A bill to transfer administrative jurisdiction over certain Federal land located within or adjacent to Rogue River National Forest and to clarify the authority of the Bureau of Land Management to sell and exchange other Federal land in Oregon.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Title I: Rogue River National Forest Transfers
Tile II: Protection of Oregon and California Railroad Grant
Land
Title III: Conveyance to Deschutes County, Oregon
Oregon Public Land Transfer and Protection Act of 1998 - Title I: Rogue River National Forest Transfers - Provides for the transfer of: (1) specified lands in the Rogue River National Forest System, Oregon, from public domain status to the National Forest; and (2) other lands from the National Forest to public domain status.
Restores the status of certain revested Oregon and California railroad grant land (O&C land) and revokes the reservation of such lands as part of the National Forest. Adds certain other revested railroad grant lands to such National Forest.
Title II: Protection of Oregon and California Railroad Grant Land - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out sales, purchases, and exchanges of Bureau of Land Management land located within six Oregon districts (the geographic area), to ensure that, upon the expiration of a ten-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and each ten-year period thereafter, the total number of acres of O&C land, Coos Bay Wagon Road grant land, and public domain land in the geographic area that are available for timber harvesting is not less than such number on the date of enactment of this Act.
Title III: Conveyance to Deschutes County, Oregon - Directs the Secretary to sell at fair market value to Deschutes County, Oregon, specified land in Deschutes County. Provides for the conveyance of such land only if the Secretary determines it suitable for sale through the land use planning process.
States that the amount paid by the County for the conveyance of the land: (1) shall be deposited in a special account in the Treasury; and (2) may be used by the Secretary for the purchase of certain environmentally sensitive land in Oregon that is consistent with the goals and objectives of the land use planning process of the Bureau.
Introduced in Senate
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10841-10842)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Senate Subcommittee on Forests and Public Lands. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 105-864.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Murkowski without amendment. Without written report.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Murkowski without amendment. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 704.
Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S12106-12107)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
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By Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 105-391.
By Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 105-391.
Received in the House.
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Held at the desk.
Referred to the House Committee on Resources.