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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. 

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. 


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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 Trans5 action Facilitation Act Reauthorization of 2018’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FEDERAL LAND TRANSACTION FACILITATION ACT. 

7 The Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act is 

8 amended— 

9 (1) in section 203(1) (43 U.S.C. 2302(1)), by 

10 striking ‘‘cultural, or’’ and inserting ‘‘cultural, rec11 reational access and use, or other’’; 

12 (2) in section 203(2) (43 U.S.C. 2302(2))— 

13 (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 

14 (A), by striking ‘‘on the date of enactment of this 

15 Act was’’ and inserting ‘‘is’’; 

16 (B) by amending subparagraph (A) to read 

17 as follows: 

18 ‘‘(A) a national monument, area of critical 

19 environmental concern, national conservation 

20 area, national riparian conservation area, na21 tional recreation area, national scenic area, re22 search natural area, national outstanding nat23 ural area, priority species and habitats des24 ignated in a land use plan in accordance with 

25 subpart E (entitled ‘‘Fish and Wildlife’’) of part 


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1 I of Appendix C of Bureau of Land Management 

2 Land Use Planning Handbook H-1601-1 (Rel 1- 

3 1693), a special recreation management area, or 

4 a national natural landmark managed by the 

5 Bureau of Land Management;’’; and 

6 (C) by amending subparagraph (D) to read 

7 as follows: 

8 ‘‘(D) a National Forest or National Grass9 land in the National Forest System; or’’; 

10 (3) in section 203 (43 U.S.C. 2302), by inserting 

11 the following paragraph after section 203(2) (and re12 designating the following paragraphs accordingly): 

13 ‘‘(3) INACCESSIBLE LANDS THAT ARE OPEN TO

14 PUBLIC HUNTING, FISHING, RECREATIONAL SHOOT15 ING, OR OTHER RECREATIONAL PURPOSES.—The term 

16 ‘inaccessible lands that are open to public hunting, 

17 fishing, recreational shooting, or other recreational 

18 purposes’ means public lands in Alaska and the elev19 en contiguous Western States (as defined in section 

20 103 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 

21 of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702)) consisting of at least 640 

22 contiguous acres on which the public is allowed under 

23 Federal or State law to hunt, fish, target shoot or use 

24 the land for other recreational purposes but— 


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1 ‘‘(A) to which there is no public access or 

2 egress; or 

3 ‘‘(B) to which public access or egress to the 

4 land is significantly restricted, as determined by 

5 the Secretary.’’; and 

6 (4) in section 205 (43 U.S.C. 2304)— 

7 (A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘section 

8 206’’ and all that follows through the period and 

9 inserting the following: ‘‘section 206— 

10 ‘‘(1) to complete appraisals and satisfy other 

11 legal requirements for the sale or exchange of public 

12 land identified for disposal under approved land use 

13 plans under section 202 of the Federal Land Policy 

14 and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712); 

15 ‘‘(2) not later than 180 days after the date of the 

16 enactment of the Federal Land Transaction Facilita17 tion Act Reauthorization of 2018, to establish and 

18 make available to the public, on the website of the De19 partment of the Interior, a database containing a 

20 comprehensive list of all the land referred to in para21 graph (1); and 

22 ‘‘(3) to maintain the database referred to in 

23 paragraph (2).’’; and 

24 (B) by striking subsection (d); 

25 (5) in section 206(c)(2) (43 U.S.C. 2305(c)(2))— 


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1 (A) in subparagraph(A)(i), by striking 

2 ‘‘inholdings; and’’ and inserting ‘‘inholdings;’’; 

3 (B) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking 

4 ‘‘exceptional resources.’’ and inserting ‘‘excep5 tional resources; or’’; 

6 (C) in subparagraph (A), by inserting after 

7 clause (ii), ‘‘(iii) adjacent to inaccessible lands 

8 open to public hunting, fishing, recreational 

9 shooting, or other recreational purposes.’’; and 

10 (D) by adding at the end the following: 

11 ‘‘(E) Any funds made available under sub12 paragraph (D) that are not obligated or ex13 pended by the end of the fourth full fiscal year 

14 after the date of the sale or exchange of land that 

15 generated the funds may be expended in any 

16 State.’’; 

17 (6) in section 206(c)(3) (43 U.S.C. 2305(c)(3))— 

18 (A) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the 

19 following: 

20 ‘‘(B) the extent to which the acquisition of 

21 the land or interest therein will increase the pub22 lic availability of resources for, and facilitate 

23 public access to, hunting, fishing, and other rec24 reational activities;’’; and 


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1 (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) 

2 and (C) as subparagraphs (C) and (D); 

3 (7) by striking section 206(f) (43 U.S.C. 

4 2305(f)); and 

5 (8) in section 207(b) (43 U.S.C. 2306(b))— 

6 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

7 (i) by striking ‘‘96–568’’ and inserting 

8 ‘‘96–586’’; and 

9 (ii) by striking ‘‘; or’’ and inserting a 

10 semicolon; 

11 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

12 (i) by inserting ‘‘Public Law 105– 

13 263;’’ before ‘‘112 Stat.’’; and 

14 (ii) by striking the period at the end 

15 and inserting a semicolon; and 

16 (C) by adding at the end the following: 

17 ‘‘(3) the White Pine County Conservation, Recre18 ation, and Development Act of 2006 (Public Law 

19 109–432; 120 Stat. 3028); 

20 ‘‘(4) the Lincoln County Conservation, Recre21 ation, and Development Act of 2004 (Public Law 

22 108–424; 118 Stat. 2403); 

23 ‘‘(5) subtitle F of title I of the Omnibus Public 

24 Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 

25 Public Law 111–11); 


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1 ‘‘(6) subtitle O of title I of the Omnibus Public 

2 Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 460www 

3 note, 1132 note; Public Law 111–11); 

4 ‘‘(7) section 2601 of the Omnibus Public Land 

5 Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–11; 123 

6 Stat. 1108); or 

7 ‘‘(8) section 2606 of the Omnibus Public Land 

8 Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–11; 123 

9 Stat. 1121).’’. 


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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 Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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