H. R. 699 
One Hundred Fifteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and seventeen 
An Act 
To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to modify provisions 
relating to certain land exchanges in the Mt. Hood Wilderness in the State 
of Oregon. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mount Hood Cooper Spur Land 
Exchange Clarification Act’’. 
SEC. 2. COOPER SPUR LAND EXCHANGE CLARIFICATION AMEND-
MENTS. 
Section 1206(a) of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act 
of 2009 (Public Law 111–11; 123 Stat. 1018) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘120 acres’’ and 
inserting ‘‘107 acres’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (E)(ii), by inserting ‘‘improve-
ments,’’ after ‘‘buildings,’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (D)— 
(i) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘As soon as practicable 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
and Mt. Hood Meadows shall select’’ and inserting 
‘‘Not later than 120 days after the date of the enact-
ment of the Mount Hood Cooper Spur Land Exchange 
Clarification Act, the Secretary and Mt. Hood Meadows 
shall jointly select’’; 
(ii) in clause (ii), in the matter preceding subclause 
(I), by striking ‘‘An appraisal under clause (i) shall’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Except as provided under clause (iii), 
an appraisal under clause (i) shall assign a separate 
value to each tax lot to allow for the equalization 
of values and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(iii) FINAL APPRAISED VALUE.— 
‘‘(I) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subclause (II), 
after the final appraised value of the Federal land 
and the non-Federal land are determined and 
approved by the Secretary, the Secretary shall not 
be required to reappraise or update the final 
appraised value for a period of up to 3 years, 
beginning on the date of the approval by the Sec-
retary of the final appraised value.
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‘‘(II) EXCEPTION.—Subclause (I) shall not apply 
if the condition of either the Federal land or the 
non-Federal land referred to in subclause (I) is 
significantly and substantially altered by fire, 
windstorm, or other events. 
‘‘(iv) PUBLIC REVIEW.—Before completing the land 
exchange under this Act, the Secretary shall make 
available for public review the complete appraisals of 
the land to be exchanged.’’; and 
(B) by striking subparagraph (G) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(G) REQUIRED CONVEYANCE CONDITIONS.—Prior to the 
exchange of the Federal and non-Federal land— 
‘‘(i) the Secretary and Mt. Hood Meadows may 
mutually agree for the Secretary to reserve a conserva-
tion easement to protect the identified wetland in 
accordance with applicable law, subject to the require-
ments that— 
‘‘(I) the conservation easement shall be con-
sistent with the terms of the September 30, 2015, 
mediation between the Secretary and Mt. Hood 
Meadows; and 
‘‘(II) in order to take effect, the conservation 
easement shall be finalized not later than 120 
days after the date of enactment of the Mount 
Hood Cooper Spur Land Exchange Clarification 
Act; and 
‘‘(ii) the Secretary shall reserve a 24-foot-wide non-
exclusive trail easement at the existing trail locations 
on the Federal land that retains for the United States 
existing rights to construct, reconstruct, maintain, and 
permit nonmotorized use by the public of existing trails 
subject to the right of the owner of the Federal land— 
‘‘(I) to cross the trails with roads, utilities, 
and infrastructure facilities; and 
‘‘(II) to improve or relocate the trails to 
accommodate development of the Federal land. 
‘‘(H) EQUALIZATION OF VALUES.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding subparagraph 
(A), in addition to or in lieu of monetary compensation, 
a lesser area of Federal land or non-Federal land may 
be conveyed if necessary to equalize appraised values 
of the exchange properties, without limitation, con-
sistent with the requirements of this Act and subject 
to the approval of the Secretary and Mt. Hood 
Meadows. 
‘‘(ii) TREATMENT
OF
CERTAIN
COMPENSATION
OR 
CONVEYANCES AS DONATION.—If, after payment of com-
pensation or adjustment of land area subject to 
exchange under this Act, the amount by which the 
appraised value of the land and other property con-
veyed by Mt. Hood Meadows under subparagraph (A) 
exceeds the appraised value of the land conveyed by