I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1651 
To reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 26, 2015 
Mr. NEWHOUSE (for himself, Mrs. LUMMIS, Mr. ROHRABACHER, Mr. GOSAR, 
Mr. STEWART, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. SIMPSON, Ms. DELBENE, Mr. COFF-
MAN, Mr. LABRADOR, and Mr. BEN RAY LUJA´N of New Mexico) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
Resources 
A BILL 
To reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation 
Act, 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 Trans-
action Facilitation Act Reauthorization of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. FEDERAL LAND TRANSACTION FACILITATION ACT. 
The Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act is 
amended— 
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(1) in section 203(1) (43 U.S.C. 2302(1)), by 
striking ‘‘cultural, or’’ and inserting ‘‘cultural, rec-
reational access and use, or other’’; 
(2) in section 203(2) in the matter preceding 
subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘on the date of enact-
ment of this Act was’’ and inserting ‘‘is’’; 
(3) in section 205 (43 U.S.C. 2304)— 
(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘section 
206’’ and all that follows through the period 
and inserting the following: ‘‘section 206— 
‘‘(1) to complete appraisals and satisfy other 
legal requirements for the sale or exchange of public 
land identified for disposal under approved land use 
plans under section 202 of the Federal Land Policy 
and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712); 
‘‘(2) not later than 180 days after the date of 
the enactment of the Federal Land Transaction Fa-
cilitation Act Reauthorization of 2015, to establish 
and make available to the public, on the website of 
the Department of the Interior, a database con-
taining a comprehensive list of all the land referred 
to in paragraph (1); and 
‘‘(3) to maintain the database referred to in 
paragraph (2).’’; and 
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(B) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘11’’ and 
inserting ‘‘20’’; 
(4) in section 206(c)(2) (43 U.S.C. 2305(c)(2)), 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(E) Any funds made available under sub-
paragraph (D) that are not obligated or ex-
pended by the end of the fourth full fiscal year 
after the date of the sale or exchange of land 
that generated the funds may be expended in 
any State.’’; 
(5) 
in 
section 
206(c)(3) 
(43 
U.S.C. 
2305(c)(3))— 
(A) by inserting after subparagraph (A) 
the following: 
‘‘(B) the extent to which the acquisition of 
the land or interest therein will increase the 
public availability of resources for, and facilitate 
public access to, hunting, fishing, and other rec-
reational activities;’’; and 
(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (B), 
(C), and (D) as subparagraphs (C), (D), and 
(E); 
(6) in section 206(f) (43 U.S.C. 2305(f)), by 
amending paragraph (2) to read as follows: 
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‘‘(2) any remaining balance in the account shall 
be deposited in the Treasury and used for deficit re-
duction, except that in the case of a fiscal year for 
which there is no Federal budget deficit, such 
amounts shall be used to reduce the Federal debt (in 
such manner as the Secretary of the Treasury con-
siders appropriate).’’; and 
(7) in section 207(b) (43 U.S.C. 2306(b))— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘96–568’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘96–586’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘; or’’ and inserting a 
semicolon; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘Public Law 105– 
263;’’ before ‘‘112 Stat.’’; and 
(ii) by striking the period at the end 
and inserting a semicolon; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) the White Pine County Conservation, 
Recreation, and Development Act of 2006 (Public 
Law 109–432; 120 Stat. 3028); 
‘‘(4) the Lincoln County Conservation, Recre-
ation, and Development Act of 2004 (Public Law 
108–424; 118 Stat. 2403); 
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‘‘(5) subtitle F of title I of the Omnibus Public 
Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 1132 
note; Public Law 111–11); 
‘‘(6) subtitle O of title I of the Omnibus Public 
Land Management Act of 2009 (16 U.S.C. 460www 
note, 1132 note; Public Law 111–11); 
‘‘(7) section 2601 of the Omnibus Public Land 
Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–11; 123 
Stat. 1108); or 
‘‘(8) section 2606 of the Omnibus Public Land 
Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–11; 123 
Stat. 1121).’’. 
Æ 
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