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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-719
BOLTS DITCH ACT
OCTOBER 25, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 4297]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4297) to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation,
Management, and Recreation Act to allow for additional entities to
be eligible to complete the maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and
the Bolts Ditch Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness, Colo-
rado, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with-
out amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION
The purpose of H.R. 4297 is to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr.
Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for addi-
tional entities to be eligible to complete the maintenance work on
Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate within the Holy Cross
Wilderness, Colorado.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch headgate are water facilities lo-
cated near the town of Minturn, Colorado, that divert water into
Bolts Lake. In 1980, Congress established the Holy Cross Wilder-
ness in the White River and San Isabel National Forests and inad-
vertently failed to include Bolts Ditch among a list of existing
water facilities excluded from the designation, meaning the struc-
ture could not be rebuilt or repaired for more than three decades.
The inability to rehabilitate and rebuild the Bolts Ditch headgate
stymied any development in the area, as any new development
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