HR 1309 · 105th Congress · Public Lands and Natural Resources
To provide for an exchange of lands with the city of Greeley, Colorado, and The Water Supply and Storage Company to eliminate private inholdings in wilderness areas, and for other purposes.
Bill Progress
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Introduced2
Committee3
House Vote4
Senate5
EnactedLatest: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 282.(1998-04-22)
Plain Language Summary
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Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer specified Federal lands to the city of Greeley, Colorado, and The Water Supply and Storage Company, a Colorado mutual ditch company, if the city and the company offer to transfer specified lands to the United States (Rockwell Ranch and Timberline Lake properties and specified company lands). Specifies exchange terms and conditions, including that: (1) the United States shall grant perpetual access easements to the city and the company to the lands conveyed; (2) the city and the company shall continue to make specified reservoirs accessible to visitors to the Roosevelt National Forest; (3) all special use permits, easements, or other instruments authorizing occupancy of certain identified Federal lands are rescinded; and (4) conditions specified in certain easements for Long Draw, Peterson Lake, and Barnes Meadow Reservoirs requiring a joint operations plan providing instream winter flows to the mainstream of the Cache La Poudre River from Chambers Lake and Barnes Meadow Reservoir shall continue to be fulfilled regardless of land ownership unless the grantor and grantee of an easement agree otherwise. Directs that lands acquired by th…
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CBO Cost Estimate
Congressional Budget OfficeH.R. 1309, A bill to provide for an exchange of lands with the city of Greeley, Colorado, and the Water Supply and Storage Company to eliminate private inholdings in wilderness areas, and for other purposes
Nov 12, 1997Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Resources on November 5, 1997
Full CBO report ↗Official non-partisan budget analysis by the Congressional Budget Office