jiayi-li23/proxann_data huggingface dataset:
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-06-17 00:00:00

Cabin Fee Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to set an annual fee for the issuance of a special use permit for the use and occupancy of National Forest System land for recreational residence purposes.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) complete the current appraisal cycle, including receipt of timely second appraisals, for such residences within one year after enactment of this Act, and (2) assess an interim annual fee for them according to a specified formula.

Specifies the annual fee for each of 11 fee tiers based on the value of the lot of which the recreational residence is located, adjusted annually for inflation.

Requires the Secretary to report after ten years on these annual fees in order to ensure that they reflect fair value for the use of System land, and on any recommendations to modify the fee system.

Directs the Secretary to establish a transfer fee of $1,200 for the issuance of a new recreational residence permit due to a change in ownership of the recreational residence.

Permits the Secretary, beginning ten years after enactment of this Act, to: (1) retain and expend any fees collected under this Act, without further appropriation, and (2) use them to administer the recreational residence program and other recreation programs carried out on System land.

Repeals the Cabin User Fees Fairness Act of 2000, effective on the date the annual permit fees are first assessed under this Act.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-06-18 00:00:00

National Forest System Trails Stewardship Act of 2014 - Directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to publish a national strategy to significantly increase the role of volunteers and partners in trail maintenance.

Requires the strategy to: (1) augment and support the capabilities of federal employees to carry out or contribute to trail maintenance; (2) provide opportunities for volunteers and partners to carry out trail maintenance in each region of the Forest Service; (3) address the barriers to increased volunteerism and partnerships; (4) prioritize increased volunteerism and partnerships in those regions with the most severe trail maintenance needs, and where backlogs are jeopardizing access to national forest lands; and (5) aim to increase trail maintenance by volunteers and partners by 100% within 5 years.

Directs USDA to study opportunities to improve trail maintenance by addressing opportunities to use fire crews in trail maintenance activities.

Deems a volunteer with a partner organization to be considered a federal employee for the purposes of civil claims relating to damage to, or loss of, personal property of a volunteer incident to volunteer services.

Sets forth provisions for the selection of priority areas for increased trail maintenance accomplishments.

Directs USDA to establish a pilot program to offset all or part of the land use fee for outfitting and guiding permits.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Native Americans
Date: 2014-06-18 00:00:00

Moapa Band of Paiutes Land Conveyance Act - Directs that approximately 26,565 acres of land in Nevada administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Bureau of Reclamation be: (1) held in trust for the benefit of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, and (2) made part of the Tribe's reservation.

Restricts gaming on the land.

Requires the Tribe to use the land for traditional and customary uses, stewardship conservation for the benefit of the Tribe, residential or recreational development, or renewable energy development. Requires the Tribe to pay the Secretary fair market value for any portion of the land used for another purpose.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-06-18 00:00:00

Opportunity Village Conveyance and Expansion Act of 2014 - Authorizes the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to accept the relinquishment by the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, of all or part of the Deer Springs/Thom/Rome/North Decatur site for conveyance to Opportunity Village, if Las Vegas prepares a survey and legal description of such site, and the survey conforms to BLM cadastral survey standards and meets the approval of Interior.

Directs Interior to convey the relinquished site to Opportunity Village upon request. Requires the land to be used only for: (1) the development of a nonprofit work center and affordable housing for people with intellectual disabilities, and (2) ancillary use compatible with the mission of Opportunity Village.

States that all land conveyed by Interior under this Act shall be at no cost, except that Interior may require the recipient to bear any costs associated with the transfer of title and any necessary land surveys.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-06-26 00:00:00

Red River Private Property Protection Act - (Sec. 2) States that the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), disclaims interest to certain lands along a stretch of the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma located south of the South Bank as specified in the Supreme Court decree rendered March 12, 1923, in Oklahoma v. Texas.

(Sec. 3) Directs the BLM to relinquish, disclaim, and transfer, by special warranty deed, all interest of the United States in and to a specified stretch of Red River lands to any claimant who demonstrates: (1) an interest under a chain of title for at least 30 years from the time of submission, (2) a deed recorded in the appropriate county, and (3) payment of all taxes assessed on the land and any interest and penalties associated with any period of tax delinquency.

Requires publication in the Federal Register and on official and appropriate websites of a process for receiving submissions of such documents.

Sets forth standards for the BLM to approve or disapprove special warranty deed requests.

(Sec. 4) Requires administrative hearing procedures to be established for appeals of BLM decisions or adjudications of disputes between property owners with overlapping claims. Allows property owners who dispute final administrative decisions to pursue claims in a Texas federal court.

(Sec. 5) Instructs the BLM to ensure that no parcels of Red River lands are treated as federal land for the purpose of any resource management plan until the BLM has ensured that such parcels are not subject to transfer by this Act.

(Sec. 6) Prohibits this Act from altering: (1) interests of the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Tribes; (2) tribal trust lands; (3) allotted lands that may be held in trust or lands subject to a federal restriction against alienation; (4) boundaries of certain tribe-owned lands pursuant to the gradient boundary survey method established in the Supreme Court decree; and (5) the sovereign rights, jurisdiction, or governmental interests of those tribes.

(Sec. 7) Directs the BLM, after ensuring that Red River lands parcels are not subject to transfer to a claimant, to offer remaining identified federal lands for disposal by competitive sale for at least fair market value. Requires sales to be subject to existing tribal, state, and local rights.

Requires the BLM, within five years after enactment of this Act, to submit to Congress a list of identified federal lands that have not been sold and the reasons those lands were not sold.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-07-09 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Idaho County Shooting Range Land Conveyance Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to Idaho County in Idaho approximately 31 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for use as a shooting range.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-07-11 00:00:00

Land Adjacency Notification and Disclosure Act or LAND Act - Amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to instruct the Department of the Interior or the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide advance written notification to each owner of land that is adjacent to a parcel to be acquired to become public lands or National Forest System (NFS) lands.

Instructs Interior or USDA to provide advance written notification to each owner of land that is adjacent to a parcel of public lands or NFS lands to be conveyed by sale, exchange, or other disposal method.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-07-11 00:00:00

Resurveys Entitle Adjacent Landowners to Protection Act or the REAL Protection Act - Directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to notify all property owners with land abutting or adjacent to federal land being resurveyed.

Requires the BLM to notify affected landowners within 30 days of completion of the resurvey if it extends the boundaries of federal land. Requires the affected landowner to be given the right of first refusal to purchase the land for fair market value minus the value of any significant improvements made to such lands, or be reimbursed for the fair market value of any such improvements made to such lands. Prohibits the landowner from being charged with willful trespass onto the land unless the person used such lands with the knowledge that they should be classified as federal land.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-07-22 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Amends federal law authorizing Rockingham County, Virginia, to use specified land transferred by the United States for a child care center to remove that use restriction.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-07-31 00:00:00

Rocky Mountain Recreation and Wilderness Preservation Act - Amends the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to designate certain federal lands in the White River National Forest in Colorado as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System as follows:

 approximately 6,349 acres identified as the Proposed Ute Pass Wilderness, Proposed Acorn Creek Wilderness, and Proposed Ptarmigan Additions Wilderness; approximately 5,172 acres as the Hoosier Ridge Wilderness; approximately 7,577 acres as the Tenmile Wilderness; approximately 9,338 acres as the Williams Fork Wilderness; approximately 3,942 acres as a part of the Holy Cross Wilderness; and approximately 7,082 acres, identified as the Proposed Freeman Creek Wilderness and Proposed Spraddle Creek Wilderness, as part of the Eagles Nest Wilderness. Designates certain federal lands in such forest, comprising approximately 2,338 acres and identified as the Proposed Spraddle Creek Potential Wilderness as a potential wilderness area, and as specified, to be designated as wilderness and incorporated in and deemed to be a part of the Eagles Nest Wilderness.

Designates certain federal lands in such forest, comprising approximately 11,417 acres, as the Tenmile Recreation Management Area.

Designates certain federal lands in such forest, comprising approximately 5,204 acres, as the Porcupine Gulch Protection Area.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-09-08 00:00:00

Elkhorn Ranch and White River National Forest Patent Correction Act of 2014 - Requires: (1) the 148-acre parcel of land depicted on the map entitled "Elkhorn Ranch Land-White River National Forest," dated June 2014, to be patented into the ownership of the Gordman-Leverich Partnership (GLP), a Colorado Limited Liability Limited Partnership; and (2) the patent to include all U.S. rights in and to the parcel, subject to the valid existing rights of the lessee of federal oil and gas lease COC-75070 and any other valid existing rights.

Requires: (1) the Secretary of the Interior to prepare and issue the patent required by this Act, and (2) GLP to bear costs incurred by the Secretary relating to any survey, lotting, legal description, or other activities undertaken in issuing the patent.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-09-10 00:00:00

Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness Act - Amends the Arizona Wilderness Act of 1984 to include certain land in Pajarita Wilderness in Coronado National Forest.

Designates certain lands, in Arizona, in the Coronado National Forest as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System, to be known as the "Tumacacori Highlands Wilderness."
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-09-16 00:00:00

Cabin Fee Act of 2014 - (Sec. 2) Establishes a new process for the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to set annual fees for the issuance of special use permits for the use and occupancy of National Forest System land for recreational residences commonly referred to as cabins.

Replaces the current process under which annual user fees are adjusted annually based on changes in land values, which are subject to reappraisals and appeals, with a new tiered system in which fees based on the current appraisal cycle are capped at a specified amount and adjusted annually for inflation only.

Requires the Secretary to: (1) complete the current appraisal cycle, including receipt of timely second appraisals, for such residences within one year after enactment of this Act; and (2) assess an interim annual fee for them according to a specified formula.

Specifies the annual fee for each of 11 fee tiers that are adjusted annually for inflation.

Requires the Secretary to report after 10 years on these annual fees in order to ensure that they reflect fair value for the use of System land, and on any recommendations to modify the fee system.

(Sec. 3) Directs the Secretary to establish a transfer fee of $1,200 for the issuance of a new recreational residence permit due to a change in ownership of the recreational residence.

(Sec. 5) Permits the Secretary, beginning 10 years after enactment of this Act, to: (1) retain and expend any fees collected under this Act, without further appropriation; and (2) use them to administer the recreational residence program and other recreation programs carried out on System land.

(Sec. 6) Repeals the Cabin User Fee Fairness Act of 2000, effective on the date the annual permit fees are first assessed under this Act.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-09-18 00:00:00

Requires an agency: (1) when developing or considering approval of a management plan for federal land, to ensure that hunting activities are allowed as a use of such land to the extent that such use is not clearly incompatible with the purposes for which the land is managed; and (2) to set forth in a management plan the specific reason that hunting activities are not allowed or are restricted.

Provides that: (1) allowing contract or quota thinning of wildlife shall not constitute allowing unrestricted hunting, and (2) charging a fee related to hunting activities on federal land that exceeds what is needed to recoup costs of managing such land shall be deemed to be a restriction on hunting.

Requires fees charged related to hunting activities on federal land to be: (1) retained by the state or local authority tasked with managing the land (or, where such a state or local authority doesn't exist, by the head of the agency with jurisdiction over such land); and (2) limited to what the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) reasonably estimates to be necessary to offset the costs directly related to management of hunting on such land.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-09-18 00:00:00

Travel and Resource Access Including Local Stakeholders Act - Requires the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), as a condition on the preparation of an environmental impact statement or environmental assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) for a proposed access travel management action, to consult with affected counties for the purpose of incorporating their needs, uses, and input. Prohibits the Secretary from implementing such an action until the Secretary: (1) complies with such consultation requirement, and (2) obtains the concurrence of each affected county.

Defines an "access travel management action" as a BLM action that will alter public access to public lands, including any change in access to mining claims or access using motorized vehicles or nonmotorized means resulting from the decommissioning of a road or trail, a change in the status of a road as open or closed, or a change in road densities.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-09-18 00:00:00

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey a 2,025-acre parcel of real property known as the Lake Fannin Tract of the Caddo National Grasslands in Fannin County, Texas, to Fannin County, without consideration, for the purpose of permitting the County to protect and restore the historic structures on the property and to use the property for recreational purposes.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) require the County to cover costs incurred by the Secretary to carry out the conveyance, and (2) adjust the boundaries of the Caddo National Grasslands to reflect the conveyance.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Environmental protection
Date: 2014-09-18 00:00:00

Authorizes funding for environmental restoration activities of the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) in Florida as part of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan if the Army Corps of Engineers gives approval by December 30, 2015.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2014-09-19 00:00:00

Federal Wildland Firefighter Classification Act - Requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to develop a separate and distinct wildland firefighter occupational series that more accurately reflects the variety of duties performed by such firefighters. Defines a "wildland firefighter" as a federal land management agency employee whose duties are primarily to perform work directly related to the prevention, control, suppression, and management of wildfires.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-11-12 00:00:00

Luna and Hidalgo Counties Wilderness Study Area Release Act of 2014 - Releases specified wilderness study areas in the Luna and Hidalgo Counties in New Mexico from further study for designation as wilderness.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-11-13 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on December 9, 2014. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

John Muir National Historic Site Expansion Act - Authorizes the Department of the Interior to acquire by donation approximately 44 acres of land to include in the John Muir National Historic Site in Martinez, California.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Energy
Date: 2014-12-08 00:00:00

Requires the Department of the Interior to establish within the Empowering Insular Communities activity a team of technical, policy, and financial experts to: (1) develop an energy action plan addressing the energy needs of each of the insular areas (American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands) and Freely Associated States (Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau); and (2) assist each of the insular areas and Freely Associated States in implementing the plan.

Requires the plan to include: (1) recommendations to reduce reliance and expenditures on fuel shipped to the insular areas and Freely Associated States from ports outside the United States, to develop and utilize domestic fuel energy sources, and to improve performance of energy infrastructure and overall energy efficiency; (2) a schedule for implementation of the recommendations and identification and prioritization of specific projects; (3) a financial and engineering plan for implementing and sustaining projects; and (4) benchmarks for measuring progress toward implementation.

Requires Interior to approve the plan before it is implemented.

Extends the federal immigration law transition period for the Northern Mariana Islands through December 31, 2019, including the annual reduction of nonimmigrant workers who may be admitted during such period.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-12-09 00:00:00

Requires Department of the Interior to relinquish all federal interests in certain lands surrounding Lake Bistineau in Township 16 North, Range 10 West, Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Makes December 8, 1842, the effective date of the relinquishment.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2014-12-11 00:00:00

Pribilof Islands Transition Act Amendments of 2014 - Amends the Fur Seal Act of 1966 to revise requirements for the disposal of federal property on the Pribilof Islands (a group of five islands off the coast of mainland Alaska named Saint Paul, Saint George, Walrus, Otter, and Sea Lion Rock), including by: (1) authorizing the Department of Commerce to transfer or exchange specified land on the Islands to the village corporations of Saint Paul and Saint George Islands, and (2) giving those village corporations the first priority right to acquire that land on their respective islands.

Requires Commerce to publish promptly and submit to the Senate notice of certification that Alaska has confirmed that no further corrective action is required at sites and operable units covered by the Pribilof Islands Environmental Restoration Agreement between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Alaska.
Topic: Public Lands — Public Lands
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Date: 2013-01-22 00:00:00

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the Senate reported version is repeated here.)

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act - Designates specified land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan, to be known as the Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness, as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Requires the boundary of the Wilderness to be: (1) 100 feet from the centerline of adjacent county roads, and (2) 300 feet from the centerline of adjacent state highways.

Specifies this Act's effect on: (1) the maintenance and improvement of roads located outside the boundary of the Wilderness; (2) Michigan's jurisdiction with respect to the management of fish and wildlife, including hunting and fishing, within the National Lakeshore; and (3) any treaty rights or any existing valid private property rights.