Finger Lakes National Heritage Area Act
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1Short title
This section would give the Act the short title "Finger Lakes National Heritage Area Act."
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1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area Act .
2Designation of Finger Lakes National Heritage Area
This section would add the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area, in the State of New York, as a new component of the National Heritage Area System, by adding it to the list of heritage areas in the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act. The area would consist of Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Livingston, Monroe, Onondaga, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, Wayne, and Yates Counties, New York. The Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance would be the local coordinating entity for the area. The Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance would have to submit a proposed management plan for the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area to the Secretary of the Interior for approval no later than 3 years after the date the Act becomes law. The Secretary of the Interior's authority to provide assistance for the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area under the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act would end on the date that is 15 years after the date the Act becomes law.
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2. Designation of Finger Lakes National Heritage Area (a) Designation Section 6001(a) of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act ( Public Law 116–9 ; 133 Stat. 768; 136 Stat. 6163) is amended by adding at the end the following: (14) Finger Lakes National Heritage Area (A) In general There is established as a component of the National Heritage Area System the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area in the State of New York, consisting of Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Livingston, Monroe, Onondaga, Ontario, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, Wayne, and Yates Counties, New York. (B) Local coordinating entity The Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance shall be the local coordinating entity for the National Heritage Area designated by subparagraph (A). . (b) Management plan For the purposes of section 6001(c) of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act ( Public Law 116–9 ; 133 Stat. 772; 136 Stat. 6173), the local coordinating entity for the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area designated under the amendment made by subsection (a) shall submit to the Secretary of the Interior for approval a proposed management plan for the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act. (c) Termination of authority For the purposes of subsection (g)(4) of section 6001 of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act ( Public Law 116–9 ; 133 Stat. 776), the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to provide assistance under that section for the Finger Lakes National Heritage Area designated under the amendment made by subsection (a) shall terminate on the date that is 15 years after the date of enactment of this Act.
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In the Senate.