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<meta><dc:title>115 HR 698 ENR: To require a land conveyance involving the Elkhorn Ranch and the White River National Forest in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>698</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="115">One Hundred Fifteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To require a land conveyance involving the Elkhorn Ranch and the White River National Forest in the State of Colorado, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d33013e62" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/698/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Elkhorn Ranch and White River National Forest Conveyance Act of 2017</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d33013e72" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/698/s2" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>LAND CONVEYANCE, ELKHORN RANCH AND WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO.</heading><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d33013e76" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/698/s2/a" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="a">(a) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Land Conveyance Required</inline>.—</heading><content>Consistent with the purpose of the Act of March 3, 1909 (<ref href="/us/usc/t43/s772">43 U.S.C. 772</ref>), all right, title, and interest of the United States (subject to subsection (b)) in and to a parcel of land consisting of approximately 148 acres as generally depicted on the map entitled “Elkhorn Ranch Land Parcel–White River National Forest” and dated March 2015 shall be conveyed by patent to the Gordman-Leverich Partnership, a Colorado Limited Liability Partnership (in this section referred to as “GLP”).</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d33013e88" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/698/s2/b" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="b">(b) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Existing Rights</inline>.—</heading><chapeau>The conveyance under subsection (a)—</chapeau><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d33013e96" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/698/s2/b/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>is subject to the valid existing rights of the lessee of Federal oil and gas lease COC–75070 and any other valid existing rights; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d33013e100" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/698/s2/b/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><content>shall reserve to the United States the right to collect rent and royalty payments on the lease referred to in paragraph (1) for the duration of the lease.</content></paragraph></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d33013e104" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/698/s2/c" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="c">(c) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Existing Boundaries</inline>.—</heading><content>The conveyance under subsection (a) does not modify the exterior boundary of the White River National Forest or the boundaries of Sections 18 and 19 of Township 7 South, Range 93 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, as such boundaries are in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.</content></subsection><subsection class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" id="d33013e112" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/698/s2/d" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="d">(d) </num><heading><inline class="smallCaps">Time for Conveyance; Payment of Costs</inline>.—</heading><content>The conveyance directed under subsection (a) shall be completed not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act. The conveyance shall be without consideration, except that all costs incurred by the Secretary of the Interior relating to any survey, platting, legal description, or other activities carried out to prepare and issue the patent shall be paid by GLP to the Secretary prior to the land conveyance.</content></subsection></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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