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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3326 
To provide for an exchange of land between the United States and the 
Trinity Public Utilities District of Trinity County, California, involving 
a parcel of National Forest System land in Shasta-Trinity National 
Forest. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 23, 2013 
Mr. HUFFMAN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To provide for an exchange of land between the United 
States and the Trinity Public Utilities District of Trinity 
County, California, involving a parcel of National Forest 
System land in Shasta-Trinity National Forest. 
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 ‘‘Trinity County Land 
Exchange Act of 2013’’. 
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SEC. 2. LAND EXCHANGE, TRINITY PUBLIC UTILITIES DIS-
TRICT, TRINITY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, THE 
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, AND THE 
FOREST SERVICE. 
(a) LAND EXCHANGE REQUIRED.—If the Utilities 
District conveys to the Secretary of the Interior all right, 
title, and interest of the Utilities District in and to Parcel 
A, the Secretary of Agriculture shall convey to the Utilities 
District, in exchange, all right, title, and interest of the 
United States in and to Parcel B. 
(b) AVAILABILITY OF MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIP-
TIONS.—Any map prepared by the Secretary of the Inte-
rior or the Secretary of Agriculture in connection with a 
conveyance under subsection (a), and the legal description 
of Parcel A and Parcel B, shall be on file and available 
for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the For-
est Service and the appropriate office of the Bureau of 
Land Management. With the agreement of the parties to 
the conveyances under subsection (a), the Secretary of the 
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may make tech-
nical corrections to the maps and legal descriptions. 
(c) EQUAL VALUE EXCHANGE.— 
(1) LAND EXCHANGE PROCESS.—The land ex-
change under this section is intended to be an equal 
value exchange. Except as provided in paragraph 
(3), the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary 
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of Agriculture shall carry out the land exchange in 
accordance with section 206 of the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
1716). 
(2) APPRAISAL
OF
PARCELS.—The values of 
Parcel A and Parcel B shall by determined by ap-
praisals performed by a qualified appraiser mutually 
agreed to by the parties to the conveyances under 
subsection (a). The appraisals shall be performed in 
conformance with the Uniform Appraisal Standards 
for Federal Land Acquisitions. 
(3) CASH EQUALIZATION.—If the values of Par-
cel A and Parcel B are not equal, the values may 
be equalized through the use of a cash equalization 
payment. Notwithstanding section 206(b) of the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 
(43 U.S.C. 1716(b)), a cash equalization payment 
may be made in excess of 25 percent of the ap-
praised value of the Parcel B. 
(d) DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any cash equalization pay-
ment received by the United States under subsection 
(c) shall be deposited in the fund established under 
Public Law 90–171 (16 U.S.C. 484a; commonly 
known as the Sisk Act). 
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the Utilities District offers to convey Parcel A to the Sec-
retary of the Interior. 
(h) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 
(1) PARCEL A.—The term ‘‘Parcel A’’ means 
the approximately 47 acres of land, known as the 
‘‘Sky Ranch parcel’’, adjacent to public land admin-
istered by the Redding Field Office of the Bureau of 
Land Management. 
(2) PARCEL B.—The term ‘‘Parcel B’’ means 
the approximately 100 acres land in the Shasta- 
Trinity National Forest in the State of California 
near the Weaverville Airport in Trinity County. 
(3) UTILITIES DISTRICT.—The term ‘‘Utilities 
District’’ means the Trinity Public Utilities District 
of Trinity County, California. 
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