[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3121 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3121

      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  duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land inventories, and for other 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

                             July 21, 2015

  Mr. Kind (for himself, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Price of North Carolina, Mr. 
   Amodei, and Mr. Grayson) 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  duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land inventories, and for other 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 2015''.

SEC. 2. CADASTRE OF FEDERAL LAND.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary shall develop and maintain a current 
and accurate multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property to support 
Federal land management activities, including, but not limited to: 
resource development and conservation, agricultural use, active forest 
management, 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 2014;
            (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 a plan for implementation of this 
        Act, including a cost estimate and the feasibility of the use 
        of revenue from any transactional activity authorized by law 
        that may be used to offset any costs of implementing this Act;
            (6) in consultation with the Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget, the Administrator of the General 
        Services Administration, and the Comptroller General of the 
        United States, conduct the assessment required by paragraphs 
        (1) through (5) of this subsection with regard to all cadastres 
        and inventories authorized, operated or maintained by all other 
        Executive agencies of the Federal Government; and
            (7) 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) integrate, or 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)(E) 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 current 
                geodetic network.
                    (B) A series of current, accurate large scale maps.
                    (C) An existing 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 
                existing data files, which may contain information 
                about the use, assets and infrastructure of each 
                parcel.
            (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.

SEC. 4. TRANSPARENCY AND PUBLIC ACCESS.

    The Secretary shall--
            (1) make the cadastre publically available on the Internet 
        in a graphically geo-enabled and searchable format;
            (2) ensure that the inventory referred to in section 2 
        includes the identification of all lands and parcels suitable 
        for disposal by Resource Management Plans conducted for 
        pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 
        (43 U.S.C. 1711 et seq.); and
            (3) in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and the 
        Secretary of Homeland Security, prevent the disclosure of any 
        parcel or parcels of land, and buildings or facilities thereon, 
        or information related thereto, if such disclosure would impair 
        or jeopardize the national security or homeland defense of the 
        United States.

SEC. 5. RIGHT OF ACTION.

    Nothing in this Act shall create any substantive or procedural 
right or benefit.

SEC. 6. CERTAIN NEW ACTIONS NOT REQUIRED.

    Nothing in this Act shall require or authorize any new surveying or 
mapping of Federal land, the evaluation of any parcel of land for 
potential management by non-Federal entities, the disposal of any 
Federal land, or any new appraisal or assessment of the value or 
cultural and archaeological resources on any parcel of Federal land.
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