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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1520 

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of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property and identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land 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. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 16, 2009 

Mr. KIND (for himself and Mr. BISHOP of Utah) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 

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identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal 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. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Land Asset 

5 Inventory Reform Act of 2009’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. CADASTRE OF FEDERAL LAND. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall develop a 

3 multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property to assist 

4 with Federal land management, resource conservation, en5 vironmental protection, and use of real property. 

6 (b) COST-SHARING.—The Secretary may enter into 

7 cost-sharing agreements with States to include any non8 Federal lands in a State in the cadastre. The Federal 

9 share of any such cost agreement shall not exceed 50 per10 cent of the total cost to a State for the development of 

11 the cadastre of non-Federal lands in the State. 

12 (c) CONSOLIDATION AND REPORT.—Not later than 

13 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

14 Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Nat15 ural Resources of the House of Representatives and the 

16 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Sen17 ate on— 

18 (1) the existing real property inventories or any 

19 components of any cadastre currently authorized by 

20 law or conducted by the Department of the Interior, 

21 the statutory authorization for such, and the amount 

22 expended by the Federal Government for each such 

23 activity in fiscal year 2008; 

24 (2) the existing real property inventories or any 

25 components of any cadastre currently authorized by 

26 law or conducted by the Department of the Interior 


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1 that will be eliminated or consolidated into the mul2 tipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act; 

3 (3) the existing real property inventories or any 

4 components of a cadastre currently authorized by 

5 law or conducted by the Department of the Interior 

6 that will not be eliminated or consolidated into the 

7 multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act, to8 gether with a justification for not terminating or 

9 consolidating such in the multipurpose cadastre au10 thorized by this Act; 

11 (4) the use of existing real property inventories 

12 or any components of any cadastre currently con13 ducted by any unit of State or local government that 

14 can be used to identify Federal real property within 

15 such unit of government; 

16 (5) the cost-savings that will be achieved by 

17 eliminating or consolidating duplicative or unneeded 

18 real property inventories or any components of a ca19 dastre currently authorized by law or conducted by 

20 the Department of the Interior that will become part 

21 of the multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act; 

22 and 

23 (6) recommendations for any legislation nec24 essary to increase the cost-savings and enhance the 

25 effectiveness and efficiency of replacing, eliminating, 


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1 or consolidating real property inventories or any 

2 components of a cadastre currently authorized by 

3 law or conducted by the Department of the Interior. 

4 (d) COORDINATION.— 

5 (1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out this section, 

6 the Secretary shall— 

7 (A) participate, pursuant to section 216 of 

8 Public Law 107–347, in the establishment of 

9 such standards and common protocols as are 

10 necessary to assure the interoperability of 

11 geospatial information pertaining to the cadas12 tre for all users of such information; 

13 (B) coordinate with, seek assistance and 

14 cooperation of, and provide liaison to the Fed15 eral Geographic Data Committee pursuant to 

16 Office of Management and Budget Circular A– 

17 16 and Executive Order 12906 for the imple18 mentation of and compliance with such stand19 ards as may be applicable to the cadastre; 

20 (C) make the cadastre interoperable with 

21 the Federal Real Property Profile established 

22 pursuant to Executive Order 13327; 

23 (D) integrate with and leverage to the 

24 maximum extent practicable current cadastre 


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1 activities of units of State and local govern2 ment; and 

3 (E) use contracts with the private sector, 

4 to the maximum extent practicable, to provide 

5 such products and services as are necessary to 

6 develop the cadastre. 

7 (2) CONTRACTS CONSIDERED SURVEYING AND

8 MAPPING.—Contracts entered into under paragraph 

9 (1)(E) shall be considered ‘‘surveying and mapping’’ 

10 services as such term is used and as such contracts 

11 are awarded in accordance with the selection proce12 dures in title IX of the Federal Property and Ad13 ministrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 1101 

14 et seq.). 

15 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

16 As used in this Act, the following definitions apply: 

17 (1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

18 the Secretary of the Interior. 

19 (2) CADASTRE.—The term ‘‘cadastre’’ means 

20 an inventory of real property of the Federal Govern21 ment developed through collecting, storing, retriev22 ing, or disseminating graphical or digital data de23 picting natural or man-made physical features, phe24 nomena, or boundaries of the earth and any infor25 mation related thereto, including surveys, maps, 


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1 charts, satellite and airborne remote sensing data, 

2 images, and services, with services performed by pro3 fessionals such as surveyors, photogrammetrists, hy4 drographers, geodesists, cartographers, and other 

5 such services of an architectural or engineering na6 ture including the following data layers: 

7 (A) A reference frame consisting of a geo8 detic network. 

9 (B) A series of current, accurate large 

10 scale maps. 

11 (C) A cadastral boundary overlay delin12 eating all cadastral parcels. 

13 (D) A system for indexing and identifying 

14 each cadastral parcel. 

15 (E) A series of land data files, each includ16 ing the parcel identifier, which can be used to 

17 retrieve information and cross reference be18 tween and among other data files, which con19 tains information about the use, value, assets 

20 and infrastructure of each parcel, and shall also 

21 designate any parcels that the Secretary deter22 mines can be better managed through owner23 ship by a non-Federal entity including but not 

24 limited to State government, local government, 


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1 Tribal government, nonprofit organizations, or 

2 the private sector. 

3 (3) REAL PROPERTY.—The term ‘‘real prop4 erty’’ means real estate consisting of land, buildings, 

5 crops, forests, or other resources still attached to or 

6 within the land or improvements or fixtures perma7 nently attached to the land or a structure on it, in8 cluding any interest, benefit, right, or privilege in 

9 such property. 

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