[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6614 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6614

  To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release reversionary and 
   reserved interests in certain lands within the Coconino National 
                            Forest, Arizona.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 26, 2018

Mr. O'Halleran introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release reversionary and 
   reserved interests in certain lands within the Coconino National 
                            Forest, Arizona.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Lowell Observatory Conveyance Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Observatory.--The term ``Observatory'' means the Lowell 
        Observatory of Flagstaff, Arizona.
            (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service.

SEC. 3. RELEASE OF REVERSIONARY AND RESERVED INTERESTS.

    (a) In General.--Subject to valid existing rights, if the 
Observatory makes a written request to the Secretary not later than 180 
days after the date of enactment of this Act requesting conveyance of 
the National Forest System land described in subsection (b), the 
Secretary shall convey, without consideration and by quitclaim deed, to 
the Observatory all right, title, and interest of the United States in 
and to the parcel of land described in subsection (b).
    (b) Land Specified.--The parcel of National Forest System land to 
be conveyed under subsection (a) is the land--
            (1) conveyed by the United States to Percival Lowell and 
        his heirs by the Act entitled ``An Act Granting certain lands 
        in the Coconino National Forest, in Arizona, for observatory 
        purposes'', approved May 30, 1910; and
            (2) described as section 17, Township 21 north of range 7 
        east of the Gila and Salt River base and meridian in Coconino 
        County, Arizona.
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