[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2470 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2470

 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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 15, 1998

 Mr. Graham  (for himself and Mr. Mack) introduced the following bill; 
 which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 
                              Public Works

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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.--Congress finds that--
            (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 (referred to in this Act as the ``System'');
            (2) the notice--
                    (A) expands and elaborates on the criteria used to 
                delineate coastal barriers originally published in the 
                Federal Register on August 16, 1982; and
                    (B) specifies that candidate properties are to be 
                excluded from the System if the properties are 
                developed with a full complement of infrastructure 
                servicing each lot or building site;
            (3) 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;
            (4) Unit FL-35 included Pumpkin Key, a 25-acre island that, 
        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;
            (5) 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;
            (6) the utilities are provided to Pumpkin Key by a 
        subaqueous utility line emanating from the Ocean Reef 
        development in North Key Largo;
            (7) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service has stated 
        that the information referred to in paragraph (5) was not 
        available to the Service when the Service recommended Pumpkin 
        Key for inclusion in the System in a 1988 report to Congress; 
        and
            (8) based on its review of the information referred to in 
        paragraph (5), 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.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall revise the 
map depicting unit FL-35 of the Coastal Barrier Resources System to 
exclude Pumpkin Key from the System.
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