[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3647 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3647

 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to make technical corrections 
       to a map relating to the Coastal Barrier Resources System.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 1998

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to make technical corrections 
       to a map relating to the Coastal Barrier Resources System.

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

SECTION 1. REVISION OF COASTAL BARRIER RESOURCE SYSTEM MAP.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Department of the Interior published a notice in 
        the Federal Register on March 4, 1985, specifying the criteria 
        for including undeveloped property in the Coastal Barrier 
        Resources System (in this Act referred to as the ``System''). 
        The notice expands and elaborates upon the criteria used to 
        delineate coastal barriers originally published in the Federal 
        Register on August 16, 1982, and specifies that candidate 
        properties are to be excluded from the System if they are 
        developed with a full complement of infrastructure servicing 
        each lot or building site.
            (2) The Coastal Barrier Improvement Act of 1990 (Public Law 
        101-591) designated unit FL-35 in North Key Largo, Florida, as 
        part of the Coastal Barrier Resources System.
            (3) Unit FL-35, as so designated, included Pumpkin Key, a 
        25-acre island which, at the time of its inclusion in the 
        System, was developed with a full complement of infrastructure, 
        many structures, and a 20-slip multiresidential docking 
        facility.
            (4) The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has 
        reviewed signed, sworn affidavits and as-built engineering 
        drawings attesting to the presence on Pumpkin Key of 
        electricity, water, and wastewater disposal capacity for every 
        building lot on the island, and a paved intra-island cart path 
        network exceeding 2 miles in length. The utilities are provided 
        to Pumpkin Key via a subaqueous utility line emanating from the 
        Ocean Reef development in North Key Largo.
            (5) The United States Fish and Wildlife Service has stated 
        that the information referred to in paragraph (4) was not 
        available to the Service when it recommended Pumpkin Key for 
        inclusion in the System in a 1988 report to Congress. Based on 
        its review of the information referred to in paragraph (4), the 
        United States Fish and Wildlife Service has affirmed that 
        Pumpkin Key had a full complement of infrastructure at the time 
        of its inclusion in the System and that exclusion of Pumpkin 
        Key from the System constitutes a valid technical correction 
        that the Service and the Department of the Interior can 
        support.
    (b) Correction of Map.--The Secretary of the Interior shall, before 
the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of 
this Act, revise the map depicting unit FL-35 of the Coastal Barrier 
Resources System to exclude Pumpkin Key from the System.
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