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  SA 1648. Mrs. BOXER (for herself and Mrs. Feinstein) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1390, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for military activities 
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for 
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. PORT CHICAGO NAVAL MAGAZINE NATIONAL MEMORIAL.

       (a) In General.--Section 203 of the Port Chicago National 
     Memorial Act of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 431 note; Public Law 102-562; 
     106 Stat. 4235) is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (f);
       (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
       ``(c) Administration.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
     administer the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial 
     as a unit of the National Park System in accordance with--
       ``(A) this Act; and
       ``(B) the laws generally applicable to units of the 
     National Park System, including--
       ``(i) the National Park Service Organic Act (16 U.S.C. 1 et 
     seq.); and
       ``(ii) the Act of August 21, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 461 et seq.).
       ``(2) Administered land.--The land described in subsection 
     (d)(2) shall be administered in accordance with this 
     subsection.
       ``(d) Transfer of Land.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall enter 
     into a memorandum of understanding with the Secretary of the 
     Interior providing for the transfer, without reimbursement, 
     of administrative jurisdiction to the Secretary of the 
     Interior of the land described in paragraph (2), if the 
     Secretary of Defense determines that the land is in excess of 
     military needs.
       ``(2) Description of land.--The land referred to in 
     paragraph (1) is the parcel of approximately 5 acres of land, 
     as depicted on the map entitled `Port Chicago Naval Magazine 
     National Memorial, Proposed Boundary', numbered 018/80,001, 
     and dated August 2005.
       ``(e) Agreement With City of Concord and East Bay Regional 
     Park District.--The Secretary of the Interior may enter into 
     an agreement with the City of Concord, California, and the 
     East Bay Regional Park District to establish and operate a 
     facility for visitor orientation and parking, administrative 
     offices, and curatorial storage for the Port Chicago Naval 
     Magazine National Memorial.''; and
       (3) in subsection (f), (as redesignated by paragraph (1)), 
     by striking ``Secretary of the Navy to provide public access 
     to the Memorial'' and inserting ``Secretary of Defense to 
     provide the maximum practicable public access to the Memorial 
     without interfering with military needs''.
       (b) Sense of Congress on Remediation and Repair of Port 
     Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial.--
       (1) Remediation.--It is the sense of Congress that, to 
     facilitate the transfer of administrative jurisdiction 
     described in subsection (d) of section 203 of the Port 
     Chicago National Memorial Act of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 431 note; 
     Public Law 102-562; 106 Stat. 4235)(as added by subsection 
     (a)), the Secretary of Defense should promptly remediate any 
     remaining environmental contamination relating to the land.
       (2) Repair.--It is the sense of Congress that, in order to 
     preserve the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial 
     for future generations, the Secretary of Defense and the 
     Secretary of the Interior should work together to--
       (A) repair storm damage to the Port Chicago Naval Magazine 
     National Memorial; and
       (B) develop a process by which future repairs and necessary 
     modifications to the Memorial can be achieved in as timely 
     and cost-effective a manner as possible.
       (c) Effect.--Nothing in this section or the amendments made 
     by this section affects or limits the application of, or 
     obligation to comply with, any environmental law, including 
     section 120(h) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
     Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9620(h)).
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