Pinnacles National Monument Boundary Adjustment Act of 1999

Pinnacles National Monument Boundary Adjustment Act of 1999 - Modifies the boundaries of the Pinnacles National Monument in California to include specified additional lands. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to transfer administrative jurisdiction over the added lands to the Director of the National Park Service.

Designates the added lands as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2279 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2279

To expand the boundaries of Pinnacles National Monument, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 18, 1999

    Mr. Farr of California introduced the following bill; which was 
                 referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To expand the boundaries of Pinnacles National Monument, 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 ``Pinnacles National Monument Boundary 
Adjustment Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT AND TRANSFER OF JURISDICTION, PINNACLES 
              NATIONAL MONUMENT, CALIFORNIA.

    (a) Boundary Adjustment.--Effective on the date of enactment of 
this Act, the boundaries of Pinnacles National Monument in the State of 
California are hereby modified to include the lands depicted on the map 
entitled ``Pinnacles Boundary Expansion'', numbered PINN 114/80,056, 
and dated February 1999. The map shall be on file and available for 
inspection in the offices of the Director of the National Park Service.
    (b) Transfer of Jurisdiction.--Upon the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of the Interior shall transfer, without reimbursement, to the 
administrative jurisdiction of the Director of the National Park 
Service the lands depicted on the map described in subsection (a) that 
are under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management. The 
boundaries of the public lands shall be adjusted to reflect the 
transfer.
    (c) Designation of Wilderness.--In furtherance of the purposes of 
the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the lands added to 
Pinnacles National Monument by transfer from the Bureau of Land 
Management under subsection (c) are hereby designated as wilderness and 
therefore as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation 
System. The designated lands shall be known as the Pinnacles 
Wilderness. The Secretary of the Interior shall administer the lands in 
accordance with the applicable provisions of the Wilderness Act.
    (d) Administration.--Subject to subsection (c), lands added to 
Pinnacles National Monument by this section shall be administered by 
the Secretary of the Interior as part of the National Monument in 
accordance with the laws and regulations applicable to the National 
Monument.
    (e) Acquisition of Other Lands.--Except as provided in subsection 
(b), the Secretary of the Interior may acquire lands depicted on the 
map described in subsection (a) by purchase, donation, or purchase with 
donated or appropriated funds.
    (f) Amendments to Prior Boundary Revision Law.--Section 4(b)(2) of 
Public Law 94-567 (90 Stat. 2694) is amended in the first sentence by 
striking ``description'' and all that follows through ``lands'' and 
inserting ``description. Lands''.
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