Title: Arapaho National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2019
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Arapaho National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2019
This bill adjusts the boundary of the Arapaho National Forest in Colorado to incorporate approximately 92.95 acres of land described as lots 3, 4, 8, and 9.
A lot may be included in the boundary's adjustment only after the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has obtained written consent for its inclusion from the owner of the lot.
USDA shall include all federal land within the boundary in the Bowen Gulch Protection Area.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 59 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 59

 To adjust the boundary of the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 8, 2019

Mr. Bennet (for himself and Mr. Gardner) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To adjust the boundary of the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Arapaho National Forest Boundary 
Adjustment Act of 2019''.

SEC. 2. ARAPAHO NATIONAL FOREST BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Boundary adjustment.--The boundary of the Arapaho 
        National Forest in the State of Colorado is adjusted to 
        incorporate the approximately 92.95 acres of land generally 
        depicted as ``The Wedge'' on the map entitled ``Arapaho 
        National Forest Boundary Adjustment'' and dated November 6, 
        2013, and described as lots 3, 4, 8, and 9 of sec. 13, T. 4 N., 
        R. 76 W., Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado.
            (2) Limitation.--A lot described in paragraph (1) may be 
        included in the boundary adjustment only after the Secretary of 
        Agriculture obtains written permission for the inclusion from 
        each owner of the lot.
    (b) Bowen Gulch Protection Area.--The Secretary of Agriculture 
shall include all Federal land within the boundary described in 
subsection (a) in the Bowen Gulch Protection Area established under 
section 6 of the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 (16 U.S.C. 539j).
    (c) Land and Water Conservation Fund.--For purposes of section 
200306(a)(2)(B)(i) of title 54, United States Code, the boundaries of 
the Arapaho National Forest, as modified under subsection (a), shall be 
considered to be the boundaries of the Arapaho National Forest as in 
existence on January 1, 1965.
    (d) Public Motorized Use.--Nothing in this Act opens privately 
owned land within the boundary described in subsection (a) to public 
motorized use.
    (e) Access to Non-Federal Land.--Notwithstanding the provisions of 
section 6(f) of the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 (16 U.S.C. 539j(f)) 
regarding motorized travel, the owners of any non-Federal land within 
the boundary described in subsection (a) who historically have accessed 
their land through land owned by the United States on or after the date 
of enactment of this Act within the boundary described in subsection 
(a) shall have the continued right of motorized access to their land 
across the existing roadway.
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