Confirming State Land Grants for Education Act

(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on September 12, 2017. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Confirming State Land Grants for Education Act

(Sec. 2) This bill allows the state of Utah, subject to valid existing rights, to select certain lands under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) of the Department of the Interior that are 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 in fulfillment of certain land grants made to Utah upon being admitted as a state to further the purposes of the State of Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, 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 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2582 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2582

    To authorize the State of Utah to select certain 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

                              May 22, 2017

  Mrs. Love 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 certain 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 ``Confirming State Land Grants for 
Education Act''.

SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION.

    (a) In General.--The State of Utah may select any lands in T6S and 
T7S, R1W, Salt Lake Base and Meridian, that are 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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