[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3981 Referred in Senate (RFS)]


109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3981


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 16, 2005

   Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out certain land 
exchanges involving small parcels of National Forest System land in the 
    Tahoe National Forest in the State of California, 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. LAND EXCHANGES, TAHOE NATIONAL FOREST, CALIFORNIA.

    (a) Christensen Exchange.--Notwithstanding section 3 of Public Law 
97-465 (16 U.S.C. 521e; commonly known as the Small Tracts Act), the 
Secretary of Agriculture may use the authority of such Act to acquire 
land from Irving N. Christensen in that portion of the SW\1/4\NW\1/4\ 
of section 16, township 19 north, range 9 east, Mount Diablo meridian, 
lying southwest of California State Highway 49 and that portion of the 
S\1/2\NE\1/4\ of section 17 of the same township and range lying 
southwest of California State Highway 49 and northeast of the North 
Fork Yuba River, through an exchange of all right, title, and interest 
of the United States in and to a parcel National Forest System land in 
Tahoe National Forest, California, lying north of California State 
Highway 49 within the N\1/2\N\1/2\ of such section 17.
    (b) McCreary Exchange.--The Secretary of Agriculture may use the 
authority of provided by Public Law 97-465 (16 U.S.C. 521c et seq.; 
commonly known as the Small Tracts Act) to acquire land from Dennis W. 
McCreary and Cindy M. McCreary in lot 19 of section 35, township 20 
north, range 10 east, Mount Diablo meridian, through an exchange of all 
right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a parcel 
National Forest System land in Tahoe National Forest, California, in 
lot 121 of such section 35. For purposes of Public Law 97-465, this 
land exchange is deemed to involve a mineral survey fraction.
    (c) Withdrawal.--Subject to valid existing rights, all lands to be 
exchanged under this section are withdrawn from location, entry, and 
patent under the mining laws of the United States.

            Passed the House of Representatives November 15, 2005.

            Attest:

                                                 JEFF TRANDAHL,

                                                                 Clerk.