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                                                 Union Calendar No. 478
115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5133

                          [Report No. 115-625]

 To reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2018

Mr. Bishop of Utah introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                   the Committee on Natural Resources

                             April 9, 2018

           Additional sponsors: Mr. Tipton and Mr. Gianforte

                             April 9, 2018

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on March 
                                1, 2018]


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                                 A BILL


 
 To reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, 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 Transaction 
Facilitation Act Reauthorization of 2018''.

SEC. 2. FEDERAL LAND TRANSACTION FACILITATION ACT.

    The Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act is amended--
            (1) in section 203(1) (43 U.S.C. 2302(1)), by striking 
        ``cultural, or'' and inserting ``cultural, recreational access 
        and use, or other'';
            (2) in section 203(2) (43 U.S.C. 2302(2))--
                    (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by 
                striking ``on the date of enactment of this Act was'' 
                and inserting ``is'';
                    (B) by amending subparagraph (A) to read as 
                follows:
                    ``(A) a national monument, area of critical 
                environmental concern, national conservation area, 
                national riparian conservation area, national 
                recreation area, national scenic area, research natural 
                area, national outstanding natural area, priority 
                species and habitats designated in a land use plan in 
                accordance with subpart E (entitled ``Fish and 
                Wildlife'') of part I of Appendix C of Bureau of Land 
                Management Land Use Planning Handbook H-1601-1 (Rel 1-
                1693), a special recreation management area, or a 
                national natural landmark managed by the Bureau of Land 
                Management;''; and
                    (C) by amending subparagraph (D) to read as 
                follows:
                    ``(D) a National Forest or National Grassland in 
                the National Forest System; or'';
            (3) in section 203 (43 U.S.C. 2302), by inserting the 
        following paragraph after section 203(2) (and redesignating the 
        following paragraphs accordingly):
            ``(3) Inaccessible lands that are open to public hunting, 
        fishing, recreational shooting, or other recreational 
        purposes.--The term `inaccessible lands that are open to public 
        hunting, fishing, recreational shooting, or other recreational 
        purposes' means public lands in Alaska and the eleven 
        contiguous Western States (as defined in section 103 of the 
        Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
        1702)) consisting of at least 640 contiguous acres on which the 
        public is allowed under Federal or State law to hunt, fish, 
        target shoot or use the land for other recreational purposes 
        but--
                    ``(A) to which there is no public access or egress; 
                or
                    ``(B) to which public access or egress to the land 
                is significantly restricted, as determined by the 
                Secretary.''; and
            (4) in section 205 (43 U.S.C. 2304)--
                    (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``section 206'' 
                and all that follows through the period and inserting 
                the following: ``section 206--
            ``(1) to complete appraisals and satisfy other legal 
        requirements for the sale or exchange of public land identified 
        for disposal under approved land use plans under section 202 of 
        the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
        1712);
            ``(2) not later than 180 days after the date of the 
        enactment of the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act 
        Reauthorization of 2018, to establish and make available to the 
        public, on the website of the Department of the Interior, a 
        database containing a comprehensive list of all the land 
        referred to in paragraph (1); and
            ``(3) to maintain the database referred to in paragraph 
        (2).''; and
                    (B) by striking subsection (d);
            (5) in section 206(c)(2) (43 U.S.C. 2305(c)(2))--
                    (A) in subparagraph(A)(i), by striking 
                ``inholdings; and'' and inserting ``inholdings;'';
                    (B) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking 
                ``exceptional resources.'' and inserting ``exceptional 
                resources; or'';
                    (C) in subparagraph (A), by inserting after clause 
                (ii), ``(iii) adjacent to inaccessible lands open to 
                public hunting, fishing, recreational shooting, or 
                other recreational purposes.''; and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) Any funds made available under subparagraph 
                (D) that are not obligated or expended by the end of 
                the fourth full fiscal year after the date of the sale 
                or exchange of land that generated the funds may be 
                expended in any State.'';
            (6) in section 206(c)(3) (43 U.S.C. 2305(c)(3))--
                    (A) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the 
                following:
                    ``(B) the extent to which the acquisition of the 
                land or interest therein will increase the public 
                availability of resources for, and facilitate public 
                access to, hunting, fishing, and other recreational 
                activities;''; and
                    (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) and (C) as 
                subparagraphs (C) and (D);
            (7) by striking section 206(f) (43 U.S.C. 2305(f)); and
            (8) in section 207(b) (43 U.S.C. 2306(b))--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) by striking ``96-568'' and inserting 
                        ``96-586''; and
                            (ii) by striking ``; or'' and inserting a 
                        semicolon;
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) by inserting ``Public Law 105-263;'' 
                        before ``112 Stat.''; and
                            (ii) by striking the period at the end and 
                        inserting a semicolon; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(3) the White Pine County Conservation, Recreation, and 
        Development Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-432; 120 Stat. 3028);
            ``(4) the Lincoln County Conservation, Recreation, and 
        Development Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-424; 118 Stat. 2403);
            ``(5) subtitle F of title I of the Omnibus Public Land 
        Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; Public Law 111-
        11);
            ``(6) subtitle O of title I of the Omnibus Public Land 
        Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 460www note, 1132 note; 
        Public Law 111-11);
            ``(7) section 2601 of the Omnibus Public Land Management 
        Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-11; 123 Stat. 1108); or
            ``(8) section 2606 of the Omnibus Public Land Management 
        Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-11; 123 Stat. 1121).''.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 478

115th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 5133

                          [Report No. 115-625]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, and for 
                            other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             April 9, 2018

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed