(ii) if applicable, the adjacent owner of 
land located in Oklahoma to the north with 
the second right of refusal; 
(iii) if applicable, the adjacent owner 
of land located to the east with the third 
right of refusal; and 
(iv) if applicable, the adjacent owner of 
land located to the west with the fourth 
right of refusal. 
(2) REMAINING IDENTIFIED FEDERAL LANDS DE-
FINED.—In this subsection, the term ‘‘remaining 
identified Federal lands’’ means any parcel of identi-
fied Federal lands— 
(A) not subject to appeal under section 4; 
(B) not determined by an administrative 
law judge of the Department of the Interior or a 
Federal court to be the property of an adjacent 
landowner; and 
(C) not patented or subject to a pending re-
quest for a patent under section 5. 
(b) DISPOSAL BY COMPETITIVE SALE.—If a parcel of-
fered under subsection (a) is not purchased, the Secretary 
shall offer the parcel for disposal by competitive sale for 
not less than fair market value as determined by an ap-
praisal conducted in accordance with nationally recognized 
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appraisal standards, including the Uniform Appraisal 
Standards for Federal Land Acquisitions and the Uniform 
Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. 
(c) CONDITIONS OF SALE.—The sale of a parcel under 
this section shall be subject to— 
(1) the condition that all minerals contained in 
the parcel are reserved to the United States and sub-
ject to sale or disposal by the United States under ap-
plicable leasing and mineral land laws; 
(2) the condition that permittees, lessees, or 
grantees of the United States have the right to enter 
the parcel for the purpose of prospecting for and min-
ing deposits; and 
(3) valid existing State, tribal, and local rights. 
(d) REPORT.—Not later than 5 years after the date 
on which the survey is approved, the Secretary shall submit 
to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-
sources of the Senate a list of the parcels of identified Fed-
eral lands that have not been sold under subsection (b) and 
a description of the reasons such parcels were not sold. 
SEC. 7. RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLAN. 
The Secretary may not treat a parcel of identified Fed-
eral lands as Federal land for the purposes of a resource 
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management plan if the treatment of such parcel does not 
comply with the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 8. CONSTRUCTION. 
(a) LANDS LOCATED NORTH OF THE SOUTH BANK 
BOUNDARY LINE.—Nothing in this Act shall be construed 
to modify the interest of Texas or Oklahoma or sovereignty 
rights of any federally recognized Indian tribe over lands 
located to the north of the South Bank boundary line as 
established by the survey. 
(b) PATENTS UNDER THE COLOR OF TITLE ACT.— 
Nothing in this Act shall be construed to modify land pat-
ented under the Act of December 22, 1928 (Public Law 70– 
645; 45 Stat. 1069; 43 U.S.C. 1068; commonly known as 
the Color of Title Act), before the date of the enactment of 
this Act. 
(c) RED RIVER BOUNDARY COMPACT.—Nothing in 
this Act shall be construed to modify the Red River Bound-
ary Compact as enacted by the States of Texas and Okla-
homa and consented to by the United States Congress by 
Public Law 106-288 (114 Stat. 919). 
SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) AFFECTED AREA.—The term ‘‘affected area’’ 
means lands along the approximately 116-mile stretch 
of the Red River from its confluence with the North 
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Fork of the Red River on the west to the 98th merid-
ian on the east between the States of Texas and Okla-
homa. 
(2) GRADIENT
BOUNDARY
SURVEY
METHOD.— 
The term ‘‘gradient boundary survey method’’ means 
the measurement technique used to locate the South 
Bank boundary line under the methodology estab-
lished in Oklahoma v. Texas, 261 U.S. 340 (1923) 
(recognizing that the boundary line between the States 
of Texas and Oklahoma along the Red River is subject 
to change due to erosion and accretion). 
(3) IDENTIFIED
FEDERAL
LANDS.—The term 
‘‘identified Federal lands’’ means the lands in the af-
fected area from the South Bank boundary line north 
to the medial line of the Red River as identified pur-
suant to this Act. 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Di-
rector of the Bureau of Land Management. 
(5) SOUTH
BANK.—The term ‘‘South Bank’’ 
means the water-washed and relatively permanent ele-
vation or acclivity, commonly called a cut bank, 
along the southerly or right side of the Red River 
which separates its bed from the adjacent upland, 
whether valley or hill, and usually serves to confine 
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the waters within the bed and to preserve the course 
of the river (as specified in the fifth paragraph of 
Oklahoma v. Texas, 261 U.S. 340 (1923)). 
(6) SOUTH BANK BOUNDARY LINE.—The term 
‘‘South Bank boundary line’’ means the boundary be-
tween Texas and Oklahoma identified through the 
gradient boundary survey method (as specified in the 
sixth and seventh paragraphs of Oklahoma v. Texas, 
261 U.S. 340 (1923)). 
(7) SURVEY.—The term ‘‘survey’’ means the sur-
vey required by section 3(a). 
(8) VEGETATION
LINE.—The term ‘‘vegetation 
line’’ means the visually identifiable continuous line 
of vegetation that is adjacent to the portion of the riv-
erbed kept practically bare of vegetation by the nat-
ural flow of the river and is continuous with the vege-
tation beyond the riverbed. 
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