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identification of inholdigns within Federally des-
ignated areas by which any owner who wants to sell
such an inholding to the United States shall provide
to the Secretaries such information regarding that
inholding as is required by the notice.
(b) COMPOSITION OF THE EVALUATION TEAM.—The
team shall be composed of employees of the National Park
Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land
Management, the Department of Agriculture, Forest Serv-
ice, and other agencies as appropriate.
(c) TIMING.—The Secretaries shall establish the
Evaluation Team within 90 days after the enactment of
this title.
(d) DUTIES OF THE EVALUATION TEAM.—The team
shall be charged with the identification of inholdings with-
in Federally designated areas, by state, and by the date
upon which the lands or interests therein became
inholdings. Inholdings will be identified using—
(1) the list of inholdings identified by owners
pursuant to subsection (a)(2); and
(2) tracts of land identified through existing
agency planning processes.
(e) REPORT.—The Secretaries shall submit a report
to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the
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Committee on Resources and the Committee on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives on the status
of their evaluations within one year after the enactment
of this title, and at the end of each 180 day increment
thereafter until such time as reasonable efforts to identify
inholdings have been made or the program established in
section 205 terminates.
(f) FUNDING.—Funding to carry out this section
shall be taken from operating funds of the agencies in-
volved and shall be reimbursed from the account estab-
lished under section 206.
SEC. 205. DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS PUBLIC LAND.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Interior (in
this section, the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall establish a program,
utilizing funds available under section 207, to complete
appraisals and other legal requirements for the sale or ex-
change of land identified for disposal under approved land
use plans maintained under section 202 of the Federal
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C.
1712) and in effect on the date of enactment of this title.
(b) SALE OF PUBLIC LAND.—The sale of public land
so identified shall be conducted in accordance with section
203 and section 209 of the Federal Land Policy and Man-
agement Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1713, 1719). It is the
intent of Congress that the exceptions to competitive bid-
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ding requirements under section 203(f) of the Federal
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C.
1713(f)) apply under this title, where the Secretary of the
Interior determines it necessary and proper.
(c) REPORT IN PUBLIC LAND STATISTICS.—The Sec-
retary shall provide in the annual publication of Public
Land Statistics, a report of activities related to the pro-
gram established under this section.
(d) TERMINATION OF PROGRAM.—The program es-
tablished by this section shall terminate ten years from
the date of enactment of this title.
SEC. 206. DISTRIBUTION OF RECEIPTS.
Notwithstanding any other Act, except those specifi-
cally providing for a proportion of the proceeds to be dis-
tributed to any trust funds of any States, gross proceeds
generated by the sale or exchange of public land under
this title shall be deposited in a separate account in the
Treasury of the United States to be known as the ‘‘Fed-
eral Land Disposal Account’’, for use as provided under
section 207.
SEC. 207. FEDERAL LAND DISPOSAL ACCOUNT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Amounts in the Federal Land
Disposal Account shall be available to the Secretary of the
Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, without further
act of appropriation, to carry out this title.
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(b) USE OF THE FEDERAL LAND DISPOSAL AC-
COUNT.—Funds deposited in the Federal Land Disposal
Account may be expended as follows—
(1) except as authorized under paragraph (7),
proceeds from the disposal of lands under this title
shall be used to purchase inholdings contained with-
in Federally designated areas;
(2) acquisition priority shall be given to those
lands which have existed as inholdings for the long-
est period of time, except that the Secretaries may
develop criteria for priority of acquisition consider-
ing the following additional factors—
(A) limits in size or cost in order to maxi-
mize the utilization of funds among eligible
inholdings; and
(B) other relevant factors including, but
not limited to, the condition of title and the ex-
istence of hazardous substances;
(3) acquisition of any inholding under this sec-
tion shall be on a willing seller basis contingent upon
the conveyance of title acceptable to the appropriate
Secretary utilizing title standards of the Attorney
General;
(4) all proceeds, including interest, from the
disposal of lands under section 205 shall be ex-
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pended within the state in which they were gen-
erated until a reasonable effort has been made to ac-
quire all inholdings identified by the evaluation team
pursuant to section 204 within that state:
(5) upon the acquisition of all inholdings under
paragraph (4), proceeds may be expended in other
states, and a priority shall be established in order of
those states having the greatest inventory of
unacquired inholdings as of the beginning of the fis-
cal year in which the excess proceeds become avail-
able;
(6) the acquisition of inholdings under this sec-
tion shall be at fair market value;
(7) an amount not to exceed 20 percent of the
funds in the Federal Land Disposal Account shall be
used for administrative and other expenses necessary
to carry out the land disposal program under section
205;
(c) CONTAMINATED SITES AND SITES DIFFICULT
AND UNECONOMIC TO MANAGE.—Funds in the account
established by section 206 shall not be used to purchase
or lands or interests in lands which, as determined by the
agency, contain hazardous substances or are otherwise
contaminated, or which, because of their location or other
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characteristics, would be difficult or uneconomic to man-
age as Federal land.
(d) INVESTMENT OF PRINCIPAL.—Funds deposited
as principal in the Federal Land Disposal Account shall
earn interest in the amount determined by the Secretary
of the Treasury based on the current average market yield
on outstanding marketable obligations of the United
States of comparable maturities.
(e) LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND ACT.—
Funds made available under this section shall be supple-
mental to any funds appropriated under the Land and
Water Conservation Fund Act (16 U.S.C. 460l–4 through
460l–6a, 460l–7 through 460l–10, 460l–10a–d, 460l–11).
(f) TERMINATION.—On termination of the program
under section 205—
(1) the Federal Land Disposal Account shall be
terminated; and
(2) any remaining balance in such account shall
become available for appropriation under section 3
of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act (16
U.S.C. 460l–6).
SEC. 208. SPECIAL PROVISIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this title shall be con-
strued as an exemption from any existing limitation on