[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1146 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1146

 To amend the Act of March 3, 1875, to permit the State of Colorado to 
           use land held in trust by the State as open space.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 29, 2001

  Mr. Allard 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 amend the Act of March 3, 1875, to permit the State of Colorado to 
           use land held in trust by the State as open space.

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

SECTION 1. COLORADO TRUST LAND.

    Section 7 of the Act of March 3, 1875 (18 Stat. 475, chapter 139) 
(commonly known as the ``Colorado Enabling Act''), is amended by 
inserting before the period at the end the following: ``and for use for 
open space, wildlife habitat, scenic value, or other natural value, 
regardless of whether the land generates income for the common schools 
as described under section 14, except that the amount of land used for 
natural value shall not exceed 300,000 acres''.
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