A bill to provide for the inclusion of Department of Defense property on Santa Rosa and Okaloosa Island, Florida, in the Gulf Islands National Seashore if the property is ever excess to the needs of the Armed Forces.

Amends federal law establishing the Gulf Islands National Seashore to provide that, if any of the federal land on Santa Rosa or Okaloosa Island, Florida, that is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense is ever excess to the needs of the Armed Forces, then the Secretary of Defense shall transfer such land to the Secretary of the Interior for inclusion in the Seashore.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1933 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1933

To provide for the inclusion of Department of Defense property on Santa 
    Rosa and Okaloosa Island, Florida, in the Gulf Islands National 
   Seashore if the property is ever excess to the needs of the Armed 
                                Forces.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 27, 2005

 Mr. Martinez introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
              referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the inclusion of Department of Defense property on Santa 
    Rosa and Okaloosa Island, Florida, in the Gulf Islands National 
   Seashore if the property is ever excess to the needs of the Armed 
                                Forces.

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

SECTION 1. INCLUSION OF EXCESS DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROPERTY ON SANTA 
              ROSA AND OKALOOSA ISLAND IN GULF ISLANDS NATIONAL 
              SEASHORE.

    Section 7 of Public Law 91-660 (16 U.S.C. 459h-6) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(a)'' before ``There are''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(b) If any of the Federal land on Santa Rosa or Okaloosa Island, 
Florida, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense is ever 
excess to the needs of the Armed Forces, the Secretary of Defense shall 
transfer, without reimbursement, the excess land to the administrative 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the 
Interior shall administer the transferred land as part of the seashore 
in accordance with the provisions of this Act.''.
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