[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1469 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1469

 To provide for the expansion of the historic community cemetery of El 
  Rito, New Mexico, through the special designation of five acres of 
            Carson National Forest adjacent to the cemetery.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 8, 1997

 Mr. Bingaman introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide for the expansion of the historic community cemetery of El 
  Rito, New Mexico, through the special designation of five acres of 
            Carson National Forest adjacent to the cemetery.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    (a) The village of El Rito, New Mexico (El Rito), is a small 
community of approximately 2,500 residents, completely surrounded by 
the Carson National Forest in New Mexico.
    (b) The historic community cemetery El Rito is adjacent to the 
lands of the Carson National Forest in New Mexico. After generations of 
use, there is no more available space left in the cemetery and the 
community members are required to get special permits to bury their 
deceased on Forest Service land.
    (c) The requirement for special use permits creates an undue 
bureaucratic requirement upon families within the El Rito community 
times when they are suffering from grief.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF LANDS.

    The Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the United States 
Department of Agriculture Forest Service shall designate five acres of 
land in the Carson National Forest adjacent to the historic El Rito 
cemetery as special use land for use as cemetery land for members of 
the El Rito community to bury their deceased.
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