PUBLIC LAW 96-344—SEPT. 8, 1980
94 STAT. 1135
Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate, a report on the feasibility of providing passenger rail service from the city of Ogden, Utah, to the Golden Spike National Historic Site. Said report shall include an assessment of existing rail facilities and rolling stock, additional development as might be required, as well as alternatives with respective costs for the operation of passenger rail service. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated not to exceed $100,000 to carry out the provisions of this subsection. SEC. 8. Section 8 of the Act entitled "An Act to improve the administration of the national park system by the Secretary of the Interior, and to clarify the authorities applicable to the system, and for other purposes", approved August 18, 1970 (84 Stat. 825; 16 U.S.C. l a - 1 et seq.), is amended as follows— (1) at the end of the second sentence, insert the following new sentence: "Each such report shall indicate and elaborate on the theme(s) which the area represents as indicated in the National Park System Plan."; and (2) at the end of the fifth sentence, insert the following new sentence: "Acompanying the annual listing of areas shall be a synopsis, for each report previously submitted, of the current and changed condition of the resource integrity of the area and other relevant factors, compiled as a result of continual periodic monitoring and embracing the period since the previous such submission or initial report submission one year earlier.". SEC. 9. The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (78 Stat. 987; 16 U.S.C. 4601), is amended— (1) in subsection 4(a) by deleting the second sentence of paragraph (2) and substituting the following: "A 'single visit' means a more or less continuous stay within a designated area. Payment of a single visit admission fee shall authorize exits from and reentries to a single designated area for a period of from one to fifteen days, such period to be defined for each designated area by the administering Secretary based upon a determination of the period of time reasonably and ordinarily necessary for such a single visit."; (2) by adding at the end of section 4(a) the following new paragraph: "(5) The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall establish procedures providing for the issuance of a lifetime admission permit to any citizen of, or person domiciled in, the United States, if such citizen or person applies for such permit, and is blind or permanently disabled. Such procedures shall assure that such permit shall be issued only to persons who have been medically determined to be blind or permanently disabled for purposes of receiving benefits under Federal law as a result of said blindness or permanent disability as determined by the Secretaries. Such permit shall be nontransferable, shall be issued without charge, and shall entitle the permittee and any person accompanying him in a single, private, noncommercial vehicle, or alternatively, the permittee and his spouse and children accompanying him where entry to the area is by any means other than private, noncommercial vehicle, to general admission into any area designated pursuant to this subsection."; and (3) by amending the last sentence of section 4(b) to read as follows: "Any Golden Age Passport permittee, or permittee
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Appropriation authorization. 16 USC la-5.
78 Stat. 897;
16 USC
460/-4. "Single visit." 16 USC 460/-6a.
Lifetime admission permit.
16 USC 460/-6a.
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