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        S.589

                       One Hundred Fifth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
 the seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven


                                 An Act


 
 To provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyance involving the 
 Raggeds Wilderness, White River National Forest, Colorado, to correct 
             the effects of earlier erroneous land surveys.

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

SECTION 1. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT AND LAND CONVEYANCE, RAGGEDS WILDERNESS, 
              WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST, COLORADO.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
        (1) certain landowners in Gunnison County, Colorado, who own 
    real property adjacent to the portion of the Raggeds Wilderness in 
    the White River National Forest, Colorado, have occupied or 
    improved their property in good faith and in reliance on erroneous 
    surveys of their properties that the landowners reasonably believed 
    were accurate;
        (2) in 1993, a Forest Service resurvey of the Raggeds 
    Wilderness established accurate boundaries between the wilderness 
    area and adjacent private lands; and
        (3) the resurvey indicates that a small portion of the Raggeds 
    Wilderness is occupied by adjacent landowners on the basis of the 
    earlier erroneous land surveys.
    (b) Purpose.--It is the purpose of this section to remove from the 
boundaries of the Raggeds Wilderness certain real property so as to 
permit the Secretary of Agriculture to use the authority of Public Law 
97-465 (commonly known as the ``Small Tracts Act'') (16 U.S.C. 521c et 
seq.) to convey the property to the landowners who occupied the 
property on the basis of erroneous land surveys.
    (c) Boundary Adjustment.--The boundary of the Raggeds Wilderness, 
Gunnison and White River National Forests, Colorado, as designated by 
section 102(a)(16) of Public Law 96-560 (94 Stat. 3267; 16 U.S.C. 1132 
note), is hereby modified to exclude from the area encompassed by the 
wilderness a parcel of real property approximately 0.86-acres in size 
situated in the SW\1/4\ of the NE\1/4\ of Section 28, Township 11 
South, Range 88 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, as depicted on the 
map entitled ``Encroachment-Raggeds Wilderness'', dated November 17, 
1993.
    (d) Map.--The map described in subsection (c) shall be on file and 
available for inspection in the appropriate offices of the Forest 
Service, Department of Agriculture.
    (e) Conveyance of Land Removed From Wilderness Area.--The Secretary 
of Agriculture shall use the authority provided by Public Law 97-465 
(commonly known as the ``Small Tracts Act'') (16 U.S.C. 521c et seq.) 
to convey all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to 
the real property excluded from the boundaries of the Raggeds 
Wilderness under subsection (c) to the owners of real property in 
Gunnison County, Colorado, whose real property adjoins the excluded 
real property and who have occupied the excluded real property in good 
faith reliance on an erroneous survey.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.