[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1548 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1548

  To provide for the conveyance of certain Forest Service land to the 
                     city of Coffman Cove, Alaska.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 28, 2005

 Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Mr. Stevens) 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 provide for the conveyance of certain Forest Service land to the 
                     city of Coffman Cove, Alaska.

    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 ``Coffman Cove Administrative Site 
Conveyance Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) the community of Coffman Cove, Alaska, which originated 
        as a logging camp in the 1960's, was incorporated as a city in 
        1989;
            (2) the Forest Service property located in the center of 
        the City was used by the Forest Service as a work center;
            (3) the Forest Service work facilities included part of the 
        logging camp, a log sort yard, and a log transfer site, all of 
        which supported the long-term timber sale operations and other 
        subsequent timber sales in the Tongass National Forest;
            (4) as the long-term timber sale operations concluded, the 
        need for the Forest Service to use the Forest Service site in 
        Coffman Cove diminished;
            (5) the Forest Service work center facilities that 
        supported timber operations have been removed and the site has 
        been restored;
            (6) the location of the administrative site interferes with 
        the ability of the City to further develop commercial 
        operations and tourism support facilities relating to a new 
        ferry terminal;
            (7) the City wants to acquire a portion of the site to 
        continue the transition of the City from a timber-dependent 
        economy to a more fully developed and diversified economy; and
            (8) the Forest Service expects that only approximately 3 
        acres of the administrative site will be used in the future for 
        National Forest System purposes.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) City.--The term ``City'' means the city of Coffman 
        Cove, Alaska.
            (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Agriculture.

SEC. 4. CONVEYANCE.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary shall convey to the City, without consideration and without 
additional warrants or liability on behalf of the United States, fee 
simple title to the parcel of Forest Service land described in 
subsection (b).
    (b) Description of Land.--
            (1) In general.--The parcel of Forest Service land referred 
        to in subsection (a) is the approximately 12 acres of land 
        identified in U.S. Survey 10099, as depicted on the plat 
        entitled ``Subdivision of U.S. Survey No. 10099'' and recorded 
        as Plat 2003-1 on January 21, 2003, Petersburg Recording 
        District, Alaska.
            (2) Excluded land.--The parcel of Forest Service land 
        conveyed under subsection (a) does not include the portion of 
        U.S. Survey 10099 that is north of the right-of-way for Forest 
        Development Road 3030-295 and southeast of Tract CC-8.
    (c) Right-of-Way.--The United States may reserve a right-of-way to 
provide access to the Forest Service land excluded from the conveyance 
to the City under subsection (b)(2).
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