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Union Calendar No. 533 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4510 
[Report No. 114–689] 
To insure adequate use and access to the existing Bolts Ditch headgate 
and ditch segment within the Holy Cross Wilderness in Eagle County, 
Colorado, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 9, 2016 
Mr. POLIS (for himself, Mr. LAMBORN, and Mr. TIPTON) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
JULY 14, 2016 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union 
and ordered to be printed 
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A BILL 
To insure adequate use and access to the existing Bolts 
Ditch headgate and ditch segment within the Holy Cross 
Wilderness in Eagle County, Colorado, and for other 
purposes. 
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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 ‘‘Bolts Ditch Access 
and Use Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds as follows: 
(1) Since about 1882, the existing Bolts Ditch 
headgate and ditch have been used to fill Bolts Lake 
near Minturn, Colorado, by gravitational means, 
without the need for pumping and the attendant 
cost and energy use of pumping. 
(2) When the Holy Cross Wilderness was des-
ignated by Congress in 1980, the Bolts Ditch 
headgate, and an approximate 450-foot segment of 
the Bolts Ditch, were inadvertently included inside 
the Wilderness boundary. 
(3) The town of Minturn seeks to use its mu-
nicipal water rights to store water in Bolts Lake. 
(4) Questions have arisen with respect to con-
tinued use, maintenance, and repair of the headgate 
and ditch segment within the Wilderness. 
(5) Legislation is warranted to correct this situ-
ation and authorize the continued use, access to, and 
maintenance and repair of the Bolts Ditch headgate 
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and small portion of the Bolts Ditch that lie within 
the Wilderness boundary. 
SEC. 3. BOLTS DITCH ACCESS. 
(a) ACCESS GRANTED.—The Secretary of Agriculture 
shall permit by special use authorization nonmotorized ac-
cess and use, in accordance with section 293.6 of title 36, 
Code of Federal Regulations, of the Bolts Ditch headgate 
and the Bolts Ditch within the Holy Cross Wilderness, 
Colorado, as designated by Public Law 96–560, for the 
purposes of the diversion of water and use, maintenance, 
and repair of such ditch and headgate by the Town of 
Minturn, Colorado, a Colorado Home Rule Municipality. 
(b) LOCATION
OF FACILITIES.—The Bolts Ditch 
headgate and ditch segment referenced in subsection (a) 
are as generally depicted on the map entitled ‘‘Bolts Ditch 
headgate and Ditch Segment’’, dated November 2015. 
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