To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land to operate a visitor center for Joshua Tree National Park, and for other purposes.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4575 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4575

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land to operate a 
 visitor center for Joshua Tree National Park, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 6, 2014

   Mr. Cook introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire land to operate a 
 visitor center for Joshua Tree National Park, 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. VISITOR CENTER FOR JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK.

    The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 410aaa et 
seq.) is amended by inserting after section 407 the following:

``SEC. 408. VISITOR CENTER.

    ``The Secretary is authorized to acquire not more than five acres 
of land and interests in land, and improvements thereon, outside the 
boundaries of Joshua Tree National Park, in the unincorporated village 
of Joshua Tree, for the purpose of operating a visitor center. The 
Secretary shall modify the boundary of the park to include the land 
acquired under this section as a noncontiguous parcel. Lands and 
facilities acquired under this section--
            ``(1) may include the property currently owned by the 
        Joshua Tree National Park Association and commonly referred to 
        as the `Joshua Tree National Park Visitor Center';
            ``(2) shall be administered by the Secretary as part of 
        Joshua Tree National Park; and
            ``(3) may be acquired only with the consent of the owner, 
        by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or 
        exchange.''.
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