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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-611
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK OWNERSHIP
CORRECTION ACT
DECEMBER 2, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 5459]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5459) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to correct
a land ownership error within the boundary of Rocky Mountain
National Park, and for other purposes, having considered the same,
reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends
that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 5459 is to authorize the Secretary of the In-
terior to correct a land ownership error within the boundary of
Rocky Mountain National Park.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
In the 1950s, a 0.18-acre plot containing the Forsyth family cabin
was erroneously transferred to the Rocky Mountain National Park
(RMNP) when the National Park Service purchased a larger sur-
rounding parcel, due to an error in the bank documents' legal de-
scription of the parcel. The Forsyth family, seeking to regain legal
ownership of its cabin and the 0.18-acre plot on which it sits, pro-
posed to exchange 0.18 acres of non-federal land for the 0.18-acre
property.
H.R. 5459 corrects a longstanding land ownership issue by au-
thorizing a land exchange between the Forsyth family and the Sec-
retary of the Interior. The legislation stipulates that lands ex-
changed are of equal value and that the non-federal land acquired
by the Secretary of the Interior through the exchange will be ad-
ministered as part of the RMNP.
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