[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4996 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4996

To provide for an exchange of certain private property in Colorado and 
                   certain Federal property in Utah.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2002

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for an exchange of certain private property in Colorado and 
                   certain Federal property in Utah.

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

SECTION 1. PROPERTY EXCHANGE.

    (a) Authority.--If the owners of the land described in section 2(a) 
convey to the United States all right, title, and interest in and to 
that land, the Secretary of the Interior shall, immediately without 
limitation, convey to those owners all right, title, and interest of 
the United States in and to the land described in section 2(b), subject 
to section 3.
    (b) Exchange of Equal Value.--The land authorized to be exchanged 
under subsection (a) shall be deemed to be of equal value for the 
purposes of any Federal law or regulation governing exchanges involving 
Federal land.
    (c) Relationship to Other Requirements.--Any conveyance of land by 
the United States under this Act may be made without regard to any 
provision of Federal law that otherwise would require a resource 
assessment with respect to the conveyance.

SEC. 2. PROPERTY DESCRIBED.

    (a) Private Land To Be Conveyed.--The land authorized to be 
conveyed to the United States under section 1 is the approximately 
2,048 acres of land located in Colorado and generally depicted on the 
map entitled ``____'', dated ____.
    (b) United States Land To Be Conveyed.--The Federal land authorized 
to be conveyed under section 1 is the approximately 3,400 acres of land 
located in Utah and generally depicted on the map entitled ``____'', 
dated ____.

SEC. 3. CONDITION OF CONVEYANCE BY UNITED STATES.

    As a condition of any conveyance of an interest in land by the 
United States under this section, the Secretary shall require that--
            (1) the person to which the interest is conveyed shall 
        convey to the State of Utah, by not later than 2 years after 
        the date of the conveyance by the United States, a conservation 
        easement to protect cultural resources and natural resources 
        located on the land, that is required to be administered by the 
        State of Utah Department of Natural Resources Division of 
        Wildlife Resources (or any successor to the conservation 
        functions of that division); and
            (2) if the person fails to convey a conservation easement 
        in accordance with paragraph (1)--
                    (A) all right, title, and interest conveyed by the 
                United States under this Act shall revert to the United 
                States; and
                    (B) all right, title, and interest conveyed to the 
                United States under this Act shall revert to the person 
                that made such conveyance to the United States.

SEC. 4. JURISDICTION OF LAND CONVEYED TO THE UNITED STATES.

    Land conveyed to the United States pursuant to this Act shall be 
under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management.
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