Small Tracts Reform Act

Small Tracts Reform Act - Amends the Small Tracts Act to provide for the sale, exchange, or interchange of National Forest System (NFS) lands, 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 acres or less which are interspersed with or adjacent to lands which have been transferred out of Federal ownership and which are determined by the Secretary, because of location or size, not to be subject to efficient administration.

[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[H.R. 485 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 485

   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

                            January 16, 2007

Mr. Doolittle introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
  Committee on Natural 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 section 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.).
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