Partnership Agreements Creating Tangible Savings Act or the PACTS Act
This bill revises provisions permitting cooperative management agreements between the National Park Service and other governmental entities regarding management of park areas.
Specifically, the bill (1) allows tribal governments, public universities, public utilities, or quasi-governmental entities to enter agreements; and (2) eliminates the requirement that the nonfederal park areas be adjacent or near to National Park System units.
[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6442 Introduced in House (IH)]
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117th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6442
To amend section 101703 of title 54, United States Code, to include
Tribal Governments and quasi-governmental entities, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 20, 2022
Mr. Fulcher introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources
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A BILL
To amend section 101703 of title 54, United States Code, to include
Tribal Governments and quasi-governmental entities, 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 ``Partnership Agreements Creating
Tangible Savings Act'' or the ``PACTS Act''.
SEC. 2. COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT AGREEMENTS.
Section 101703 of title 54, United States Code, is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)--
(A) by striking ``agreement with a State or local
government agency to provide for the cooperative
management of the Federal and State or local park areas
where a System unit is located adjacent to or near a
State or local park area, and'' and inserting
``agreement with a State or local agency, Tribal
Government, or quasi-governmental entity to provide for
the cooperative management of Federal, State, local, or
Tribal park areas where''; and
(B) by striking ``between the Service and a State
or local government agency of a portion of either the
System unit or State or local park will allow for more
effective and efficient management of the System unit
and State or local park'' and inserting ``between the
Service and a State or local agency, Tribal Government,
or quasi-governmental entity of a portion of either the
System unit or State, local, Tribal, or quasi-
governmental entity land will allow for more effective
and efficient management of such System unit or such
land'';
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ``provide to a State''
and all that follows through ``land'' and inserting ``provide
to a State or local agency, Tribal Government, or quasi-
governmental entity goods and services to be used by the
Secretary and the State or local agency, Tribal Government, or
quasi-governmental entity in the cooperative management of
lands and waters''; and
(3) in subsection (c)--
(A) by striking ``a Federal, State, or local
employee for work on any Federal, State, or local'' and
inserting ``an employee of a Federal, State, or local
agency, Tribal Government, or quasi-governmental
entity, for work on any Federal, State, local, Tribal,
or quasi-governmental entity land''; and
(B) by striking ``by the Secretary and the State or
local agency'' and inserting ``by the Secretary and the
State or local agency, Tribal Government, or quasi-
governmental entity''.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.
Referred to the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands Discharged.
Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States Discharged.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 117-601.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 117-601.
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Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 434.