PUBLIC LAW 105-76—NOV. 12, 1997 111 STAT. 1463 Public Law 105-76 105th Congress An Act To provide for a boundary adjustment and land conveyance involving the Raggeds „ „ ^Q__ Wilderness, White River National Forest, Colorado, to correct the effects of earlier ——: erroneous land surveys. [S. 589] 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 CONVEYANCE, 16 USC 1132 RAGGEDS WILDERNESS, WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOR- note. EST, COLORADO. (a) FINDINGS. — Congress finds that— (1) certain landowners in Gunnison County, Colorado, who own real property adjacent to the portion of the Raggeds Wilderness in the White River National Forest, Colorado, have occupied or improved their property in good faith and in reliance on erroneous surveys of their properties that the landowners reasonably believed were accurate; (2) in 1993, a Forest Service resurvey of the Raggeds Wilderness established accurate boundaries between the wilderness area and adjacent private lands; and (3) the resurvey indicates that a small portion of the Raggeds Wilderness is occupied by adjacent landowners on the basis of the earlier erroneous land surveys. (b) PURPOSE. — It is the purpose of this section to remove from the Isoundaries of the Raggeds Wilderness certain real property so as to permit the Secretary of Agriculture to use the authority of Public Law 97-465 (commonly known as the "Small Tracts Act") (16 U.S.C. 521c et seq.) to convey the property to the landowners who occupied the property on the basis of erroneous land surveys. (c) BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT. — The boundary of the Raggeds Wilderness, Gunnison and White River National Forests, Colorado, as designated by section 102(a)(16) of Public Law 96-560 (94 Stat. 3267; 16 U.S.C. 1132 note), is hereby modified to exclude from the area encompassed by the wilderness a parcel of real property approximately 0.86 -acres in size situated in the SWy4 of the NEy4 of Section 28, Township 11 South, Range 88 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, as depicted on the map entitled "Encroachment- Raggeds Wilderness", dated November 17, 1993. (d) MAP. —The map described in subsection (c) shall be on file and available for inspection in the appropriate offices of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. (e) CONVEYANCE OF LAND REMOVED FROM WILDERNESS AREA. — 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 et seq.) to convey all right, title, and interest
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