[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1286 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1286

 To amend the Act titled ``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

                             March 3, 2009

Mr. Visclosky (for himself and Mr. Donnelly of Indiana) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Act titled ``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. CLARIFICATION OF CONTIGUOUS LANDS.

    Section 19 of the Act titled ``An Act to provide for the 
establishment of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and for other 
purposes'' (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.''.
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