Union Calendar No. 77
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1134
[Report No. 103–141]
A BILL
To provide for the transfer of certain public lands
located in Clear Creek County, Colorado, to the
United States Forest Service, the State of Colo-
rado, and certain local governments in the State
of Colorado, and for other purposes.
JUNE 21, 1993
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee
of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and or-
dered to be printed
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Union Calendar No. 77
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1134
[Report No. 103–141]
To provide for the transfer of certain public lands located in Clear Creek
County, Colorado, to the United States Forest Service, the State of
Colorado, and certain local governments in the State of Colorado, and
for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
FEBRUARY 24, 1993
Mr. SKAGGS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Natural Resources
JUNE 21, 1993
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House
on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]
A BILL
To provide for the transfer of certain public lands located
in Clear Creek County, Colorado, to the United States
Forest Service, the State of Colorado, and certain local
governments in the State of 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. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Clear Creek County,
Colorado, Public Lands Transfer Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF PUBLIC LANDS.
The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter in this Act
referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall transfer in accord-
ance with this Act the approximately 14,000 acres of pub-
lic lands generally depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Clear Creek
County, Colorado, Public Lands Transfer—Proposed’’,
and dated September 1991 May 1993, to the Secretary
of Agriculture, the State of Colorado, and certain political
subdivisions of the State of Colorado, as indicated in sec-
tions 3, 4, and 5. Conveyances made pursuant to this Act
shall be made without conducting new surveys.
SEC. 3. LAND TRANSFER TO FOREST SERVICE.
(a) TRANSFER.—Subject to valid existing rights, ad-
ministrative jurisdiction to the approximately 3,500 3,400
acres of the public lands described as ‘‘Part I Lands’’ on
the map referred to in section 2 is hereby transferred to
the Secretary of Agriculture. Such lands are added to and
shall be administered as part of the Arapaho National
Forest in accordance with the laws and regulations per-
taining to the National Forest System and the Arapaho
National Forest.
(b) ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.—(1) For the pur-
pose of section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation
Fund Act of 1965 (78 Stat. 903, as amended; 16 U.S.C.
4601–9) the boundaries of the Arapaho National Forest
as modified by this section shall be treated as if they were
the boundaries of such forest on January 1, 1965.
(2) Nothing in this section shall affect valid existing
rights, or interests in existing land use authorizations, ex-
cept that any such right or authorization shall be adminis-
tered by the Forest Service in accordance with this section
and other applicable laws. Reissuance of any such author-
ization shall be in accordance with laws applicable to the
National Forest System and regulations of the Secretary
of Agriculture, except that the change in administrative
jurisdiction shall not constitute in itself a ground to deny
renewal or reissuance of any such authorization.
SEC. 4. LAND TRANSFERS TO STATE OF COLORADO AND TO
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY AND TOWNS OF SIL-
VER PLUME AND GEORGETOWN, COLORADO.
(a) TRANSFER.—Subject to section 6 and valid exist-
ing rights, the Secretary shall transfer, without consider-
ation, all right, title, and interest, both surface and sub-
surface, of the United States in and to the approximately
3,200 acres of public lands described as ‘‘Part II Lands’’
on the map referred to in section 2, excluding any such
lands within the corporate boundaries of the towns of
Georgetown or Silver Plume, Colorado, as of January 1,
1993, as follows:
(1) Approximately 500 600 acres of such lands
to the town of Silver Plume, Colorado, as so indi-
cated on such map.
(2) Approximately 800 acres of such lands to
the town of Georgetown, Colorado, as so indicated
on such map.
(3) Approximately 600 acres of such lands to
the County of Clear Creek, Colorado, as so indicated
on such map.
(4) Approximately 1,300 1,200 acres of such
lands to the State of Colorado, as so indicated on
such map.
(b) MANAGEMENT AND REVERSION.—
(1) The lands transferred under this section
shall be managed in accordance with the cooperative
management agreement among the Colorado Divi-
sion of Wildlife, the Colorado State Historical Soci-
ety, the town of Silver Plume, the town of George-
town, and the County of Clear Creek, which is dated
January 1989; the stipulations related to the preser-
vation of artifacts contained in the Bureau of Land
Management’s cultural resource survey pertaining to
such lands; and the terms of the applications filed