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                                                       Calendar No. 193
105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 589

                          [Report No. 105-98]

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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 16, 1997

  Mr. Campbell (for himself and Mr. Allard) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

                            October 6, 1997

              Reported by Mr. Murkowski, with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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                                 A BILL


 
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,

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

<DELETED>    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (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;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) in 1993, a Forest Service resurvey of the 
        Raggeds Wilderness established accurate boundaries between the 
        wilderness area and adjacent private lands; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (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.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Purpose.--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.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (c) Boundary Adjustment.--The boundary of the Raggeds 
Wilderness, Gunnison National Forest and White River National Forest, 
Colorado, as designated by section 102(a)(16) of Public Law 96-560 (94 
Stat. 3267; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note), is 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</DELETED>\<DELETED>1/4</DELETED>\ 
<DELETED>of the NE</DELETED>\<DELETED>1/4</DELETED>\ <DELETED>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.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (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.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (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.</DELETED>

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.




                                                       Calendar No. 193

105th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                                 S. 589

                          [Report No. 105-98]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

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.

_______________________________________________________________________

                            October 6, 1997

                       Reported with an amendment