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[S. 859 Reported in House (RH)]

                                                 Union Calendar No. 327

103d CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                 S. 859

                          [Report No. 103-590]

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                                 AN ACT

 To reduce the restrictions on lands conveyed by deed under the Act of 
                             June 8, 1926.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             July 12, 1994

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed





                                                 Union Calendar No. 327
103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                 S. 859

                          [Report No. 103-590]


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 13, 1994

             Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

                             July 12, 1994

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT


 
 To reduce the restrictions on lands conveyed by deed under the Act of 
                             June 8, 1926.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
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That section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1926 (ch. 498; 44 Stat. 708), is 
amended by--
            (1) inserting ``(a)'' before ``The conveyance'';
            (2) striking ``States.'' at the end of the first sentence 
        and inserting in lieu thereof ``States, except that such 
        restrictions on conveyances and uses shall not apply to those 
        lands upon which communication facilities were located as of 
        January 1, 1993.''; and
            (3) adding at the end thereof the following new 
        subsections:
    ``(b) Reasonable use of an access route in existence on June 1, 
1994, across National Forest lands shall be allowed for the repair, 
maintenance, or improvement of the communication facilities referred to 
in subsection (a), but the Secretary of Agriculture shall not be 
required to improve the condition of any such access route or to 
provide any additional access route for such purposes.
    ``(c) Recreational activities on the lands identified in section 1, 
totaling approximately one thousand four hundred and forty acres, may 
be allowed so long as such recreational use is consistent both with the 
protection of the watershed and water supply system of the city and 
with the management objectives for adjacent National Forest System 
lands. Construction of structures or other improvements associated with 
such recreational activities shall be permitted only to the extent that 
the Secretary of Agriculture has determined that such construction 
would be consistent with protection of watershed and would not 
adversely affect the resources and values of adjacent National Forest 
System lands.''.

            Passed the Senate April 12 (legislative day, April 11), 
      1994.

            Attest:

                                             WALTER J. STEWART,

                                                             Secretary.