IIB 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 1237 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 24, 2012 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources 
AN ACT 
To provide for a land exchange with the Trinity Public 
Utilities District of Trinity County, California, involving 
the transfer of land to the Bureau of Land Management 
and the Six Rivers National Forest in exchange for Na-
tional Forest System land in the Shasta-Trinity National 
Forest, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. LAND EXCHANGE, TRINITY PUBLIC UTILITIES 
DISTRICT, TRINITY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, 
THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, AND 
THE FOREST SERVICE. 
(a) LAND EXCHANGE REQUIRED.—If the Trinity 
Public Utilities District of Trinity County, California (in 
this section referred to as the ‘‘Utilities District’’) conveys 
to the Secretary of Agriculture all right, title, and interest 
of the Utilities District in and to the parcel of land de-
scribed in subsection (b)(1) and conveys to the Secretary 
of the Interior all right, title, and interest of the Utilities 
District in and to the parcel of land described in sub-
section (b)(2), the Secretary of Agriculture shall convey 
to the Utilities District, in exchange, all right, title, and 
interest of the United States in and to a parcel of land 
in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in the State of Cali-
fornia consisting of approximately 100 acres near the 
Weaverville Airport in Trinity County. 
(b) LAND TO BE ACQUIRED.— 
(1) FOREST SERVICE ACQUISITION.—The land 
to be acquired by the Secretary of Agriculture under 
subsection (a) consists of approximately 150 acres, 
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known as the Van Duzen parcel, within the bound-
aries of the Six Rivers National Forest. 
(2) BLM ACQUISITION.—The land to be ac-
quired by the Secretary of the Interior under sub-
section (a) consists of approximately 47 acres, 
known as the Sky Ranch parcel, adjacent to public 
land administered by the Redding Field Office of the 
Bureau of Land Management. 
(c) AVAILABILITY OF MAPS AND LEGAL DESCRIP-
TIONS.—Any map prepared by the Secretary of Agri-
culture or the Secretary of the Interior in connection with 
the land exchange required by subsection (a), and the legal 
description of the lands to be exchanged, shall be on file 
and available for public inspection in the Office of the 
Chief of the Forest Service and the appropriate office of 
the Bureau of Land Management. With the agreement of 
the parties to a conveyance under subsection (a), the Sec-
retary concerned may make technical corrections to the 
map and legal descriptions. 
(d) LAND EXCHANGE PROCESS.—Section 206 of the 
Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
U.S.C. 1716) shall apply to the land conveyances under 
this section, except that— 
(1) if the value of the land described in para-
graphs (1) and (2) of subsection (b) is less than the 
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value of the land to be conveyed to the Utilities Dis-
trict, any cash equalization payments received by the 
Secretaries shall be deposited in the General Treas-
ury; and 
(2) if the value of the land described in para-
graphs (1) and (2) of subsection (b) is greater than 
the value of the land to be conveyed to the Utilities 
District, no cash equalization payment may be made 
to the Utilities District and the acreage of the land 
involved in the exchange may be adjusted to equalize 
the value of the exchange. 
(e) SURVEY
AND ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—The 
exact acreage and legal description of the land to be ex-
changed under subsection (a) shall be determined by a 
survey satisfactory to the Secretary concerned. The Utili-
ties District shall be responsible for the costs of the survey 
and reasonable administrative costs related to the land ex-
change. 
(f) MANAGEMENT OF ACQUIRED LAND.— 
(1) FOREST SERVICE ACQUISITION.—The land 
acquired by the Secretary of Agriculture under sub-
section (a) shall be added to and administered as 
part of the Six Rivers National Forest and managed 
in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1911 (com-
monly known as the Weeks Act; 16 U.S.C. 480 et 
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seq.), and the laws and regulations applicable to the 
National Forest System. 
(2) BLM ACQUISITION.—The land acquired by 
the Secretary of the Interior under subsection (a) 
shall be administered as public land by the Redding 
Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management in 
accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Man-
agement Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and 
the laws and regulations applicable to public land 
administered by the Bureau of Land Management. 
(g) COMPLETION OF LAND EXCHANGE.—The Sec-
retary of Agriculture shall complete the conveyance of Na-
tional Forest System land required by subsection (a) not 
later than one year after the date on which the Utilities 
District offers to make the conveyances to the Secretary 
of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior described 
in such subsection. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 23, 2012. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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