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S. Rept. 114-195 1 (2015-12-16)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxsep0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP Calendar No. 340 114TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session SENATE 114-195 ELKHORN RANCH AND WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST CONVEYANCE ACT OF 2015 DECEMBER 16, 2015.-Ordered to be printed Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 1554] The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was referred the Act (H.R. 1554) 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. 1554 is to require a land conveyance involv- ing 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 their title to the land had been called into question. Since that time, the property, commonly called Elkhorn Ranch has changed 59-010

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