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Union Calendar No. 106 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1905 
[Report No. 109–169, Part I] 
To amend the Small Tracts Act to facilitate the exchange of small tracts 
of land, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 27, 2005 
Mr. DOOLITTLE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee concerned 
JULY 14, 2005 
Reported from the Committee on Resources 
JULY 14, 2005 
Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
A BILL 
To amend the Small Tracts Act to facilitate the exchange 
of small tracts of land, 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 ‘‘Small Tracts Reform 
Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FACILITATION OF EXCHANGE OF SMALL TRACTS. 
(a) EXPANSION OF AVAILABILITY OF LANDS FOR 
SALE OR EXCHANGE.—Section 3 of Public Law 97–465 
(16 U.S.C. 521e; section 3 of the Act commonly known 
as the Small Tracts Act) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘not practicable’’ and inserting 
‘‘either not practicable or not expedient’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘, which have a value as deter-
mined by the Secretary of not more than 
$150,000,’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘parcels of forty acres’’ 
and inserting ‘‘parcels or portions of parcels of 
100 acres’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘under the mining laws’’. 
(b) RULES
OR REGULATIONS
NOT REQUIRED.— 
Nothing in the amendments made by this Act shall require 
the Forest Service to issue rules or regulations prior to 
any sale, exchange, or interchange under Public Law 97– 
465 (16 U.S.C. 521c et seq.). 
(c) SPECIAL CASES.—The Forest Supervisor may 
complete the following interchanges under Public Law 97–
465 (16 U.S.C. 521c et seq.), as amended by subsection 
(a): 
(1) An acquisition from Irving N. Christensen 
of that portion of SW1⁄4NW1⁄4 Section 16, T.19N., 
R.9E., MDM., lying southwesterly of California 
State Highway 49 and all that portion of S1⁄2NE1⁄4 
Section 17, T.19N., R.9E., MDM., lying southwest-
erly of California State Highway 49 and northeast-
erly of the North Fork Yuba River, through inter-
change of an approximately equal value of National 
Forest System land lying northerly of California 
State Highway 49 within the N1⁄2N1⁄2 Section 17, 
T.19N., R.9E., MDM. The Federal land to be inter-
changed within the specifications of this paragraph 
shall be agreed upon by the Forest Supervisor and 
Irving N. Christensen. 
(2) An acquisition from Dennis W. McCreary 
and Cindy M. McCreary of a portion of Lot 19, Sec-
tion 35, T.20N., R.10E., MDM in Downieville, Si-
erra County, California, through interchange of a 
portion of National Forest System land in Lot 121, 
Section 35, T.20N., R.10E., MDM in Downieville, 
Sierra County, California. The Federal land to be 
interchanged within the specifications of this para-
graph shall be agreed upon by the Forest Supervisor 
and Dennis W. McCreary and Cindy M. McCreary.
Union Calendar No. 106 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1905 
[Report No. 109–169, Part I] 
A BILL 
To amend the Small Tracts Act to facilitate the ex-
change of small tracts of land, and for other pur-
poses. 
JULY 14, 2005 
Reported from the Committee on Resources 
JULY 14, 2005 
Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 
Union and ordered to be printed