I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3826 
To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to modify 
provisions relating to certain land exchanges in the Mt. Hood Wilderness 
in the State of Oregon. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 23, 2015 
Mr. WALDEN (for himself and Mr. BLUMENAUER) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To amend the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 
2009 to modify provisions relating to certain land ex-
changes in the Mt. Hood Wilderness in the State of 
Oregon. 
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 ‘‘Mount Hood Cooper 
Spur Land Exchange Clarification Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. COOPER SPUR LAND EXCHANGE CLARIFICATION 
AMENDMENTS. 
Section 1206(a) of the Omnibus Public Land Man-
agement Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–11; 123 Stat. 
1018) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘120 
acres’’ and inserting ‘‘107 acres’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (E)(ii), by inserting 
‘‘improvements,’’ after ‘‘buildings,’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) by amending the text of subparagraph 
(C) to read as follows: ‘‘As a condition of the 
land exchange under this subsection, title to the 
non-Federal land to be acquired by the Sec-
retary under this subsection shall be acceptable 
to the Secretary.’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (D)— 
(i) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘As soon 
as practicable after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary and Mt. Hood 
Meadows shall select’’ and inserting ‘‘Not 
later than 60 days after the date of the en-
actment of the Mount Hood Cooper Spur 
Land Exchange Clarification Act, the Sec-
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retary and Mt. Hood Meadows shall jointly 
select’’; 
(ii) in clause (ii), in the matter pre-
ceding subclause (I), by striking ‘‘An ap-
praisal under clause (i) shall’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Except as provided under clause (iii), 
an appraisal under clause (i) shall assign a 
separate value to each tax lot to allow for 
the equalization of values and’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(iii) FINAL APPRAISED VALUE.— 
‘‘(I) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to 
subclause (II), after the final ap-
praised value of the Federal land and 
the non-Federal land are determined 
and approved by the Secretary, the 
Secretary shall not be required to re-
appraise or update the final appraised 
value for a period of up to 3 years, 
beginning on the date of the approval 
by the Secretary of the final appraised 
value. 
‘‘(II) EXCEPTION.—Subclause (I) 
shall not apply if the condition of ei-
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ther the Federal land or the non-Fed-
eral land referred to in subclause (I) 
is significantly and substantially al-
tered by fire, windstorm, or other 
events. 
‘‘(iv) PUBLIC REVIEW.—Before com-
pleting the land exchange under this Act, 
the Secretary shall make available for pub-
lic review the complete appraisals of the 
land to be exchanged.’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (F), by striking ‘‘16 
months after the date of enactment of this Act’’ 
and inserting ‘‘1 year after the date of the en-
actment of the Mount Hood Cooper Spur Land 
Exchange Clarification Act’’; and 
(D) by striking subparagraph (G) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(G) 
REQUIRED
CONVEYANCE
CONDI-
TIONS.—Prior to the exchange of the Federal 
and non-Federal land— 
‘‘(i) in full satisfaction of Executive 
Order 11990, Mt. Hood Meadows shall ob-
tain the concurrence of the Oregon Depart-
ment of State Lands with the identification 
of wetland boundaries on the Federal land 
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as designated on a wetland delineation re-
port prepared by an independent profes-
sional engineer registered in the State of 
Oregon so as to provide protection of the 
identified wetland according to applicable 
law; and 
‘‘(ii) the Secretary shall reserve a 24- 
foot-wide nonexclusive trail easement at 
the existing trail locations on the Federal 
land that retains for the United States ex-
isting rights to construct, reconstruct, 
maintain, and permit nonmotorized use by 
the public of existing trails subject to the 
right of the owner of the Federal land— 
‘‘(I) to cross the trails with 
roads, utilities, and infrastructure fa-
cilities; and 
‘‘(II) to improve or relocate the 
trails to accommodate development of 
the Federal land. 
‘‘(H) EQUALIZATION OF VALUES.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding 
subparagraph (A), in addition to or in lieu 
of monetary compensation, a lesser area of 
Federal land or non-Federal land may be 
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conveyed if necessary to equalize appraised 
values of the exchange properties, without 
limitation, consistent with the require-
ments of this Act and subject to the ap-
proval of the Secretary and Mt. Hood 
Meadows. 
‘‘(ii) TREATMENT OF CERTAIN COM-
PENSATION
OR
CONVEYANCES
AS
DONA-
TION.—If, after payment of compensation 
or adjustment of land area subject to ex-
change under this Act, the amount by 
which the appraised value of the land and 
other property conveyed by Mt. Hood 
Meadows under subparagraph (A) exceeds 
the appraised value of the land conveyed 
by the Secretary under subparagraph (A) 
shall be considered a donation by Mt. 
Hood Meadows to the United States.’’. 
Æ 
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