Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to transfer certain lands in Routt County, Colorado, in exchange for certain lands in Pennington County, South Dakota, which shall become part of the Black Hills National Forest.
Reserves specified easements on transferred lands for the State of Colorado and the United States.
Directs: (1) the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the owner of the Copper Spar Ranch (CSR) to enter into a cooperative agreement to study the feasibility of constructing access routes as alternatives to those provided by the easements granted to the United States; and (2) the Secretary, upon agreement by BLM on alternative access routes, the construction of such routes at the expense of the owner of the CSR, and the conveyance to the United States of easements for use of such access routes by the United States and the public, to execute and deliver to such owner a release or other appropriate form of instrument extinguishing the easement previously granted to the United States.
Specifies that if the values of the lands exchanged are not equal they shall be equalized by the payment of cash as provided by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 without regard to the 25 percent limitation contained in such Act.
Requires the exchange of lands to be completed within one year of this Act's enactment date.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Reported by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. H. Rept. 102-516.
Reported by the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. H. Rept. 102-516.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 304.
Mr. Vento moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
Considered under suspension of the rules.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty ninutes of debate.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Message on House action received in Senate.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 102-293.
Became Public Law No: 102-293.
Enacted as Public Law 102-293
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