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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1980

PUBLIC LAW 96-344—SEPT. 8, 1980

94 STAT. 1137

tering point in Surry County, North Carolina, to Quaker Meadows; and from Quaker Meadows to Kings Mountain, South Carolina, as depicted on the map identified as Map 3—Historic Features—1780 in the draft study report entitled 'Overmountain Victory Trail' dated December 1979. The map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Director, National Park Service, Washington, District of Columbia. The trail shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior.". SEC. 15. The Secretary shall conduct a study to determine appropriate measures to protect and interpret for the benefit and education of the public the Falls of the Ohio, including a three-hundred-millionyear-old fossilized coral reef which is exposed along the Ohio River in the vicinity of Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana. The Secretary shall, in the course of the study, consult with and seek the advice of, appropriate scientific organizations and representatives of interested municipal. State, and other Federal agencies. Not later than two complete fiscal years from the effective date of this section, the Secretary shall transmit a report of the study, including the estimated costs of alternative measures that may be undertaken to protect and interpret the resources of the area for the public, to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, together with his recommendations for such further legislation as may be appropriate. SEC. 16. Section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act is amended in paragraph (22) by changing "which may be established" in the eighth sentence to "which shall be established". SEC. 17. In order to provide for the appropriate commemoration of George Meany, past president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and his contributions on behalf of the working people of the United States, the Secretary is authorized to investigate sites associated with the life and work of George Meany and to submit, within two complete fiscal years from the effective date of this Act, a report thereon to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate. The Secretary shall consult with representatives of the family of George Meany and the President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations as a part of his investigation. SEC. 18. The Secretary shall conduct, in consultation with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Defense, and any other entities considered by the Secretary to be appropriate, a study of locations and events associated with the historical theme of Man in Space. The purpose of such study shall be to identify the possible locations, components, and features of a new unit of the national park system commemorative to this theme, with special emphasis to be placed on the internationaly historic event of the first human contact with the surface of the moon. The study shall investigate practical methodologies to permanently safeguard from change the locations, structures, and at least symbolic instrumentation features associated with this theme, and to display and interpret these for visitor appreciation. Governmental entities controlling these locations, structures, and features are hereby requested to preserve them from destruction or change during the study and congressional review period insofar as is possible. A comprehensive report derived from this study, including potential action alternatives, shall be submitted to the Committee on Interior and Insular

Map, public inspection.

Study.

Report to congressional committees.

16 USC 1274.

George Meany commemoration. Report to congressional committees.

Man in Space commemoration. Study.

Report to congressional committees.