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[S. 404 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.404

                      One Hundred Twelfth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and twelve


                                 An Act


 
 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;
        (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.
    (a) In General.--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 for a gift 
shop'' and inserting ``Human Use/Natural Resource Plan for Whitefish 
Point, dated December 2002''.
    (b) Effect.--Each other term of the conveyance relating to the 
property that is the subject of United States Patent Number 61-2000-
0007, including each obligation to maintain the property in accordance 
with the National Historic Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.) and 
any other appropriate law (including regulations), and the obligation 
to use the property in a manner that does not impair or interfere with 
the conservation values of the property, shall remain in effect.
SEC. 3. 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.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.