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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3326 

To provide for an exchange of land between the United States and the 

Trinity Public Utilities District of Trinity County, California, involving 

a parcel of National Forest System land in Shasta-Trinity National 

Forest. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OCTOBER 23, 2013 

Mr. HUFFMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To provide for an exchange of land between the United 

States and the Trinity Public Utilities District of Trinity 

County, California, involving a parcel of National Forest 

System land in Shasta-Trinity National Forest. 

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 ‘‘Trinity County Land 

5 Exchange Act of 2013’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. LAND EXCHANGE, TRINITY PUBLIC UTILITIES DIS2 TRICT, TRINITY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE 

3 BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, AND THE 

4 FOREST SERVICE. 

5 (a) LAND EXCHANGE REQUIRED.—If the Utilities 

6 District conveys to the Secretary of the Interior all right, 

7 title, and interest of the Utilities District in and to Parcel 

8 A, the Secretary of Agriculture shall convey to the Utilities 

9 District, in exchange, all right, title, and interest of the 

10 United States in and to Parcel B. 

11 (b) AVAILABILITY OF MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIP12 TIONS.—Any map prepared by the Secretary of the Inte13 rior or the Secretary of Agriculture in connection with a 

14 conveyance under subsection (a), and the legal description 

15 of Parcel A and Parcel B, shall be on file and available 

16 for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the For17 est Service and the appropriate office of the Bureau of 

18 Land Management. With the agreement of the parties to 

19 the conveyances under subsection (a), the Secretary of the 

20 Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may make tech21 nical corrections to the maps and legal descriptions. 

22 (c) EQUAL VALUE EXCHANGE.— 

23 (1) LAND EXCHANGE PROCESS.—The land ex24 change under this section is intended to be an equal 

25 value exchange. Except as provided in paragraph 

26 (3), the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 


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1 of Agriculture shall carry out the land exchange in 

2 accordance with section 206 of the Federal Land 

3 Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 

4 1716). 

5 (2) APPRAISAL OF PARCELS.—The values of 

6 Parcel A and Parcel B shall by determined by ap7 praisals performed by a qualified appraiser mutually 

8 agreed to by the parties to the conveyances under 

9 subsection (a). The appraisals shall be performed in 

10 conformance with the Uniform Appraisal Standards 

11 for Federal Land Acquisitions. 

12 (3) CASH EQUALIZATION.—If the values of Par13 cel A and Parcel B are not equal, the values may 

14 be equalized through the use of a cash equalization 

15 payment. Notwithstanding section 206(b) of the 

16 Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 

17 (43 U.S.C. 1716(b)), a cash equalization payment 

18 may be made in excess of 25 percent of the ap19 praised value of the Parcel B. 

20 (d) DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS.— 

21 (1) IN GENERAL.—Any cash equalization pay22 ment received by the United States under subsection 

23 (c) shall be deposited in the fund established under 

24 Public Law 90–171 (16 U.S.C. 484a; commonly 

25 known as the Sisk Act). 


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1 (2) USE OF PROCEEDS.—Amounts deposited 

2 under paragraph (1) shall be available to the Sec3 retary of Agriculture, without further appropriation 

4 and until expended, for the acquisition of land or in5 terests in land in California for inclusion in the Na6 tional Forest System. 

7 (e) SURVEY AND ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—The 

8 exact acreage and legal description of Parcel A and Parcel 

9 B shall be determined by a survey satisfactory to the Sec10 retary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture. 

11 The Utilities District shall be responsible for the costs of 

12 the survey. The Federal Government and the Utilities Dis13 trict shall share in other administrative costs of the land 

14 exchange under this section. 

15 (f) MANAGEMENT OF ACQUIRED LAND.—Upon the 

16 acquisition of Parcel A, the Secretary of the Interior, act17 ing through the Redding Field Office of the Bureau of 

18 Land Management, shall administer Parcel A as public 

19 land in accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Man20 agement Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and the 

21 laws and regulations applicable to public land adminis22 tered by the Bureau of Land Management. 

23 (g) COMPLETION OF LAND EXCHANGE.—The Sec24 retary of Agriculture shall complete the conveyance of 

25 Parcel B not later than one year after the date on which 


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1 the Utilities District offers to convey Parcel A to the Sec2 retary of the Interior. 

3 (h) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 

4 (1) PARCEL A.—The term ‘‘Parcel A’’ means 

5 the approximately 47 acres of land, known as the 

6 ‘‘Sky Ranch parcel’’, adjacent to public land admin7 istered by the Redding Field Office of the Bureau of 

8 Land Management. 

9 (2) PARCEL B.—The term ‘‘Parcel B’’ means 

10 the approximately 100 acres land in the Shasta11 Trinity National Forest in the State of California 

12 near the Weaverville Airport in Trinity County. 

13 (3) UTILITIES DISTRICT.—The term ‘‘Utilities 

14 District’’ means the Trinity Public Utilities District 

15 of Trinity County, California. 

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