Small Tracts Reform Act

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Small Tracts Reform Act - Amends the Small Tracts Act to: (1) provide for the sale, exchange, or interchange of National Forest System (NFS) lands (currently, lands valued at not more than $150,000), the sale or exchange of which is either not practicable or not expedient under any other authority of the Secretary of Agriculture and which are parcels or parts of parcels of 100 (currently, 40) acres or less which are interspersed with or adjacent to lands which have been transferred out of federal ownership (currently, transferred out of federal ownership under the mining laws) and which are determined by the Secretary, because of location or size, not to be subject to efficient administration; and (2) authorize the Forest Supervisor to complete specified interchanges pursuant to such amendment.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1905 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1905

   To amend the Small Tracts Act to facilitate the exchange of small 
                tracts of land, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 27, 2005

Mr. Doolittle introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
      Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on 
Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
 in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Small Tracts Act to facilitate the exchange of small 
                tracts of land, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Small Tracts Reform Act''.

SEC. 2. FACILITATION OF EXCHANGE OF SMALL TRACTS.

    (a) Expansion of Availability of Lands for Sale or Exchange.--
Section 3 of Public Law 97-465 (16 U.S.C. 521e; section 3 of the Act 
commonly known as the Small Tracts Act) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``not practicable'' and inserting ``either 
        not practicable or not expedient'';
            (2) by striking ``, which have a value as determined by the 
        Secretary of not more than $150,000,''; and
            (3) in paragraph (1)--
                    (A) by striking ``parcels of forty acres'' and 
                inserting ``parcels or portions of parcels of 100 
                acres''; and
                    (B) by striking ``under the mining laws''.
    (b) Rules or Regulations not Required.--Nothing in the amendments 
made by this Act shall require the Forest Service to issue rules or 
regulations prior to any sale, exchange, or interchange under Public 
Law 97-465 (16 U.S.C. 521c et seq.).
    (c) Special Cases.--The Forest Supervisor may complete the 
following interchanges under Public Law 97-465 (16 U.S.C. 521c et 
seq.), as amended by subsection (a):
            (1) An acquisition from Irving N. Christensen of that 
        portion of SW\1/4\NW\1/4\ Section 16, T.19N., R.9E., MDM., 
        lying southwesterly of California State Highway 49 and all that 
        portion of S\1/2\NE\1/4\ Section 17, T.19N., R.9E., MDM., lying 
        southwesterly of California State Highway 49 and northeasterly 
        of the North Fork Yuba River, through interchange of an 
        approximately equal value of National Forest System land lying 
        northerly of California State Highway 49 within the N\1/2\N\1/
        2\ Section 17, T.19N., R.9E., MDM. The Federal land to be 
        interchanged within the specifications of this paragraph shall 
        be agreed upon by the Forest Supervisor and Irving N. 
        Christensen.
            (2) An acquisition from Dennis W. McCreary and Cindy M. 
        McCreary of a portion of Lot 19, Section 35, T.20N., R.10E., 
        MDM in Downieville, Sierra County, California, through 
        interchange of a portion of National Forest System land in Lot 
        121, Section 35, T.20N., R.10E., MDM in Downieville, Sierra 
        County, California. The Federal land to be interchanged within 
        the specifications of this paragraph shall be agreed upon by 
        the Forest Supervisor and Dennis W. McCreary and Cindy M. 
        McCreary.
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