[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5532 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5532

      To improve Federal land management, resource conservation, 
    environmental protection, and use of Federal real property, by 
   requiring the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose 
     cadastre of Federal real property and identifying inaccurate, 
  duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land inventories, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 5, 2008

 Mr. Kind (for himself and Mr. Cannon) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
      To improve Federal land management, resource conservation, 
    environmental protection, and use of Federal real property, by 
   requiring the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose 
     cadastre of Federal real property and identifying inaccurate, 
  duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land inventories, and for other 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 ``Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform 
Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. CADASTRE OF FEDERAL LAND.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall develop a multipurpose 
cadastre of Federal real property to assist with Federal land 
management, resource conservation, environmental protection, and use of 
real property.
    (b) Cost Sharing.--The Secretary may enter into cost sharing 
agreements with States to include any non-Federal lands in a State in 
the cadastre. The Federal share of any such cost agreement shall not 
exceed 50 percent of the total cost to a State for the development of 
the cadastre of non-Federal lands in the State.
    (c) Consolidation and Report.--Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report 
to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate on--
            (1) the existing real property inventories or any 
        components of any cadastre currently authorized by law or 
        conducted by the Department of the Interior, the statutory 
        authorization for such, and the amount expended by the Federal 
        Government for each such activity in fiscal year 2007;
            (2) the existing real property inventories or any 
        components of any cadastre currently authorized by law or 
        conducted by the Department of the Interior that will be 
        eliminated or consolidated into the multipurpose cadastre 
        authorized by this Act;
            (3) the existing real property inventories or any 
        components of a cadastre currently authorized by law or 
        conducted by the Department of the Interior that will not be 
        eliminated or consolidated into the multipurpose cadastre 
        authorized by this Act, together with a justification for not 
        terminating or consolidating such in the multipurpose cadastre 
        authorized by this Act;
            (4) the use of existing real property inventories or any 
        components of any cadastre currently conducted by any unit of 
        State or local government that can be used to identify federal 
        real property within such unit of government;
            (5) the cost savings that will be achieved by eliminating 
        or consolidating duplicative or unneeded real property 
        inventories or any components of a cadastre currently 
        authorized by law or conducted by the Department of the 
        Interior that will become part of the multipurpose cadastre 
        authorized by this Act; and
            (6) recommendations for any legislation necessary to 
        increase the cost savings and enhance the effectiveness and 
        efficiency of replacing, eliminating, or consolidating real 
        property inventories or any components of a cadastre currently 
        authorized by law or conducted by the Department of the 
        Interior.
    (d) Coordination.--
            (1) In general.--In carrying out this section, the 
        Secretary shall--
                    (A) participate, pursuant to section 216 of Public 
                Law 107-347, in the establishment of such standards and 
                common protocols as are necessary to assure the 
                interoperability of geospatial information pertaining 
                to the cadastre for all users of such information;
                    (B) coordinate with, seek assistance and 
                cooperation of, and provide liaison to the Federal 
                Geographic Data Committee pursuant to Office of 
                Management and Budget Circular A-16 and Executive Order 
                12906 for the implementation of and compliance with 
                such standards as may be applicable to the cadastre;
                    (C) make the cadastre interoperable with the 
                Federal Real Property Profile established pursuant to 
                Executive Order 13327;
                    (D) integrate with and leverage to the maximum 
                extent practicable current cadastre activities of units 
                of State and local government; and
                    (E) use contracts with the private sector, to the 
                maximum extent practicable, to provide such products 
                and services as are necessary to develop the cadastre.
            (2) Contracts considered surveying and mapping.--Contracts 
        entered into under paragraph (1)(C) shall be considered 
        ``surveying and mapping'' services as such term is used and as 
        such contracts are awarded in accordance with the selection 
        procedures in title IX of the Federal Property and 
        Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this Act, the following definitions apply:
            (1) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.
            (2) Cadastre.--The term ``cadastre'' means an inventory of 
        real property of the Federal Government developed through 
        collecting, storing, retrieving, or disseminating graphical or 
        digital data depicting natural or man-made physical features, 
        phenomena, or boundaries of the earth and any information 
        related thereto, including surveys, maps, charts, satellite and 
        airborne remote sensing data, images, and services, with 
        services performed by professionals such as surveyors, 
        photogrammetrists, hydrographers, geodesists, cartographers, 
        and other such services of an architectural or engineering 
        nature including the following data layers:
                    (A) A reference frame consisting of a geodetic 
                network.
                    (B) A series of current, accurate large scale maps.
                    (C) A cadastral boundary overlay delineating all 
                cadastral parcels.
                    (D) A system for indexing and identifying each 
                cadastral parcel.
                    (E) A series of land data files, each including the 
                parcel identifier, which can be used to retrieve 
                information and cross reference between and among other 
                data files, which contains information about the use, 
                value, assets and infrastructure of each parcel, and 
                shall also designate any parcels that the Secretary 
                determines can be better managed through ownership by a 
                non-Federal entity including but not limited to State 
                government, local government, Tribal government, 
                nonprofit organizations, or the private sector.
            (3) Real property.--The term ``real property'' means real 
        estate consisting of land, buildings, crops, forests, or other 
        resources still attached to or within the land or improvements 
        or fixtures permanently attached to the land or a structure on 
        it, including any interest, benefit, right, or privilege in 
        such property.
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