[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1378 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1378

 To modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 25, 2009

   Mr. Levin 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 modify a land grant patent issued by the Secretary of the Interior.

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

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) pursuant to section 5505 of division A of the Omnibus 
        Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104-208; 110 
        Stat. 3009-516), the Secretary of the Interior, acting through 
        the Bureau of Land Management, issued to the Great Lakes 
        Shipwreck Historical Society located in Chippewa County of the 
        State of Michigan United States Patent Number 61-98-0040 on 
        September 23, 1998, conveying certain property (referred to in 
        this Act as the ``Property'') from the Federal Government to 
        the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society;
            (2) United States Patent Number 61-98-0040 was recorded in 
        the Office of the Register of Deeds of Chippewa County of the 
        State of Michigan, on January 22, 1999, at Liber 757, on pages 
        115 through 118;
            (3) in order to correct an error in United States Patent 
        Number 61-98-0040, the Secretary issued a corrected patent, 
        United States Patent Number 61-2000-0007, on March 10, 2000;
            (4) after issuance of the corrected United States Patent 
        Number 61-2000-0007, the original United States Patent Number 
        61-98-0040 was cancelled on the records of the Bureau of Land 
        Management; and
            (5) corrected United States Patent Number 61-2000-0007 
        should be modified in accordance with this Act--
                    (A) to effectuate--
                            (i) the Human Use/Natural Resource Plan for 
                        Whitefish Point, dated December 2002; and
                            (ii) the settlement agreement dated July 
                        16, 2001, filed in Docket Number 2:00-CV-206 in 
                        the United States District Court for the 
                        Western District of Michigan; and
                    (B) to ensure a clear chain of title, recorded in 
                the Office of the Register of Deeds of Chippewa County 
                of the State of Michigan.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF LAND GRANT PATENT ISSUED BY SECRETARY OF THE 
              INTERIOR.

    The Secretary of the Interior shall modify the matter under the 
heading ``Subject Also to the Following Conditions'' of paragraph 6 of 
United States Patent Number 61-2000-0007 by striking ``Whitefish Point 
Comprehensive Plan of October 1992, or a gift shop'' and inserting 
``Human Use/Natural Resource Plan for Whitefish Point, dated December 
2002''.

SEC. 3. DEVELOPMENT LIMITATIONS AND REVIEW.

    As of the date of enactment of this Act, each development of a new 
facility or expansion of a facility or infrastructure on the Property 
shall be subject to--
            (1) the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 
        et seq.) (including regulations);
            (2) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
        U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) (including regulations); and
            (3) any other applicable law of--
                    (A) the Federal Government (including regulations); 
                and
                    (B) a State or local government.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--The modification of United States Patent Number 
61-2000-0007 in accordance with section 2 shall become effective on the 
date of the recording of the modification in the Office of the Register 
of Deeds of Chippewa County of the State of Michigan.
    (b) Endorsement.--The Office of the Register of Deeds of Chippewa 
County of the State of Michigan is requested to endorse on the recorded 
copy of United States Patent Number 61-2000-0007 the fact that the 
Patent Number has been modified in accordance with this Act.
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