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Cold War Legacy Resource Management Program
Public Law No. 101-511, §8120, enacted
under the `Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1991'.
September 30, 1991
--H.R.5803--
H.R.5803
SEC. 8120. (a) The Secretary of Defense shall establish
a `Legacy Resource Management Program'.
(b) The purposes of the program are as follows:
(1) to establish a strategy, plan and priority
list for identifying and managing all significant biological, geophysical,
cultural and historical resources existing on, or involving, all Department
of Defense lands, facilities and property;
(2) to provide for the stewardship of all Department
of Defense controlled or managed air, land and water resources;
(3) to protect significant biological systems
and species, including but not limited to, those contained on the Federal
endangered list and those which are candidates for that list;
(4) to establish a standard Department of Defense
methodology for the collection, storage and retrieval of all biological,
geophysical, cultural and historical resource information which, in the
case of biological information, should be compatible with that used by
State Natural Heritage Programs;
(5) to establish programs to protect, inventory
and conserve the artifacts of Native American civilization, settler communities
and others deemed to have historical, cultural or spiritual significance;
(6) to establish inventories of all scientifically
significant biological, geophysical, cultural and historical assets on
Department of Defense lands. In addition to the specific attributes of
the asset, these inventories are to catalog their scientific and/or cultural
significance, as well as their inter-relationship to the surrounding environment,
including the military mission carried out on the land upon which they
reside;
(7) to establish programs for the restoration
and rehabilitation of altered or degraded habitats;
(8) to establish educational, public access and
recreation programs designed to increase public appreciation, awareness
and support for these national environmental initiatives; and
(9) to establish and coordinate by fiscal year
1993 with other Federal departments, agencies and entities a project to
inventory, protect and conserve the physical and literary property and
relics of the Department of Defense, in the United States and overseas,
connected with the origins and development of the Cold War, which are not
already being carried out by other capable institutions or programs.
(c) The `Legacy Resource Management Program'
shall be established under the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary
of Defense for Environment.
(d) The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense
for Environment shall seek the participation of Department of Defense components
in the implementation of the Legacy Resource Management Program.
(e) $10,000,000 appropriated for `Operation and
Maintenance, Defense Agencies' shall be available only for the establishment
and support of the Legacy Resource Management Program.
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