[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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[H.R. 4874 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.4874

                      One Hundred Seventh Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
          the twenty-third day of January, two thousand and two


                                 An Act


 
To direct the Secretary of the Interior to disclaim any Federal interest 
 in lands adjacent to Spirit Lake and Twin Lakes in the State of Idaho 
     resulting from possible omission of lands from an 1880 survey.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
        (1) The meander lines in the original surveys by John B. David, 
    deputy surveyor, of two lakes in the State of Idaho, Spirit Lake, 
    formerly known as Lake Tesemini, located in T. 53 N., R. 4 W., 
    Boise Meridian, and Twin Lakes, formerly known as Fish Lake, 
    located in T. 52 N. and T. 53 N., R. 4 W., Boise Meridian, do not 
    reflect the current line of ordinary high water conditions.
        (2) All lands adjacent to the original meander lines have been 
    patented.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to issue a recordable disclaimer of interest by the United 
States to any omitted lands or lands lying outside the record meander 
lines in the vicinity of the lakes referred to in subsection (a).

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
        (1) Recordable disclaimer of interest.--The term ``recordable 
    disclaimer of interest'' means a document recorded in the county 
    clerk's office or other such local office where real property 
    documents are recorded, in which the United States disclaims any 
    right, title, or interest to those lands found lying outside the 
    recorded meander lines of the lakes referred to in section 1(a)(1), 
    including omitted lands, if any.
        (2) Omitted lands.--The term ``omitted lands'' means those 
    lands that were in place on the date of the original surveys 
    referred to in section 1(a)(1) but were not included in the survey 
    of the township and the meander lines of the water body due to 
    gross error or fraud by the original surveyor.
        (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
    the Interior.

SEC. 3. SURVEYS.

    The Secretary shall--
        (1) conduct a survey investigation of the conditions along the 
    lakeshores of Spirit Lake and Twin Lakes in the townships 
    referenced in section 1(a); and
        (2) after the completion of the survey investigation, resurvey 
    the original meander lines along the lakeshores, using the results 
    of the survey investigation.

SEC. 4. DISCLAIMER OF INTEREST IN LANDS ADJACENT TO SPIRIT LAKE AND 
              TWIN LAKES, IDAHO.

    Upon acceptance and approval of the surveys under section 3 by the 
Secretary, the Secretary shall--
        (1) prepare a recordable disclaimer of interest with land 
    descriptions, using the lot or tract numbers of the omitted lands, 
    if any, and lands lying outside the record meander lines, as shown 
    on the survey plats; and
        (2) record such recordable disclaimer of interest 
    simultaneously with the filing of the surveys.

SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary $400,000 to 
carry out this Act. Funds appropriated to carry out the purposes of 
this Act may be available without fiscal year limitation.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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