[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3299 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3299

  To provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyances involving 
   Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, to correct the effects of an 
  erroneous land survey that resulted in approximately 7 acres of the 
Crystal Lakes Subdivision, Ninth Filing, encroaching on National Forest 
                              System land.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 1, 2007

Mrs. Musgrave introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyances involving 
   Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, to correct the effects of an 
  erroneous land survey that resulted in approximately 7 acres of the 
Crystal Lakes Subdivision, Ninth Filing, encroaching on National Forest 
                              System land.

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

SECTION 1. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT AND LAND CONVEYANCES, ROOSEVELT NATIONAL 
              FOREST, COLORADO.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) Certain landowners in Larimer County, Colorado, own 
        real property adjacent to a portion of Roosevelt National 
        Forest and have occupied or improved their property in good 
        faith and in reliance on land surveys, which have been shown to 
        be erroneous but that the landowners reasonably believed were 
        accurate.
            (2) In 2003, a Forest Service resurvey of the Crystal Lakes 
        Subdivision, Ninth Filing, established accurate boundaries 
        between the National Forest System land and adjacent private 
        lands.
            (3) The survey indicates that a small portion of Roosevelt 
        National Forest is occupied by adjacent landowners on the basis 
        of the earlier erroneous land surveys.
    (b) Boundary Adjustment.--The boundaries of Roosevelt National 
Forest, Colorado, are hereby modified to exclude from the national 
forest a parcel of real property consisting of approximately 7 acres 
that was erroneously included within the Crystal Lakes Subdivision, 
Ninth Filing, as a result of the failure of a 1975 survey of the 
subdivision to correctly locate the original quarter corners between 
sections 13 and 24, sections 24 and 25, and sections 25 and 26 of 
Township 10 North, Range 74 West, 6th Principal Meridian.
    (c) Conveyance of Land Removed From National Forest.--The Secretary 
of Agriculture shall use the authority provided by Public Law 97-465 
(commonly known as the Small Tracts Act; 16 U.S.C. 521c-521i) to convey 
all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the real 
property excluded from the boundaries of Roosevelt National Forest 
under subsection (b) to the landowners whose real property adjoins the 
excluded land and who have occupied the excluded land in good-faith 
reliance on the erroneous survey.
    (d) Consideration.--The conveyances required by subsection (c) 
shall be made without consideration.
    (e) Description of Real Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
description of the land excluded from the boundaries of Roosevelt 
National Forest under subsection (b) and conveyed under subsection (c) 
shall be determined by a survey satisfactory to the Secretary.
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