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(1) In 1899, the citizens of Cuprum, Idaho, com-
missioned E.S. Hesse to conduct a survey describing
these lands occupied by their community. The purpose
of this survey was to provide a basis for the applica-
tion for a townsite patent.
(2) In 1909, the Cuprum Townsite patent (Num-
ber 52817) was granted, based on an aliquot parts de-
scription which was intended to circumscribe the
Hesse survey.
(3) Since the day of the patent, the Hesse survey
has been used continuously by the community of
Cuprum and by Adams Country, Idaho, as the offi-
cial townsite plat and basis for conveyance of title
within the townsite.
(4) Recent boundary surveys conducted by the
United States Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, and the United States Department of the In-
terior, Bureau of Land Management, discovered in-
consistencies between the official aliquot parts de-
scription of the patented Cuprum Townsite and the
Hesse survey. Many lots along the south and east
boundaries of the townsite are now known to extend
onto National Forest System lands outside the town-
site.
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(5) It is the determination of Congress that the
original intent of the Cuprum Townsite application
was to include all the lands described by the Hesse
survey.
(b) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this title to amend
the 1909 Cuprum Townsite patent to include those addi-
tional lands described by the Hesse survey in addition to
other lands necessary to provide an administratively ac-
ceptable boundary to the National Forest System.
SEC. 3002. AMENDMENT OF PATENT.
(a) The 1909 Cuprum Townsite patent is hereby
amended to include parcels 1 and 2, identified on the plat,
marked as ‘‘Township 20 North, Range 3 West, Boise Me-
ridian, Idaho, Section 10: Proposed Patent Adjustment
Cuprum Townsite, Idaho’’ prepared by Payette N.F.—
Land Survey Unit, drawn and approved by Tom Betzold,
Forest Land Surveyor, on April 25, 1995. Such additional
lands are hereby conveyed to the original patentee, Pitts
Ellis, trustee, and Probate Judge of Washington County,
Idaho, or any successors or assigns in interest in accordance
with State law. The Secretary of Agriculture may correct
clerical and typographical errors in such plat.
(b) The Federal Government shall survey the Federal
property lines and mark and post the boundaries necessary
to implement this section.
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SEC. 3003. RELEASE.
Notwithstanding section 120 of the Comprehensive En-
vironmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of
1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. 9620), the United States shall
not be liable and shall be held harmless from any and all
claims resulting from substances or petroleum products or
any other hazardous materials on the conveyed land.
TITLE XXXI—ARKANSAS AND OKLAHOMA
LAND EXCHANGE
SEC. 3101. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that:
(1) The Weyerhaeuser Company has offered to
the United States Government an exchange of lands
under which Weyerhaeuser would receive approxi-
mately 48,000 acres of Federal land in Arkansas and
Oklahoma and all mineral interests and oil and gas
interests pertaining to these exchanged lands in which
the United States Government has an interest in re-
turn for conveying to the United States lands owned
by Weyerhaeuser consisting of approximately 180,000
acres of forested wetlands and other forest land of
public interest in Arkansas and Oklahoma and all
mineral interests and all oil and gas interest pertain-
ing to 48,000 acres of these 180,000 acres of ex-
changed lands in which Weyerhaeuser has an interest,
consisting of: