113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4049 

AN ACT 

To amend the Act to provide for the establishment of the 

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in the State of Wisconsin, and for other purposes, to adjust the boundary 

of that National Lakeshore to include the lighthouse 

known as Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light, and for 

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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Ashland Breakwater 

5 Light Transfer Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT TO INCLUDE LIGHT7 HOUSE. 

8 Public Law 91–424 (16 U.S.C. 460w et seq.) is 

9 amended as follows: 

10 (1) In the first section as follows: 

11 (A) In the matter preceding subsection 

12 (a)— 

13 (i) by striking ‘‘islands and shoreline’’ 

14 and inserting ‘‘islands, shoreline, and light 

15 stations’’; and 

16 (ii) by inserting ‘‘historic,’’ after ‘‘sce17 nic,’’. 

18 (B) In subsection (a)— 

19 (i) by striking ‘‘the area’’ and insert20 ing ‘‘The area’’; and 

21 (ii) by striking ‘‘; and’’ and inserting 

22 a period. 

23 (C) In subsection (b), by striking the final 

24 period. 
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1 (D) By inserting after ‘‘1985.’’ the fol2 lowing: 

3 ‘‘(c) ASHLAND HARBOR BREAKWATER LIGHT.— 

4 ‘‘(1) The Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light 

5 generally depicted on the map titled ‘Ashland Har6 bor Breakwater Light Addition to Apostle Islands 

7 National Lakeshore’ and dated February 11, 2014, 

8 located at the end of the breakwater on 

9 Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin. 

10 ‘‘(2) Congress does not intend for the designa11 tion of the property under paragraph (1) to create 

12 a protective perimeter or buffer zone around the 

13 boundary of that property.’’. 

14 (2) In section 6 as follows: 

15 (A) By striking ‘‘The lakeshore’’ and in16 serting: 

17 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The lakeshore’’. 

18 (B) By inserting ‘‘this section and’’ before 

19 ‘‘the provisions of’’. 

20 (C) By adding after subsection (a) the fol21 lowing: 

22 ‘‘(b) FEDERAL USE.—Notwithstanding subsection 

23 (c) of the first section— 

24 ‘‘(1) the Secretary of the department in which 

25 the Coast Guard is operating may operate, maintain, 
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1 keep, locate, inspect, repair, and replace any Federal 

2 aid to navigation located at the Ashland Harbor 

3 Breakwater Light for as long as such aid is needed 

4 for navigational purposes; and 

5 ‘‘(2) in carrying out the activities described in 

6 paragraph (1), such Secretary may enter, at any 

7 time, the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light or any 

8 Federal aid to navigation at the Ashland Harbor 

9 Breakwater Light, for as long as such aid is needed 

10 for navigational purposes, without notice to the ex11 tent that it is not possible to provide advance notice. 

12 ‘‘(c) CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY.—Pursuant to 

13 existing authorities, the Secretary may enter into agree14 ments with the City of Ashland, County of Ashland, and 

15 County of Bayfield, Wisconsin, for the purpose of coopera16 tive law enforcement and emergency services within the 

17 boundaries of the lakeshore.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives November 17, 

2014. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4049 

AN ACT 

To amend the Act to provide for the establishment 

bor Breakwater Light, and for other purposes. to include the lighthouse known as Ashland Haradjust the boundary of that National Lakeshore State of Wisconsin, and for other purposes, to of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in the