[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2223 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2223

To amend the Act popularly known as the Recreation and Public Purposes 
 Act to authorize transfers of certain public lands or national forest 
 lands to local education agencies for use for elementary or secondary 
   schools, including public charter schools, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 23, 1997

 Mr. Hayworth introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                         Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Act popularly known as the Recreation and Public Purposes 
 Act to authorize transfers of certain public lands or national forest 
 lands to local education agencies for use for elementary or secondary 
   schools, including public charter schools, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Education Land Grant Act''.

SEC. 2. TRANSFERS OF PUBLIC LANDS OR NATIONAL FOREST LANDS FOR USE FOR 
              ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

    Section 1 of the Act entitled ``An Act to authorize acquisition or 
use of public lands by States, counties, or municipalities for 
recreational purposes'', approved June 14, 1926 (Chapter 578; 44 Stat. 
741; 43 U.S.C. 869), popularly known as the Recreation and Public 
Purposes Act, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), in the first sentence--
                    (A) by inserting ``or national forest lands'' after 
                ``public lands''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``including to a local education 
                agency for use for an elementary or secondary school, 
                including a public charter school,'' after ``public 
                purposes,'';
            (2) in subsection (a), in the second sentence, by striking 
        ``public lands'' and inserting ``lands'';
            (3) in subsection (c), by striking ``in any national 
        forest, national park, or national monument, or national 
        wildlife refuge,'' and inserting ``in the National Park System, 
        the National Wildlife Refuge System, the National Wilderness 
        Preservation System, the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
        System, the National Trails System, any Bureau of Land 
        Management area of critical environmental concern, or any 
        national recreation area,'' and
            (4) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Deadline for Consideration of Application for Use for 
School.--If the Secretary receives an application from a duly qualified 
applicant that is a local education agency seeking a conveyance of land 
under this Act for use for an elementary or secondary school, including 
a public charter school, the Secretary shall--
            ``(1) before the end of the 10-day period beginning on the 
        date of that receipt, provide notice of that receipt to the 
        applicant; and
            ``(2) before the end of the 60-day period beginning on the 
        date of that receipt--
                    ``(A) determine whether or not to convey land 
                pursuant to the application, and notify the applicant 
                of that determination; or
                    ``(B) report to the Congress and the applicant the 
                reasons that determination has not been made.''.
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