[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2582 Engrossed in House (EH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2582

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                                 AN ACT


 
    To authorize the State of Utah to select certain lands that are 
available for disposal under the Pony Express Resource Management Plan 
 to be used for the support and benefit of State institutions, 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 ``Confirming State Land Grants for 
Education Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION.

    (a) In General.--Subject to valid existing rights, the State of 
Utah may select any lands in T6S and T7S, R1W, Salt Lake Base and 
Meridian, that are owned by the United States, under the administrative 
jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, and identified as 
available for disposal by land exchange in the Record of Decision for 
the Pony Express Resource Management Plan and Rangeland Program Summary 
for Utah County (January 1990), as amended by the Pony Express Plan 
Amendment (November 1997), in fulfillment of the land grants made in 
sections 6, 8, and 12 of the Act of July 16, 1894 (28 Stat. 107) as 
generally depicted on the map entitled ``Proposed Utah County Quantity 
Grants'' and dated June 27, 2017, to further the purposes of the State 
of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, without 
further land use planning action by the Bureau of Land Management.
    (b) Application.--The criteria listed in Decision 3 of the Lands 
Program of the resource management plan described in subsection (a) 
shall not apply to any land selected under subsection (a).
    (c) Effect on Limitation.--Nothing in this Act affects the 
limitation established under section 2815(d) of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (Public Law 106-65).

            Passed the House of Representatives October 2, 2017.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.
115th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 2582

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

    To authorize the State of Utah to select certain lands that are 
available for disposal under the Pony Express Resource Management Plan 
 to be used for the support and benefit of State institutions, and for 
                            other purposes.