[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3497 Received in Senate (RDS)]







104th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3497


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 26, 1996

                                Received

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                                 AN ACT


 
To expand the boundary of the Snoqualmie 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Snoqualmie National Forest Boundary 
Adjustment Act of 1996''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) Certain private lands in the State of Washington 
        presently owned by Weyerhaeuser Company and others are located 
        adjacent to the Snoqualmie National Forest and are logical 
        extensions of the forest.
            (2) A boundary adjustment will facilitate a land exchange 
        which involves approximately 7,200 acres of National Forest 
        land and 33,000 acres of private land owned by Weyerhaeuser 
        Company, of which 6,278 acres are outside the present 
        Snoqualmie National Forest boundary.
            (3) Weyerhaeuser Company and the Forest Service are 
        prepared to exchange these lands, which will benefit both the 
        United States and Weyerhaeuser by consolidating their 
        respective land-ownership holdings and providing reduced costs 
        for each party to implement their land management objectives, 
        providing an opportunity to implement more effective ecosystem 
        based management, providing increased recreation opportunities 
        for the American public, providing enhanced fish and wildlife 
        habitat protection, and supporting the ``Mountains-to-the 
        Sound'' goal of a continuous greenway between the Cascade 
        Mountains and Puget Sound.

SEC. 3. BOUNDARY MODIFICATION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby directed to 
modify the boundary of the Snoqualmie National Forest to include and 
encompass 10,589.47 acres, more or less, as generally depicted on a map 
entitled ``Snoqualmie National Forest Proposed 1996 Boundary 
Modification'' dated July 1, 1996. Such map, together with a legal 
description of all lands included in the boundary adjustment, shall be 
on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief 
of the Forest Service in Washington, District of Columbia.
    (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 Snoqualmie National Forest, as 
modified pursuant to subsection (a), shall be considered to be the 
boundary of that National Forest as of January 1, 1965.

            Passed the House of Representatives September 26, 1996.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.