tional Recreation Area, where they are damaging water holes and vegetation at the expense of native wildlife. The use of aircraft is the only economical way to remove these animals. A total of 6,000 burros has been removed from Death Valley, and there are an estimated 1,600 individual animals in Lake Mead. This legislation is necessary to make clear that continued use of aircraft and motor vehicles for wild horse and burro removal in the National Park System is not prohibited in other Federal law.

SECTION 304-MUSEUM PROPERTIES IN THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

This section would amend the Museum Properties Act of July 1, 1955, applicable to the acquisition of properties for National Park Service museums, by authorizing disposal of museum properties under appropriate circumstances. Under this authority, the National Park Service could dispose of unneeded museum properties by the following methods: Transfer to other Federal agencies; donation to tax-exempt private and State and local governmental agencies; and by destroying objects that have no scientific, cultural, or other value. Existing disposal authority under the 1955 Act is limited to placing objects on loan or exchanging them for other museum properties.

Because collections of objects frequently accompany land transfers when land is acquired for park purposes, and because some objects have been acquired without professional guidance as to their relationship to the purpose of a particular park, the National Park Service has many objects in its museum collections that it does not need. As a result, space is wasted and we continue to maintain objects that could be used by other institutions or that are better disposed of if they have no value.

SECTION 305-VOLUNTEERS IN THE PARKS INCREASE

Section 305 would increase the annual ceiling for the Volunteers in the Parks Program from $1 million to $1,750,000.

Congress appropriated $1,439,000 for fiscal year 1993, and the increased authorization would allow for any budgetary increases that may be adopted in future years.

Based on voluntary work having an approximate value of $32 for every dollar spent on the program, the total authorization of $1,750,000 would represent a resource benefit of $56 million.

Activities carried out by volunteers for the National Park Service include a wide range of interpretation, visitor services, and resource management functions. Most of this funding will go directly to the parks for lodging, historic costumes and uniforms or supplies and materials. During the last several years, about 75,000 individual volunteers have participated at more than 300 parks.

SECTION 306 COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS FOR RESEARCH

PURPOSES

This section would clarify the National Park Service's authority to establish Cooperative Park Study Units with colleges and universities for mutually beneficial research on park resources and use. The Service has established Cooperative Park Study Units at 26 institutions, and spends approximately $6.5 million annually in research pursuant to cooperative agreements with these institutions. Clarifying legislation as set forth in this section would provide a specific statutory basis for such cooperative agreements. Existing general cooperative agreement authority with universities applies to park education and outdoor recreation. We believe that research on park resources and use is well within these broad categories, but park resources are an important enough subject to merit specific authority.

We note that this section contains a disclaimer that the language shall not waive any requirements for competitive bidding on research projects. We have no objections to this provision. We do now and will continue to abide by the Federal procurement regulations.

CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW

In compliance with paragraph 12 of rule XXVI of the Standing Rules of the Senate, changes in existing law made by the Act H.R. 1305, as ordered reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman):

SECTION 302 OF THE ARIZONA-IDAHO CONSERVATION ACT OF 1988 ACQUISITION OF LANDS

SEC. 302. (a) * *

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(d) To further the purposes of the monument, the Secretary is also authorized to acquire from willing sellers only, by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange not to exceed 65 acres outside the boundary depicted on the map referred to in section 301 and develop and operate thereon research, information, interpretive, and administrative facilities. Lands acquired and facilities developed pursuant to this subsection shall be administered by the Secretary as part of the monument. The boundary of the monument shall be modified to include the lands added under this subsection as a noncontiguous parcel.

SECTION 505 OF THE NATIONAL PARKS AND RECREATION ACT OF

1978

KALOKO-HONOKOHAU NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

SEC. 505. (a) **

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(7) The Advisory Commission shall terminate ten years after the date of enactment of [this Act.] the Na Hoa Pili KalokoHonokohau Re-establishment Act of 1994.

SECTION 1601 OF THE ACT OF DECEMBER 28, 1980

AN ACT To provide, with respect to the national park system: for the establishment of new units; for adjustments in boundaries; for increases in appropriation authorizations for land acquisition and development; and for other purposes

WOMEN'S RIGHTS NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK

SEC. 1601. (a) * * *

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(5) The Commission shall terminate [ten] twenty-five years from the effective date of this section.

SECTION 3 OF THE BOSTON NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK ACT OF

1974

SEC. 3. (a) * *

(b)(1) In furtherance of the general purposes of this Act as prescribed in section 2, the Secretary is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with the city of Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or any private organization to mark, interpret, restore, and/or provide technical assistance for the preservation and interpretation of any properties listed in section 2, or portions thereof, which, in his opinion, would best be preserved in private, ; municipal, or State ownership, in connection with the Boston National Historical Park. Such agreements shall contain, but shall not be limited to, provisions that the Secretary, through the National Park Service, shall have right of access at all reasonable times to all public portions of the property covered by such agreement for the purpose of conducting visitors through such properties and interpreting them to the public, that no changes or alterations shall be made in such properties except by mutual agreement between

the Secretary and the other parties to such agreements, except that no limitation or control of any kind over the use of any such properties customarily used for church purposes shall be imposed by any agreement. The agreements may contain specific provisions which outline in detail the extent of the participation by the Secretary in the restoration, preservation, and maintenance of such historic properties.

(2) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into a cooperative agreement with the Boston Public Library to provide for the distribution of informational and interpretive materials relating to the park and to the Freedom Trail.

SECTION 1 OF THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912

AN ACT Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other

purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, namely:

[No expenditure for construction of administration or other buildings cost in case of any building exceeding $3,000 shall hereafter be made in any national park except under express authority of Congress: Provided, That this shall not apply to buildings now in the process of actual construction.]

SECTION 1 OF THE ACT OF AUGUST 7, 1946

AN ACT To provide basic authority for the performance of certain functions and activities of the National Park Service

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That appropriations for the National Park Service are authorized for(a) * * *

(j) Provide transportation for children in nearby communities to and from any unit of the National Park System used in connection with organized recreation and interpretive programs of the National Park Service.

SECTION 9 OF THE ACT OF DECEMBER 15, 1971

AN ACT To require the protection, management, and control of wild free-roaming horses and burros on public lands

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SEC. 9. In administering this Act, the Secretary may use or contract for the use of helicopters or, for the purpose of transporting captured animals, motor vehicles. Such use shall be undertaken only after a public hearing and under the direct supervision of the Secretary or of a duly authorized official or employee of the Department. The provisions of subsection (a) of the Act of September 8, 1959 (73 Stat. 470; 18 U.S.C. 47(a)) shall not be applicable to such use. Such use shall be in accordance with humane procedures prescribed by the Secretary. Nothing in this Act shall be deemed to limit the authority of the Secretary in the management of units of the National Park System, and the Secretary may, without regard either to the provisions of this Act, or section 47(a) of title 18, United States Code, use motor vehicles, fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, or contract for such use, in furtherance of the management of the National Park System, and the provisions of section 47(a) of title 18, United States Code, shall not be applicable to such use.

ACT OF JULY 1, 1955

AN ACT To increase the public benefits from the National Park System by facilitating the management of museum properties relating thereto, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the purpose of this Act shall be to increase the public benefits from museums established within the individual areas administered by the Secretary of the Interior through the National Park Service as a means of informing the public concerning the areas and preserving valuable objects and relics relating thereto. The Secretary of the Interior, notwithstanding other provisions or limitations of law, may perform the following functions in such manner as he shall consider to be in the public interest:

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(b) Purchase [from such donations and bequests of money] museum objects, museum collections, and other personal properties at prices he considers to be reasonable;

SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS.

(a) In addition to the functions specified in the first section of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may perform the following functions in such manner as he shall consider to be in the public interest:

(1) Transfer museum objects and museum collections that the Secretary determines are no longer needed for museum purposes to qualified Federal agencies that have programs to preserve and interpret cultural or natural heritage, and accept the transfer of museum objects and museum collections for the purposes of this Act from any other Federal agency, without reimburse