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H. Rept. 119-190 1 (2025-07-10)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahms0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 119TH CONGRESS 1st Session j HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT 119-190 BOLTS DITCH ACT JULY 10, 2025.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H.R. 1729] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 1729) to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for additional entities to be eligible to complete the maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness, Colo- rado, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with- out amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE LEGISLATION The purpose of H.R. 1729 is to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to allow for addi- tional entities to be eligible to complete the maintenance work on Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch Headgate within the Holy Cross Wilderness, Colorado. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION Bolts Ditch and the Bolts Ditch headgate are water facilities lo- cated near the Town of Minturn, Colorado, that divert water into Bolts Lake.1 In 1980, Congress established the Holy Cross Wilder- ness in the White River and San Isabel National Forests and inad- vertently failed to include Bolts Ditch among a list of existing water facilities excluded from the designation, meaning the struc- 'Vail Daily, Federal Legislation authorizes repairs on Bolts Ditch above Minturn, https:// www.vaildaily.com/news/federal-legislation-authorizes-repairs-on-bolts-ditch-above-minturn/. 59-006 AUTI-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP