[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 404 Referred in House (RFH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 404


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 21, 2011

             Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 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.

            Passed the Senate October 18, 2011.

            Attest:

                                                NANCY ERICKSON,

                                                             Secretary.