[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 720 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                  Union Calendar No. 17

103d CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 720

                      [Report No. 103-40, Part I]

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                                 A BILL

   To authorize the adjustment of the boundaries of the South Dakota 
portion of the Sioux Ranger District of Custer National Forest, and for 
                            other purposes.

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                             March 24, 1993

Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the Committee of the 
    Whole House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed





                                                  Union Calendar No. 17
103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 720

                      [Report No. 103-40, Part I]

   To authorize the adjustment of the boundaries of the South Dakota 
portion of the Sioux Ranger District of Custer National Forest, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            February 2, 1993

 Mr. Johnson of South Dakota introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

                             March 23, 1993

  Reported and referred to the Committee on Agriculture for a period 
    ending not later than March 24, 1992, for consideration of such 
    provisions of the bill as fall within the jurisdiction of that 
               committee pursuant to clause 1(a), rule X.

                             March 24, 1993

Committee on Agriculture discharged; 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 authorize the adjustment of the boundaries of the South Dakota 
portion of the Sioux Ranger District of Custer National Forest, 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. SIOUX RANGER DISTRICT BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.

    (a) In General.--In accordance with the Act entitled ``An Act to 
consolidate national forest lands'', approved March 20, 1922 (16 U.S.C. 
485 et seq.), and in exchange for national forest lands in Custer 
National Forest, the Secretary of Agriculture may accept title to any 
lands located within five miles of the exterior boundaries of the South 
Dakota portion of the Sioux Ranger District of Custer National Forest 
that are not owned by the United States and that are found by the 
Secretary of Agriculture to be chiefly valuable for national forest 
purposes.
    (b) Incorporation into Custer National Forest.--Upon acceptance of 
title by the Secretary of Agriculture, lands conveyed to the United 
States in accordance with subsection (a) shall become part of the 
Custer National Forest.