108 STAT. 674 PUBLIC LAW 103-253—MAY 19, 1994 Public Law 103-253 103d Congress An Act May 19, 1994 [H.R. 1134] Clear C reek County, Colorado, Public Lands Transfer Act of 1993. To provide for the transfer of certain public lands located in Clear Creek County, Colorado, to the Forest Service, the State of Colorado, and certain local governments in the State of Colorado, 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 "Clear Creek County, Colorado, Public Lands Transfer Act of 1993". SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF PUBLIC LANDS. The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the "Secretary") shall transfer in accordance with this Act the approximately 14,000 acres of public lands generally depicted on a map entitled "Clear Creek County, Colorado, Public Lands Transfer—Proposed", and dated May 1993, to the Secretary of Agriculture, the State of Colorado, and certain political subdivisions of the State of Colorado, as indicated in sections 3, 4, and 5. Conveyances made pursuant to this Act shall be made without conducting new surveys. SEC. 3. LAND TRANSFER TO FOREST SERVICE. (a) TRANSFER.— Subject to valid existing rights, administrative jurisdiction to the approximately 3,400 acres of the public lands described as "Part I Lands" on the map referred to in section 2 is hereby transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture. Such lands are added to and shall be administered as part of the Arapaho National Forest in accordance with the laws and regulations pertaining to the National Forest System and the Arapaho National Forest. (b) ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS. — (1) The boundaries of the Arapaho National Forest are hereby modified as shown on the map referred to in section 2. For the purpose of section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (78 Stat. 903, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 4601-9) the boundaries of the Arapaho National Forest as modified by this section shall be treated as if they were the boundaries of such forest on January 1, 1965. (2) Nothing in this section shall affect valid existing rights, or interests in existing land use authorizations, except that any such right or authorization shall be administered by the Forest Service in accordance with this section and other applicable laws. Reissuance of any such authorization shall be in accordance with laws applicable to the National Forest System and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture, except that the change in adminis-
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