S.Amdt. 6044

SA 6044. Mr. PADILLA submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle G of title X, add the following:

SEC. 1094. EXPANSION OF JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK.

(a) Boundary Adjustment.--Section 402 of the California
Desert Protection Act of 1994 (16 U.S.C. 410aaa-22) is
amended, in the first sentence, by inserting after ``October
1991 or prior,'' the following: ``and including the
approximately 20,149 acres of land generally depicted on the
map entitled `Joshua Tree National Park Proposed Boundary
Addition', numbered 156/193,676, and dated June 2024''.
(b) Transfer of Administrative Jurisdiction.--
Administrative jurisdiction over the land described in the
amendment made by subsection (a) is transferred from the
Bureau of Land Management to the National Park Service.
(c) Land Acquisition.--
(1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of
the Interior may acquire land and interests in land within
the boundary of the Joshua Tree National Park by--
(A) donation;
(B) purchase from a willing seller;
(C) exchange; or
(D) transfer.
(2) Limitation.--Any land or interest land within the
boundary of the Joshua Tree National Park that is owned by
the State of California or a political subdivision of the
State of California may only be acquired by the Secretary of
the Interior by donation or exchange.
(d) Technical Correction.--Section 1433(a) of the John D.
Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act
(Public Law 116-9; 133 Stat. 700) is amended by striking
``156/149,375'' each place it appears and inserting ``156/
149,375A''.
(e) Redesignation of the Cottonwood Visitor Center at
Joshua Tree National Park as the ``Dianne Feinstein Visitor
Center''.--
(1) Redesignation.--The Cottonwood Visitor Center at Joshua
Tree National Park, or any successor to that visitor center,
shall be known and designated as the ``Dianne Feinstein
Visitor Center''.
(2) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation,
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the
visitor center referred to in paragraph (1) shall be deemed
to be a reference to the ``Dianne Feinstein Visitor Center''.

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