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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 404 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 21, 2011 

Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 

AN ACT 

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, 


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1 SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress finds that— 

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

4 the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997 

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

6 Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau 

7 of Land Management, issued to the Great Lakes 

8 Shipwreck Historical Society located in Chippewa 

9 County of the State of Michigan United States Pat10 ent Number 61–98–0040 on September 23, 1998; 

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

12 was recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds 

13 of Chippewa County of the State of Michigan, on 

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

15 through 118; 

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

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

18 corrected patent, United States Patent Number 61– 

19 2000–0007, on March 10, 2000; 

20 (4) after issuance of the corrected United 

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

22 United States Patent Number 61–98–0040 was can23 celled on the records of the Bureau of Land Man24 agement; and 


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1 (5) corrected United States Patent Number 61– 

2 2000–0007 should be modified in accordance with 

3 this Act— 

4 (A) to effectuate— 

5 (i) the Human Use/Natural Resource 

6 Plan for Whitefish Point, dated December 

7 2002; and 

8 (ii) the settlement agreement dated 

9 July 16, 2001, filed in Docket Number 

10 2:00–CV–206 in the United States District 

11 Court for the Western District of Michi12 gan; and 

13 (B) to ensure a clear chain of title, re14 corded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of 

15 Chippewa County of the State of Michigan. 

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

17 SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. 

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

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

20 Following Conditions’’ of paragraph 6 of United States 

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

22 Point Comprehensive Plan of October 1992 or for a gift 

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

24 for Whitefish Point, dated December 2002’’. 


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1 (b) EFFECT.—Each other term of the conveyance re2 lating to the property that is the subject of United States 

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

4 to maintain the property in accordance with the National 

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

6 other appropriate law (including regulations), and the obli7 gation to use the property in a manner that does not im8 pair or interfere with the conservation values of the prop9 erty, shall remain in effect. 

10 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

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

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

13 2 shall become effective on the date of the recording of 

14 the modification in the Office of the Register of Deeds 

15 of Chippewa County of the State of Michigan. 

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

17 Deeds of Chippewa County of the State of Michigan is 

18 requested to endorse on the recorded copy of United 

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


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1 Patent Number has been modified in accordance with this 

2 Act. 

Passed the Senate October 18, 2011. 

Attest: NANCY ERICKSON, 

Secretary. 


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