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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 916 

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of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property and identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land 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

FEBRUARY 28, 2013 

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identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal 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 2013’’. 


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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 support 

4 Federal land management activities, including, but not 

5 limited to: resource development and conservation, travel 

6 management, agricultural use, active forest management, 

7 environmental protection, and use of real property. 

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

9 cost-sharing agreements with States to include any non10 Federal lands in a State in the cadastre. The Federal 

11 share of any such cost agreement shall not exceed 50 per12 cent of the total cost to a State for the development of 

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

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

15 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

16 Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Nat17 ural Resources of the House of Representatives and the 

18 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Sen19 ate on— 

20 (1) the existing real property inventories or any 

21 components of any cadastre currently authorized by 

22 law or conducted by the Department of the Interior, 

23 the statutory authorization for such, and the amount 

24 expended by the Federal Government for each such 

25 activity in fiscal year 2012; 


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1 (2) the existing real property inventories or any 

2 components of any cadastre currently authorized by 

3 law or conducted by the Department of the Interior 

4 that will be eliminated or consolidated into the mul5 tipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act; 

6 (3) the existing real property inventories or any 

7 components of a cadastre currently authorized by 

8 law or conducted by the Department of the Interior 

9 that will not be eliminated or consolidated into the 

10 multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act, to11 gether with a justification for not terminating or 

12 consolidating such in the multipurpose cadastre au13 thorized by this Act; 

14 (4) the use of existing real property inventories 

15 or any components of any cadastre currently con16 ducted by any unit of State or local government that 

17 can be used to identify Federal real property within 

18 such unit of government; 

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

20 eliminating or consolidating duplicative or unneeded 

21 real property inventories or any components of a ca22 dastre currently authorized by law or conducted by 

23 the Department of the Interior that will become part 

24 of the multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act; 

25 and 


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1 (6) recommendations for any legislation nec2 essary to increase the cost-savings and enhance the 

3 effectiveness and efficiency of replacing, eliminating, 

4 or consolidating real property inventories or any 

5 components of a cadastre currently authorized by 

6 law or conducted by the Department of the Interior. 

7 (d) COORDINATION.— 

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

9 the Secretary shall— 

10 (A) participate, pursuant to section 216 of 

11 Public Law 107–347, in the establishment of 

12 such standards and common protocols as are 

13 necessary to assure the interoperability of 

14 geospatial information pertaining to the cadas15 tre for all users of such information; 

16 (B) coordinate with, seek assistance and 

17 cooperation of, and provide liaison to the Fed18 eral Geographic Data Committee pursuant to 

19 Office of Management and Budget Circular A– 

20 16 and Executive Order 12906 for the imple21 mentation of and compliance with such stand22 ards as may be applicable to the cadastre; 

23 (C) make the cadastre interoperable with 

24 the Federal Real Property Profile established 

25 pursuant to Executive Order 13327; 


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1 (D) integrate with and leverage to the 

2 maximum extent practicable current cadastre 

3 activities of units of State and local govern4 ment; and 

5 (E) use contracts with the private sector, 

6 to the maximum extent practicable, to provide 

7 such products and services as are necessary to 

8 develop the cadastre. 

9 (2) CONTRACTS CONSIDERED SURVEYING AND

10 MAPPING.—Contracts entered into under paragraph 

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

12 services as such term is used and as such contracts 

13 are awarded in accordance with the selection proce14 dures in title IX of the Federal Property and Ad15 ministrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 1101 

16 et seq.). 

17 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

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

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

20 the Secretary of the Interior. 

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

22 an inventory of real property of the Federal Govern23 ment developed through collecting, storing, retriev24 ing, or disseminating graphical or digital data de25 picting natural or man-made physical features, pheVerDate Mar 15 2010 09:23 Mar 01, 2013 Jkt 029200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H916.IH H916

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1 nomena, or boundaries of the earth and any infor2 mation related thereto, including surveys, maps, 

3 charts, satellite and airborne remote sensing data, 

4 images, and services, with services performed by pro5 fessionals such as surveyors, photogrammetrists, hy6 drographers, geodesists, cartographers, and other 

7 such services of an architectural or engineering na8 ture including the following data layers: 

9 (A) A reference frame consisting of a geo10 detic network. 

11 (B) A series of current, accurate large 

12 scale maps. 

13 (C) A cadastral boundary overlay delin14 eating all cadastral parcels. 

15 (D) A system for indexing and identifying 

16 each cadastral parcel. 

17 (E) A series of land data files, each includ18 ing the parcel identifier, which can be used to 

19 retrieve information and cross reference be20 tween and among other data files, which con21 tains information about the use, value, assets 

22 and infrastructure of each parcel, and shall also 

23 designate any parcels that the Secretary deter24 mines can be better managed through owner25 ship by a non-Federal entity including but not 


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1 limited to State government, local government, 

2 Tribal government, nonprofit organizations, or 

3 the private sector. 

4 (3) REAL PROPERTY.—The term ‘‘real prop5 erty’’ means real estate consisting of land, buildings, 

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

7 within the land or improvements or fixtures perma8 nently attached to the land or a structure on it, in9 cluding any interest, benefit, right, or privilege in 

10 such property. 

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