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Union Calendar No. 411
104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2438
[Report No. 104–766]
To provide for the conveyance of lands to certain individuals in Gunnison
County, Colorado, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 29, 1995
Mr. MCINNIS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Resources
SEPTEMBER 4, 1996
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on September 29, 1995]
A BILL
To provide for the conveyance of lands to certain individuals
in Gunnison County, Colorado, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT AND LAND CONVEY-
ANCE, RAGGEDS WILDERNESS, WHITE RIVER
NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:
(1) Certain landowners in Gunnison County,
Colorado, who own real property adjacent to the por-
tion of the Raggeds Wilderness in the White River
National Forest, Colorado, have occupied or improved
their property in good faith and in reliance on erro-
neous surveys of their properties that the landowners
reasonably believed were accurate.
(2) In 1993, a Forest Service resurvey of the
Raggeds Wilderness established accurate boundaries
between the wilderness area and adjacent private
lands.
(3) The resurvey indicated that a small portion
of the Raggeds Wilderness is occupied by adjacent
landowners on the basis of the earlier erroneous land
surveys.
(b) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this section to re-
move from the boundaries of the Raggeds Wilderness certain
real property so as to permit the Secretary of Agriculture
to use the authority of Public Law 97–465 (commonly
known as the Small Tracts Act; 16 U.S.C. 521c–521i) to
convey the property to the landowners who occupied the
property on the basis of erroneous land surveys.
(c) BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.—The boundary of the
Raggeds Wilderness, Gunnison and White River National
Forests, Colorado, as designated by section 102(a)(16) of
Public Law 96–560 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note), is hereby modi-
fied to exclude from the area encompassed by the wilderness
a parcel of real property approximately 0.86-acres in size
situated in the SW1⁄4 of the NE1⁄4 of Section 28, Township
11 South, Range 88 West of the 6th Principal Meridian,
as depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Encroachment-Raggeds
Wilderness’’, dated November 17, 1993. Such map shall be
on file and available for inspection in the appropriate of-
fices of the United States Forest Service, Department of Ag-
riculture.
(d) CONVEYANCE OF LAND REMOVED FROM WILDER-
NESS AREA.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall use the au-
thority provided by Public Law 97–465 (commonly known
as the Small Tracts Act; 16 U.S.C. 521c–521i) to convey
all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to
the real property excluded from the boundaries of the
Raggeds Wilderness under subsection (c) to those owners of
real property in Gunnison County, Colorado, whose real
property adjoins the excluded lands and who have occupied
the excluded lands in good faith reliance on an erroneous
survey.
Union Calendar No. 411
104TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 2438
[Report No. 104–766]
A BILL
To provide for the conveyance of lands to certain
individuals in Gunnison County, Colorado, and
for other purposes.
SEPTEMBER 4, 1996
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Commit-
tee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and
ordered to be printed