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[H.R. 1663 Reported in House (RH)]






                                                 Union Calendar No. 118
105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1663

                          [Report No. 105-192]

 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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 20, 1997

Mr. Doolittle introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

                             July 21, 1997

  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]

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                                 A BILL


 
 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,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. RETENTION AND MAINTENANCE OF CERTAIN DAMS AND 
              WEIRS, EMIGRANT WILDERNESS, STANISLAUS NATIONAL FOREST, 
              CALIFORNIA.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    With respect to 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 of 
Agriculture shall retain and maintain the 18 concrete dams and weirs 
that were located within the boundaries of the Emigrant Wilderness on 
the date of the enactment of such Public Law, January 3, 1975. If 
personnel of the Forest Service are unavailable to perform the 
maintenance of the dams and weirs, or to supplement the maintenance 
activities of Forest Service personnel, the Secretary shall contract 
with other persons to perform the maintenance at Government expense or 
permit other persons to perform the maintenance at private 
expense.</DELETED>

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.




                                                 Union Calendar No. 118

105th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 1663

                          [Report No. 105-192]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             July 21, 1997

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