[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 27, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S4656]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3272. Mr. BOOZMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3224 proposed by Mr. Roberts (for himself and Ms. 
Stabenow) to the bill H.R. 2, to provide for the reform and 
continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of 
Agriculture through fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle E of title XII, add the following:

     SEC. 125__. RELEASE OF INTEREST IN LAND, PINE TREE RESEARCH 
                   STATION, ARKANSAS.

       (a) Release of Interest.--
       (1) In general.--Subject to paragraph (2), after execution 
     of the agreement described in subsection (b), the Secretary 
     shall release the condition in the deed with respect to the 
     land described in subsection (c) that the land shall be used 
     for public purposes, and if at any time the land ceases to be 
     so used, the land conveyed shall immediately revert to and 
     become revested in the United States.
       (2) Condition.--The release under paragraph (1) shall be 
     subject to the condition that--
       (A) proceeds from the sale of any land described in 
     subsection (c) shall be reinvested by the Board of Trustees 
     of the University of Arkansas to benefit the public research 
     and extension programs of the University of Arkansas System 
     Division of Agriculture; and
       (B) if the proceeds are not used as described in 
     subparagraph (A), the proceeds from the sale of the land 
     described in subsection (c) shall be transferred to the 
     United States.
       (3) Application of bankhead-jones farm tenant act.--Section 
     32(c) of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 
     1011(c)) shall not apply to the release under paragraph (1).
       (b) Agreement.--The Secretary shall enter into an agreement 
     with the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas, 
     satisfactory to the Secretary of Agriculture, that requires 
     that--
       (1) the proceeds from a sale of any portion of the land 
     described in subsection (c) shall inure to the benefit of the 
     University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture for use 
     in the public research and extension programs of the 
     University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, 
     including facilities and operations for those programs; and
       (2) the proceeds of a disposition described in paragraph 
     (1) shall be--
       (A) deposited and held in an account open to inspection by 
     the Secretary; and
       (B) if withdrawn from the account, used for the purpose 
     described in paragraph (1).
       (c) Land Described.--The land referred to in subsections 
     (a) and (b) is the land conveyed, sold, and quitclaimed to 
     the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas by the 
     United States, through the Director of Lands of the Forest 
     Service in accordance with section 32(c) of the Bankhead-
     Jones Farm Tenant Act (7 U.S.C. 1011(c)) on February 2, 1978, 
     containing 11,849.90 acres from 23 different sections, with 
     the deed recorded in the St. Francis County records in book 
     376, page 376 by the St. Francis County Circuit Clerk, and 
     generally described as: ``all those certain tracts, or 
     parcels of land embraced within the Forrest City (Pine Tree) 
     Land Utilization Project, AK-LU-4, lying and being in the 
     County of St. Francis, State of Arkansas, 5th Principal 
     Meridian''.
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