[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[H.R. 1663 Referred in Senate (RFS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1663


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 23, 1997

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

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                                 AN ACT


 
 To clarify the intent of the Congress in Public Law 93-632 to require 
the Secretary of Agriculture to continue to provide for the maintenance 
    of 18 concrete dams and weirs that were located in the Emigrant 
Wilderness at the time the wilderness area was designated as wilderness 
                          in that Public Law.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE OF EXISTING DAMS AND WEIRS, 
              EMIGRANT WILDERNESS, STANISLAUS NATIONAL FOREST, 
              CALIFORNIA.

    The Secretary of Agriculture shall enter into an agreement with a 
non-Federal entity, under which the entity will retain, maintain, and 
operate at private expense the 18 concrete dams and weirs located 
within the boundaries of the Emigrant Wilderness in the Stanislaus 
National Forest, California, as designated by section 2(b) of Public 
Law 93-632 (88 Stat. 2154; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note). The Secretary shall 
require the entity to operate and maintain the dams and weirs at the 
level of operation and maintenance that applied to such dams and weirs 
before the date of the enactment of such Act, January 3, 1975.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 22, 1997.

            Attest:

                                                ROBIN H. CARLE,

                                                                 Clerk.