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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5133 

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 

A BILL 

To reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation 

Act, 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 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— 


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

2 striking ‘‘cultural, or’’ and inserting ‘‘cultural, rec3 reational access and use, or other’’; 

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

5 (A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 

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

7 this Act was’’ and inserting ‘‘is’’; 

8 (B) by striking ‘‘area, or’’ and inserting 

9 ‘‘area,’’; 

10 (C) by inserting after ‘‘natural area,’’ the 

11 following: ‘‘priority species and habitats des12 ignated in a land use plan in accordance with 

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

14 I of Appendix C of Bureau of Land Manage15 ment Land Use Planning Handbook H–1601– 

16 1 (Rel 1–1693), or a special recreation manage17 ment area,’’; and 

18 (D) by amending subparagraph (D) to 

19 read as follows: 

20 ‘‘(D) a National Forest or National Grass21 land in the National Forest System;’’; 

22 (3) in section 205 (43 U.S.C. 2304)— 

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

24 206’’ and all that follows through the period 

25 and inserting the following: ‘‘section 206— 


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

2 legal requirements for the sale or exchange of public 

3 land identified for disposal under approved land use 

4 plans under section 202 of the Federal Land Policy 

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

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

7 the enactment of the Federal Land Transaction Fa8 cilitation Act Reauthorization of 2018, to establish 

9 and make available to the public, on the website of 

10 the Department of the Interior, a database con11 taining a comprehensive list of all the land referred 

12 to in paragraph (1); and 

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

14 paragraph (2).’’; and 

15 (B) by striking subsection (d); 

16 (4) in section 206(c)(2) (43 U.S.C. 2305(c)(2)), 

17 by adding at the end the following: 

18 ‘‘(E) Any funds made available under sub19 paragraph (D) that are not obligated or ex20 pended by the end of the fourth full fiscal year 

21 after the date of the sale or exchange of land 

22 that generated the funds may be expended in 

23 any State.’’; 

24 (5) in section 206(c)(3) (43 U.S.C. 

25 2305(c)(3))— 


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1 (A) by inserting after subparagraph (A) 

2 the following: 

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

4 the land or interest therein will increase the 

5 public availability of resources for, and facilitate 

6 public access to, hunting, fishing, and other rec7 reational activities;’’; and 

8 (B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B), 

9 (C), and (D) as subparagraphs (C), (D), and 

10 (E); 

11 (6) by striking section 206(f) (43 U.S.C. 

12 2305(f)); and 

13 (7) in section 207(b) (43 U.S.C. 2306(b))— 

14 (A) in paragraph (1)— 

15 (i) by striking ‘‘96–568’’ and insert16 ing ‘‘96–586’’; and 

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

18 semicolon; 

19 (B) in paragraph (2)— 

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

21 263;’’ before ‘‘112 Stat.’’; and 

22 (ii) by striking the period at the end 

23 and inserting a semicolon; and 

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


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1 ‘‘(3) the White Pine County Conservation, 

2 Recreation, and Development Act of 2006 (Public 

3 Law 109–432; 120 Stat. 3028); 

4 ‘‘(4) the Lincoln County Conservation, Recre5 ation, and Development Act of 2004 (Public Law 

6 108–424; 118 Stat. 2403); 

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

8 Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 1132 

9 note; Public Law 111–11); 

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

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

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

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

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

15 Stat. 1108); or 

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

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

18 Stat. 1121).’’. 

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