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108TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3954 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 29, 2004 

Received 

AN ACT 

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to resolve boundary discrepancies in San Diego County, California, arising from an erroneous survey conducted by a Government contractor in 1881 that resulted in overlapping 

boundaries for certain lands, 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 ‘‘Rancho El Cajon 

5 Boundary Reconciliation Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. RESOLUTION OF BOUNDARY DISCREPANCIES, SAN 

7 DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. 

8 (a) RESOLUTION OF BOUNDARY DISCREPANCIES.— 

9 The Secretary of the Interior shall provide compensation 

10 to any landowner whose title to land in lots 1 and 2 of 

11 section 9, township 15 south, range 1 east, San 

12 Bernardino Meridian, in San Diego County, California, is 

13 based on an erroneous survey conducted by a Government 

14 contractor in 1881 and is rendered void because that title 

15 is inferior to the title to the same land established by a 

16 survey of the Rancho El Cajon conducted in 1872 and 

17 approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office 

18 in 1876. 

19 (b) FORMS OF COMPENSATION.—Compensation 

20 under subsection (a) shall be mutually agreed upon by the 

21 Secretary and the landowner and shall consist of— 

22 (1) public lands in San Diego or Imperial Coun23 ties, California, selected jointly by the Secretary and 

24 the landowner and conveyed by the Secretary to the 

25 landowner; 
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1 (2) a cash payment to the landowner; or 

2 (3) a combination of a conveyance under para3 graph (1) and a cash payment under paragraph (2). 

4 (c) EQUAL VALUE.—Compensation provided under 

5 subsection (a) for a parcel of land whose title was rendered 

6 void, as described in such subsection, may not exceed the 

7 fair market value of the land, as determined by an ap8 praisal satisfactory to the Secretary and the landowner. 

9 (d) SOURCE OF FUNDS.—The Secretary may make 

10 payments under subsection (a) using funds available to the 

11 Secretary to equalize land exchanges under section 206(b) 

12 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 

13 (43 U.S.C. 1716(b)). 

14 (e) PUBLIC LANDS DEFINED.—In this section, the 

15 term ‘‘public lands’’ has the meaning given the term in 

16 section 103(e) of the Federal Land Policy and Manage17 ment Act of 1976 (7 U.S.C. 1702(e)). 

18 SEC. 3. REVOCATION OF PUBLIC LAND ORDER WITH RE19 SPECT TO LANDS ERRONEOUSLY INCLUDED 

20 IN CIBOLA NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, 

21 CALIFORNIA. 

22 (a) REVOCATION.—Public Land Order 3442, dated 

23 August 21, 1964, is revoked insofar as it applies to the 

24 following described lands: San Bernardino Meridian, 

T11S, R22E, sec. 6, all of lots 1, 16, and 17, and SE1 25 ⁄4
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of SW1 1 ⁄4 in Imperial County, California, aggregating ap2 proximately 140.32 acres. 

3 (b) RESURVEY AND NOTICE OF MODIFIED BOUND4 ARIES.—The Secretary of the Interior shall, by not later 

5 than 6 months after the date of the enactment of this 

6 Act— 

7 (1) resurvey the boundaries of the Cibola Na8 tional Wildlife Refuge, as modified by the revocation 

9 under section 1; 

10 (2) publish notice of, and post conspicuous 

11 signs marking, the boundaries of the refuge deter12 mined in such resurvey; and 

13 (3) prepare and publish a map showing the 

14 boundaries of the refuge. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 28, 

2004. 

Attest: JEFF TRANDAHL, 

Clerk.