PUBLIC LAW 96-315—JULY 25, 1980 Public Law 96-315 96th Congress
An Act
To provide for additional authorization for appropriations for the Tinicum National Environmental Center.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. The Act of June 30, 1972, entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment of the Tinicum National Environmental Center in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and for other purposes" is amended— (1) by amending section 7 to read as follows: "SEC. 7. There are authorized to be appropriated, $19,500,000 (of which $8,400,000 shall be available beginning October 1, 1980) for acquisition of the Tinicum National Environmental Center, for construction of environmental educational center facilities, and for other development projects on the Center, to remain available until September 30, 1985.^'; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "SEC. 8. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation and cooperation with the Fish and Wildlife Service, is directed to investigate potential environmental health hazards resulting from the Folcroft landfill, within the authorized boundary of the Tinicum National Environmental Center, and to develop alternative recommendations as to how such hazards, if any, might best be addressed in order to protect the refuge and the general public". SEC. 2. (a) If— (1) the property known as Sailors' Snug Harbor, consisting of approximately eighty acres and located in the city of New York, is donated to the Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary") by the city of New York; and (2) the Secretary and the city of New York and the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Incorporated, enter into mutually satisfactory cooperative agreements of the kind described in subsection (c) of this section, the Secretary shall manage Sailors' Snug Harbor as a National Wildlife Refuge until the completion of the study required by subsection (e) of this section. (b) Except as may be provided for in cooperative agreements referred to in paragraph (2) of subsection (a) and in subsection (c) of this section, the property acquired under paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this section shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966. (c)(1) The Secretary and the city of New York and the Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Incorporated, shall endeavor to enter into cooperative agreements regarding the respective functions each such party will undertake with respect to the property acquired under paragraph (1) of subsection (a) of this section, except that the Secretary shall only be responsible for the protection of such property and the
94 STAT. 957
July 25, 1980 [S. 2382]
Tinicum National Environmental Center, appropriation authorization. 86 Stat. 391. 16 USC 668dd note. 86 Stat. 392.
Folcroft landfill, environmental hazards.
16 USC 668dd note. Sailors' Snug Harbor. Management as National Wildlife Refuge.
16 USC 668dd note. Cooperative agreements.
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