[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1585 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 1585


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 8, 1995

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To expand the boundary of the Modoc National Forest to include lands 
presently owned by the Bank of California, N.A. Trustee, to facilitate 
    a land exchange with the Forest Service, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Modoc National Forest Boundary 
Adjustment Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) Certain private lands presently owned by the Bank of 
        California, N.A. Trustee, are adjacent to the Modoc National 
        Forest and are logical extensions of the forest.
            (2) A boundary adjustment will facilitate a land exchange 
        which involves approximately 4,240 acres of National Forest 
        land and 11,804 acres of private land, of which only 760 acres 
        are outside the present Modoc National Forest boundary.
            (3) Bank of California, N.A. Trustee, and the Forest 
        Service are prepared to exchange these lands under existing 
        authority of the Secretary of Agriculture which will benefit 
        both the private landowners and the United States by 
        consolidating their respective landownership patterns, 
        providing reduced costs for each party in implementing their 
        land management objectives, providing increased recreation 
        opportunities and fishery habitat for the American public, and 
        providing commercial timber lands to the private landowners.

SEC. 3. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.

    (a) In General.--The boundary of the Modoc National Forest is 
hereby modified to include and encompass 760 acres, more or less, on 
the following described lands: Mount Diablo Meridian, Lassen County, 
California, T. 38 N., R. 10 E., sec. 5, SE\1/4\NW\1/4\, E\1/2\SW\1/4\; 
sec. 8, E\1/2\NE\1/4\, NE\1/4\NW\1/4\, NE\1/4\SE\1/4\; sec. 16, W\1/2\; 
sec. 25, Lots 13, 14 and 15 (S\1/2\SW\1/4\, SW\1/4\SE\1/4\); T. 37 N., 
R. 11 E., sec. 20, NW\1/4\SE\1/4\.
    (b) Rule for Land and Water Conservation Fund.--For the purposes of 
section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 
U.S.C. 460l-9), the boundary of the Modoc National Forest, as modified 
by this Act, shall be considered to be the boundary of that National 
Forest as of January 1, 1965.

            Passed the House of Representatives November 7, 1995.

            Attest:



                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.