S. 1341 · 110th Congress
Las Cienegas Enhancement and Saguaro National Park Boundary Adjustment Act
- Stage
- Reported from committee
- Sponsor
- Jon Kyl
- Introduced
- 2007-05-09
- Latest action
- 2008-04-10 · Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-292.
Summary
Las Cienegas Enhancement and Saguaro National Park Boundary Adjustment Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, if Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC offers to convey to the Secretary title to the Empirita-Simonson parcel of land and the Bloom parcel of land (the non-federal land), to accept the offer and simultaneously convey to Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC the Sahuarita parcel of land (the federal land).
Requires the values of the federal and non-federal lands exchanged to be equal, as determined by appraisals.
Requires Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC, to: (1) pay the costs of carrying out the exchange of such lands; (2) enter into an agreement with Pima County, Arizona, to convey to Pima County a certain well site; and (3) relinquish to Pima County any water rights to such well site held by Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC.
Requires: (1) the Empirita-Simonson parcel of non-federal land, upon acquisition by the Secretary, to become part of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area; and (2) the Bloom parcel of non-federal, upon acquisition by the Secretary, to become part of the Saguaro National Park.
Modifies the boundary of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area to exclude the 40-acre tract that is leased by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to the town of Elgin, Arizona, for a sanitary landfill.
Instructs the Secretary to provide to the Secretary of Agriculture a right-of-way through the non-federal land for motorized public road access to the boundary of the Coronado National Forest.