To maximize land management efficiencies, promote land conservation, generate education funding, and for other purposes.
Advancing Conservation and Education Act of 2014 - Allows Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, or Wyoming (western states) to relinquish state land grant parcels wholly or primarily within federal conservation areas and to select, in exchange, unappropriated public land within the state. Defines "federal conservation areas" as lands within the outer boundaries of units of the National Park, National Wilderness Preservation, National Wildlife Refuge, or National Landscape Conservation Systems and certain designated lands within the National Forest System.
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to create a process for the relinquishment of such parcels.
Allows a western state to select, and the Secretary to convey, lands that are mineral in character.
Requires the overall value of the state land grant parcels and the unappropriated public land to be conveyed to be equal.
Sets forth requirements regarding records of hazardous materials on land conveyed, water rights, and grazing permits.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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