Chacoan Culture Preservation Act

Summary

Chacoan Culture Preservation Act - Changes the boundaries of the Chaco Canyon National Monument in the San Juan Basin, New Mexico, and redesignates such area as the Chaco Culture National Historic Park. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to continue to search for additional evidences of Chacoan sites and submit to Congress within one year after the effective date of this Act and annually thereafter recommendations for additions or deletions of such sites to the park. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands, waters, and interests within the boundaries of such park, by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, except that property owned by the State of New Mexico or any political subdivision thereof, may be acquired by donation only. Specifies that property held in trust for the benefit of any Indian tribe or for the benefit of any individual member thereof may be acquired only with the consent of such tribe or owner. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with the owners of properties identified in this Act, located in whole or in part within the park, to protect, preserve, maintain, or administer such sites regardless of whether title to the property or site is vested in the United States. Requires the Secretary, within two years from the date of enactment of this Act, to transmit to specified congressional committees a general management plan for the identification, research, and protection of the park consistent with the purposes of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary, consistent with the purposes of the Division of Cultural Research of the Southwest Cultural Resources Center, operated by the National Park Service, to continue and expand research and data gathering activities to further the purposes of the park and knowledge of the Chaco culture. Requires the Secretary, within six months of the effective date of this Act, to submit to specified congressional committees a plan for the continued operational program of such resources center. Specifies that the Secretary shall, through such resources center, be responsible for the development of a computer-generated data base of the San Juan Basin and make such information available to Federal and private groups.

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 17 November 1980

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 4 September 1980

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