(4) The Flaming Gorge National Recreation
Area was established subject to valid existing rights
of the State of Wyoming and private landowners. A
portion of the State lands and many of the Union
Pacific Resources Company lands located within the
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area contain
trona resources available for mining. Certain of the
State lands and Union Pacific Resources Company
lands located within the Flaming Gorge National
Recreation Area and the White Mountain Area, like
the Federal lands comprising the Flaming Gorge
National Recreation Area and the White Mountain
Area, have substantial recreational and natural re-
source values in addition to their potential for trona
development.
(5) Development of surface, trona and natural
resources on the State lands and the Union Pacific
Resources Company lands located within the Flam-
ing Gorge National Recreation Area and the White
Mountain Area could be incompatible with the pres-
ervation of the recreational and natural resource val-
ues for which the Flaming Gorge National Recre-
ation Area and White Mountain Area were estab-
lished. Federal acquisition of the State lands and the
Union Pacific Resources Company lands located
within the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area
and the White Mountain Area would eliminate this
potential incompatibility, and would enhance Federal
management of both areas.
(6) The United States owns lands and interests
in lands located both within and outside of the
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area that can
be transferred to the State of Wyoming and Union
Pacific Resources Company in exchange for the
State lands and Union Pacific Resources Company
lands located within the Flaming Gorge National
Recreation Area and the White Mountain Area with-
out jeopardizing Federal management objectives or
needs.
(7) The large presence of State lands and
Union Pacific Resources Company lands located
within the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area
and the White Mountain Area make land and re-
source management in the area more difficult, cost-
ly, and controversial for both the State of Wyoming
and the United States.
(8) It is the public interest to enact legislation
authorizing an exchange of other federally owned
lands for the State lands and the Union Pacific Re-
sources Company lands located within the Flaming
Gorge National Recreation Area and the White
Mountain Area, on terms fair to the State of Wyo-
ming, Union Pacific Resources Company, and the
United States. Congressional action in authorizing
the exchange saves much time and delay in meeting
the expectations of Union Pacific Resources Com-
pany and the State of Wyoming, in simplifying man-
agement of Federal land resources, and in avoiding
expensive, protracted litigation.
(9) Union Pacific Resources Company and the
State of Wyoming support the enactment of legisla-
tion under which Union Pacific Resources Company
and the State of Wyoming would exchange certain of
their lands within the Flaming Gorge National
Recreation Area and the White Mountain Area for
various Federal lands and interests in lands located
both inside and outside the Flaming Gorge National
Recreation Area.
(10) The Federal assets made available for ex-
change with Union Pacific Resources Company and
the State of Wyoming were selected with a great
sensitivity to environmental concerns and a belief
and expectation by all parties that Federal assets to
be conveyed to Union Pacific Resources Company
and the State of Wyoming would be unlikely to trig-
ger significant environmental controversy.
(11) The Federal assets identified for convey-
ance to Union Pacific Resources Company and the
State of Wyoming avoid any of the following items
known to exist or likely to be an issue as a result
of foreseeable future uses of the land: significant
wildlife resources, endangered species habitat, sig-
nificant archaeological resources, areas of critical en-
vironmental concern, trona resources requiring sur-
face mining to extract the mineral deposits, wilder-
ness study areas, significant recreational areas, or
any other lands known to raise significant environ-
mental concerns of any kind.
(12) Where the Federal Government retains
surface and other interests on lands included in the
exchange, Union Pacific Resources Company and the
State of Wyoming have agreed that the development
of any mineral interests they acquire pursuant to
such exchange will not conflict with established Fed-
eral land and environmental management objectives,
and shall be fully subject to all environmental regu-
lations applicable to development of non-Federal
mineral interests lying under Federal lands.
(13) Because the non-Federal lands to be ac-
quired by the Federal Government pursuant to such
an exchange include lands located within the bound-
aries of one of the most renowned recreational and
natural resource land units in the United States,
and because Union Pacific Resources Company de-
sires to develop said lands to obtain their full eco-
nomic potential and because a mission of the Wyo-
ming Office of State Lands and Investments is to
produce economic benefits for Wyoming?s public
schools and other beneficiary institutions, the ex-
change of lands called for in this legislation will re-
solve many environmental conflicts that could have
existed at the time of development of such non-Fed-
eral lands.
(14) The Congress finds that, giving consider-
ation to the exchange taken as a whole, the interests
to be conveyed to the United States by the State of
Wyoming, and the Federal interests to be conveyed
to the State of Wyoming by the United States, are
approximately equal in value.
(15) The Congress finds that, giving consider-
ation to the exchange taken as a whole, the interests
to be conveyed to the United States by Union Pa-
cific Resources Company, and the Federal interests
to be conveyed to Union Pacific Resources Company
by the United States, are approximately equal in
value.
(16) The purpose of this legislation is to enact
the exchange into law and to direct prompt imple-
mentation of this exchange for the protection of the
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.
SEC. 3. LAND EXCHANGE INVOLVING FLAMING GORGE NA-
TIONAL 
RECREATION 
AREA 
AND 
OTHER
LAND IN SWEETWATER COUNTY, WYOMING.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF EXCHANGE.—If the State of
Wyoming conveys by an appropriate form of deed, subject
to valid existing encumbrances affecting the lands, to the
United States the lands and interests in lands described
in subsection (b) below and Union Pacific Resources Com-
pany conveys by an appropriate form of deed, subject to
valid existing encumbrances affecting the lands, to the
United States the lands and interests in lands described
in subsection (c) below, then the Secretary of the Interior
is authorized and directed to convey by patent to the State
of Wyoming, subject to valid existing encumbrances affect-
ing the lands, the lands and interests in lands described
in subsection (d) below and the Secretary of the Interior
is authorized and directed to convey by patent to Union
Pacific Resources Company, subject to valid existing en-
cumbrances affecting the lands, the lands and interests
in lands described in subsection (e) below.
(b) The lands and interests in lands to be conveyed
by the State of Wyoming to the United States are more
particularly described as follows:
Surface and Mineral Lands Offered by the State of Wyoming
Location
Acres
Township 12 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 16: W1⁄2 ...........................................................................
320.00
Township 15 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 16: SE1⁄4 .........................................................................
160.00
Township 16 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 36: W1⁄2NW1⁄4; NW1⁄4SW1⁄4; NE1⁄4NW1⁄4; NW1⁄4NE1⁄4
200.00
Total .....................................................................................
680.00
Mineral Lands Offered by the State of Wyoming
Location
Acres
Township 17 North, Range 106 West, 6th PM
Section 16: W1⁄2W1⁄2, Lots 1–6 ...................................................
115.76
Township 17 North, Range 107 West, 6th PM
Section 36: All .............................................................................
640.00
Township 12 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 16: E1⁄2 ...........................................................................
320.00
Township 13 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 36: All .............................................................................
640.00
Township 14 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 16: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 36: All .............................................................................
640.00
Township 16 North, Range 108 East, 6th PM
Section 16: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 36: SE1⁄4; SE1⁄4NW1⁄4; E1⁄2SW1⁄4; SW1⁄4SW1⁄4;
E1⁄2NE1⁄4; SW1⁄4NE1⁄4 ....................................................
440.00
Total .....................................................................................
4075.76
(c) The lands and interests in lands to be conveyed
by Union Pacific Resources Company to the United States
are more particularly described as follows:
Surface and Mineral Estate
(Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area)
Location
Acres
Township 17 North, Range 106 West, 6th PM
Section 
17: 
W1⁄2W1⁄2NE1⁄4; 
NW1⁄4; 
N1⁄2SW1⁄4;
N1⁄2NW1⁄4NW1⁄4SE1⁄4 ..............................................................
285.00
Section 31: NE1⁄4NW1⁄4, Lot 7, N1⁄2Lot8 ...................................
99.76
Township 16 North, Range 107 West, 6th PM
Section 3: W1⁄2W1⁄2; W1⁄2E1⁄2W1⁄2 ..............................................
195.24
Section 15: N1⁄2NE1⁄4 ..................................................................
80.00
Section 29: S1⁄2 ............................................................................
320.00
Section 33: N1⁄2NW1⁄4 .................................................................
80.00
Township 17 North, Range 107 West, 6th PM
Section 1: All south of the centerline of the Green River ...........
527.29*
Section 35: NW1⁄4NE1⁄4; N1⁄2NW1⁄4; SW1⁄4NW1⁄4; W1⁄2SW1⁄4 ...
240.00
Township 15 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 3: S1⁄2SW1⁄4; SW1⁄4SE1⁄4 ................................................
120.00
Section 15: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 21: W1⁄2E1⁄2E1⁄2; W1⁄2E1⁄2W1⁄2 .......................................
560.00
Section 29: N1⁄2N1⁄2 ....................................................................
160.00
Township 16 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 17: SW1⁄4NW1⁄4; W1⁄2SW1⁄4; SE1⁄4SW1⁄4 .......................
160.00
Section 33: S1⁄2NE1⁄4; N1⁄2SE1⁄4 .................................................
160.00
Section 
35: 
E1⁄2; 
E1⁄2E1⁄2NW1⁄4; 
E1⁄2NE1⁄4SW1⁄4;
NE1⁄4SE1⁄4SW1⁄4 ......................................................................
390.00
Total .....................................................................................
4,017.59
* Immediately adjacent to the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area.
Mineral Estate Only
(Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area)
Location
Acres
Township 17 North, Range 106 West, 6th PM
Section 5: S1⁄2 ..............................................................................
320.00
Section 7: NE1⁄4NE1⁄4 (Lot 5), N1⁄2NW1⁄4NE1⁄4 ........................
60.00
Section 9: W1⁄2 .............................................................................
320.00
Section 17: All but W1⁄2W1⁄2NE1⁄4; NW1⁄4; N1⁄2SW1⁄4;
N1⁄2NW1⁄4NW1⁄4SE1⁄4 ..............................................................
355.00
Section 19: All .............................................................................
634.46
Section 21: W1⁄2NW1⁄4 .................................................................
80.00
Section 29: W1⁄2 ...........................................................................
320.00
Section 31: E1⁄2;SW1⁄4; S1⁄2SW1⁄4NW1⁄4 (S1⁄2 Lot 8) .................
537.54
Township 18 North, Range 106 West, 6th PM
Section 31: All SW1⁄4 south of north bank of Green River .........
40.63
Township 15 North, Range 107 West, 6th PM
Section 5: All ...............................................................................
636.40
Section 7: All ...............................................................................
625.00
Section 9: W1⁄2 .............................................................................
320.00
Section 19: N1⁄2 ...........................................................................
312.78
Township 16 North, Range 107 West, 6th PM
Section 1: All ...............................................................................
537.88
Section 3: E1⁄2; E1⁄2E1⁄2W1⁄2 .......................................................
325.38
Section 11: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 13: All .............................................................................
640.00
(Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area)—Continued
Location
Acres
Section 23: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 27: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 31: All .............................................................................
623.27
Section 33: NE1⁄4; S1⁄2NW1⁄4; S1⁄2 ..............................................
560.00
Township 17 North, Range 107 West, 6th PM
Section 1: Part N1⁄2 north of centerline of Green River .............
84.53
Section 35: All but NW1⁄4NE1⁄4; N1⁄2NW1⁄4; SW1⁄4NW1⁄4;
W1⁄2SW1⁄4 ................................................................................
400.00
Township 15 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 1: All ...............................................................................
638.71
Section 3: All but S1⁄2SW1⁄4; SW1⁄4SE1⁄4 ....................................
521.84
Section 11: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 13: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 21: E1⁄2E1⁄2E1⁄2 ..............................................................
80.00
Section 23: All but Lot 37 ...........................................................
620.00
Section 25: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 27: All but S1⁄2SW1⁄4 ......................................................
560.00
Section 35: N1⁄2N1⁄2 ....................................................................
160.00
Township 16 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 7: All ...............................................................................
632.32
Section 15: S1⁄2SW1⁄4; W1⁄2SW1⁄4SE1⁄4 .......................................
100.00
Section 17: All but SW1⁄4NW1⁄4; W1⁄2SW1⁄4; SE1⁄4SW1⁄4 ...........
480.00
Section 21: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 
23: 
S1⁄2SW1⁄4SW1⁄4; 
SW1⁄4SE1⁄4SW1⁄4;
W1⁄2SE1⁄4SE1⁄4SW1⁄4 ...............................................................
35.00
Section 27: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 33: N1⁄2NE1⁄4; S1⁄2SE1⁄4 .................................................
160.00
Section 35: W1⁄2W1⁄2; W1⁄2E1⁄2W1⁄2; SE1⁄4SE1⁄4SW1⁄4 ...............
250.00
Township 16 North, Range 109 West, 6th PM
Section 13: N1⁄2N1⁄2NE1⁄4; N1⁄2S1⁄2N1⁄2NE1⁄4 ............................
60.00
Total .....................................................................................
17,150.74
Surface and Mineral Estate
White Mountain Urban Reserve Study Area
Location
Acres
Township 19 North, Range 105 West, 6th PM
Section 5: W1⁄2NW1⁄4; W1⁄2SW1⁄4; NE1⁄4NW1⁄4; SE1⁄4SW1⁄4 ......
239.78
Section 7: All ...............................................................................
624.19
Section 17: All .............................................................................
636.74
Section 19: All .............................................................................
628.16
Section 29: All except NE1⁄4NW1⁄4SW1⁄4; NW1⁄4NE1⁄4SW1⁄4;
SE1⁄4SW1⁄4NW1⁄4 and SW1⁄4SE1⁄4NW1⁄4 ................................
600.00
Section 31: All .............................................................................
628.72
Township 20 North, Range 105 West, 6th PM
Section 5: All ...............................................................................
396.16
Section 7: All ...............................................................................
620.45
Section 9: All ...............................................................................
640.00
Section 17: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 19: All except SE1⁄4SE1⁄4 ...............................................
584.32
Section 31: All .............................................................................
626.16
Township 18 North, Range 106 West, 6th PM
Section 1: All ...............................................................................
639.92
White Mountain Urban Reserve Study Area—Continued
Location
Acres
Township 21 North, Range 105 West, 6th PM
Section 35: All .............................................................................
640.00
Total .....................................................................................
8,144.60
Mineral Estate Only
White Mountain Urban Reserve Area
Location
Acres
Township 19 North, Range 105 West, 6th PM
Section 5: SE1⁄4NW1⁄4; NE1⁄4SW1⁄4 ............................................
80.00
Section 
29: 
NE1⁄4NW1⁄4SW1⁄4; 
NW1⁄4NE1⁄4SW1⁄4;
SE1⁄4SW1⁄4NW1⁄4; SW1⁄4SE1⁄4NW1⁄4 ......................................
40.00
Township 20 North, Range 105 West, 6th PM
Section 19: SE1⁄4SE1⁄4 ................................................................
40.00
Total .....................................................................................
160.00
(d) The lands and interests in lands to be conveyed
by the United States to the State of Wyoming are more
particularly described as follows:
Selected Federal Surface and Minerals
Location
Acres
Township 16 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
640.00
Section 32: All .............................................................................
Total .....................................................................................
640.00
(e) The lands and interests in lands to be conveyed
by the United States to Union Pacific Resources Company
are more particularly described as follows:
Selected Federal Surface and Mineral Estate
Location
Acres
Township 15 North, Range 109 West, 6th PM
Section 4: All ...............................................................................
641.12
Section 8: All ...............................................................................
640.00
Section 18: All .............................................................................
619.68
Township 17 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 6: All ...............................................................................
633.82
Section 8: All ...............................................................................
640.00
Section 18: All .............................................................................
636.56
Section 20: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 28: All .............................................................................
640.00
Section 30: All .............................................................................
638.80
Section 34: All .............................................................................
640.00
Selected Federal Surface and Mineral Estate—Continued
Location
Acres
Township 16 North, Range 109 West, 6th PM
Section 32: All .............................................................................
640.00
Township 17 North, Range 109 West, 6th PM
Section 12: Lots 1, 4 thru 6, 8 thru 10, SW1⁄4; SW1⁄4SE1⁄4 ......
401.63
Total .....................................................................................
7,411.61
Selected USFS Mineral Estate Only
Location
Acres
Township 17 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 32: All .............................................................................
640.00
Township 16 North, Range 108 West, 6th PM
Section 6: All ...............................................................................
525.96
Total .....................................................................................
1,165.96
SEC. 4. PROCESSING OF AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS RE-
LATING TO LAND EXCHANGE.
(a) SURVEYS.—Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, the Secretary of the Interior may conduct and ap-
prove all cadastral surveys that are necessary for comple-
tion of the exchange.
(b) EQUAL VALUE EXCHANGE.—The values of the
property conveyed by the State of Wyoming to the United
States and the property conveyed by the United States
to the State of Wyoming are deemed to be of equal value.
The values of the property conveyed by Union Pacific Re-
sources Company to the United States and the value of
the property conveyed by the United States to Union Pa-
cific Resources Company are deemed to be of equal value.
(c) ADMINISTRATION.—The Secretary of the Interior,
acting through the Bureau of Land Management and the
Bureau of Reclamation, and the Secretary of Agriculture,
acting through the United States Forest Service, are di-
rected to implement and administer the rights and obliga-
tions of the United States under this Act.
(d) 
HAZARDOUS
WASTE.—Notwithstanding 
the
transfers to the United States of the lands and interests
in lands described in subsections 3(b) and 3(c), the State
of Wyoming and Union Pacific Resources Company, re-
spectively, shall continue to be responsible, to the extent
they are responsible on the date of transfer of title, for
all environmental remediation, waste management and en-
vironmental compliance activities arising from ownership
and control of lands and interests in lands pursuant to
applicable federal and state laws with respect to conditions
existing on the lands at the time of transfer. Notwith-
standing the transfers to the State of Wyoming and Union
Pacific Resources Company of the lands and interests in
lands described in subsections 3(d) and 3(e), the United
States shall continue to be responsible, to the extent it
is responsible on the date of transfer of title, for all envi-
ronmental remediation, waste management and environ-
mental compliance activities arising from the ownership
and control of lands and interests therein pursuant to ap-
plicable federal and state laws with respect to conditions
existing on the lands at the time of the transfer.
(e) TITLE STANDARDS.—Title to the State of Wyo-
ming and Union Pacific Resources Company properties to
be conveyed to the United States shall be acceptable to
the Secretary of the Interior consistent with the Title Re-
view Standards of the Attorney General of the United
States.
SEC. 5. GENERAL PROVISIONS.
(a) MANAGEMENT OF PROPERTY ACQUIRED BY THE
UNITED STATES.—Upon acquisition of the properties of
the State of Wyoming and Union Pacific Resources Com-
pany by the United States pursuant to this Act, the prop-
erties located within the exterior boundaries of the Flam-
ing Gorge National Recreation Area shall be managed in
accordance with the provisions of the Act creating the
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area as established
by Act of Congress on October 1, 1968. The lands ac-
quired within the White Mountain Urban Reserve Study
Area shall be managed in accordance with the resource
management plans adopted with respect to the area from
time to time by the Bureau of Land Management.
(b) WATER RIGHTS.—All water rights, if any, held
by the transferor that are appurtenant to the lands ex-
changed pursuant to this Act shall be conveyed with the
land. Nothing contained in this Act shall impair valid ex-
isting water rights owned by private parties nor shall the
terms of this Act expand or diminish federal or state juris-
diction, responsibilities, interests, or rights in water re-
source adjudication allocation, development or control.
(c) GRAZING PERMITS.—On all lands acquired by the
United States under this Act the Secretary of the Interior
and the Secretary of Agriculture shall honor, for the re-
mainder of the applicable term, all leases, permits and
contracts for the grazing of domestic livestock and the re-
lated terms and conditions of surface user agreements, if
any, currently in existence with respect to such lands. On
all lands acquired by the State of Wyoming and Union
Pacific Resources Company under this Act, the State of
Wyoming and Union Pacific Resources Company shall re-
spectively honor, for the remainder of the applicable term,
all leases, permits and contracts for the grazing of domes-
tic livestock and the related terms and conditions of sur-
face user agreements, if any, currently in existence with
respect to such lands. Title to, or any interest in, any
range improvement held by the owner of the lands prior
to the exchange authorized by this Act shall be transferred
with such lands. Nothing in this Act shall operate to divest
title to, or any interest in, any range improvement held
by any other person on such lands. Nothing contained in
this Act shall prevent the State of Wyoming or Union Pa-
cific Resources from canceling any grazing permit in ac-
cordance with its terms when the underlying land is sold
or leased for non-grazing purposes by the owner.
(d) OIL AND GAS LEASES.—On all lands acquired by
the State of Wyoming and Union Pacific Resources Com-
pany under this Act which are subject to oil and gas leases
issued by the United States prior to the date of enactment
of this Act, the State of Wyoming and Union Pacific Re-
sources Company shall respectively honor, for the remain-
der of the applicable term, such oil and gas leases. All
rentals and royalties payable thereunder shall remain pay-
able to the United States until the termination of such
leases in accordance with their terms and the United
States shall retain responsibility for the administration of
the rentals and royalties payable under such leases until
terminated.
(e) EASEMENTS.—Upon consummation of the ex-
change as herein provided, Union Pacific Resources Com-
pany shall grant road easements along center lines and
for widths as currently being used by the public for pur-
poses of access to the Flaming Gorge National Recreation
Area encumbering lands which it owns which are not the
subject of this Act. In the event Union Pacific Resources
Company should subsequently sell to a third party any of
the surface of the lands being acquired by it pursuant to
this Act, then prior to selling such surface lands Union
Pacific Resources Company will encumber the surface
lands with such easements as may be necessary to ensure
continued public access on and across the lands to be sold.
(f) VALID
EXISTING
RIGHTS.—The conveyances
among the State of Wyoming, Union Pacific Resources
Company and the United States under this Act shall be
subject to valid existing encumbrances affecting the lands
as of the date of enactment of this Act.
(g) COSTS.—The United States, Union Pacific Re-
sources Company and the State of Wyoming shall each
bear its own respective costs incurred in the implementa-
tion of this Act.
SEC. 6. SCHEDULE FOR CONVEYANCES.
All conveyances under section 2 of this Act shall be
completed within sixty (60) days after the enactment of
this Act.
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