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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1370

To require the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre 

of Federal real property to assist with Federal land management, resource conservation, and development of Federal real property, including 

identification of any such property that is no longer required to be 

owned by the Federal Government, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 17, 2005

Mr. CANNON (for himself, Mr. FLAKE, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. PETERSON of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. MUSGRAVE) introduced the following bill; which was 

referred to the Committee on Resources 

A BILL

To require the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property to assist with 

Federal land management, resource conservation, and 

development of Federal real property, including identification of any such property that is no longer required 

to be owned by the Federal Government, 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,
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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

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

3 Inventory Reform Act of 2005’’. 

4 SEC. 2. CADASTRE OF FEDERAL LAND. 

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

6 multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property to assist 

7 with Federal land management, resource conservation, 

8 and development of real property, including identification 

9 of any Federal land which is no longer required to be 

10 owned by the Federal Government. 

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

12 cost sharing agreements with States to include any non13 Federal lands in a State in the cadastre. The Federal 

14 share of any such cost agreement shall not exceed 50 per15 cent of the total cost to a State for the development of 

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

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

18 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 

19 Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Re20 sources of the House of Representatives and the Com21 mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 

22 on—

23 (1) the existing real property inventories or any 

24 components of any cadastre currently authorized by 

25 law or conducted by the Department of the Interior, 

26 the statutory authorization for such, and the amount 
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1 expended by the Federal Government for each such 

2 activity in fiscal year 2004; 

3 (2) the existing real property inventories or any 

4 components of any cadastre currently authorized by 

5 law or conducted by the Department of the Interior 

6 that will be eliminated or consolidated into the mul7 tipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act; 

8 (3) the existing real property inventories or any 

9 components of a cadastre currently authorized by 

10 law or conducted by the Department of the Interior 

11 that will not be eliminated or consolidated into the 

12 multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act, to13 gether with a justification for not terminating or 

14 consolidating such in the multipurpose cadastre au15 thorized by this Act; 

16 (4) 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 (5) 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; 

18 (C) make the cadastre interoperable with 

19 the Federal Real Property Profile established 

20 pursuant to Executive Order 13327; and 

21 (D) use contracts with the private sector, 

22 to the maximum extent practicable, to provide 

23 such products and services as are necessary to 

24 develop the cadastre. 
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1 (2) CONTRACTS CONSIDERED SURVEYING AND

2 MAPPING.—Contracts entered into under paragraph 

3 (1)(C) shall be considered ‘‘surveying and mapping’’ 

4 services as such term is used and as such contracts 

5 are awarded in accordance with the selection proce6 dures in title IX of the Federal Property and Ad7 ministrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 1101 

8 et seq.). 

9 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

10 As used in this section, the following definitions 

11 apply: 

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

13 the Secretary of the Interior. 

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

15 an inventory of real property of the Federal Govern16 ment developed through collecting, storing, retriev17 ing, or disseminating graphical or digital data de18 picting natural or man-made physical features, phe19 nomena, or boundaries of the earth and any infor20 mation related thereto, including surveys, maps, 

21 charts, satellite and airborne remote sensing data, 

22 images, and services, with services performed by pro23 fessionals such as surveyors, photogrammetrists, hy24 drographers, geodesists, cartographers, and other 
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1 such services of an architectural or engineering na2 ture including the following data layers: 

3 (A) A reference frame consisting of a geo4 detic network. 

5 (B) A series of current, accurate large 

6 scale maps. 

7 (C) A cadastral boundary overlay delin8 eating all cadastral parcels. 

9 (D) A system for indexing and identifying 

10 each cadastral parcel. 

11 (E) A series of land data files, each includ12 ing the parcel identifier, which can be used to 

13 retrieve information and cross reference be14 tween and among other data files, which con15 tains information about the use, value, infra16 structure, resources, and characteristics of each 

17 parcel. 

18 (3) REAL PROPERTY.—The term ‘‘real prop19 erty’’ means real estate consisting of land, buildings, 

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

21 within the land or improvements or fixtures perma22 nently attached to the land or a structure on it, in23 cluding any interest, benefit, right, or privilege in 

24 such property.

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