Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
BY MANITOU AND PIKES PEAK RAILWAY COMPANY, COLORADO, OVER NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LAND.
(a) Authority To Accept.--Notwithstanding the Act of March 8, 1922 (43 U.S.C. 912), the Secretary of Agriculture may accept the quitclaim, disclaimer, and relinquishment by the Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway Company, successor in interest to the Mt. Manitou Park and Incline Railway Company, of a right of way, more fully described in subsection (b), within and adjacent to Pike National Forest that was originally granted by the Secretary to the Mt. Manitou Park and Incline Railway Company pursuant to the authority provided by the Act of March 3, 1875 (Chapter 152; 18 Stat. 482) for the construction of a railroad and station in El Paso County, Colorado. (b) Right of Way Described.--The railroad right of way referred to in subsection (a) is located in the S\1/2\ of section 6, Township 14 South, Range 67 West, and N\1/2\SE \1/4\ of section 1, Township 14 South, Range 68 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, and is depicted in a tracing filed in the United States Land Office at Pueblo, Colorado, file 019416, on December 24, 1914. (c) Limited Applicability.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to affect the right, title, and interest of the Manitou
and Pikes Peak Railway Company in land held in fee title by the Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway Company.
Approved January 10, 2013.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 4073: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 112-599 (Comm. on Natural Resources). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 158 (2012): July 31, Aug. 1, considered and passed House. Dec. 30, considered and passed Senate.
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