To provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyances involving Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, to correct the effects of an erroneous land survey that resulted in approximately 7 acres of the Crystal Lakes Subdivision, Ninth Filing, encroaching on National Forest System land, and for other purposes.

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Modifies the boundaries of Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, to exclude from it a parcel of real property consisting of approximately seven acres that was erroneously included within the Crystal Lakes Subdivision, North Filing, as a result of the failure of a 1975 survey of the Subdivision to correctly locate the original quarter corners as specified.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to use the authority provided by the Small Tracts Act to convey all interest of the United States in and to the real property excluded from the boundaries of Roosevelt National Forest under this Act to the landowners whose real property adjoins the excluded land and who have occupied the excluded land in good faith reliance on the erroneous survey.

Reduces by a specified amount, and cancels the amount so reduced, the amount available for obligation from the unobligated balance in the special account for the deposit and expenditure of fees and revenues established for the Forest Service under the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1858 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1858

  To provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyances involving 
   Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, to correct the effects of an 
  erroneous land survey that resulted in approximately 7 acres of the 
Crystal Lakes Subdivision, Ninth Filing, encroaching on National Forest 
                  System land, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 2009

    Ms. Markey of Colorado introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyances involving 
   Roosevelt National Forest, Colorado, to correct the effects of an 
  erroneous land survey that resulted in approximately 7 acres of the 
Crystal Lakes Subdivision, Ninth Filing, encroaching on National Forest 
                  System land, 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. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT AND LAND CONVEYANCES, ROOSEVELT NATIONAL 
              FOREST, COLORADO.

    (a) Boundary Adjustment.--The boundaries of Roosevelt National 
Forest, Colorado, are hereby modified to exclude from the national 
forest a parcel of real property consisting of approximately 7 acres 
within the Crystal Lakes Subdivision as depicted on the map entitled 
``Crystal Lakes Encroachment, HR 3299'' and dated July 15, 2008.
    (b) Conveyance of Land Removed From National Forest.--The Secretary 
of Agriculture shall use the authority provided by Public Law 97-465 
(commonly known as the Small Tracts Act; 16 U.S.C. 521c-521i) to convey 
all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the real 
property excluded from the boundaries of Roosevelt National Forest 
under subsection (a) to the landowners whose real property adjoins the 
excluded land and who, as of the date of the enactment of this Act, 
occupy the excluded land.
    (c) Consideration.--The conveyances required by subsection (b) 
shall be made without consideration.
    (d) Description of Real Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
description of the land excluded from the boundaries of Roosevelt 
National Forest under subsection (a) and conveyed under subsection (b) 
shall be determined by a survey satisfactory to the Secretary.
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