LAND Act

Land Acquisition to cut National Debt Act or LAND Act

Bars the Department of the Interior from using federal funding to purchase land resulting in a net increase of land acreage being under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Bureau of Land Management unless the federal budget is balanced for the year in which such land would be purchased.

Makes such prohibition inapplicable to: (1) lands purchased with funding made available through the sale of Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps, and (2) easements acquired by Interior to facilitate the management of federal lands.

Bars the Department of Agriculture (USDA) from using federal funding to purchase land resulting in a net increase of land acreage included in the National Forest System unless the federal budget is balanced for the year in which that land would be purchased. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to easements acquired by the USDA to facilitate the management of federal lands.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1445 Introduced in House (IH)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1445

To provide that there shall be no net increase in the acres of certain 
 Federal land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, 
the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
  or the Forest Service unless the Federal budget is balanced for the 
               year in which the land would be purchased.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 18, 2015

Mr. Hardy (for himself and Mr. Stivers) 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 provide that there shall be no net increase in the acres of certain 
 Federal land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management, 
the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
  or the Forest Service unless the Federal budget is balanced for the 
               year in which the land would be purchased.

    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 ``Land Acquisition to cut National 
Debt Act'' or the ``LAND Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LAND ACQUISITION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior may not use Federal 
funds to purchase land that would result in a net increase of land 
acreage that would be under the jurisdiction of the National Park 
Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Bureau of 
Land Management unless the Federal budget is balanced for the year in 
which the land would be purchased.
    (b) Duck Stamp Funds.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to land 
purchased with funds made available through the sale of Federal 
Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps.
    (c) Easements.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to easements 
acquired by the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate management of 
Federal lands.

SEC. 3. NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LAND ACQUISITION.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Agriculture may not use Federal 
funds to purchase land that would result in a net increase of land 
acreage included in the National Forest System unless the Federal 
budget is balanced for the year in which the land would be purchased.
    (b) Easements.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to easements 
acquired by the Secretary of Agriculture to facilitate management of 
Federal lands.
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