HUDSON RIVER VALLEY NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA.

SEC. 904. HUDSON RIVER VALLEY NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA. (a) Establishment.—There is hereby established a Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area (in this title referred to as the “Heritage Area”). (b) Boundaries.— (1) In general.—Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2), the Heritage Area shall be comprised of the counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Columbia, Greene, Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Westchester, and Rockland, New York, and the Village of Waterford in Saratoga County, New York. (2) Areas excluded.—The Heritage Area shall not include any of the following: (A) The counties of Greene and Columbia. (B) Those portions of the counties of Rensselaer and Dutchess located entirely within the 22d Congressional District of New York (as such district exists on the date of the enactment of this Act). (c) Management Entities.—The management entities for the Heritage Area shall be the Hudson River Valley Greenway Communities Council and the Greenway Conservancy (agencies established by the State of New York in its Hudson River Greenway Act of 1991, in this title referred to as the “management entities”). The management entities shall jointly establish a Heritage Area Committee to manage the Heritage Area.