[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1153 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1153

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  land and identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal 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


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 7, 2011

  Mr. Hatch (for himself and Mr. Lee) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
      To improve Federal land management, resource conservation, 
  environmental protection, and use of Federal land by requiring the 
Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of Federal 
  land and identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal 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 2011''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Cadastre.--
                    (A) In general.--The term ``cadastre'' means--
                            (i) an inventory of Federal land developed 
                        through collecting, storing, retrieving, or 
                        disseminating graphical or digital data 
                        depicting natural or manmade physical features, 
                        phenomena, or boundaries of the earth; and
                            (ii) any information relating to the 
                        features, phenomena, or boundaries, 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.
                    (B) Inclusions.--The term ``cadastre'' includes the 
                following data layers:
                            (i) A reference frame consisting of a 
                        geodetic network.
                            (ii) A series of current, accurate large 
                        scale maps.
                            (iii) A cadastral boundary overlay 
                        delineating all cadastral parcels.
                            (iv) A system for indexing and identifying 
                        each cadastral parcel.
                            (v) A series of land data files that--
                                    (I) include the parcel identifier, 
                                which can be used to retrieve 
                                information and cross reference between 
                                and among other data files;
                                    (II) contains information about the 
                                use, value, assets, and infrastructure 
                                of each parcel; and
                                    (III) designate any parcels that 
                                the Secretary determines can be better 
                                managed through ownership by a non-
                                Federal entity, including State 
                                government, units of local government, 
                                Tribal government, nonprofit 
                                organizations, or the private sector.
            (2) Federal land.--The term ``Federal land'' means land 
        under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, including--
                    (A) buildings, crops, forests, or other resources 
                attached to, or within, the land;
                    (B) improvements or fixtures permanently attached 
                to the land or a structure on the land; and
                    (C) any interest, benefit, right, or privilege in 
                and to the land.
            (3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.

SEC. 3. CADASTRE OF FEDERAL LAND.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall develop a multipurpose 
cadastre of Federal land to assist with--
            (1) Federal land management;
            (2) resource conservation;
            (3) environmental protection; and
            (4) the use of Federal land.
    (b) Cost-Sharing Agreements.--
            (1) In general.--The Secretary may enter into a cost-
        sharing agreement with a State to include in the cadastre any 
        non-Federal land in the State.
            (2) Federal share.--The Federal share of any cost-sharing 
        agreement entered into under paragraph (1) shall not exceed 50 
        percent of the total cost to the State for including in the 
        cadastre the non-Federal land in the State.
    (c) Consolidation and Report.--Not later than 180 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the 
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report that 
describes--
            (1)(A) any existing land inventories or components of a 
        cadastre authorized by Federal law or conducted by the 
        Department of the Interior;
            (B) the statutory authorization for the inventories or 
        components described in subparagraph (A); and
            (C) the amount expended by the Federal Government for 
        fiscal year 2010 with respect to the inventories or components 
        described in subparagraph (A);
            (2) any inventories or components described in paragraph 
        (1)(A) that would be eliminated or consolidated into the 
        cadastre authorized under this Act;
            (3)(A) any inventories or components described in paragraph 
        (1)(A) that would not be eliminated or consolidated into the 
        multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act;
            (B) the reason for not terminating or consolidating those 
        inventories or components into the multipurpose cadastre;
            (4) the use of existing land inventories or any components 
        of a cadastre being conducted by any State or unit of local 
        government that can be used to identify Federal land within the 
        State or unit of local government;
            (5) the cost-savings that would be achieved by eliminating 
        or consolidating duplicative or unneeded land inventories or 
        components described in paragraph (1)(A) that would 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 
        inventories or components described in paragraph (1)(A).
    (d) Coordination.--
            (1) In general.--In carrying out this section, the 
        Secretary shall--
                    (A) in accordance with section 216 of the E-
                Government Act of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501 note; Public Law 
                107-347), participate in the establishment of any 
                standards and common protocols as are necessary to 
                ensure the interoperability of geospatial information 
                pertaining to the cadastre for all users of the 
                information;
                    (B) coordinate with, seek the assistance and 
                cooperation of, and provide liaisons to, the Federal 
                Geographic Data Committee in accordance with Office of 
                Management and Budget Circular A-16 and Executive Order 
                12906 (43 U.S.C. 1457 note; relating to coordinating 
                geographic data acquisition and access: the national 
                spatial data infrastructure) for the implementation of, 
                and compliance with, any standards that may be 
                applicable to the cadastre;
                    (C) make the cadastre interoperable with the 
                Federal Real Property Profile established under 
                Executive Order 13327 (40 U.S.C. 121 note; relating to 
                Federal real property asset management);
                    (D) integrate with, and leverage, to the maximum 
                extent practicable, cadastre activities of States and 
                units of local government; and
                    (E) use contracts with the private sector, to the 
                maximum extent practicable, to provide any products and 
                services that are necessary to develop the cadastre.
            (2) Contracts considered surveying and mapping.--Any 
        contract entered into under paragraph (1)(E) shall be 
        considered to be surveying and mapping services, as those terms 
        are used in subtitle I of title 40, United States Code.
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