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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2199 
To improve Federal land management, resource conservation, environmental 
protection, and use of Federal real property, by requiring the Secretary 
of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real prop-
erty and identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land 
inventories, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 27, 2017 
Mr. CRAMER (for himself and Mr. KIND) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To improve Federal land management, resource conservation, 
environmental protection, and use of Federal real prop-
erty, by requiring the Secretary of the Interior to develop 
a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property and 
identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal 
land inventories, 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 ‘‘Federal Land Asset 
Inventory Reform Act of 2017’’. 
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SEC. 2. CADASTRE OF FEDERAL LAND. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall develop and 
maintain a current and accurate multipurpose cadastre of 
Federal real property to support Federal land manage-
ment activities, including, but not limited to: resource de-
velopment and conservation, agricultural use, active forest 
management, environmental protection, and use of real 
property. 
(b) COST-SHARING.—The Secretary may enter into 
cost-sharing agreements with States to include any non- 
Federal lands in a State in the cadastre. The Federal 
share of any such cost agreement shall not exceed 50 per-
cent of the total cost to a State for the development of 
the cadastre of non-Federal lands in the State. 
(c) CONSOLIDATION AND REPORT.—Not later than 
180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Nat-
ural Resources of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Sen-
ate on— 
(1) the existing real property inventories or any 
components of any cadastre currently authorized by 
law or conducted by the Department of the Interior, 
the statutory authorization for such, and the amount 
expended by the Federal Government for each such 
activity in fiscal year 2014; 
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(2) the existing real property inventories or any 
components of any cadastre currently authorized by 
law or conducted by the Department of the Interior 
that will be eliminated or consolidated into the mul-
tipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act; 
(3) the existing real property inventories or any 
components of a cadastre currently authorized by 
law or conducted by the Department of the Interior 
that will not be eliminated or consolidated into the 
multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act, to-
gether with a justification for not terminating or 
consolidating such in the multipurpose cadastre au-
thorized by this Act; 
(4) the use of existing real property inventories 
or any components of any cadastre currently con-
ducted by any unit of State or local government that 
can be used to identify Federal real property within 
such unit of government; 
(5) the cost-savings that will be achieved by 
eliminating or consolidating duplicative or unneeded 
real property inventories or any components of a ca-
dastre currently authorized by law or conducted by 
the Department of the Interior that will become part 
of the multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act, 
and a plan for implementation of this Act, including 
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a cost estimate and the feasibility of the use of rev-
enue from any transactional activity authorized by 
law that may be used to offset any costs of imple-
menting this Act; 
(6) in consultation with the Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget, the Administrator 
of the General Services Administration, and the 
Comptroller General of the United States, conduct 
the assessment required by paragraphs (1) through 
(5) of this subsection with regard to all cadastres 
and inventories authorized, operated or maintained 
by all other Executive agencies of the Federal Gov-
ernment; and 
(7) recommendations for any legislation nec-
essary to increase the cost-savings and enhance the 
effectiveness and efficiency of replacing, eliminating, 
or consolidating real property inventories or any 
components of a cadastre currently authorized by 
law or conducted by the Department of the Interior. 
(d) COORDINATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out this section, 
the Secretary shall— 
(A) participate, pursuant to section 216 of 
Public Law 107–347, in the establishment of 
such standards and common protocols as are 
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necessary to assure the interoperability of 
geospatial information pertaining to the cadas-
tre for all users of such information; 
(B) coordinate with, seek assistance and 
cooperation of, and provide liaison to the Fed-
eral Geographic Data Committee pursuant to 
Office of Management and Budget Circular A– 
16 and Executive Order 12906 for the imple-
mentation of and compliance with such stand-
ards as may be applicable to the cadastre; 
(C) integrate, or make the cadastre inter-
operable with, the Federal Real Property Pro-
file established pursuant to Executive Order 
13327; 
(D) integrate with and leverage to the 
maximum extent practicable current cadastre 
activities of units of State and local govern-
ment; and 
(E) use contracts with the private sector, 
to the maximum extent practicable, to provide 
such products and services as are necessary to 
develop the cadastre. 
(2) CONTRACTS CONSIDERED SURVEYING AND 
MAPPING.—Contracts entered into under paragraph 
(1)(E) shall be considered ‘‘surveying and mapping’’ 
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services as such term is used and as such contracts 
are awarded in accordance with the selection proce-
dures in title IX of the Federal Property and Ad-
ministrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 1101 
et seq.). 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
As used in this Act, the following definitions apply: 
(1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior. 
(2) CADASTRE.—The term ‘‘cadastre’’ means 
an inventory of real property of the Federal Govern-
ment developed through collecting, storing, retriev-
ing, or disseminating graphical or digital data de-
picting natural or man-made physical features, phe-
nomena, or boundaries of the earth and any infor-
mation related thereto, including surveys, maps, 
charts, satellite and airborne remote sensing data, 
images, and services, with services performed by pro-
fessionals such as surveyors, photogrammetrists, hy-
drographers, geodesists, cartographers, and other 
such services of an architectural or engineering na-
ture including the following data layers: 
(A) A reference frame consisting of a cur-
rent geodetic network. 
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(B) A series of current, accurate large 
scale maps. 
(C) An existing cadastral boundary overlay 
delineating all cadastral parcels. 
(D) A system for indexing and identifying 
each cadastral parcel. 
(E) A series of land data files, each includ-
ing the parcel identifier, which can be used to 
retrieve information and cross reference be-
tween and among other existing data files, 
which may contain information about the use, 
assets and infrastructure of each parcel. 
(3) REAL
PROPERTY.—The term ‘‘real prop-
erty’’ means real estate consisting of land, buildings, 
crops, forests, or other resources still attached to or 
within the land or improvements or fixtures perma-
nently attached to the land or a structure on it, in-
cluding any interest, benefit, right, or privilege in 
such property. 
SEC. 4. TRANSPARENCY AND PUBLIC ACCESS. 
The Secretary shall— 
(1) make the cadastre publically available on 
the Internet in a graphically geo-enabled and search-
able format; 
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(2) ensure that the inventory referred to in sec-
tion 2 includes the identification of all lands and 
parcels suitable for disposal by Resource Manage-
ment Plans conducted for pursuant to the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
U.S.C. 1711 et seq.); and 
(3) in consultation with the Secretary of De-
fense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, pre-
vent the disclosure of any parcel or parcels of land, 
and buildings or facilities thereon, or information re-
lated thereto, if such disclosure would impair or 
jeopardize the national security or homeland defense 
of the United States. 
SEC. 5. RIGHT OF ACTION. 
Nothing in this Act shall create any substantive or 
procedural right or benefit. 
SEC. 6. CERTAIN NEW ACTIONS NOT REQUIRED. 
Nothing in this Act shall require or authorize any 
new surveying or mapping of Federal land, the evaluation 
of any parcel of land for potential management by non- 
Federal entities, the disposal of any Federal land, or any 
new appraisal or assessment of the value or cultural and 
archaeological resources on any parcel of Federal land. 
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