[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 124 (Thursday, August 25, 1994)]
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                   ACT OF JUNE 8, 1926 AMENDMENT ACT

  Mr. FORD. Mr. President, I ask that the Chair lay before the Senate a 
message from the House of Representatives on (S. 859) a bill to reduce 
the restrictions on lands conveyed by deed under the Act of June 8, 
1926.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the House of Representatives:

       Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 859) entitled 
     ``An Act to reduce the restrictions on lands conveyed by deed 
     under the Act of June 8, 1926'', do pass with the following 
     Amendment:
         Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
     That section 2 of the Act of June 8, 1926 (ch. 498; 44 Stat. 
     708), is amended by--
       (1) inserting ``(a)'' before ``The conveyance'';
       (2) striking ``States.'' at the end of the first sentence 
     and inserting in lieu thereof ``States, except that such 
     restrictions on conveyances and uses shall not apply to those 
     lands upon which communication facilities were located as of 
     January 1, 1993.''; and
       (3) adding at the end thereof the following new 
     subsections:
       ``(b) Reasonable use of an access route in existence on 
     June 1, 1994, across National Forest lands shall be allowed 
     for the repair, maintenance, or improvement of the 
     communication facilities referred to in subsection (a), but 
     the Secretary of Agriculture shall not be required to improve 
     the condition of any such access route or to provide any 
     additional access route for such purposes.
       ``(c) Recreational activities on the lands identified in 
     section 1, totaling approximately one thousand four hundred 
     and forty acres, may be allowed so long as such recreational 
     use is consistent both with the protection of the watershed 
     and water supply system of the city and with the management 
     objectives for adjacent National Forest System lands. 
     Construction of structures or other improvements associated 
     with such recreational activities shall be permitted only to 
     the extent that the Secretary of Agriculture has determined 
     that such construction would be consistent with protection of 
     watershed and would not adversely affect the resources and 
     values of adjacent National Forest System lands.''.

  Mr. FORD. I move the Senate concur in the House amendment.
  The motion was agreed to.

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