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<item congress="113" measure-type="hr" measure-number="4049" measure-id="id113hr4049" originChamber="HOUSE" orig-publish-date="2014-02-11" update-date="2015-03-19">
<title>Ashland Breakwater Light Transfer Act</title>
<summary summary-id="id113hr4049v36" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2015-03-19">
<action-date>2014-11-17</action-date>
<action-desc>Passed House amended</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Ashland Breakwater Light Transfer Act - Adjusts the boundary of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin to include the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light Addition at the end of the breakwater on Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin. </p> <p>Declares that Congress does not intend for the designation of that property to create a protective perimeter or buffer zone around its boundary. <p>Authorizes the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to operate, maintain, keep, locate, inspect, repair, and replace any federal aid to navigation located at the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light for as long as it is needed for navigational purposes.</p> <p>Permits the Secretary to enter, at any time, the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light or any federal aid to navigation at the Breakwater Light, for as long as such aid is needed for navigational purposes, without notice to the extent that it is not possible to provide advance notice.</p> <p>Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with the city of Ashland and the County of Bayfield, Wisconsin, for the purpose of cooperative law enforcement and emergency services within the boundaries of the Lakeshore.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<summary summary-id="id113hr4049v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2014-03-20">
<action-date>2014-02-11</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Ashland Breakwater Light Transfer Act - Adjusts the boundary of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Wisconsin to include the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light Addition at the end of the breakwater on Chequamegon Bay, Wisconsin.</p> <p>Declares that Congress does not intend for the designation of that property to create a protective perimeter or buffer zone around its boundary. <p>Permits retention of rights to use a portion of Lakeshore land and facilities by: (1) the Army Corps of Engineers for breakwater maintenance, and (2) the Coast Guard for federal aids to navigation. </p> <p>Directs the National Park Service (NPS), Coast Guard, and Army Corps of Engineers to cooperate in their operations so as to not lower the standards evolved for the operation of NPS units, federal aids to navigation, and harbor maintenance under federal law respecting the Lakeshore. </p> <p>Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to enter into agreements with the city of Ashland, the county of Ashland, and the county of Bayfield, Wisconsin, for the purpose of cooperative law enforcement and emergency services within the boundaries of the Lakeshore.</p> <p>Declares that nothing in this Act or the amendments it makes shall be construed to increase the amount of appropriations authorized for any fiscal year.</p>]]></summary-text>
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