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he may deem necessary for the purpose of preserv- 

 ing, restoring, and developing the natural area 

 known as Tinicum Marsh. The area to be acquired 

 for the foregoing purposes shall not exceed 1,200 

 acres : Provided, however. That said limitation shall 

 not preclude such boundary adjustments as may be 

 deemed necessary for effective administration of 

 the Tinicum National Environmental Center. Lands 

 or interests therein, title to which is held by the 

 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or a political sub- 

 division thereof, may be acquired only by donation. 

 A description by metes and bounds of the proposed 

 Tinicum National Environmental Center shall be 

 published in the Federal Register, and a scale draw- 

 ing thereof shall be available in the OfiBce of the 

 Secretary, and such other place or places in the 

 immediate vicinity of the proposed center as will 

 afford all interested parties easy access to infor- 

 mation respecting the proposed center. 



The area to be acquired will be generally bounded 

 on the west by Wanamaker Avenue, on the south 

 by Interstate Highway 1-95, on the east by the 

 easterly edge of the Tinicum Wildlife Preserve and 

 the lands owned by the United States Department 

 of the Interior and the United States Army Corps 

 of Engineers, and on the north by the developed 

 areas and parklands of Darby Township, Folcroft, 

 Norwood, Prospect Park Boroughs, and the Dela- 

 ware County incinerator numbered 2. 



Sec. 3. The Secretary shall construct, adminis- 

 ter, and maintain at an appropriate site within the 

 Tinicum National Environmental Center hereby 

 authorized a wildlife interpretative center for the 

 purpose of promoting environmental education, 

 and to afford visitors an opportunity for the study 

 of wildlife in its natural habitat. 



Sec 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of 



law, any Federal property located within any of 

 the areas described under the provisions of the 

 second section of this Act may, with the concur- 

 rence of the head of the agency having custody 

 thereof, be transferred without consideration to the 

 administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary for use 

 by him in carrying out the purposes of the Act. 



Sec. 5. The Secretary of the Interior may enter 

 into cooperative agreements with the Common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania, political subdivisions 

 thereof, corporations, associations, or individuals 

 to carry out the provisions of the Act. 



Sec 6. (a) Each party with whom a cooperative 

 agreement is entered into under this Act shall keep 

 such records as the Secretary shall prescribe, in- 

 cluding records which fully disclose the amount and 

 disposition of any funds received under the cooper- 

 ative agreement, the total cost of any project or 

 undertaking in connection with the cooperative 

 agreement entered into, and the amount and nature 

 of that portion of the cost of the project or under- 

 taking supplied by other sources, and such other 

 records as will facilitate an effective audit. 



(b) The Secretary and the Comptroller General 

 of the United States, or any of their duly authorized 

 representatives, shall have access for the purpose 

 of audit and examination to any books, documents, 

 papers, and records of the party to the coopera- 

 tive agreement that are pertinent to the coopera- 

 tive agreements entered into under this Act. 



Sec. 7. (a) There are authorized to be ap- 

 propriated $2,250,000 to carry out the provisions of 

 this Act. 



(b) Begirmlng with fiscal year 1978, there are 



authorized to be appropriated, in addition to the 

 authorization appropriated under subsection (a), 

 $1,600,000 to carry out the purposes of this Act. 

 Approved June 30, 1972. amended Oct. 18, 1976. 



23. Tule Elk Population in California 

 P.L. 94-389 (90 Stat. 1189) 



JOINT RESOLtrnON 

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Providing for Federal participation In preserving the 

 Tule elk population In California. 



Whereas, although Tule elk once roamed the cen- 

 tral valleys of California in vast numbers, the 

 species became nearly extinct during the latter 

 part of the last century as a result of its native 

 habitat being developed for agricultural purposes 

 and urban growth ; and 



Whereas, although around 1870 the Tule elk popu- 

 lation reached a low of approximately thirty 

 animals, through the dedicated efforts of various 

 citizen groups and individual cattlemen, the 

 population has slowly recovered to a total of 

 approximately six hundred animals, the majority 

 of which may be found in free-roaming herds in 

 the Owens Valley, at Cache Creek in Colusa 

 County, California, a small number which are 

 captive in the Tupman Refuge in Vern County, 

 California; and 



Whereas in 1971 the California Legislature, recog- 

 nizing the threat to the Tule elk as a species, 

 amended section 332 and enacted section 3951 



of the Fish and Game Code which provide for 

 the encouragement of a statewide jsopulation of 

 Tule elk of not less than two thousand, if suit- 

 able areas can be found in California to accom- 

 modate such population in a healthy environ- 

 ment, and further fixed the population of the 

 Tule elk in the Owens Valley at four hundred 

 and ninety animals, or such greater number as 

 might thereafter be determined by the California 

 Department of Fish and Game, in accordance 

 with game management principles, to be the 

 Owens Valley holding capacity; and 



Whereas the Tule elk is considered by the Depart- 

 ment of the Interior to be a rare, though not en- 

 dangered, species by reason of the steps taken 

 by the State of California; and 



Whereas the protection and maintenance of Cali- 

 fornia's Tule elk in a free and wild state is of 

 educational, scientific, and esthetic value to the 

 people of the United States; and 



Whereas there are Federal lands in the State of 

 California (including, but not limited to, the 

 San Luis National Wildlife Refuge, the Point 

 Reyes National Seashore, various national for- 



