[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3960 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3960

 To provide for an exchange of administrative jurisdiction between the 
   Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of Agriculture involving 
  certain Federal property administered as part of the Chattahoochee 
 National Forest, but permitted to the Secretary of the Army for Camp 
Frank D. Merrill, and certain Army Corps of Engineers property adjacent 
                to Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Georgia.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 29, 2014

    Mr. Collins of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the 
Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure and Armed Services, 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 provide for an exchange of administrative jurisdiction between the 
   Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of Agriculture involving 
  certain Federal property administered as part of the Chattahoochee 
 National Forest, but permitted to the Secretary of the Army for Camp 
Frank D. Merrill, and certain Army Corps of Engineers property adjacent 
                to Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Georgia.

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

SECTION 1. TRANSFERS OF ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION, CAMP FRANK D. 
              MERRILL AND LAKE LANIER, GEORGIA.

    (a) Transfers Required.--
            (1) Camp frank d. merrill.--Not later than December 31, 
        2014, the Secretary of Agriculture shall transfer to the 
        administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Army for 
        required Army force protection measures certain Federal land 
        administered as part of the Chattahoochee National Forest, but 
        permitted to the Secretary of the Army for Camp Frank D. 
        Merrill in Dahlonega, Georgia, consisting of approximately 
        282.304 acres identified in the permit numbered 0018-01.
            (2) Lake lanier property.--In exchange for the land 
        transferred under paragraph (1), the Secretary of the Army 
        (acting through the Chief of Engineers) shall transfer to the 
        administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture 
        certain Federal land administered by the Army Corps of 
        Engineers and consisting of approximately 10 acres adjacent to 
        Lake Lanier at 372 Dunlap Landing Road, Gainesville, Georgia.
    (b) Use of Transferred Land.--
            (1) Camp frank d. merrill.--Upon receipt of the land under 
        subsection (a)(1), the Secretary of the Army shall continue to 
        use the land for military purposes.
            (2) Lake lanier property.--Upon receipt of the land under 
        subsection (a)(2), the Secretary of Agriculture shall use the 
        land for administrative purposes.
    (c) Protection of the Etowah Darter and Holiday Darter.--Nothing in 
the transfer required by subsection (a)(1) shall affect the prior 
designation of lands within the Chattahoochee National Forest as 
critical habitat for the Etowah darter (Etheostoma etowahae) and the 
Holiday darter (Etheostoma brevirostrum).
    (d) Legal Description and Map.--
            (1) Preparation and publication.--The Secretary of the Army 
        and the Secretary of Agriculture shall publish in the Federal 
        Register a legal description and map of both parcels of land to 
        be transferred under subsection (a).
            (2) Force of law.--The legal description and map filed 
        under paragraph (1) for a parcel of land shall have the same 
        force and effect as if included in this Act, except that the 
        Secretaries may correct errors in the legal description and 
        map.
    (e) Reimbursements of Costs.--The transfers required by subsection 
(a) shall be made without reimbursement, except that the Secretary of 
the Army shall reimburse the Secretary of Agriculture for any costs 
incurred by the Secretary of Agriculture to assist in the preparation 
of the legal description and maps required by subsection (d).
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