complete and submit to specified Congressional committees, a report on the feasibility of providing passenger rail service from the city of Ogden, Utah, to such historic site.

Revises the boundaries of the Stones River National Battlefield, Tennessee, and Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Virginia.

=Title III: Acquisition and Development Ceiling Increases= - Makes changes in the acquisition and development ceilings for the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, the Hamilton Grange National Memorial, New York, and the Roger Williams National Memorial, Rhode Island.

Amends the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 to increase the authorization of appropriations for the acquisition of land for the Coronado National Memorial, Arizona.

=Title IV: General Administrative Authorities= - Amends the General Authorities Act of 1970 to require the Secretary of the Interior to indicate in each national park system new area study, the theme(s) which the area represents as indicated in the National Park System Plan. Requires the annual listing of new candidate national park areas to be accompanied by a synopsis, for each report previously submitted, of the current and changed condition of the resource integrity of the area and other relevant factors.

Amends the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 to terminate the requirement that funds credited to the Land and Water Conservation Fund which have not been authorized for expenditure within two fiscal years be transferred to miscellaneous receipts of the United States Treasury.

Redefines the term 'single visit' to mean a more or less continuous stay within a designated area. Specifies that payment of a single visit admission fee shall authorize exits from and reentries to a single designated area for a period of from one to 15 days.

Requires the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to establish procedures providing for the issuance of a lifetime admission permit to any citizen of, or person domiciled in the United States, if such citizen or person applied for such permit, and is blind or permanently disabled. Allows such a permit holder to receive a 50 percent reduction in special recreation facilities entrance fees.

Increases the amount the Secretary of the Interior may expend from the Fund for land acquisition options in a fiscal year to not more than $1,000,000 or one percent of the amount appropriated from the Fund for Federal purposes in each fiscal year, whichever is greater.

=Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions= - Requires the National Park Service to conduct a comprehensive cost effectiveness study of the operations of each of its nine regional offices and present such study to the appropriate committees of Congress as part of the proposed fiscal year 1982 budget. Prohibits the Park Service from curtailing the current level of operations in any of its regional offices until October 1, 1981.

Amends the Act which established the Lowell National Historical Park, Massachusetts, to specify that any revenues or other assets acquired by the Lowell National Historical Park Advisory Commission by donation, the lease or sale of property, or fees for services shall be available to the Commission, without fiscal year limitation, to be used for any authorized function of the Commission. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to require audits of the financial records of the Commission to be conducted not less frequently than once each year.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to inform the public of the contributions of Representative Ryan to the creation of the Gateway National Recreation Area in the States of New York and New Jersey. Increase to 15 the membership of the Gateway National Recreation Area Advisory Commission.

Amends the Act which established the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area to allow the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a nonassignable lease providing for the continued use by an individual, of land on which a mobile home was located whenever any such land within the recreation area is acquired for the purposes of such Act.

Redesignates Moores Creek National Military Park in North Carolina as Moores Creek National Battlefield.

Increases to 11 the membership of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Advisory Commission.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance for the maintenance and protection of the Folger Library and the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Arena Stage. Prohibits any assistance from being provided to the Arena Stage unless and until it is entered in the National Register of Historic Places.

Designates the water impounded by the Norton Dam in the State of Kansas as the Keith Sebelius Lake.

Amends the National Trails System Act to designate the Overmountain Victory Trail in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina as a national historic trail and a component of the National Trails System.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the Ansley Wilcox House in Buffalo, New York, and designates such house as the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site. Directs the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation or other qualified public or private entities for the operations, maintenance, management, development and interpretation of the such site.

Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to commemorate, in the form of an appropriate plaque or monument, at Assateague Island National Seashore, Maryland, the contributions of Rogers C. B. Morton, as a Member of Congress, and later as Secretary of the Interior, toward the development of the Seashore and to conservation in general.

Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine appropriate measures to protect and interpret for the benefit and education of the public the Falls of the Ohio located in the States of Kentucky and Indiana.

Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish an advisory body for the area of the Upper Missouri River which is a component of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Establishes the Metropolitan Area River Corridor Commission to consider the resources of the Mississippi, Saint Croix, and Minnesota River corridors in the Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Minnesota metropolitan area and to make recommendations to the President and Congress as to the policy which would maximize the educational and recreational benefits of the corridor in a manner compatible, as far as practicable, with the economic utilization of the resource.

Authorizes the Secretary to review and study sites and structures associated with the life and work of former President Gerald R. Ford, and to submit such study, together with recommendations as to the most appropriate site for designation as a national historic site in commemoration of former President Ford to the President and Congress.

Authorizes the Secretary to investigate, and report to specified Congressional committees, sites associated with the life and work of George Meany.

Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Defense, and any other entities considered by the Secretary to be appropriate, to conduct a study of locations and events associated with the historical theme of Man in Space. Requires such study, including potential action alternatives, to be submitted to specified Congressional committees no later than one complete fiscal year after the effective date of this section.

Authorizes appropriations to assist the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in renovating and refurbishing the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial.