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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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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Federal Land Trans-
action Facilitation Act Reauthorization of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. FEDERAL LAND TRANSACTION FACILITATION ACT. 
The Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act is 
amended— 
(1) in section 203(1) (43 U.S.C. 2302(1)), by 
striking ‘‘cultural, or’’ and inserting ‘‘cultural, rec-
reational access and use, or other’’; 
(2) in section 203(2) (43 U.S.C. 2302(2))— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A), by striking ‘‘on the date of enactment of this 
Act was’’ and inserting ‘‘is’’; 
(B) by amending subparagraph (A) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(A) a national monument, area of critical 
environmental concern, national conservation 
area, national riparian conservation area, na-
tional recreation area, national scenic area, re-
search natural area, national outstanding nat-
ural area, priority species and habitats des-
ignated in a land use plan in accordance with 
subpart E (entitled ‘‘Fish and Wildlife’’) of part 
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I of Appendix C of Bureau of Land Management 
Land Use Planning Handbook H-1601-1 (Rel 1- 
1693), a special recreation management area, or 
a national natural landmark managed by the 
Bureau of Land Management;’’; and 
(C) by amending subparagraph (D) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(D) a National Forest or National Grass-
land in the National Forest System; or’’; 
(3) in section 203 (43 U.S.C. 2302), by inserting 
the following paragraph after section 203(2) (and re-
designating the following paragraphs accordingly): 
‘‘(3) INACCESSIBLE LANDS THAT ARE OPEN TO 
PUBLIC
HUNTING, FISHING, RECREATIONAL
SHOOT-
ING, OR OTHER RECREATIONAL PURPOSES.—The term 
‘inaccessible lands that are open to public hunting, 
fishing, recreational shooting, or other recreational 
purposes’ means public lands in Alaska and the elev-
en contiguous Western States (as defined in section 
103 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702)) consisting of at least 640 
contiguous acres on which the public is allowed under 
Federal or State law to hunt, fish, target shoot or use 
the land for other recreational purposes but— 
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‘‘(A) to which there is no public access or 
egress; or 
‘‘(B) to which public access or egress to the 
land is significantly restricted, as determined by 
the Secretary.’’; and 
(4) in section 205 (43 U.S.C. 2304)— 
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘section 
206’’ and all that follows through the period and 
inserting the following: ‘‘section 206— 
‘‘(1) to complete appraisals and satisfy other 
legal requirements for the sale or exchange of public 
land identified for disposal under approved land use 
plans under section 202 of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712); 
‘‘(2) not later than 180 days after the date of the 
enactment of the Federal Land Transaction Facilita-
tion Act Reauthorization of 2018, to establish and 
make available to the public, on the website of the De-
partment of the Interior, a database containing a 
comprehensive list of all the land referred to in para-
graph (1); and 
‘‘(3) to maintain the database referred to in 
paragraph (2).’’; and 
(B) by striking subsection (d); 
(5) in section 206(c)(2) (43 U.S.C. 2305(c)(2))— 
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(A) in subparagraph(A)(i), by striking 
‘‘inholdings; and’’ and inserting ‘‘inholdings;’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking 
‘‘exceptional resources.’’ and inserting ‘‘excep-
tional resources; or’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (A), by inserting after 
clause (ii), ‘‘(iii) adjacent to inaccessible lands 
open to public hunting, fishing, recreational 
shooting, or other recreational purposes.’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) Any funds made available under sub-
paragraph (D) that are not obligated or ex-
pended by the end of the fourth full fiscal year 
after the date of the sale or exchange of land that 
generated the funds may be expended in any 
State.’’; 
(6) in section 206(c)(3) (43 U.S.C. 2305(c)(3))— 
(A) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the 
following: 
‘‘(B) the extent to which the acquisition of 
the land or interest therein will increase the pub-
lic availability of resources for, and facilitate 
public access to, hunting, fishing, and other rec-
reational activities;’’; and 
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(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B) 
and (C) as subparagraphs (C) and (D); 
(7) by striking section 206(f) (43 U.S.C. 
2305(f)); and 
(8) in section 207(b) (43 U.S.C. 2306(b))— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘96–568’’ and inserting 
‘‘96–586’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘; or’’ and inserting a 
semicolon; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘Public Law 105– 
263;’’ before ‘‘112 Stat.’’; and 
(ii) by striking the period at the end 
and inserting a semicolon; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) the White Pine County Conservation, Recre-
ation, and Development Act of 2006 (Public Law 
109–432; 120 Stat. 3028); 
‘‘(4) the Lincoln County Conservation, Recre-
ation, and Development Act of 2004 (Public Law 
108–424; 118 Stat. 2403); 
‘‘(5) subtitle F of title I of the Omnibus Public 
Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 1132 note; 
Public Law 111–11); 
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‘‘(6) subtitle O of title I of the Omnibus Public 
Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 460www 
note, 1132 note; Public Law 111–11); 
‘‘(7) section 2601 of the Omnibus Public Land 
Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–11; 123 
Stat. 1108); or 
‘‘(8) section 2606 of the Omnibus Public Land 
Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–11; 123 
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 Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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