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§ 1786. Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station
(a) Definitions
In this section:
(1) Light Station
(2) Outstanding Natural Area
(3) Public lands
(4) Secretary
(b) Findings
Congress finds as follows:
(1) The publicly owned Piedras Blancas Light Station has nationally recognized historical structures that should be preserved for present and future generations.
(2) The coastline adjacent to the Light Station is internationally recognized as having significant wildlife and marine habitat that provides critical information to research institutions throughout the world.
(3) The Light Station tells an important story about California’s coastal prehistory and history in the context of the surrounding region and communities.
(4) The coastal area surrounding the Light Station was traditionally used by Indian people, including the Chumash and Salinan Indian tribes.
(5) The Light Station is historically associated with the nearby world-famous Hearst Castle (Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument), now administered by the State of California.
(6) The Light Station represents a model partnership where future management can be successfully accomplished among the Federal Government, the State of California, San Luis Obispo County, local communities, and private groups.
(7) Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station Outstanding Natural Area would make a significant addition to the National Landscape Conservation System administered by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management.
(8) Statutory protection is needed for the Light Station and its surrounding Federal lands to ensure that it remains a part of our historic, cultural, and natural heritage and to be a source of inspiration for the people of the United States.
(c) Designation of the Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station Outstanding Natural Area
(1) In general
(2) Maps and legal descriptions
(3) Basis of management
(4) Withdrawal
Subject to valid existing rights, and in accordance with the existing withdrawal as set forth in Public Land Order 7501 (Oct. 12, 2001, Vol. 66, No. 198, Federal Register 52149), the Federal lands and interests in lands included within the Outstanding Natural Area are hereby withdrawn from—
(A) all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws;
(B) location, entry, and patent under the public land mining laws; and
(C) operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws and the mineral materials laws.
(d) Management of the Piedras Blancas Historic Light Station Outstanding Natural Area
(1) In general
(2) Uses
(3) Management plan
Not later than 3 years after of 2
2 So in original. The word “of” probably should not appear.
May 8, 2008, the Secretary shall complete a comprehensive management plan consistent with the requirements of section 202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712) to provide long-term management guidance for the public lands within the Outstanding Natural Area and fulfill the purposes for which it is established, as set forth in subsection (c)(1). The management plan shall be developed in consultation with appropriate Federal, State, and local government agencies, with full public participation, and the contents shall include—(A) provisions designed to ensure the protection of the resources and values described in subsection (c)(1);
(B) objectives to restore the historic Light Station and ancillary buildings;
(C) an implementation plan for a continuing program of interpretation and public education about the Light Station and its importance to the surrounding community;
(D) a proposal for minimal administrative and public facilities to be developed or improved at a level compatible with achieving the resources objectives for the Outstanding Natural Area as described in paragraph (1) and with other proposed management activities to accommodate visitors and researchers to the Outstanding Natural Area; and
(E) cultural resources management strategies for the Outstanding Natural Area, prepared in consultation with appropriate departments of the State of California, with emphasis on the preservation of the resources of the Outstanding Natural Area and the interpretive, education, and long-term scientific uses of the resources, giving priority to the enforcement of the Archaeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 (16 U.S.C. 470aa et seq.) and division A of subtitle III of title 54 within the Outstanding Natural Area.
(4) Cooperative agreements
(5) Research activities
(6) Acquisition
State and privately held lands or interests in lands adjacent to the Outstanding Natural Area and identified as appropriate for acquisition in the management plan may be acquired by the Secretary as part of the Outstanding Natural Area only by—
(A) donation;
(B) exchange with a willing party; or
(C) purchase from a willing seller.
(7) Additions to the Outstanding Natural Area
(8) Overflights
Nothing in this section or the management plan shall be construed to—
(A) restrict or preclude overflights, including low level overflights, military, commercial, and general aviation overflights that can be seen or heard within the Outstanding Natural Area;
(B) restrict or preclude the designation or creation of new units of special use airspace or the establishment of military flight training routes over the Outstanding Natural Area; or
(C) modify regulations governing low-level overflights above the adjacent Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
(9) Law enforcement activities
(10) Native American uses and interests
(11) No buffer zones
(e) Authorization of appropriations
(Pub. L. 110–229, title II, § 201, May 8, 2008, 122 Stat. 759; Pub. L. 113–287, § 5(l)(8), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3271.)