I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3121 
To improve Federal land management, resource conservation, environmental 
protection, and use of Federal real property, by requiring the Secretary 
of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real prop-
erty and identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land 
inventories, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 21, 2015 
Mr. KIND (for himself, Mr. CRAMER, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Mr. 
AMODEI, and Mr. GRAYSON) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To improve Federal land management, resource conservation, 
environmental protection, and use of Federal real prop-
erty, by requiring the Secretary of the Interior to develop 
a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property and 
identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal 
land inventories, 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 2015’’. 
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SEC. 2. CADASTRE OF FEDERAL LAND. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall develop and 
maintain a current and accurate multipurpose cadastre of 
Federal real property to support Federal land manage-
ment activities, including, but not limited to: resource de-
velopment and conservation, agricultural use, active forest 
management, environmental protection, and use of real 
property. 
(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 Nat-
ural Resources of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Sen-
ate 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 2014; 
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(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 use of existing real property inventories 
or any components of any cadastre currently con-
ducted by any unit of State or local government that 
can be used to identify Federal real property within 
such unit of government; 
(5) 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 a plan for implementation of this Act, including 
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a cost estimate and the feasibility of the use of rev-
enue from any transactional activity authorized by 
law that may be used to offset any costs of imple-
menting this Act; 
(6) in consultation with the Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget, the Administrator 
of the General Services Administration, and the 
Comptroller General of the United States, conduct 
the assessment required by paragraphs (1) through 
(5) of this subsection with regard to all cadastres 
and inventories authorized, operated or maintained 
by all other Executive agencies of the Federal Gov-
ernment; and 
(7) 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 
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