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110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 4162 
To provide for an exchange of lands with San Bernardino County, California, 
to enhance management of lands within the San Bernardino National 
Forest, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 13, 2007 
Mr. LEWIS of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
To provide for an exchange of lands with San Bernardino 
County, California, to enhance management of lands 
within the San Bernardino National Forest, 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 AND PURPOSES. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘San Bernardino Biomass Use Facilitation Act’’. 
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to facili-
tate an exchange of land between the Federal Government 
and San Bernardino County, California, to make available 
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to the County land for biomass utilization facilities, bio-
mass recycling activities, and industrial resource recovery 
and recycling activities. 
SEC. 2. LAND EXCHANGE, SAN BERNARDINO NATIONAL 
FOREST, CALIFORNIA. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) COUNTY.—The term ‘‘County’’ means the 
County of San Bernardino, California. 
(2) FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘Federal land’’ 
means the land identified in subsection (c)(2), which 
is National Forest System land within the San 
Bernardino National Forest, California, available for 
exchange under this section. 
(3) NON-FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘non-Fed-
eral land’’ means the land identified in subsection 
(c)(1), which is land owned by the County and avail-
able for exchange under this section. 
(4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Agriculture. 
(b) LAND EXCHANGE.—If the County conveys to the 
Secretary all right, title, and interest of the County in and 
to the non-Federal land described in subsection (c)(1), the 
Secretary shall convey and quitclaim to the County, in ex-
change for such non-Federal land, all right, title, and in-
terest of the United States in and to the Federal land de-
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scribed in subsection (c)(2). The conveyance shall be made 
without further environmental analysis and shall be sub-
ject to any valid existing rights and such additional terms, 
conditions, and reservations as the Secretary may require. 
(c) LANDS TO BE EXCHANGED.— 
(1) NON-FEDERAL
LAND.—The non-Federal 
land to be exchanged are approximately 71 acres lo-
cated in section 36, Township 3 North, Range 1 
East, San Bernardino Meridian, as described by the 
County Assessor as parcel APN# 0447–071–11– 
0000. 
(2) FEDERAL LAND.—The Federal land to be 
exchanged are approximately 53 acres located in sec-
tion 31, Township 3 North, Range 2 East, San 
Bernardino Meridian. 
(d) MAPS AND CORRECTION AUTHORITY.—The Fed-
eral land and non-Federal land are generally described on 
maps 
entitled 
‘‘Doble 
expansion–County 
of 
San 
Bernardino’’ and dated June 10, 2005, which shall be on 
file and available for public inspection in the Offices of 
the Chief of the Forest Service and of the Supervisor of 
San Bernardino National Forest until such time as the 
lands are conveyed. The County and the Secretary may 
by mutual agreement make adjustments in the descrip-
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tions of the Federal land and non-Federal land to be ex-
changed. 
(e) TIMING.—It is the intent of Congress that the 
land exchange under this section be completed not later 
than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(f) VALUATION.—The Federal land and non-Federal 
land shall be valued through an appraisal done in con-
formity with the Uniform Appraisal Standards for Federal 
Land Acquisitions. 
(g) EQUAL VALUE AND CASH EQUALIZATION.— 
(1) EQUAL VALUE EXCHANGE.—The land ex-
change under this section shall be for equal value, 
or the values shall be equalized by a cash payment 
as provided for under this subsection. 
(2) 
CASH
EQUALIZATION
PAYMENT.—The 
County or the Secretary, as appropriate, may equal-
ize the values of the lands to be exchanged under 
this section by cash payment without regard to any 
statutory limit on the amount of such a cash equali-
zation payment. 
(3) DEPOSIT AND USE OF FUNDS RECEIVED 
FROM COUNTY.—Any cash equalization payment re-
ceived by the Secretary under this subsection shall 
be deposited in the fund established under Public 
Law 90–171 (16 U.S.C. 484a; commonly known as 
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the Sisk Act). The funds so deposited shall remain 
available to the Secretary, until expended, for the 
acquisition of lands, waters, and interests in land for 
the San Bernardino National Forest. 
(4) SOURCE OF FUNDS FOR PAYMENT BY SEC-
RETARY.—If the Secretary will make a cash equali-
zation payment to the County under this subsection, 
the Secretary may use funds available from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund, the Act of 
June 15, 1938 (Chapter 438; 52 Stat. 699, com-
monly known as the Receipts Act of 1938), or cap-
ital improvement funds. 
(h) LAND TITLE AND SURVEY STANDARDS.—Title to 
the non-Federal land shall conform with the title approval 
standards of the Attorney General applicable to Federal 
land acquisitions and shall otherwise be acceptable to the 
Secretary. Before completing the exchange, the Secretary 
shall inspect the non-Federal lands to assure that the land 
meets Federal standards, including hazardous materials 
and land line surveys. 
(i) IMPLEMENTATION COSTS.—The costs of imple-
menting the land exchange under this section shall be 
shared equally by the Secretary and the County, except 
that with respect to the Federal land conveyed to the 
County, the County shall also pay for the costs of survey, 
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monumenting the property lines, and recording deeds of 
conveyance, as well as any costs incurred with the issuance 
of easements by the Secretary for existing uses on the 
Federal land. 
(j) MANAGEMENT OF ACQUIRED LANDS.—The Sec-
retary shall manage the non-Federal land acquired under 
this section in accordance with the Act of March 1, 1911 
(16 U.S.C. 480 et seq.; commonly known as the Weeks 
Act) and other laws and regulations pertaining to National 
Forest System. 
(k) PACIFIC CREST NATIONAL SCENIC TRAIL RELO-
CATION.—Before completing the land exchange under this 
section, the Secretary shall relocate the portion of the Pa-
cific Crest National Scenic Trail located on the Federal 
land to adjacent National Forest System land. The trail 
relocation shall be conducted without further environ-
mental analysis. 
Æ 
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