A bill to require the collection of certain data relating to Bureau of Land Management land acquisitions, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-3644
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2022-02-14
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congressional oversight

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Latest action: action_date: 2022-06-07
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-02-14
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill requires the Bureau of Land Management to report certain data on its land acquisitions and to develop guidance to ensure that this data is properly entered and coded in its data system. </p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3644 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 14, 2022 Mr. Braun introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources A BILL To require the collection of certain data relating to Bureau of Land Management land acquisitions, and for other purposes.

1. Bureau of Land Management land acquisition data The Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management) shall— (1) collect centralized data on land acquired for administration by the Bureau of Land Management using amounts from the Land and Water Conservation Fund established under section 200302 of title 54, United States Code, including data on— (A) the method used for the acquisition; and (B) the type of interest acquired; (2) not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, submit to Congress a report describing the information collected under paragraph (1); and (3) develop guidance to ensure that land acquisition data collected under paragraph (1) is entered correctly and properly coded in the data system of the Bureau of Land Management.