[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2620 Engrossed in House (EH)]

103d CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 2620

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                                 AN ACT

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain lands in 
California through an exchange pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and 
            Management Act of 1976, and for other purposes.






103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2620

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                                 AN ACT


 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire certain lands in 
California through an exchange pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and 
            Management Act of 1976, 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. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds--
            (1) the Bureau of Land Management desires to obtain the 
        lands described in section 3(a) for purposes of an access and 
        staging area being planned in cooperation with the National 
        Park Service;
            (2) the lands described in section 3(b) constitute an 
        isolated tract acquired by the United States in 1936 for 
        purposes of a Forest Service fire lookout, but such lands are 
        no longer needed for that or any other National Forest purpose, 
        and all improvements have been removed from such lands;
            (3) the lands described in section 3(b) are entirely 
        surrounded by private lands owned by a family one of whose 
        members also owns the lands described in section 3(a); and
            (4)(A) the owners of the land described in section 3(a) are 
        willing to transfer those lands to the United States in 
        exchange for the lands described in section 3(b); but
            (B) under existing law, such an exchange cannot be 
        accomplished administratively.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to authorize the Secretary 
of the Interior to acquire the lands described in section 3(a) through 
an equal-value exchange for the lands described in section 3(b).

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR EXCHANGE.

    Solely for purpose of acquisition by the Secretary of the Interior 
(on behalf of the United States) of the lands described in section 3(a) 
through an equal-value exchange pursuant to section 206 of the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716), the lands 
described in section 3(b) shall, for the 36-month period beginning on 
the date of enactment of this Act, be deemed to be public lands, as 
defined in section 103(e) of such Act (43 U.S.C. 1702(e)).

SEC. 3. LAND DESCRIPTIONS.

    (a) OHV Area Tract.--The lands whose acquisition through exchange 
is specifically authorized by this Act are described as follows: S\1/
2\SW\1/4\ of section 26, township 33 north, range 7 west, Mount Diablo 
Base and Meridian, Shasta County, California, comprised of 80 acres, 
more or less.
    (b) Delta Point Lookout Tract.--The lands which under this Act are 
deemed to be public lands for purposes of exchange is a parcel 
described as follows: Mount Diablo Meridian, township 36 north, range 5 
west, section 23, SW\1/4\NW\1/4\SE\1/4\, NW\1/4\SW\1/4\SE\1/4\, SE\1/
4\NE\1/4\SW\1/4\, NE\1/4\SE\1/4\SW\1/4\, comprised of 40 acres, more or 
less.

SEC. 4. ACQUISITION.

    Section 104 of the Everglades National Park Protection and 
Expansion Act of 1989 (16 U.S.C. 410r-8) is amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection:
    ``(k)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Secretary is authorized to use funds appropriated pursuant to this Act, 
including any available funds appropriated to the National Park Service 
for construction in the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Acts for fiscal years 1991 through 1994 for project 
modifications by the Army Corps of Engineers, in such amounts as 
determined by the Secretary, to provide Federal assistance to the State 
of Florida (including political subdivisions of the State) for 
acquisition of lands described in paragraph (4).
    ``(2) With respect to any lands acquired pursuant to this 
subsection, the Secretary may provide not more than 25 percent of the 
total cost of such acquisition.
    ``(3) All funds made available pursuant to this subsection shall be 
transferred to the State of Florida or a political subdivision of the 
State, subject to an agreement that any lands acquired with such funds 
will be managed in perpetuity for the restoration of natural flows to 
the park or Florida Bay.
    ``(4) The lands referred to in paragraph (1) are those lands or 
interests therein adjacent to, or affecting the restoration of natural 
water flows to, the park or Florida Bay which are located east of the 
park and known as the Frog Pond, Rocky Glades Agricultural Area, and 
the Eight-and-One-Half Square-Mile Area.''.

            Passed the House of Representatives November 15, 1993.

            Attest:






                                                                 Clerk.