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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3411 

To modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 14, 2011 

Mr. BENISHEK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary of 

the Interior. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

4 Congress finds that— 

5 (1) pursuant to section 5505 of division A of 

6 the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997 

7 (Public Law 104–208; 110 Stat. 3009–516), the 

8 Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau 

9 of Land Management, issued to the Great Lakes 

10 Shipwreck Historical Society located in Chippewa 


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1 County of the State of Michigan United States Pat2 ent Number 61–98–0040 on September 23, 1998; 

3 (2) United States Patent Number 61–98–0040 

4 was recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds 

5 of Chippewa County of the State of Michigan, on 

6 January 22, 1999, at Liber 757, on pages 115 

7 through 118; 

8 (3) in order to correct an error in United States 

9 Patent Number 61–98–0040, the Secretary issued a 

10 corrected patent, United States Patent Number 61– 

11 2000–0007, on March 10, 2000; 

12 (4) after issuance of the corrected United 

13 States Patent Number 61–2000–0007, the original 

14 United States Patent Number 61–98–0040 was can15 celled on the records of the Bureau of Land Man16 agement; and 

17 (5) corrected United States Patent Number 61– 

18 2000–0007 should be modified in accordance with 

19 this Act— 

20 (A) to effectuate— 

21 (i) the Human Use/Natural Resource 

22 Plan for Whitefish Point, dated December 

23 2002; and 

24 (ii) the settlement agreement dated 

25 July 16, 2001, filed in Docket Number 


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1 2:00–CV–206 in the United States District 

2 Court for the Western District of Michi3 gan; and 

4 (B) to ensure a clear chain of title, re5 corded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of 

6 Chippewa County of the State of Michigan. 

7 SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF LAND GRANT PATENT ISSUED BY 

8 SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. 

9 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior shall 

10 modify the matter under the heading ‘‘Subject Also to the 

11 Following Conditions’’ of paragraph 6 of United States 

12 Patent Number 61–2000–0007 by striking ‘‘Whitefish 

13 Point Comprehensive Plan of October 1992 or for a gift 

14 shop’’ and inserting ‘‘Human Use/Natural Resource Plan 

15 for Whitefish Point, dated December 2002’’. 

16 (b) EFFECT.—Each other term of the conveyance re17 lating to the property that is the subject of United States 

18 Patent Number 61–2000–0007, including each obligation 

19 to maintain the property in accordance with the National 

20 Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.) and any 

21 other appropriate law (including regulations), and the obli22 gation to use the property in a manner that does not im23 pair or interfere with the conservation values of the prop24 erty, shall remain in effect. 


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1 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—The modification of United States 

3 Patent Number 61–2000–0007 in accordance with section 

4 2 shall become effective on the date of the recording of 

5 the modification in the Office of the Register of Deeds 

6 of Chippewa County of the State of Michigan. 

7 (b) ENDORSEMENT.—The Office of the Register of 

8 Deeds of Chippewa County of the State of Michigan is 

9 requested to endorse on the recorded copy of United 

10 States Patent Number 61–2000–0007 the fact that the 

11 Patent Number has been modified in accordance with this 

12 Act. 

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