[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4715 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4715

  To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands 
         administered by the Secretary, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 30, 1994

Mr. Herger introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to 
          the Committees on Agriculture and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain lands 
         administered by the Secretary, 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. DEFINITIONS.

    Paragraph (3) of the first section of Public Law 97-465 (16 U.S.C. 
521c) is amended to read as follows:
            ``(3) the term `Secretary' means the Secretary of 
        Agriculture with respect to the lands administered by the 
        Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior with 
        respect to lands administered by the Secretary of the 
        Interior.''.

SEC. 2. CONVEYANCE AUTHORIZATION.

    Section 2 of Public Law 97-465 (16 U.S.C. 521d) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by striking ``deed,'' and inserting ``deed or 
                patent, as appropriate,''; and
                    (B) by striking ``National Forest System'' and 
                inserting ``those''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2)--
                    (A) by striking ``National Forest System'' and 
                inserting ``applicable land management system'';
                    (B) by striking ``System.'' and inserting 
                ``system.''; and
                    (C) by striking ``The preceding sentence'' and all 
                that follows through ``National Forest System.''.

SEC. 3. ELIGIBLE LANDS.

    Section 3 of Public Law 97-465 (16 U.S.C. 521e) is amended--
            (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by striking ``The National Forest System'' and 
                inserting ``Those''; and
                    (B) by striking ``$150,000'' and inserting 
                ``$250,000''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``parcels of ten acres or 
        less'' and inserting ``individual parcels of forty acres or 
        less, or tracts of parcels of any size involving adjacent 
        parcels where the nature of encroachment is similar,''.

SEC. 4. REGULATIONS.

    Section 6 of Public Law 97-465 (16 U.S.C. 521h) is amended by 
striking ``Secretary shall'' and inserting ``Secretaries shall 
jointly''.

SEC. 5. UNAFFECTED LANDS.

    Section 7 of Public Law 97-465 (16 U.S.C. 521i) is amended to read 
as follows:
    ``Sec.  7. Nothing in this Act shall authorize conveyance of 
Federal lands within the National Wilderness Preservation System, 
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, National Trails System, 
National Monuments, or National Recreation Areas, except--
            ``(1) to authorize conveyance of otherwise qualified tracts 
        in these specially designated areas by cash sales only, at fair 
        market value, with the proceeds to be accumulated into a 
        restricted fund for purchase of additional private lands within 
        or adjacent to such special areas, or
            ``(2) to authorize boundary adjustments within these 
        specially designated areas in order to resolve encroachments 
        which existed prior to the time of designation.''.
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