Pete Domenici: “I am very pleased at the Senate's passage of S. 2402, the Old Jicarilla Administrative Site Conveyance Act of 1998. This…”

“I am very pleased at the Senate's passage of S. 2402, the Old Jicarilla Administrative Site Conveyance Act of 1998. This legislation allows for transfer by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior real property and improvements at an abandoned and surplus administrative site of the Carson National Forest to San Juan College. The site is known as the old Jicarilla Ranger District Station, near the village of Gobernador, New Mexico. The Jicarilla Station will continue to be used for public purposes, including educational and recreational purposes of the college. The Forest Service determined that these ten acres are of no further use to them, since the Jicarilla District Ranger moved into a new administrative facility in the town of Bloomfield, New Mexico. The facility has had no occupants for several years, and the Forest Service recently testified that the improvements on the site are surplus, and endorsed passage of this bill to provide long-term benefits for the people of San Juan County and the students and faculty of San Juan College. Clearly, this legislation deserves prompt approval in the House and signature by the President because it is noncontroversial and the land can readily be put to good use for San Juan College and the area residents. We also need to put this property in the hands of the college so it can protect the area from further deterioration and fire.”