Title: Modoc County Land Transfer and Economic Development Act of 2017
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Modoc County Land Transfer and Economic Development Act of 2017
This bill directs the Department of Agriculture to convey, without consideration, to Modoc County, California, specified National Forest System land in Modoc National Forest which contains an obsolete Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar System receiving station.
The purpose of such conveyance is to: (1) preserve and utilize the improvements constructed on such land, and (2) permit the county to use the conveyed property for economic development purposes.
To expedite the conveyance, environmental remediation of such land by the Air Force shall be limited to the removal of the perimeter fence, which was treated with an arsenic-based weatherproof coating, and the treatment of the soil affected by the leaching of such chemical.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3371 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3371

     To provide for the conveyance of an obsolete Over-the-Horizon 
Backscatter Radar System receiving station in Modoc County, California, 
              to promote economic development of the site.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 24, 2017

 Mr. LaMalfa introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
     To provide for the conveyance of an obsolete Over-the-Horizon 
Backscatter Radar System receiving station in Modoc County, California, 
              to promote economic development of the site.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Modoc County Land Transfer and 
Economic Development Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. LAND CONVEYANCE, OVER-THE-HORIZON BACKSCATTER RADAR SYSTEM 
              RECEIVING STATION, MODOC COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.

    (a) Conveyance Required.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
convey, without consideration, to Modoc County, California (in this 
section referred to as the ``County''), all right, title, and interest 
of the United States in and to a parcel of National Forest System land, 
including improvements thereon, consisting of approximately 927 acres 
in Modoc National Forest in the State of California and containing an 
obsolete Over-the-Horizon Backscatter Radar System receiving station 
established on the parcel pursuant to a memorandum of agreement between 
the Department of the Air Force and Forest Service dated May 18 and 23, 
1987.
    (b) Purpose of Conveyance.--The purpose of the conveyance under 
this section is to preserve and utilize the improvements constructed on 
the parcel of National Forest System land described in subsection (a) 
and to permit the County to use the conveyed property, including 
improvements thereon, for economic development purposes.
    (c) Payment of Costs of Conveyance.--
            (1) Payment required.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
        require the County to cover costs (except costs for 
        environmental remediation of the property) to be incurred by 
        the Secretary, or to reimburse the Secretary for such costs 
        incurred by the Secretary, to carry out the conveyance under 
        subsection (a), including survey costs, costs for environmental 
        documentation, and any other administrative costs related to 
        the conveyance. If amounts are collected from the County in 
        advance of the Secretary incurring the actual costs, and the 
        amount collected exceeds the costs actually incurred by the 
        Secretary to carry out the conveyance, the Secretary shall 
        refund the excess amount to the County.
            (2) Treatment of amounts received.--Amounts received as 
        reimbursement under paragraph (1) shall be credited to the fund 
        or account that was used to cover those costs incurred by the 
        Secretary in carrying out the conveyance. Amounts so credited 
        shall be merged with amounts in such fund or account, and shall 
        be available for the same purposes, and subject to the same 
        conditions and limitations, as amounts in such fund or account.
    (d) Environmental Remediation.--To expedite the conveyance of the 
parcel of National Forest System land described in subsection (a), 
including improvements thereon, environmental remediation of the land 
by the Department of the Air Force shall be limited to the removal of 
the perimeter wooden fence, which was treated with an arsenic-based 
weatherproof coating, and treatment of soil affected by leaching of 
such chemical.
    (e) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
description of the property to be conveyed under subsection (a) shall 
be determined by a survey satisfactory to the Secretary of Agriculture.
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