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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1673 
To provide for the transfer of certain public land currently administered 
by the Bureau of Land Management to the administrative jurisdiction 
of the Secretary of the Navy for inclusion in Naval Air Weapons Station 
China Lake, California, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 23, 2013 
Mr. MCCARTHY of California introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Com-
mittee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for the transfer of certain public land currently 
administered by the Bureau of Land Management to 
the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the 
Navy for inclusion in Naval Air Weapons Station China 
Lake, California, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Naval Air Weapons 
Station China Lake Security Enhancement Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. TRANSFER OF ADMINISTRATIVE JURISDICTION, 
NAVAL AIR WEAPONS STATION CHINA LAKE, 
CALIFORNIA. 
(a) TRANSFER REQUIRED.—Not later than Sep-
tember 30, 2014, the Secretary of the Interior shall trans-
fer to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of 
the Navy certain public land administered by the Bureau 
of Land Management in Inyo, Kern, and San Bernardino 
Counties, 
California, 
consisting 
of 
approximately 
1,045,000 acres in Inyo, Kern, and San Bernardino Coun-
ties, California, as generally depicted on the map titled 
‘‘Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake Withdrawal - 
Renewal’’ and dated 2012. 
(b) USE OF TRANSFERRED LAND.—Upon the receipt 
of the land under subsection (a), the Secretary of the Navy 
shall include the land as part of the Naval Air Weapons 
Station China Lake, California, and authorize use of the 
land for military purposes. 
(c) LEGAL DESCRIPTION.— 
(1) PREPARATION
AND
PUBLICATION.—The 
Secretary of the Interior shall publish in the Federal 
Register a legal description of the public land to be 
transferred under subsection (a). 
(2) FORCE OF LAW.—The legal description filed 
under paragraph (1) shall have the same force and 
effect as if included in this Act, except that the Sec-
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retary of the Interior may correct errors in the legal 
description. 
(d) REIMBURSEMENT OF COSTS.—The transfer re-
quired by subsection (a) shall be made without reimburse-
ment, except that the Secretary of the Navy shall reim-
burse the Secretary of the Interior for any costs incurred 
by the Secretary of the Interior to prepare the legal de-
scription under subsection (c). 
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