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Pershing County Economic Development and Conservation Act

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct sales or exchanges of eligible lands in Pershing County, Nevada, identified as the "Checkerboard Lands Resolution Area."

Interior and the county shall jointly select which parcels of eligible land to offer for sale or acre-for-acre exchange.

For purposes of acre-for-acre exchanges, Interior shall identify management priority areas within the Checkerboard Lands Resolution Area, including those considered to be:

 greater sage-grouse habitat; part of an identified wildlife corridor or designated critical habitat; of value for outdoor recreation or public access for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes; of significant cultural, historic, ecological, or scenic value; or of value for improving federal land management. The bill prescribes requirements for the disposition of proceeds from the sales of lands.

Interior shall offer for sale and convey to specified qualified entities, for fair market value, the remaining U.S. right, title, and interest in certain lands and interests in the county.

Interior shall convey to the county, without consideration, Unionville Cemetery.

The bill designates specified federal land in Nevada as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

The bill releases specified wilderness study areas from further review for designation as wilderness.

Date: 2016-07-13
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
King Cove Road Land Exchange Act

This bill declares that, if the state of Alaska offers to convey to the Department of the Interior 43,093 acres of state-owned land, Interior shall convey to Alaska, in exchange, 206 acres of federal land within the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and 131 acres of federal land within the Izembek Wilderness, for purposes of: (1) designating a road corridor through the refuge, and (2) constructing a single-lane gravel road along the road corridor.

The values of the federal and nonfederal lands to be exchanged shall be equal.

Interior and Alaska shall select an appraiser to conduct appraisals of the federal and nonfederal lands in accordance with nationally recognized appraisal standards.

The bill requires the route of the road corridor to follow a specified southern road alignment.

The bill states that the exchange of the federal and nonfederal lands and the road to be constructed under this bill shall not constitute a major federal action requiring environmental impact review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.

Date: 2016-07-13
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Alex Diekmann Peak Designation Act of 2016

This bill designates as the Alex Diekmann Peak the 9,765-foot peak located 2.2 miles west-northwest of Finger Mountain on the western boundary of the Lee Metcalf Wilderness in Montana.

Date: 2016-07-13
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Utah Public Lands Initiative Partner Act

This bill declares that a national monument designation, or a boundary adjustment that increases the size of an existing monument, within or on any portion of federal land in Summit, Uintah, Duchesne, Carbon, Grand, Emery, and San Juan Counties in Utah shall be made only pursuant to an Act of Congress.

Date: 2016-07-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Camp Nelson Heritage Park Study Act

This bill directs the Department of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park and adjacent property in Jessamine County, Kentucky.

Interior shall: (1) evaluate the site's national significance, and (2) determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System.

Date: 2016-07-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Hunting, Education, and Recreational Development Act or the HEARD Act

This bill authorizes the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to dispose of federal lands under their respective jurisdictions by offering them for sale or exchange to units of local government in accordance with this bill.

Before the offering of lands for sale or exchange, states or the unit of local government in whose jurisdiction the lands are located may elect to obtain any such lands for local public purposes pursuant to the Recreation and Public Purposes Act. Interior or USDA, as appropriate, shall retain the elected lands for conveyance to such states or unit of local government in accordance with that Act.

The bill prescribes requirements for disposition of the gross proceeds of the sales of lands under this bill, including that:

 15% be paid to the state where the sale takes place to be used to supplement the education of students in kindergarten through grade 12, to supplement public support of institutions of public higher education, and to supplement state agricultural and natural resource agencies; and 10% of such proceeds be deposited in a special account to be created in the Treasury which may be used for the acquisition of recreational beneficial lands and interests (providing an opportunity for hunting, recreational fishing, recreational shooting, recreational off-highway vehicles, or other recreational purposes, or to achieve better management of public lands through consolidation of federal ownership).

Date: 2016-07-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Emergency Forest Restoration Act

This bill allows the Department of Agriculture (USDA), regarding National Forest System lands, or the Department of the Interior, regarding public lands, to develop and carry out a forest management activity on lands of the department concerned in a state when the activity's primary purpose is to address an insect or disease infestation that has been declared an emergency by the state governor.

With specified exceptions, a categorical exclusion shall be available to USDA or Interior for these purposes.

A "categorical exclusion" is an exception to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 for a project or activity relating to the management of National Forest System lands or public lands that would otherwise be considered a major federal action.

Beginning in FY2018, USDA shall identify the amount of funds, if any, appropriated in the previous fiscal year pursuant to the authorization of appropriations specified in this bill.

Within five years of the end of the fiscal year in which an identification is made, USDA shall sell an amount of timber the sale of which is sufficient to recoup the identified amount and any associated costs.

The bill prescribes requirements for the deposit of sales proceeds.

Date: 2016-07-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to give permittees of specified federal land (including improvements) located along Sherman Creek and Rickey Point in Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area in the state of Washington the first option to purchase such property for fair market value.

Interior shall offer to sell for fair market value:

 all interest of the United States in and to each property; and easements for vehicular access to it, access to and use of one dock for it, and access to and use of all boathouses, ramps, retaining walls, and other improvements for which access is provided in the permit. Interior shall also:

 solicit sealed bids for each property, and sell each property to the bidder who submits the highest bid at or above its fair market value. The cost of a conveyance of a property, including the costs of required appraisals, shall be paid by:

 Interior, for a sale to a permittee, from revenues of that sale; and the purchaser, for a sale to any person other than the permittee. Revenues from sales of federal lands under this bill shall be made available, without further appropriation, for conveyance costs and for deferred maintenance activities in the recreation area.

Date: 2016-07-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Spearfish Canyon and Bismarck Lake Land Exchange Act

This bill directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA), if South Dakota conveys to it four parcels of specified nonfederal lands, comprising 1,954 acres, to convey to South Dakota in exchange 1,468 acres known as the "Spearfish Canyon Area" and 524 acres known as the "Bismarck Lake Area" in the Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota.

The values of the federal and nonfederal lands to be exchanged shall be equal.

USDA shall complete any environmental analyses required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 regarding the land exchange carried out under this bill.

The nonfederal lands acquired by USDA shall be added to and administered as part of the forest.

The federal lands acquired by South Dakota shall be managed by it for public recreation uses and the conservation of natural resources.

Date: 2016-07-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
This bill authorizes the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to approve and allow the construction and use of a floating cabin (a watercraft or other floating structure primarily designed and used for human habitation or occupation and not primarily designed or used for navigation or transportation on water) on TVA waters if: (1) such cabin is maintained by the owner to reasonable health, safety, and environmental standards; and (2) the TVA has authorized the use of recreational vessels on such waters. The TVA may levy necessary and reasonable fees on the owners of such cabins.

The TVA may not require removal of floating cabins located on TVA waters on the date of enactment of this bill for specified periods after enactment of this bill and must allow continued use of such cabins that meet the requirements of this bill for the duration of such periods.

Date: 2016-09-09
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Transportation and public works
Bronzeville-Black Metropolis National Heritage Area Act

This bill establishes the Bronzeville-Black Metropolis National Heritage Area in Chicago, Illinois.

The Black Metropolis National Heritage Area Commission shall be the local coordinating entity for the heritage area and shall submit a management plan for the heritage area.

The authority of the Department of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the heritage area expires 15 years after the enactment of this bill.

Date: 2016-09-12
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Prescribed Burn Approval Act of 2016

This bill prohibits federal agencies from authorizing a prescribed burn (i.e., a planned fire intentionally ignited) on federal land if, for the county or contiguous county in which such land is located, the national fire danger rating system is indicating an extreme fire danger level.

Nonetheless, a federal agency may authorize a prescribed burn under such a condition if it coordinates with the applicable state government and local fire officials.

If a federal agency authorizes a prescribed burn, the United States shall be liable for any damages to private properties caused by the burn.

If the United States is liable for any such damages, it shall pay them within 120 days of receipt of a substantiated claim.

Date: 2016-09-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Moapa Band of Paiutes Land Conveyance Act

This bill requires that 25,977 acres in Nevada administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the Bureau of Reclamation be held in trust for the benefit of the Moapa Band of Paiutes and made part of the tribe's reservation. Gaming is restricted on this land.

Eighty-eight acres owned by the tribe must be held in trust for the benefit of the tribe and made part of the tribe's reservation.

The tribe must provide access to the land described in this bill to federal and state officials for wildlife habitat management and to individuals licensed to harvest wildlife (e.g., hunters).

Date: 2016-09-20
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Native Americans
Public Lands Telecommunications Act

This bill directs the Department of the Treasury to establish separate special accounts for the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Forest Service (the federal land management agencies) for the deposit of rental fees received by such agencies for communications use authorizations on federal lands that are granted, issued, or executed by them. A "communication use authorization" is defined as a right-of-way, permit, or lease granted, issued, or executed by a federal land management agency for the primary purpose of authorizing the occupancy and use of federal lands for communications use.

The rental fees received by each federal land management agency shall:

 be deposited in its special account, and remain available for expenditure for agency activities related to communications sites (those areas of federal lands designated for telecommunications uses). The Departments of the Interior and Agriculture may enter into cooperative agreements for the administration of communications sites.

Date: 2016-09-21
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Ensuring Safety of Federal Wilderness Areas Act of 2016

This bill amends the Wilderness Act to prohibit the Department of Agriculture (for wilderness areas under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service) and the Department of the Interior (for wilderness areas under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management) from adopting, amending, or enforcing, any regulations, policies, or guidance that would delay federal, state, or local emergency response personnel from entering into a wilderness area or wilderness study area to respond to an emergency.

Any entrance by federal, state, or local emergency response personnel into a wilderness area or wilderness study area in response to an emergency shall be reported to the appropriate Department within 24 hours of the time at which such personnel first entered such area.

Date: 2016-09-22
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Local Wilderness Management Act

This bill amends the Wilderness Act to require certain National Forest System lands, including those which have been designated, officially or defacto, by the Forest Service as wilderness study areas, to be managed by the Department of Agriculture (USDA) for multiple use purposes, including mining, grazing, conservation, recreation, and other uses until Congress enacts a law that designates such an area as wilderness or specifies an alternative management approach for it.

The bill amends the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to require certain public lands, including those which have been designated, officially or defacto, as wilderness study areas by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to be managed by the Department of the Interior to promote multiple use purposes, including the continuation of existing mining and grazing uses and mineral leasing, until Congress enacts a law that designates such an area as wilderness or specifies an alternative management approach for it.

USDA (with respect to National Forest System land) and Interior (for public lands managed by the BLM) may not designate, officially or defacto, land as a wilderness study area without first obtaining the written consent of the governing body of the county in which such land is located.

Date: 2016-09-22
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Funding Local Schools Act

This bill allows the state of Utah to select lands under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the Department of the Interior and identified as available for disposal by land exchange in the Record of Decision for the Pony Express Resource Management Plan and Rangeland Program Summary for Utah County, as amended by the Pony Express Plan Amendment (November 1997), in fulfillment of certain land grants made to Utah upon being admitted as a state, including for the establishment of certain state institutions, including certain local schools, under the Act of July 16, 1894, without further land use planning action by the BLM.

The criteria listed in Decision 3 of the Lands Program of the resource management plan shall not apply to any lands selected by Utah pursuant to this bill.

Date: 2016-09-27
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Buffalo Tract Protection Act

This bill withdraws specified Bureau of the Land Management (BLM) lands in Placitas, New Mexico, from all forms of mineral development under all laws pertaining to mineral leasing or mineral materials, including locatable minerals.

Nothing in this bill prohibits the disposal of the surface estate of such BLM lands under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 or the Recreation and Public Purposes Act.

Any disposal of the surface estate of the BLM lands shall be subject to the condition that the mineral estate of those lands shall remain under the ownership of the BLM, subject to the withdrawal under this bill.

Date: 2016-09-27
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
The document titled "Dependent Re-Survey, Extension Survey and Survey of Two Islands, Sections 17, 29, and 30" (completed on November 24, 1967; approved on January 15, 1969; and filed in the Federal Register), relating to a plat of a survey of such sections of land, including Peggys and Hog Islands, surrounding Lake Bistineau in Louisiana, shall not be considered or serve as a gross error determination and otherwise shall have no legal force or effect on the ownership of those lands and islands.

The meander lines in the Original Survey of December 8, 1842, for such land and adjacent islands (which were not included in such survey) are definitive for the purposes of determining title to them.

The Department of the Interior shall prepare a recordable disclaimer of interest in the omitted lands, if any, including land descriptions, by using the lot or tract numbers as shown on the Dependent Re-Survey, and lands lying outside the record meander lines.

Date: 2016-09-28
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Resurveys Entitle Adjacent Landowners to Protection Act or the REAL Protection Act

 This bill directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to notify all property owners with land abutting or adjacent to federal land being resurveyed of the pending resurvey. A resurvey is an official rerunning and remarking intended to supersede the records of the original survey.

 The BLM shall notify affected landowners within 30 days of completion of the resurvey if it extends the boundaries of federal land.

If a resurvey results in private land being reclassified as federal land, the affected landowners shall 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. Affected landowners may not be charged with willful trespass onto the land unless they used such lands with the knowledge that they should be classified as federal land.

Date: 2016-09-28
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to sell at fair market value specified rights, title, and interest to federal lands in Mohave County, Arizona (covered land), to qualified entities (i.e., the current owner of the mining claims, millsites, or tunnel site on the covered land, the lessee, or other successor in interest of the owner, or a subsequent successor in interest). A qualified entity shall receive fee simple title to such covered land.

Interior shall determine the market value of the covered land in accordance with:

 the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, and the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. Interior's authority to sell covered land expires 10 years after the enactment of this bill.

Date: 2016-11-17
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through December 31, 2017, the income tax credit for mine rescue team training.

Date: 2016-11-17
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Taxation
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through December 31, 2018, the income tax credit for mine rescue team training.

Date: 2016-11-17
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Taxation
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House passed version is repeated here.)

(Sec. 1)This bill modifies certain boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Units located in Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey.

Date: 2016-11-29
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act

This bill directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to commission a survey to identify the South Bank boundary line with respect to land along a specified 116-mile stretch of the Red River in Oklahoma and Texas (the affected area).

The survey shall:

 adhere to the gradient boundary survey method; span the length of the affected area; be conducted by surveyors who are licensed and qualified to conduct official gradient boundary surveys, and selected by and operating under the direction of the Texas General Land Office and the Oklahoma Commissioners of the Land Office (the offices); and be completed within two years of enactment of this bill. The BLM shall submit the survey to the offices for approval and, within 60 days of receiving it, they shall determine whether to approve it.

Surveys of individual parcels in the affected area shall be conducted according to the requirements for the survey of the South Bank boundary line. A survey of such a parcel shall be approved or disapproved by the offices within 60 days of receipt.

The survey for identifying the South Bank boundary line and any survey of an individual parcel shall not be submitted to the BLM for approval.

After a survey for an individual parcel has been approved, the offices shall submit to the BLM:

 a notice of the approval of such survey, and a copy of such survey and any field notes related to the parcel.

Date: 2016-12-08
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to convey to La Paz County, Arizona, all right, title, and interest in and to approximately 8,000 acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

The county may sell any portion of the federal land conveyed to it for nonresidential development.

Also, the bill permits the county to elect to retain a portion of the conveyed federal land for public recreation and public purposes.

Date: 2016-12-08
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Hudson-Mohawk River Basin Act

This bill requires the Department of the Interior to establish a nonregulatory Hudson-Mohawk River Basin Restoration Program, under which it shall:

 draw on management plans for the Hudson-Mohawk River Basin and work with applicable management entities, including the federal government, state and local governments, and regional and nonprofit organizations, to identify, prioritize, and implement water resources activities within the basin; adopt a basin-wide strategy that coordinates activities being undertaken by the basin states (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont), advisory committees, local governments, institutions of higher education, and nongovernmental organizations to address environmental, economic, and cultural issues associated with the management and use of water resources in the basin and that supports implementation of science-based restoration and protection activities; and establish the Hudson-Mohawk River Basin grant program to provide competitive matching grants and technical assistance to state and local governments, nonprofit organizations, institutions of higher education, and other eligible entities to carry out specified restoration and protection activities. Program purposes are listed, including:

 addressing the management, development, conservation, and use of water resources throughout the basin; coordinating restoration and protection activities; carrying out coordinated restoration and protection activities and providing technical assistance throughout the basin states; maintaining an inventory of historic and cultural resources of the basin and identifying projects to provide for cultural enrichment, preservation of cultural resources, public education about local heritage and historical significance of properties, canals, and historic sites within the basin; and providing a mechanism to promote communication, coordination, and collaborative working relationships among entities working in the basin. Interior shall develop criteria to ensure that activities funded through the grant program accomplish identified purposes and advance the implementation of priority actions or needs identified in the basin-wide strategy.

Date: 2016-12-08
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Water resources development
Litigation Relief for Forest Management Projects Act

This bill amends the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 to prohibit any additional consultation from being required with respect to: (1) the listing of a species as threatened or endangered, or a designation of a critical habitat, if a land management plan has been adopted by the Department of Agriculture as of the designation date; or (2) any provision of such an adopted plan.

The bill amends the Federal land Policy and Management Act of 1976 to prohibit any additional consultation from being required with respect to: (1) the listing of a species as threatened or endangered, or a designation of critical habitat, if a land use plan has been adopted by the Department of the Interior as of the designation date; or (2) any provision of such an adopted plan.

Date: 2016-12-12
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Hurricane Sand Dunes National Recreation Area Act of 2015

 Establishes the Hurricane Sand Dunes National Recreation Area in Utah, consisting of approximately 18,447 acres of land managed by the Bureau of Land Management, to provide for the enhancement of recreational uses and the use of off-highway vehicles. Excludes 1,205 acres to be used in a land exchange under this Act.

Provides for the conveyance of federal lands in Washington County, Utah, in an equal-value exchange for certain non-federal lands.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Scofield Land Transfer Act 

This bill establishes a framework to settle trespass and encroachment issues on federal land in Carbon County, Utah acquired for the Scofield Reservoir. It gives the Department of Interior authority to convey fee interest or life estates in property above the normal water surface elevation in exchange for the fair market value, an agreement to waive liability claims, and flood easements.

Interior also has authority to convey to the county roads that extend to the shoreline of Scofield Reservoir.

Funds received as consideration for conveyance under this Act must be deposited in the Scofield Reservoir Fund (established under this Act), and used to: (1) monitor and enforce certain requirements regarding maintaining access to, and eliminating encroachment and private exclusive use of, the federal land surrounding the Scofield Reservoir; and (2) provide enhanced recreation opportunities at the Reservoir.

Date: 2015-01-06
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Offshore Fairness Act 

This bill amends the Submerged Lands Act to change the seaward boundaries of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia from a distance of three geographic miles from the coast line to a distance of three marine leagues. This change expands the offshore jurisdictions of those states.

The Department of the Interior must convey the submerged land in the Outer Continental Shelf that is within this expanded area to a state upon request. After a conveyance, states are prohibited from imposing on that land: (1) burdens or requirements on an interest owner that would be stricter than federal burdens or requirements, or (2) administrative or judicial penalties or sanctions on an interest owner that are more severe than the federal penalties or sanctions.

The submerged land within the seaward boundaries of those states are subject to federal oil and gas mineral rights and are considered to be part of the federal Outer Continental Shelf for purposes of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006, and other laws applicable to the leasing of the oil and gas resources.

Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas are given exclusive fishery management authority to manage and conserve the Gulf of Mexico red snapper in adjacent coastal waters of the applicable state and through the exclusive economic zone. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration must provide financial assistance to those states for stock assessments and data collection relating to the Gulf of Mexico red snapper.

Date: 2015-01-07
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Kisatchie National Forest Land Conveyance Act

Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to sell specified federal land in Winn Parish, Louisiana. Requires USDA to sell a portion of that land to Collins Camp Properties for the Collins Campsites.

Requires sale proceeds to be used for the acquisition of lands and interests in the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana.

Date: 2015-01-07
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Amends the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to deauthorize the Ten Mile Creek Water Preserve Area Critical Restoration Project upon execution of a transfer agreement between the Secretary of the Army and the South Florida Water Management District, under which the District shall operate the transferred project as an environmental restoration project to provide water storage and water treatment options.

Date: 2015-01-08
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Water resources development
Oregon and California Land Grant Act of 2015 - Amends the O&C Lands Act of 1937 to establish uses and management requirements for the Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road grant land and other Oregon land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Forest Service, and the Army Corps of Engineers. Designates separate portions of the land for conservation and timber harvesting.

Specifies requirements for managing the land, including: prohibiting the harvesting of trees of a specified age in certain areas, stating that Oregon retains jurisdiction over fish and wildlife, restricting the use of pesticides, and authorizing treatment of hazardous fuels on adjacent private lands.

Directs the Department of the Interior to identify projects proposed under this Act, assess implementation, and complete other specified reports and analyses.

Establishes requirements for timber harvests on designated lands, including calculating projected harvests, restricting roads, harvesting timber to reduce the likelihood of wildfires, and prioritizing treatments near communities.

Designates lands for conservation purposes and establishes requirements for management, including restricting timber harvesting, motorized vehicles, and roads.

Sets forth procedures for administrative and judicial review of projects under this Act. Specifies a formula for sharing receipts generated on land between the U.S. Treasury, the BLM, and counties.

Transfers specified BLM-administered lands to be held in trust as reservations for the Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians; and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians.

Establishes and modifies specified wilderness areas and designations under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.

Date: 2015-01-08
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Mineral Materials Contracts Termination Act 

 Amends the Materials Act of 1947 to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to terminate a mineral materials contract and to return to the contract holder any bid deposit and performance bond paid to the Bureau of Land Management if the contract holder submits a request to terminate the contract before production is initiated and before any surface disturbance has occurred.

States that the contract holder's acceptance of the amount returned by the Secretary to terminate the contract constitutes: (1) full and final settlement of the contract, and (2) an agreement not to bring a civil action against the United States with respect to it.

Date: 2015-01-13
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Good Samaritan Search and Recovery Act 

 Directs the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to implement a process to provide eligible organizations and individuals expedited access to federal land to conduct good Samaritan search-and-recovery missions, which are searches for one or more missing individuals believed to be deceased at the time that the search is initiated.

Sets forth procedures for the approval or denial of requests made by eligible organizations or individuals to carry out a good Samaritan search-and-recovery mission.

Requires Interior and USDA to develop search-and-recovery focused partnerships with search-and-recovery organizations to coordinate good Samaritan search-and-recovery missions, and expedite and accelerate mission efforts for missing individuals.

Date: 2015-01-13
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Inventoried Roadless Area Management Act

 Releases from further study for wilderness designation each of the inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System (NFS) in Wyoming identified on the maps contained in the Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation, Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 2 (November 2000).

Declares that such NFS land: (1) is no longer subject to the land use restrictions of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (or successor regulations), and (2) shall not be managed to preserve roadless or wilderness characteristics.

Date: 2015-01-20
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Garden Valley Withdrawal Act

 Withdraws 805,100 acres of federal land in Garden Valley, Nevada, from: (1) entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) operation of the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws.

Date: 2015-01-20
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Gold Butte National Conservation Area Act 

 Establishes the Gold Butte National Conservation Area in Nevada, which shall consist of 348,515 acres of public land administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Withdraws public land within the conservation area from: (1) entry, appropriation, operation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and the geothermal leasing laws.

Establishes the Gold Butte National Conservation Area Advisory Council.

Designates specified wilderness areas administered by the National Park Service or BLM in Clark County, Nevada, as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Authorizes BLM to establish a visitor center and field office in Mesquite, Nevada, to assist in fulfilling the purposes of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, and the conservation area.

 Terminates the withdrawal of specified parcels of BLM lands for use by the Bureau of Reclamation.

Date: 2015-01-20
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Nevada Land Sovereignty Act of 2015

Prohibits any further extension or establishment of national parks and monuments in Nevada from being undertaken, except by express authorization of Congress.

 Prohibits the Department of the Interior from implementing, administering, or enforcing Secretarial Order No. 3310 issued on December 22, 2010, which requires the Bureau of Land Management to inventory public lands with wilderness characteristics.

Date: 2015-01-22
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Wildfire Disaster Funding Act of 2015

This bill amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to require specified adjustments to discretionary spending limits in FY2016-FY2025 to accommodate appropriations for wildfire suppression operations in the Wildland Fire Management accounts at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) or the Department of the Interior.

If USDA or Interior determines that supplemental appropriations are necessary for wildfire suppression operations, the bill requires the relevant department to submit to Congress a request for the funding and a plan for obligating the funds.

The bill also requires the President's budget to include the average costs for wildfire suppression over the previous 10 years.

Date: 2015-01-22
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Emergency management
Stewardship End Result Contracting Improvement Act

Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to authorize the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to obligate funds to cover any potential cancellation or termination costs (cancellation ceiling) in stages that are economically or programmatically viable with respect to an agreement or contract for a stewardship end result contracting project. Requires the Forest Service and BLM to submit written notice to Congress and the Office of Management and Budget 30 days before entering into a multiyear agreement or contract that includes a cancellation ceiling exceeding $25 million if proposed funding for the costs of cancelling the agreement or contract up to the ceiling is not included.

Allows the Forest Service and BLM, if the offset value of the forest products to be removed exceeds the value of the resource improvement treatments, to: (1) use the excess to satisfy any outstanding liabilities for cancelled agreements or contracts; or (2) if there are no such outstanding liabilities, apply the excess to other authorized stewardship projects.

Date: 2015-01-30
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act of 2015

 Directs the Secretary of the Interior to offer for disposal by competitive sale certain federal lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, previously identified as suitable for disposal in the report submitted to Congress on May 27, 1997, pursuant to the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996.

Date: 2015-02-04
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Douglas County Conservation Act of 2015

Directs the Forest Service to convey approximately 67 acres of certain Forest Service land (Lake Tahoe-Nevada State Park) to the state of Nevada to be used for the conservation of wildlife or natural resources or for a public park.

Directs the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to make publicly available a prospectus to solicit one or more concessionaires for the approximately 125 acres of land identified as the Round Hill Pines Resort and the approximately 448 acres of land identified as the Zephyr Shoals.

 Directs the Forest Service for National Forest System land and the Department of Interior for land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to convey approximately 7,990 acres of specified federal land to Douglas County, Nevada, to be used for flood control or any other public purpose. Prohibits such land from being disposed of by the county.

Directs the Forest Service or Interior, as appropriate, to conduct one or more sales of specified public lands in the county to qualified bidders, with the option for the state or county to obtain the land for public purposes before the land is offered for sale. Amends the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act of 1998 to specify the disposition of funds from a sale.

Transfers all interest of the United States in the approximately 1,016 acres of certain federal land which shall be held in trust for the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California, and which shall become part of the Tribe's reservation. Prohibits the conduct of certain gaming on such land. Designates approximately 12,330 acres of specified federal land managed by the BLM, to be known as the Burbank Canyons Wilderness, as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Releases the approximately 1,065 acres of public land in the Burbank Canyons Wilderness study area not designated as wilderness by this Act from further study for designation as wilderness.

Authorizes USDA to transfer from the Forest Service to Douglas County, Nevada, certain lands or interests in Forest Service land which are unsuitable for Forest Service administration or necessary for a public purpose.

Date: 2015-02-12
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
FLAME Act Amendments of 2015

 Amends the FLAME Act of 2009 to revise how the FLAME Funds for the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) are funded.

Makes amounts appropriated to a FLAME Fund available to USDA or Interior for wildfire suppression operations if the department concerned notifies the relevant congressional committees that a wildfire suppression event is eligible for funding from the FLAME Fund.

Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 to require certain adjustments to discretionary spending limits to accommodate appropriations for wildfire suppression operations in the Wildland Fire Management accounts at USDA or Interior.

Requires adjustments for fire suppression to be made if all amounts in the FLAME Fund established under the FLAME Act of 2009 have been expended and other specified conditions are met.

Amends existing disaster funding adjustments to discretionary spending limits to add provisions related to fire suppression adjustments. Authorizes USDA to conduct projects that involve the management or sale of national forest material within certain National Forest System (NFS) lands.

 Amends the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to authorize the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to obligate funds to cover any potential cancellation or termination costs (cancellation ceiling) in stages that are economically or programmatically viable with respect to an agreement or contract for a stewardship end result contracting project. Requires the Forest Service and BLM to submit written notice to Congress and the Office of Management and Budget 30 days before entering into a multiyear agreement or contract that includes a cancellation ceiling exceeding $25 million if proposed funding for the costs of cancelling the agreement or contract up to the ceiling is not included.

Allows the Forest Service and BLM, if the offset value of the forest products to be removed exceeds the value of the resource improvement treatments, to: (1) use the excess to satisfy any outstanding liabilities for cancelled agreements or contracts; or (2) if there are no such outstanding liabilities, apply the excess to other authorized stewardship projects.

Date: 2015-02-12
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Makes the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (or successor regulations) inapplicable with respect to National Forest System land in the state of Alaska.

Date: 2015-03-03
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Vests title to real property and equipment acquired using funds provided under the Alaska Kiln Drying Grant Program in the grant recipient in accordance with the compensation provisions in this Act.

Date: 2015-03-03
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Agriculture and food
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.

Date: 2015-03-04
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act 

 This bill amends the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to facilitate the construction and expansion of public target ranges by: (1) authorizing a state to pay up to 90% of the costs of acquiring land for, expanding, or constructing a public target range; (2) authorizing a state to elect to allocate 10% of a specified amount apportioned to it from the federal aid to wildlife restoration fund for those costs; (3) limiting the federal share of those costs under such Act to 90%; and (4) requiring amounts provided for those costs under such Act to remain available for expenditure and obligation for five fiscal years.

The bill urges the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to cooperate with state and local authorities and other entities to carry out waste removal and other activities on any federal land used as a public target range to encourage its continued use for target practice or marksmanship training.

Date: 2015-03-11
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Tennessee Wilderness Act

 Designates specified federal lands in Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee as wilderness and as additions to the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Date: 2015-03-17
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Escambia County Land Conveyance Act

Authorizes Escambia County, Florida, to convey its interest in any part of the former Santa Rosa Island National Monument land that was conveyed to it by the federal government in 1947 to any person or entity, without restriction.

Prohibits any person or entity holding a leasehold interest in such land from being required to involuntarily accept a fee interest to such land in place of the leasehold interest.

 Allows Escambia County to convey any interest in any part of such land that is within the jurisdictional boundaries of Santa Rosa County, Florida, to such county.

Permits Santa Rosa County or any other person to whom such county reconveys such land to reconvey any part of it. Requires any proceeds from the conveyance of such land by either county to be considered windfall profits that shall revert to the United States.

 Instructs Escambia County and Santa Rosa County to preserve those areas of the land conveyed under this Act that, as of the enactment of this Act, are dedicated for conservation, preservation, public recreation access, and public parking.

Date: 2015-03-18
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources