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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4889
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release the reversionary interest
of the United States in certain land located in Sumter County, South
Carolina, to facilitate a land exchange involving that land and to provide
for the conveyance of the mineral interests of the United States in
that land.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 19, 2000
Mr. SPRATT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Resources,
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
committee concerned
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release the rever-
sionary interest of the United States in certain land
located in Sumter County, South Carolina, to facilitate
a land exchange involving that land and to provide for
the conveyance of the mineral interests of the United
States in that land.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. RELEASE OF REVERSIONARY INTEREST AND
SALE OF MINERAL RIGHTS IN FORMER FED-
ERAL LAND IN SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH
CAROLINA.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
(1) The hiking trail known as the Palmetto
Trail traverses the Manchester State Forest in Sum-
ter County, South Carolina, which is owned by the
South Carolina State Commission of Forestry for
the State of South Carolina.
(2) The Commission seeks to widen the Pal-
metto Trail by acquiring a corridor of land along the
northeastern border of the trail from the Anne
Marie Carton Boardman Trust in exchange for a
tract of former Federal land now owned by the Com-
mission.
(3) At the time of the conveyance of the former
Federal land to the Commission in 1955, the United
States retained a reversionary interest in the land,
which now prevents the land exchange from being
completed.
(b) RELEASE OF REVERSIONARY INTEREST.—
(1) RELEASE
REQUIRED.—The Secretary of
Agriculture shall release the reversionary interest of
the United States in the tract of land identified as
Tract 3 on the map referred to in paragraph (3) (in
this section referred to as ‘‘Tract 3’’) that—
(A) requires that the land be used for pub-
lic purposes; and
(B) is contained in the deed conveying the
land from the United States to the South Caro-
lina State Commission of Forestry, dated June
28, 1955, and recorded in Deed Drawer No. 6
of the Clerk of Court for Sumter County, South
Carolina.
(2) MAP OF TRACT 3.—Tract 3 is generally de-
picted on the map numbered 225–HI, entitled
‘‘Boundary Survey for South Carolina Forestry
Commission’’, dated August 1998, and filed, to-
gether with a legal description of the tract, with the
South Carolina State Commission of Forestry.
(3) CONSIDERATION.—As consideration for the
release of the revisionary interest under paragraph
(1), the State of South Carolina shall transfer to the
United States a vested future interest, similar to the
restriction described in paragraph (1)(A), in the
tract of land identified as Parcel G on the map num-
bered 161–DI, entitled ‘‘South Carolina Forestry
Commission Boardman Land Exchange’’, dated Feb-
ruary 10, 1997, and filed, together with a legal de-
scription of the tract, with the South Carolina State
Commission of Forestry.
(c) SALE OF MINERAL RIGHTS.—
(1) SALE REQUIRED.—Subject to any valid ex-
isting rights of third parties, the Secretary of the In-
terior shall convey to the State of South Carolina all
of the undivided mineral interests of the United
States in Tract 3 as soon as practicable after the
State of South Carolina agrees to comply with para-
graph (3).
(2) DETERMINATION OF MINERAL CHARACTER
AND FAIR MARKET VALUE.—Not later than 90 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of the Interior shall determine—
(A) the mineral character of Tract 3; and
(B) the fair market value of the mineral
interests.
(3) CONSIDERATION.—As consideration for the
sale of mineral interests under paragraph (1), the
State of South Carolina shall pay to the United
States an amount equal to—
(A) the administrative costs incurred by
the United States in conveying the mineral in-
terests to the State of South Carolina, including
the costs incurred to make the determinations
required by paragraph (2); and
(B) subject to paragraph (4), the fair mar-
ket value of the mineral interests.
(4) WAIVER.—If the Secretary of the Interior
determines under paragraph (2) that the mineral in-
terests in Tract 3 have no value and are under no
active mineral development or lease, the Secretary
may waive the consideration that would otherwise be
required by paragraph (2)(B).
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