[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1625 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1625

To amend the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the establishment of 
   the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and for other purposes'' to 
   clarify the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to accept 
 donations of lands that are contiguous to the Indiana Dunes National 
                   Lakeshore, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 13, 2005

Mr. Visclosky introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Act entitled ``An Act to provide for the establishment of 
   the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and for other purposes'' to 
   clarify the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to accept 
 donations of lands that are contiguous to the Indiana Dunes National 
                   Lakeshore, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore 
Corrections Act''.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF CONTIGUOUS LANDS.

    Section 19 of such Act (16 U.S.C. 460u-19) is amended by 
designating the existing text of the section as subsection (a), and by 
adding at the end the following:
    ``(b) For purposes of subsection (a), lands may be considered 
contiguous to other lands if the lands touch the other lands, or are 
separated from the other lands by only a public or private right-of-
way, such as a road, railroad, or utility corridor.''.

SEC. 3. AUTHORITY TO ACQUIRE LANDS BY PAYMENT OF DELINQUENT TAXES.

    Section 2(a) of such Act (16 U.S.C. 460u-1(a)) is amended in the 
first sentence by inserting before the period the following: ``, 
including acquisition from units of State or local government by 
satisfaction of delinquent State or local taxes''.
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