I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 916 
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erty and identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land 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 
FEBRUARY 28, 2013 
Mr. KIND (for himself and Mr. BISHOP of Utah) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred 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identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal 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 2013’’. 
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SEC. 2. CADASTRE OF FEDERAL LAND. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall develop a 
multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property to support 
Federal land management activities, including, but not 
limited to: resource development and conservation, travel 
management, 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 2012; 
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(6) 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 for the imple-
mentation of and compliance with such stand-
ards as may be applicable to the cadastre; 
(C) make the cadastre interoperable with 
the Federal Real Property Profile established 
pursuant to Executive Order 13327; 
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(D) integrate with and leverage to the 
maximum extent practicable current cadastre 
activities of units of State and local govern-
ment; and 
(E) 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)(E) 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 Act, 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-
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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, assets 
and infrastructure of each parcel, and shall also 
designate any parcels that the Secretary deter-
mines can be better managed through owner-
ship by a non-Federal entity including but not 
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limited to State government, local government, 
Tribal government, nonprofit organizations, or 
the private sector. 
(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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