State parks and cultural resources-South Pass City.

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ORIGINAL SENATE

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NO.
0005

ENROLLED ACT NO. 13, SENATE

SIXTIETH LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF
WYOMING
2009 GENERAL SESSION

AN ACT relating to
state parks and cultural resources; providing for an increase in size of
Old South Pass City Historical P
reserve; providing for acceptance of a land transfer; providing an appropriation; providing for a report;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S. 36
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8
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501(b)
(intro) and (i)
is amended to read:

36
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8
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501.

Powers generally.

(b)

Upon approval by the governor, the department of state parks and cultural resources may purchase in the name of the state of Wyoming the following real property, unless the Carissa gold mine has created unacceptable economical environmental impacts as shown by the department of environmental quality investigation and determined by the governor, in Fremont county containing approximately
216.46

312.41
acres which are hereby declared to be part of the Old South Pass Historical Preserve-Wyoming:

(i)

In township 29 north, range 100 west, 6th p.m., SE1/4 SE1/4 NE1/4, NE1/4 NE1/4 SE1/4 of section 20;
lots 6, 7, 9, 16, 19 and 24 of section 20;
W1/2 SW1/4 NW1/4 of section 21; E1/2 SW1/4 NW1/4 of section 21; and W1/4 SE1/4 NW1/4 of section 21.

Section 2.

(a)

The department of environmental quality is authorized to submit a grant application to the United States office of surface mining for distribution of a portion of Wyoming's share of abandoned mine land funds from the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act Amendments of 2006, Section 411(h)(i), pursuant to 2007 H.R. 6111, for the period ending June 30, 2010, for the following project:

(i)

Forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000.00) for the remediation costs associated with the property transferred to the state of Wyoming pursuant to section 1 of this act.

(
b
)

Notwithstanding W.S. 35
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11
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1210, grant funds received for the

project authorized pursuant to subsection (a) of this section may, but are

not required to be, deposited into the state abandoned mine land funds

reserve account pursuant to W.S. 35
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11
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1210.

All funds received from the

authorized grants are appropriated to the department of environmental

quality in the amounts specified in subsection (a) of this section to be

expended for the purposes set forth.

(c)

The legislature accepts the transfer of lands located at township 29 north, range 100 west, 6
th
p.m.,
lots 6, 7, 9, 16, 19 and 24 of section 20
from the bureau of land management to the department of state parks and cultural resources upon the completion of all acts necessary to comply with
the requirements of a land patent transfer from the bureau of land management pursuant to the federal
R
ecreational and Public Purposes Act
.

(
d
)

On or before October 1, 2011, the
department of
state parks and cultural resources shall report to the joint travel, recreation, wildlife and cultural resources interim committee on the status of the land patent transfer authorized under subsection (
c
) of this section.

Section
3
.

This act is effective July 1, 2009.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the Senate.

Chief Clerk

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