[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5141 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5141

  To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release the reversionary 
interest of the United States in certain land located in Sumter County, 
 South Carolina, to facilitate a land exchange involving that land and 
   to provide for an exchange of the mineral interests of the United 
                          States in that land.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 7, 2000

  Mr. Spratt introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
     Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on 
 Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release the reversionary 
interest of the United States in certain land located in Sumter County, 
 South Carolina, to facilitate a land exchange involving that land and 
   to provide for an exchange of the mineral interests of the United 
                          States in that land.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. RELEASE OF REVERSIONARY INTEREST AND CONVEYANCE OF MINERAL 
              RIGHTS IN FORMER FEDERAL LAND IN SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH 
              CAROLINA.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) The hiking trail known as the Palmetto Trail traverses 
        the Manchester State Forest in Sumter County, South Carolina, 
        which is owned by the South Carolina State Commission of 
        Forestry on behalf of the State of South Carolina.
            (2) The Commission seeks to widen the Palmetto Trail by 
        acquiring a corridor of land along the northeastern border of 
        the trail from the Anne Marie Carton Boardman Trust in exchange 
        for a tract of former Federal land now owned by the Commission.
            (3) At the time of the conveyance of the former Federal 
        land to the Commission in 1955, the United States retained a 
        reversionary interest in the land, which now prevents the land 
        exchange from being completed.
    (b) Release of Reversionary Interest.--
            (1) Release required.--In the case of the tract of land 
        identified as Tract 3 on the map numbered 161-DI and further 
        described in paragraph (2), the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
        release the reversionary interest of the United States in the 
        land that--
                    (A) requires that the land be used for public 
                purposes; and
                    (B) is contained in the deed conveying the land 
                from the United States to the South Carolina State 
                Commission of Forestry, dated June 28, 1955, and 
                recorded in Deed Drawer No. 6 of the Clerk of Court for 
                Sumter County, South Carolina.
            (2) Map of tract 3.--Tract 3 is generally depicted on the 
        map numbered 161-DI, entitled ``Boundary Survey for South 
        Carolina Forestry Commission'', dated August 1998, and filed, 
        together with a legal description of the tract, with the South 
        Carolina State Commission of Forestry.
            (3) Consideration.--As consideration for the release of the 
        revisionary interest under paragraph (1), the State of South 
        Carolina shall transfer to the United States a vested future 
        interest, similar to the restriction described in paragraph 
        (1)(A), in the tract of land identified as Parcel G on the map 
        numbered 225-HI, entitled ``South Carolina Forestry Commission 
        Boardman Land Exchange'', dated June 9, 1999, and filed, 
        together with a legal description of the tract, with the South 
        Carolina State Commission of Forestry.
    (c) Exchange of Mineral Rights.--
            (1) Exchange required.--Subject to any valid existing 
        rights of third parties, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
        convey to the South Carolina State Commission of Forestry on 
        behalf of the State of South Carolina all of the undivided 
        mineral rights of the United States in the Tract 3 identified 
        in subsection (b)(1) in exchange for mineral rights of equal 
        value held by the State of South Carolina in the Parcel G 
        identified in subsection (b)(3) as well as in Parcels E and F 
        owned by the State and also depicted on the map referred to in 
        subsection (b)(3).
            (2) Determination of mineral character.--Not later than 90 
        days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
        of the Interior shall determine--
                    (A) the mineral character of Tract 3 and Parcels E, 
                F, and G; and
                    (B) the fair market value of the mineral interests.
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