[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1865 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1865

   To designate certain lands in the San Isabel National Forest, in 
               Colorado, as the Spanish Peaks Wilderness.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 1997

Mr. Skaggs (for himself and Mr. McInnis) introduced the following bill; 
            which was referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To designate certain lands in the San Isabel National Forest, in 
               Colorado, as the Spanish Peaks Wilderness.

    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 ``Spanish Peaks Wilderness Act of 
1997''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS.

    (a) Amendment.--Section 2 of the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 
(Public Law 103-77) is amended by adding the following new paragraph at 
the end of subsection (a):
            ``(20) Certain lands in the San Isabel National Forest 
        which comprise approximately 18,000 acres, as generally 
        depicted on a map entitled `Proposed Spanish Peaks Wilderness', 
        dated May 1997, and which shall be known as the Spanish Peaks 
        Wilderness.''.
    (b) Map and Description.--As soon as practicable after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map 
and a boundary description of the area designated as the Spanish Peaks 
Wilderness by paragraph (20) of subsection 2(a) of the Colorado 
Wilderness Act of 1993, as amended by this Act, with the Committee on 
Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy 
and Natural Resources of the Senate. Such map and boundary description 
shall have the same force and effect as if included in the Colorado 
Wilderness Act of 1993, except that if the Secretary is authorized to 
correct clerical and typographical errors in such boundary description 
and map. Such map and boundary description shall be on file and 
available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.

SEC. 3. CONFORMING CHANGE.

    Section 10 of the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 (Public Law 103-
77) is hereby repealed, and section 11 of such Act is renumbered as 
section 10.
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