Sec. 301. Death Valley National Park boundary revision
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The boundary of Death Valley National Park is adjusted to include— the approximately 28,923 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in San Bernardino County, California, abutting the southern end of the Death Valley National Park that lies between Death Valley National Park to the north and Ft. Irwin Military Reservation to the south and which runs approximately 34 miles from west to east, as depicted on the map entitled Death Valley National Park Proposed Avawatz Mountains Wilderness with Proposed Park Expansion , numbered 143/128,605, and dated May 14, 2015; and the approximately 6,369 acres of Bureau of Land Management land in Inyo County, California, located in the northeast area of Death Valley National Park that is within, and surrounded by, land under the jurisdiction of the Director of the National Park Service, as depicted on the map entitled Death Valley National Park Proposed Boundary Addition-Crater , numbered 143/100,079C, and dated October 7, 2014.
The maps described in paragraphs
(1)and
(2)of subsection
(a)shall be on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National Park Service. The Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this title as the Secretary ) shall administer any land added to Death Valley National Park under subsection (a)— as part of Death Valley National Park; and in accordance with applicable laws (including regulations). Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with Inyo County, California, to permit operationally feasible, ongoing access and use (including, but not limited to, material storage as well as excavation) to gravel pits in existence as of that date along Saline Valley Road within Death Valley National Park for road maintenance and repairs in accordance with applicable laws (including regulations). Nothing in this section terminates— any right-of-way issued, granted, or permitted to the Southern California Edison Company (including any predecessor or successor in interest or assign) as of the date of the enactment of this Act that is located on land described in paragraphs
(1)and
(2)of subsection (a); or the customary operation, maintenance, upgrade, repair, relocation within such a right-of-way, replacement, or other authorized energy transport facility activities in such a right-of-way, including, at a minimum, the use of mechanized vehicles, helicopters, or other aerial devices. Nothing in this section prohibits the upgrading or replacement of— Southern California Edison Company energy transport facilities; or an energy transport facility in rights-of-way issued, granted, or permitted by the Secretary adjacent to Southern California Edison’s energy transport facilities within Death Valley National Park. Not later than one year after the date of enactment of this Act or the date of the issuance of a new energy transport facility right-of-way within Death Valley National Park, whichever is earlier, the Secretary, in consultation with the Southern California Edison Company, shall publish plans for regular and emergency access by the Southern California Edison Company to the rights-of-way of the Southern California Edison Company within Death Valley National Park.