Amends provisions regarding actions to quiet title in real property to which the United States claims an interest to prohibit the use of preliminary injunctions.
Establishes a 12-year statute of limitations for State claims against lands being used or required by the United States for national defense purposes or upon which the United States or its lessee has made substantial improvements or conducted substantial activities according to a management plan.
States that if a State's title prevails in an action brought after more than 12 years involving submerged or tide lands where the United States or its lessee has made substantial improvements, then the State's title is subject to existing leases, easements, or rights-of-way.
Requires States to provide 180 days' notice to the appropriate Federal agency before a suit is filed under these provisions.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Interior Department, OMB.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Agriculture Department.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Department of Justice.
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 99-600, PT. 2.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources received executive comment from Agriculture Department. Unfavorable.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator McClure with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 99-508.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator McClure with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 99-508.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1031.
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