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[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1768 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1768

To adjust the boundaries of Pisgah National Forest in McDowell County, 
                            North Carolina.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 8, 2009

 Mr. Burr (for himself and Mrs. Hagan) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, 
                        Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL

 
To adjust the boundaries of Pisgah National Forest in McDowell County, 
                            North Carolina.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pisgah National Forest Boundary 
Adjustment Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT, PISGAH NATIONAL FOREST, NORTH CAROLINA.

    (a) Boundary Adjustment.--The boundaries of Pisgah National Forest 
in McDowell County, North Carolina, are modified to include a parcel of 
land consisting of approximately 301 acres, of which approximately 213 
acres are owned by the United States and administered by the Forest 
Service, as generally depicted on the map entitled ``Proposed 
Proclamation Boundary Change, Grandfather Ranger District, Pisgah 
National Forest'' and more particularly delineated and described 
according to the final boundary adjustment map and boundary description 
prepared by the Forest Service.
    (b) Availability and Correction.--
            (1) Availability.--The maps referred to in subsection (a) 
        shall be on file and available for public inspection in the 
        Office of the Regional Forester, Atlanta, Georgia.
            (2) Correction.--The Secretary of Agriculture may make 
        minor corrections to the maps.
    (c) Land Acquisition.--Subject to the appropriation of funds to 
carry out this subsection and the consent of the owner of the private 
land included within the boundaries of Pisgah National Forest by 
subsection (a), the Secretary of Agriculture may acquire the private 
land.
    (d) Management of Acquired Land.--
            (1) In general.--Any federally owned land that has been or 
        hereafter may be acquired for National Forest System purposes 
        within the boundaries of Pisgah National Forest, as modified by 
        subsection (a), shall be managed as land acquired under the Act 
        of March 1, 1911 (commonly known as the ``Weeks Law'') (16 
        U.S.C. 480 et seq.), and in accordance with the other laws and 
        regulations pertaining to the National Forest System.
            (2) Boundary adjustment.--Nothing in this subsection limits 
        the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to adjust the 
        boundaries of Pisgah National Forest pursuant to sections 10 
        and 11 of that Act (16 U.S.C. 519, 521).
    (e) Relation to Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965.--For 
purposes of section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 
1965 (16 U.S.C. 460l-9), the boundaries of Pisgah National Forest, as 
modified by subsection (a), shall be considered to be boundaries of 
Pisgah National Forest as of January 1, 1965.
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