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112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3411 
To modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 14, 2011 
Mr. BENISHEK introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary of 
the Interior. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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 
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County of the State of Michigan United States Pat-
ent 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 can-
celled on the records of the Bureau of Land Man-
agement; 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 
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2:00–CV–206 in the United States District 
Court for the Western District of Michi-
gan; and 
(B) to ensure a clear chain of title, re-
corded 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 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 re-
lating 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 obli-
gation to use the property in a manner that does not im-
pair or interfere with the conservation values of the prop-
erty, shall remain in effect. 
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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. 
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