[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1157 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1157

To clarify the United States interest in certain submerged lands in the 
 area of the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 16, 2017

 Mr. Keating introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To clarify the United States interest in certain submerged lands in the 
 area of the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge, 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. UNITED STATES INTEREST IN CERTAIN SUBMERGED LANDS.

    The Congress finds that the United States did not acquire any 
right, title, or interest in or to submerged lands in Nantucket Sound 
or the waters above such submerged lands as a result of the taking 
described in United States v. 3,000 Acres of Land, Misc. Civil Action 
No. 6340 (D. Mass., dated June 1, 1944).
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