[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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[H.R. 3909 Engrossed in House (EH)]


  2d Session

                               H. R. 3909

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                                 AN ACT

  To designate certain Federal lands in the State of Utah as the Gunn 
             McKay Nature Preserve, and for other purposes.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3909

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                                 AN ACT


 
  To designate certain Federal lands in the State of Utah as the Gunn 
             McKay Nature Preserve, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Gunn McKay Nature Preserve Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    For the purposes of this Act:
            (1) Preserve.--The term ``Preserve'' means the Gunn McKay 
        Nature Preserve as so designated by section 3(a).
            (2) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of Agriculture.

SEC. 3. NATURE PRESERVE.

    (a) Designation.--The approximately 15 acres of National Forest 
System land generally depicted on the map entitled ``Proposed Gunn 
McKay Nature Preserve'' and dated March 2002, are hereby designated as 
the ``Gunn McKay Nature Preserve''.
    (b) Management.--
            (1) Management plan.--Not later than 120 days after the 
        date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in 
        consultation with the City of Huntsville, Utah, and the Gunn 
        McKay Nature Preserve Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit 
        corporation, shall develop a management plan for the Preserve.
            (2) Cooperative agreement.--The Secretary is authorized to 
        enter into a cooperative agreement with the Gunn McKay Nature 
        Preserve Foundation, Inc. for the management of the Preserve.
    (c) Withdrawal.--Subject to valid existing rights, the Preserve is 
hereby withdrawn from all forms of location, entry, and patent under 
the public land laws, and the mining and mineral leasing laws of the 
United States, including geothermal.

            Passed the House of Representatives April 30, 2002.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.