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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1370
To require the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre 
of Federal real property to assist with Federal land management, re-
source conservation, and development of Federal real property, including 
identification of any such property that is no longer required to be 
owned by the Federal Government, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 17, 2005
Mr. CANNON (for himself, Mr. FLAKE, Mr. DUNCAN, Mr. PETERSON of Penn-
sylvania, and Mrs. MUSGRAVE) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Resources 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multi-
purpose cadastre of Federal real property to assist with 
Federal land management, resource conservation, and 
development of Federal real property, including identi-
fication of any such property that is no longer required 
to be owned by the Federal Government, 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 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. CADASTRE OF FEDERAL LAND. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall develop a 
multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property to assist 
with Federal land management, resource conservation, 
and development of real property, including identification 
of any Federal land which is no longer required to be 
owned by the Federal Government. 
(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 Re-
sources of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
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 2004; 
(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 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 
(5) 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 
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; 
(C) make the cadastre interoperable with 
the Federal Real Property Profile established 
pursuant to Executive Order 13327; and 
(D) 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)(C) shall be considered ‘‘surveying and mapping’’ 
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 section, 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 geo-
detic network. 
(B) A series of current, accurate large 
scale maps. 
(C) A cadastral boundary overlay delin-
eating 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 data files, which con-
tains information about the use, value, infra-
structure, resources, and characteristics 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.
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