Extends the deadline for completing certain land exchanges involving commercial timber lands within the Big Thicket National Preserve in Texas to July 1, 1998 (currently, 1995).
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, in considering the value of the private lands to be exchanged, to consider independent appraisals submitted by the private landowners.
Requires the Secretary and the Secretary of Agriculture to submit progress reports on such exchange every six months.
Provides for the transfer of specified private lands in Liberty County, Texas, to the Secretary of the Interior to be added to and administered as part of the Menard Creek Corridor Unit of the Preserve in exchange for the transfer of certain Federal lands located in the Unit to Liberty County.
Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 104-371.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Resources. H. Rept. 104-371.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 185.
Mr. Hansen moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13943-13944)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Referred to Subcommittee on Parks, Preservation and Recreation.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Departments of Agriculture and Interior, and Office of Management and Budget.
Subcommittee on Parks, Preservation and Recreation. Hearings held.
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