S. 404 

One Hundred Twelfth Congress 

of the 

United States of America 

AT THE SECOND SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 

the third day of January, two thousand and twelve 

An Act 

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

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 

the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

Congress finds that— 

(1) pursuant to section 5505 of division A of the Omnibus 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104–208; 

110 Stat. 3009–516), the Secretary of the Interior, acting 

through the Bureau of Land Management, issued to the Great 

Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society located in Chippewa County 

of the State of Michigan United States Patent Number 61– 

98–0040 on September 23, 1998; 

(2) United States Patent Number 61–98–0040 was recorded 

in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Chippewa County 

of the State of Michigan, on January 22, 1999, at Liber 757, 

on pages 115 through 118; 

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

Number 61–98–0040, the Secretary issued a corrected patent, 

United States Patent Number 61–2000–0007, on March 10, 

2000; 

(4) after issuance of the corrected United States Patent 

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

Number 61–98–0040 was cancelled on the records of the Bureau 

of Land Management; and 

(5) corrected United States Patent Number 61–2000–0007 

should be modified in accordance with this Act— 

(A) to effectuate— 

(i) the Human Use/Natural Resource Plan for 

Whitefish Point, dated December 2002; and 

(ii) the settlement agreement dated July 16, 2001, 

filed in Docket Number 2:00–CV–206 in the United 

States District Court for the Western District of 

Michigan; and 

(B) to ensure a clear chain of title, recorded in the 

Office of the Register of Deeds of Chippewa County of 

the State of Michigan. 

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF LAND GRANT PATENT ISSUED BY SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. 

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

the matter under the heading ‘‘Subject Also to the Following Conditions’’ of paragraph 6 of United States Patent Number 61–2000– 

0007 by striking ‘‘Whitefish Point Comprehensive Plan of October 
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1992 or for a gift shop’’ and inserting ‘‘Human Use/Natural Resource 

Plan for Whitefish Point, dated December 2002’’. 

(b) EFFECT.—Each other term of the conveyance relating to 

the property that is the subject of United States Patent Number 

61–2000–0007, including each obligation to maintain the property 

in accordance with the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 

470 et seq.) and any other appropriate law (including regulations), 

and the obligation to use the property in a manner that does 

not impair or interfere with the conservation values of the property, 

shall remain in effect. 

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

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

Number 61–2000–0007 in accordance with section 2 shall become 

effective on the date of the recording of the modification in the 

Office of the Register of Deeds of Chippewa County of the State 

of Michigan. 

(b) ENDORSEMENT.—The Office of the Register of Deeds of Chippewa County of the State of Michigan is requested to endorse 

on the recorded copy of United States Patent Number 61–2000– 

0007 the fact that the Patent Number has been modified in accordance with this Act. 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.