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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Aug 5, 2015
California Coastal National Monument Expansion Act
This bill expands the boundary of the California Coastal National Monument to include specified federal lands in Humboldt, Santa Cruz, and San Luis Obispo Counties in California.
The Department of the Interior shall amend the Monument management plan for the long-term protection and management of the federal land so added.
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Interior may acquire nonfederal land or interests within or adjacent to the added federal land only through exchange, donation, or purchase from a willing seller.
Interior must ensure the protection of Indian sacred sites and traditional cultural properties in the Monument and provide access by members of Indian Tribes for traditional cultural and customary uses.
The Monument shall be managed as part of the National Landscape Conservation System.
Interior shall establish an advisory council for each unit of the added federal land to advise on the implementation of the management plan.
Certain rocks, pinnacles, reefs, and islands in the Pacific Ocean within a mile of the coast of Orange County, California, are made part of the California Coastal National Monument, and their current temporary reservation is repealed.
Likewise repealed is the lighthouse reservation with respect to the San Juan and San Mateo Rocks and the two rocks in the vicinity of Laguna Beach, off the coast of Orange County.
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Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] · D–CA
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Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 114-490.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6388)
Introduced in Senate
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