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 ‘‘Prescott and San Isa-
bel National Forests Land Exchange Act of 2002’’.
TITLE I—YAVAPAI RANCH LAND
EXCHANGE, ARIZONA
SEC. 101. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds that—
(1) certain parcels of private land in the ap-
proximately 170 square miles of land commonly
known as the ‘‘Yavapai Ranch’’ and located in
Yavapai County, Arizona, are intermingled with Na-
tional Forest System land owned by the United
States and administered by the Secretary of Agri-
culture as part of Prescott National Forest;
(2) the private land is owned by the Yavapai
Ranch Limited Partnership and the Northern
Yavapai, L.L.C. in an intermingled checkerboard
pattern, with the United States or Yavapai Ranch
Limited Partnership and the Northern Yavapai,
L.L.C. owning alternate square mile sections of land
or fractions of square mile sections;
(3) much of the private land within the checker-
board area (including the land located in or near the
Pine Creek watershed, Juniper Mesa Wilderness
Area, Haystack Peak, and the Luis Maria Baca
Float No. 5) is located in environmentally sensitive
areas that possess outstanding attributes and values
for public management, use, and enjoyment, includ-
ing opportunities for—
(A) outdoor recreation;
(B) preservation of stands of old growth
forest;
(C) important and largely unfragmented
habitat for antelope, deer, elk, mountain lion,
wild turkey, and other wildlife species;
(D) watershed protection and enhance-
ment;
(E) scientific research;
(F) rangeland;
(G) ecological and archaeological resources;
and
(H) scenic vistas;
(4) the checkerboard ownership pattern of land
within the Yavapai Ranch detracts from sound and
efficient management of the intermingled National
Forest System land;
(5) if the private land in the checkerboard area
is subdivided or developed, the intermingled National
Forest System land will become highly fragmented
and lose much of the value of the land for wildlife
habitat and future public access, use, and enjoy-
ment;
(6) acquisition by the United States of certain
parcels of land that have been offered by Yavapai
Ranch Limited Partnership and the Northern
Yavapai, L.L.C. for addition to Prescott National
Forest will serve important public objectives,
including—
(A) acquiring private land that meets the
criteria for inclusion in the National Forest
System in exchange for land with lower public,
environmental, and ecological values;
(B) consolidating a large area of National
Forest System land to preserve—
(i) permanent public access, use, and
enjoyment of the land; and
(ii) efficient management of the land;
(C) minimizing cash outlays by the United
States to achieve the objectives described in
subparagraphs (A) and (B);
(D) significantly reducing administrative
costs to the United States through—
(i) consolidation of Federal land hold-
ings for more efficient land management
and planning;
(ii) elimination of approximately 350
miles of boundary between private land
and the Federal parcels;
(iii) reduced right-of-way, special use,
and other permit processing and issuance
for roads and other facilities on National
Forest System land; and
(iv) other administrative cost savings;
(E) significantly protecting the watershed
and stream flow of the Verde River in Arizona
by reducing the land available for future devel-
opment within that watershed by approximately
25,000 acres; and
(F) conserving the waters of the Verde
River through the recording of declarations re-
stricting the use of water on Federal land lo-
cated near the communities of Camp Verde,
Cottonwood and Clarkdale to be exchanged by
the United States to Yavapai Ranch Limited
Partnership or the Northern Yavapai, L.L.C.;
and
(7) Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership and
the Northern Yavapai, L.L.C. have selected parcels
of National Forest System land that are logical for
conveyance to Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership
or the Northern Yavapai, L.L.C. through a land ex-
change because the parcels—
(A) are located in less environmentally sen-
sitive areas than the land to be acquired by the
United States;
(B) have significantly lower recreational,
wildlife, ecological, aesthetic, and other public
purpose values than the land to be acquired by
the United States; and
(C) are encumbered by special use permits
and rights-of-way for a variety of purposes (in-
cluding summer youth camps, municipal water
treatment facilities, sewage treatment facilities,
city parks, and airport-related facilities) that—
(i) limit the usefulness of the parcels
for general National Forest System pur-
poses; but
(ii) are logical for pass-through con-
veyances from Yavapai Ranch Limited
Partnership and the Northern Yavapai,
L.L.C. to the permit or right-of-way hold-
ers.
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this title is to author-
ize, direct, and facilitate the exchange of Federal land and
non-Federal land between the United States, Yavapai
Ranch Limited Partnership, and the Northern Yavapai,
L.L.C.
SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS.
In this title:
(1) CAMP
VERDE
DECLARATION.—The term
‘‘Camp Verde Declaration’’ means the Declaration of
Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions executed by
Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership and the North-
ern Yavapai, L.L.C., on or about August 12, 2002,
and recorded in the official records of Yavapai Coun-
ty, Arizona, that is intended to run with the land
and imposes certain water use restrictions, water
source limitations, and water conservation measures
on the future development of the land described in
section 103(a)(2)(D).
(2) COTTONWOOD
DECLARATION.—The term
‘‘Cottonwood Declaration’’ means the Declaration of
Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions executed by
Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership and the North-
ern Yavapai, L.L.C., on or about August 12, 2002,
and recorded in the official records of Yavapai Coun-
ty, Arizona, that is intended to run with the land
and imposes certain water use restrictions, water
source limitations, and water conservation measures
on the future development of the land described in
section 103(a)(2)(E).
(3) DECLARATIONS.—The term ‘‘Declarations’’
collectively means the Camp Verde Declaration and
the Cottonwood Declaration, both of which Congress
is requiring to be recorded as encumbrances on the
Camp Verde Federal land described in section
103(a)(2)(D) and the Cottonwood/Clarkdale Federal
land described in section 103(a)(2)(E) in order to
conserve water resources in the Verde River Valley,
Arizona.
(4) FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘Federal land’’
means the land directed for exchange to YRLP in
section 103(a)(2).
(5) MANAGEMENT PLAN.—The term ‘‘Manage-
ment Plan’’ means the land and resource manage-
ment plan for Prescott National Forest.
(6) NON-FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘non-Fed-
eral land’’ means the approximately 35,000 acres of
non-Federal land located within the boundaries of
Prescott National Forest and directed for exchange
to the United States, as generally depicted on the
map entitled ‘‘Yavapai Ranch Non-Federal Lands’’,
dated April 2002.
(7) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means
the Secretary of Agriculture.
(8) SUMMER
CAMPS.—The term ‘‘summer
camps’’ means Camp Pearlstein and Friendly Pines,
Patterdale Pines, Pine Summit, Sky Y, and
YoungLife Lost Canyon camps in the State of Ari-
zona.
(9) YRLP.—
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘YRLP’’
means—
(i) the Yavapai Ranch Limited Part-
nership, an Arizona Limited Partnership;
and
(ii) the Northern Yavapai, L.L.C., an
Arizona Limited Liability Company.
(B) INCLUSIONS.—Except as otherwise ex-
pressly provided in this title, the term ‘‘YRLP’’
includes successors-in-interest, assigns, trans-
ferees, and affiliates of YRLP.
SEC. 103. LAND EXCHANGE.
(a) CONVEYANCE
OF
FEDERAL
LAND
BY
THE
UNITED STATES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—On receipt of an offer from
YRLP to convey the non-Federal land, the Secretary
shall convey to YRLP by deed acceptable to YRLP
all right, title, and interest of the United States in
and to the Federal land described in paragraph (2),
subject to easements, rights-of-way, utility lines, and
any other valid encumbrances on the Federal land in
existence on the date of enactment of this Act and
such other reservations as may be mutually agreed
to by the Secretary and YRLP.
(2) DESCRIPTION
OF
FEDERAL
LAND.—The
Federal land referred to in paragraph (1) shall con-
sist of the following:
(A) Certain land comprising approximately
15,300 acres located in Yavapai County, Ari-
zona, as generally depicted on the map entitled
‘‘Yavapai Ranch-Ranch Area Federal Lands’’,
dated April 2002.
(B) Certain land in the Coconino National
Forest, Coconino County Arizona—
(i) comprising approximately 1,500
acres located in Coconino National Forest,
Coconino County, Arizona, as generally de-
picted on the map entitled ‘‘Flagstaff Fed-
eral Lands-Airport Parcel’’, dated April
2002; and
(ii) comprising approximately 28.26
acres in 2 separate parcels, as generally
depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Flagstaff
Federal Lands—Wetzel School and Mt.
Elden Parcels’’, dated September 2002.
(C) Certain land referred to as Williams
Airport, Williams golf course, Williams Sewer,
Buckskinner Park, Williams Railroad, and Well
parcels numbers 2, 3, and 4, comprising ap-
proximately 950 acres, all located in Kaibab
National Forest, Coconino County, Arizona, as
generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Wil-
liams Federal Lands’’, dated April 2002.
(D) Certain land comprising approximately
2,200 acres located in Prescott National Forest,
Yavapai County, Arizona, as generally depicted
on the map entitled ‘‘Camp Verde Federal
Land—General Crook Parcel’’, dated April
2002, and title to which shall be conveyed to
Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership or the
Northern Yavapai, L.L.C., but not to any suc-
cessor-in-interest, assign, transferee or affiliate
of Yavapai Ranch Limited Partnership or the
Northern Yavapai, L.L.C., or any other person
or entity holding or acquiring any interest in
Yavapai Ranch.
(E) Certain land comprising approximately
820 acres located in Prescott National Forest
in Yavapai County, Arizona, as generally de-
picted on the map entitled ‘‘Cottonwood/
Clarkdale Federal Lands’’, dated April 2002,
and title to which shall be conveyed to Yavapai
Ranch Limited Partnership or the Northern
Yavapai, L.L.C., but not to any successor-in-in-
terest, assign, transferee or affiliate of Yavapai
Ranch Limited Partnership or the Northern
Yavapai, L.L.C., or any other person or entity
holding or acquiring any interest in Yavapai
Ranch.
(F) Certain land comprising approximately
237.5 acres located in Kaibab National Forest,
Coconino County, Arizona, as generally depicted
on the map entitled ‘‘Younglife Lost Canyon’’,
dated April 2002.
(G) Certain land comprising approximately
200 acres located in Prescott National Forest,
Yavapai County, Arizona, and including Friend-
ly Pines, Patterdale Pines, Camp Pearlstein,
Pine Summit, and Sky Y, as generally depicted
on the map entitled ‘‘Prescott Federal Lands—
Summer Youth Camp Parcels’’, dated April
2002.
(H) Perpetual, unrestricted, and nonexclu-
sive easements that—
(i) run with and benefit land owned
by or conveyed to YRLP across certain
land of the United States;
(ii) are for—
(I) the purposes of operating,
maintaining, 
repairing, 
improving,
and replacing electric power lines or
water pipelines (including related stor-
age tanks, valves, pumps, and hard-
ware); and
(II) rights of reasonable ingress
and egress necessary for the purposes
described in subclause (I);
(iii) are 20 feet in width; and
(iv) are located 10 feet on either side
of each line depicted on the map entitled
‘‘YRLP Acquired Easements for Water
Lines’’, dated April 2002.
(3) CONDITIONS.—
(A) PERMITS.—Permits or other legal oc-
cupancies of the Federal land by third parties
in existence on the date of transfer of the Fed-
eral land to YRLP shall be addressed in accord-
ance with—
(i) part 254.15 of title 36, Code of
Federal Regulations (or any successor reg-
ulation); and
(ii) other applicable laws (including
regulations).
(B) CONVEYANCE OF CERTAIN PARCELS.—
(i) CAMP VERDE.—Following the ac-
quisition of the parcel described in para-
graph (2)(D), YRLP shall execute and
record with the Yavapai County Recorder
an amended declaration in which the legal
description of the land referred to in the
Camp Verde Declaration is amended to
conform to the legal description in para-
graph (2)(D).
(ii) COTTONWOOD/CLARKDALE.—Fol-
lowing the acquisition of the parcel de-
scribed in paragraph (2)(E), YRLP shall
execute and record with the Yavapai Coun-
ty Recorder an amended declaration in
which the legal description of the land re-
ferred to in the Cottonwood Declaration is
amended to conform to the legal descrip-
tion in paragraph (2)(E).
(b) CONVEYANCE
OF
NON-FEDERAL
LAND
BY
YRLP.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—On receipt of title to the
Federal land, YRLP shall simultaneously convey to
the United States, by deed acceptable to Secretary
and subject to any encumbrances, all right, title, and
interest of YRLP in and to the non-Federal land.
(2) EASEMENTS.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—The conveyance of non-
Federal land to the United States under para-
graph (1) shall be subject to the reservation
of—
(i) perpetual and unrestricted ease-
ments and water rights that run with and
benefit the land retained by YRLP for—
(I) the operation, maintenance,
repair, 
improvement, 
development,
and replacement of not more than 3
existing wells;
(II) related storage tanks, valves,
pumps, and hardware; and