I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4448 
To provide for an exchange of Federal land and non-Federal land in the 
State of Idaho, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 16, 2017 
Mr. SIMPSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To provide for an exchange of Federal land and non-Federal 
land in the State of Idaho, 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. FINDING. 
Congress finds that the exchange of Federal land and 
non-Federal land under this Act furthers the public objec-
tives referred to in section 206 of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716) for the 
following reasons: 
(1) On December 21, 2007, the Bureau of 
Land Management issued a Final Decision Record 
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and Finding of No Significant Impact approving the 
Blackrock Land Exchange, IDI–35337, between the 
United States and the J.R. Simplot Company, an 
Idaho Corporation, involving Federal land in the Po-
catello Field Office in the State of Idaho. 
(2) The Final Decision Record was issued as a 
result of a multiyear review and public input process 
under the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), under which the Bu-
reau of Land Management found— 
(A)(i) the 2 parcels of Federal land com-
prising 718.56 acres that are proposed for con-
veyance to the J.R. Simplot Company are man-
aged by the Bureau of Land Management in 
the State of Idaho; and 
(ii) the conveyance of the Federal land de-
scribed in clause (i) is consistent with— 
(I) the multiple-use statutory mission 
of the Bureau of Land Management; and 
(II) the Pocatello Resource Manage-
ment Plan; 
(B) the 3 parcels of non-Federal land com-
prising 666.92 acres that are proposed for con-
veyance to the United States— 
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(i) are owned by the J.R. Simplot 
Company; and 
(ii) provide greater resources and val-
ues to the United States than the re-
sources and values of the Federal land, in-
cluding through the United States— 
(I) consolidating Federal land; 
(II) gaining direct access to adja-
cent Federal land; and 
(III) acquiring critical deer habi-
tat; 
(C) the Federal land is adjacent to the 
phosphate ore processing facility of the J.R. 
Simplot Company; 
(D) carrying out the land exchange under 
this Act would provide a buffer and an expan-
sion area for a possible phosphate disposal facil-
ity; 
(E) the land exchange under this Act 
would not authorize any potential future siting 
of a new phosphate disposal facility or related 
facilities because other governmental entities, 
primarily the State of Idaho and the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, would still have the 
responsibility and authority to make decisions 
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