[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 156 (Tuesday, October 18, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Page S6692]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   LAND GRANT PATENT MODIFICATION ACT

  The bill (S. 404) to modify a land grant patent issued by the 
Secretary of the Interior, was ordered to be engrossed for a third 
reading, was read the third time, and passed, as follows.

                                 S. 404

       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.

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