[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[H.R. 2122 Referred in Senate (RFS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 2122


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 5, 1996

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

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To designate the Lake Tahoe Basin National Forest in the States of 
     California and Nevada to be administered by the Secretary of 
                  Agriculture, 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. DESIGNATION.

    There is hereby designated in the States of California and Nevada 
the Lake Tahoe Basin National Forest to be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture as a unit of the National Forest System 
subject to the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the National 
Forest System.

SEC. 2. BOUNDARIES.

    (a) The Lake Tahoe Basin National Forest shall comprise those lands 
designated as the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit in the Federal 
Register notice dated January 13, 1978 (43 F.R. 1971) and any lands 
subsequently added to the Unit.
    (b) For the purposes of section 7 of the Land and Conservation Fund 
Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 4601-9), the exterior boundary of the Lake Tahoe 
Basin National Forest established by this Act shall be treated as if it 
were the boundary as of January 1, 1965.
    (c) The boundaries of the Tahoe, Eldorado, Toiyabe National Forests 
are hereby modified to exclude those lands within the boundaries of the 
Lake Tahoe Basin National Forest.
    (d) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to made corrections 
or adjustments in the boundaries of the Tahoe, Eldorado, Toiyabe, and 
Lake Tahoe Basin National Forests for administrative purposes.

SEC. 3. LAND MANAGEMENT PLANNING.

    (a) The Land and Resource Management Plan for the Lake Tahoe Basin 
Management Unit dated December 2, 1988, shall constitute the land 
management plan required by section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended by the National 
Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 1604).
    (b) Nothing in this Act shall require the Forest Service to amend 
or revise--
            (1) the land and resource management plan dated December 2, 
        1988, or its associated environmental impact statement, or to 
        prepare a new plan or associated environmental impact 
        statement; or
            (2) any draft or final land and resource management plan or 
        associated environmental impact statement for the Tahoe, 
        Eldorado or Toiyabe National Forests.

SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.

    (a) Any reference to the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit in any 
existing statute, regulation, manual, handbook, or otherwise shall be 
deemed a reference to the Lake Tahoe Basin National Forest.
    (b) Nothing in this Act shall affect--
            (1) any provisions of Public Law 96-551 (94 Stat. 3233), 
        giving Congressional consent to the Tahoe Planning Compact;
            (2) any provisions of Public Law 96-586 (94 Stat. 3381), an 
        Act to provide disposal of certain Federal lands in the Lake 
        Tahoe Basin, commonly called the Burton-Santini Act; or
            (3) valid existing rights of persons holding any 
        authorization, permit, option or other form of contract 
        existing on the date of enactment of this Act.
    (c) Notwithstanding the distribution requirements of payments under 
the Act of May 23, 1908 (Ch. 192, 35 Stat. 251, as amended), 
distribution of receipts from the Eldorado, Tahoe, Toiyabe, and Lake 
Tahoe Basin National Forests shall be based upon the National Forest 
boundaries that existed prior to enactment of this Act, as though the 
Lake Tahoe Basin National Forest does not exist.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 4, 1996.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.