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1 tion, irrigation, flood control, and generation of hydroelec

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3 (c) The Secretary shall grant easements and rights4 of-way on a nondiscriminatory basis upon, over, under,

across, or along any components of the recreation and con6 servation areas unless he finds that the route of such ease7 ments and rights-of-way would have significant adverse 8 effects on the administration of the recreation and conserva

9 tion areas.

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SEC. 10. The Secretary shall issue such regulations as 11 he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

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SEC. 11. There are authorized to be appropriated such

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92D CONGRESS 1ST SESSION

H. R. 8214

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

MAY 10, 1971

Mr. MCKAY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

A BILL

To establish the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in the States of Arizona and Utah.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 3 That in order to provide for public outdoor recreation use 4 and enjoyment of Lake Powell and lands adjacent thereto in 5 the States of Arizona and Utah and to preserve scenic, scien6 tific, and historic features contributing to public enjoyment 7 of the area, there is established the Glen Canyon National 8 Recreation Area to comprise the area generally depicted on 9 the drawing entitled "Boundary Map, Glen Canyon National 10 Recreation Area," numbered Arizona-Utah-GLC 91001, and 11 dated May 1970, which is on file and available for public

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1 inspection in the office of the National Park Service, Depart2 ment of the Interior. When the Secretary of the Interior 3 finds that two tracts of land adjacent to the boundary of the 4 national recreation area at Sit Down Bench and Warm 5 Creek, comprising seven thousand eight hundred an thirty6 six acres and four thousand nine hundred and forty-six

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acres, respectively, are not needed or used for powersite 8 development or related facilities, he may add the lands 9 to the area by publication of a notice in the Federal 10 Register, and from time to time he may make other bound11 ary revisions in the same manner, but the total acreage of 12 the national recreation area may not exceed one million 13 one hundred and sixty-seven thousand four hundred and 14 twenty acres.

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SEC. 2. (a) Within the boundaries of the national rec16 reation area, the Secretary of the Interior may acquire land 17 and interests in land by donation, purchase with donated or 18 appropriated funds, or by exchange, except that land owned 19 by a State, political subdivision thereof, or an Indian tribe 20 may be acquired only with the concurrence of the owner. (b) When acquiring property by exchange, the Sec22 retary may accept title to any non-Federal property within 23 the boundaries of the national recreation area, and in ex24 change therefor he may convey to the grantor of such prop25 erty any federally owned property under his jurisdiction.

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1 which he classifies as suitable for exchange or other disposal 2 and which is located in the same State as the non-Federal 3 property to be acquired. The values of the properties so ex4 changed either shall be approximately equal, or if they are 5 not approximately equal the values shall be equalized by the 6 payment of cash to the grantor or to the Secretary as the 7 circumstances require.

8 (c) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the 9 mineral rights reserved to the Navajo Indian Tribe under 10 section 2 of the Act of September 2, 1958 (72 Stat. 1686), 11 or the rights reserved to the Navajo Indian Tribal Council 12 in said section 2 with respect to the use of the lands there 13 described under the heading "PARCEL B”.

14 SEC. 3. (a) The lands within the national recreation. 15 area, subject to valid existing rights, are withdrawn from 16 location, entry, and patent under the United States mining 17 laws. Under such regulations as he deems appropriate, the 18 Secretary of the Interior shall permit the removal of the non19 leasable minerals from lands or interests in lands within the 20 national recreation area in the manner prescribed by section 21 10 of the Act of August 4, 1939, as amended (53 Stat. 22 1196; 43 U.S.C. 387 et seq.), and he shall permit the re23 moval of leasable minerals from lands or interests in lands 24 within the recreation area in accordance with the Mineral 25 Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended (30 U.S.C.

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1 181 et seq.), or the Acquired Lands Mineral Leasing Act of 2 August 7, 1947 (30 U.S.C. 351 et seq.), if he finds that 3 such disposition would not have significant adverse effects on the Glen Canyon project or on the administration of the

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(b) All receipts derived from permits and leases issued

on lands in the national recreation area under the Mineral 8 Leasing Act of February 25, 1920, as amended, or the Act 9 of August 7, 1947, shall be disposed of as provided in the 10 applicable Act; and receipts from the disposition of non11 leasable minerals within the recreation area shall be disposed 12 of in the same manner as moneys received from the sale of 13 public lands.

14 SEC. 4. The Secretary of the Interior shall administer, 15 protect, and develop the Glen Canyon National Recreation 16 Area in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Au17 gust 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; 16 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), as 18 amended and supplemented, and with any other statutory 19 authority available to him for the conservation and man20 agement of natural resources to the extent he finds such 21 authority will further the purposes of this Act: Provided, 22 however, That nothing in this Act shall affect or interfere 23 with the authority of the Secretary of the Interior granted 24 by Public Law 485, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session, to operate Glen Canyon Dam and Reservoir in accordance.

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