LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL NINETY-NINTH CONGRESS MORRIS K. UDALL, ARIZONA, CHAIRMAN JOHN F. SEIBERLING, OHIO JAMES WEAVER, OREGON GEORGE MILLER, CALIFORNIA EDWARD J. MARKEY, MASSACHUSETTS TONY COELHO, CALIFORNIA RON DE LUGO, VIRGIN ISLANDS PETER H. KOSTMAYER, PENNSYLVANIA ALLAN B. MOLLOHAN, WEST VIRGINIA GEORGE (BUDDY) DARDEN, GEORGIA STANLEY SCOVILLE ROY JONES ASSOCIATE STAFF DIRECTOR LEE MCELVAIN RICHARD AGNEW CHIEF MINORITY COUNSEL Members of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs U.S. House of Representatives Dear Colleagues: Enclosed for your use in the conduct of this Committee's (III) Sincerely, Mc Udall MORRIS K. UDALL CONTENTS Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (Sept. 3, 1964) Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (Oct. 2, 1968). National Trails System Act (Oct. 2, 1968). Various Acts relating to administration of National Park System Page (V) PART I-PARKS AND RECREATION LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND ACT OF 1965 1 AN ACT To establish a land and water conservation fund to assist the States and Federal agencies in meeting present and future outdoor recreation demands and needs of the American people, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION PROVISIONS SHORT TITLE AND STATEMENT OF PURPOSES SECTION 1. (a) CITATION; EFFECTIVE DATE.-This Act may be cited as the "Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965" and shall become effective on January 1, 1965. (b) PURPOSES.-The purposes of this Act are to assist in preserving, developing, and assuring accessibility to all citizens of the United States of America of present and future generations and visitors who are lawfully present within the boundaries of the United States of America such quality and quantity of outdoor recreation resources as may be available and are necessary and desirable for individual active participation in such recreation and to strengthen the health and vitality of the citizens of the United States by (1) providing funds for and authorizing Federal assistance to the States in planning, acquisition, and development of needed land and water areas and facilities and (2) providing funds for the Federal acquisition and development of certain lands and other areas. CERTAIN REVENUES PLACED IN SEPARATE FUND SEC. 2. SEPARATE FUND.-During the period ending September 30, 1989, there shall be covered into the land and water conservation fund in the Treasury of the United States, which fund is hereby established and is hereinafter referred to as the "fund", the following revenues and collections: (a) SURPLUS PROPERTY SALES.-All proceeds (except so much thereof as may be otherwise obligated, credited, or paid under authority of those provisions of law set forth in section 485(b)(e),2 title 40, United States Code, or the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1963 (76 Stat. 725) or in any later appropriation Act) hereafter received from any disposal of surplus real property and related personal property under the Federal Property and Administrative 'The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 4607-4-4607-11), as set forth herein, consists of Public Law 88-578 (Sept. 3, 1964) and amendments thereto. 2 The reference in the text is set forth as it appears in the original public law. The reference was probably intended to refer to subsections (b) through (e) of section 485. |