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Finger Lakes National Heritage Area Act

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Introduced 2025-04-03
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Officially: “Finger Lakes National Heritage Area Act Read the full text

Public Lands and Natural Resources

What it does

The bill designates 14 counties in New York's Finger Lakes region as a new National Heritage Area. The Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance becomes the area's local coordinating entity and must submit a management plan to the Secretary of the Interior within 3 years of enactment. Federal assistance authority for the area ends 15 years after enactment.
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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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Where it is

Introduced · 2025-04-03

In the Senate.

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Official documents

The on-site text is shown verbatim from the GovInfo publication, captured 2026-07-12. The same version at GovInfo.

The numbers

2%
of bills introduced became law in the 118th Congress, 2023 to 2024 (n=16,213)
1
sponsor, out of 51 needed to pass

Who is lobbying on this

NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONvia NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
1 filing
From 1 filing in federal lobbying disclosures (LDA), via lda.gov, naming this bill (2026). Filings are self-reported by lobbying firms and show who is paid to influence this bill. They do not say which side, or whether it worked.
Every fact on this page links to its source, starting with the official bill record. Last action: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably. (2026-06-10).