Funding Local Schools Act

Funding Local Schools Act

This bill allows the state of Utah to select lands under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the Department of the Interior and identified as available for disposal by land exchange in the Record of Decision for the Pony Express Resource Management Plan and Rangeland Program Summary for Utah County, as amended by the Pony Express Plan Amendment (November 1997), in fulfillment of certain land grants made to Utah upon being admitted as a state, including for the establishment of certain state institutions, including certain local schools, under the Act of July 16, 1894, without further land use planning action by the BLM.

The criteria listed in Decision 3 of the Lands Program of the resource management plan shall not apply to any lands selected by Utah pursuant to this bill.

[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6180 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6180

 To authorize the State of Utah to select lands that are available for 
disposal under the Pony Express Resource Management Plan to be used for 
 the support and benefit of State institutions, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2016

  Mrs. Love (for herself, Mr. Zeldin, and Mrs. Lummis) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To authorize the State of Utah to select lands that are available for 
disposal under the Pony Express Resource Management Plan to be used for 
 the support and benefit of State institutions, 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 ``Funding Local Schools Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION.

    (a) In General.--The State of Utah may select any lands owned by 
the United States, under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau 
of Land Management, and identified as available for disposal by land 
exchange in the Record of Decision for the Pony Express Resource 
Management Plan and Rangeland Program Summary for Utah County (January 
1990), as amended by the Pony Express Plan Amendment (November 1997), 
in fulfillment of the land grants made in sections 6, 8, and 12 of the 
Act of July 16, 1894 (28 Stat. 107), without further land use planning 
action by the Bureau of Land Management.
    (b) Application.--The criteria listed in Decision 3 of the Lands 
Program of the resource management plan described in subsection (a) 
shall not apply to any land selected under subsection (a).
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