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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 87
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-69
ELKHORN RANCH AND WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST
CONVEYANCE ACT OF 2017
MAY 16, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 698]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (H.R. 698) to require a land conveyance involving
the Elkhorn Ranch and the White River National Forest in the
State of Colorado, and for other purposes, having considered the
same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of H.R. 698 is to require a land conveyance by the
Secretary of Agriculture involving the Elkhorn Ranch and the
White River National Forest in the State of Colorado.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Beginning in 1908, three families homesteaded near present-day
Rifle, Colorado, and for decades legally owned portions of the 148
acres identified in this bill. Shortly before the acreage was origi-
nally patented into private ownership, the General Land Office
placed the homesteads in Section 18 with east-west fence lines,
which conform to the present-day fence lines. In 1949, a new gov-
ernment survey was completed for the area that placed the bound-
ary line at an angle rather than on a true east-west line. This re-
survey led to the inclusion of 148 acres in the White River National
Forest rather than in private ownership. The landowners were
never contacted concerning the resurvey and were unaware that
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