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Forest Service Land Exchanges and Conveyances by Public Law (1990-2012)
Public Laws / Name of Law / NOTES / DATE SIGNED101st Congress
PL 101-539
H.R.5433 / To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release in a deed conveying certain lands to the Conservation Commission of West Virginia / George Washington & Thomas Jefferson National Forest Text
Status: Completed 11/8/1990
Authorized / 11/8/1990
PL 101-560 / Regarding the Early Winters Resorts, Okanagon National Forest, state of Washington H.R.5507.ENR / Directs of the Secretary of Ag to convey federal land within the Methow Valley in exchange for private lands and minerals within the Glacier Peak Wilderness, within the requirements of FLPMA and equal in value.
Directed
Status: Not Completed / 11/15/1990
PL 101-571 / To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to exchange certain property in the Chattahoochee National Forest for the construction of facilities in the National Forest. H.R.2419.ENR / Authority to do Land Exchanges on the Chattahoochee National Forest
Directed
Status: Completed 11/15/1990 / 11/15/1990
PL 101-631 / To authorize an exchange of lands in South Dakota and Colorado. H.R.4567.ENR / S.319.ENR Homestake Exchange
Status: Completed 1/24/1992
Authorized / 11/28/1990
102nd Congress
PL 102-293.
/ To authorize a transfer of administrative jurisdiction over certain land to the Secretary of the Interior S.452.ENR / NFS Land transfer to Interior / 5/27/1992
PL 102-415 / Alaska Land Status Technical Corrections Act of 1992 H.R.3157.ENR / Tongass National Forest --- “The boundary of the Chugach National Forest, Alaska, is modified to include the approximately 9,300 acres as generally depicted on the map entitled `Official Map, Boundary Modification, Chugach National Forest' and dated September 1988. The map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.”
Status: Completed 4/12/1995
Directed
Haida Land Exchange / 10/14/1992
PL 102-453 / Cedar River Watershed Land Exchange Act of 1992 on the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie, state of Washington H.R.5605.ENR / Directs the Secretary of AG to exchange federal lands within the Cedar River Watershed to the city of Seattle for other lands within the state of Washington. The Act provided guidance on the valuation of old growth timber within the watershed, consolidated the City’s ownership within the watershed.
Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Status: Completed 10/23/1992
Directed / 10/23/1992
PL 102-436 / To provide for a land exchange with the city of Tacoma, Olympic National Forest, state of Washington. H.R.4489.ENR / Directs the Secretary of Ag to exchange federal lands with the City adjacent to Lake Cushman to benefit the City’s management of the operating level of the lake and eliminate Special Use Permits issued by the Forest Service. In exchange. Directs the Secretary of Interior to transfer lands within the Olympus National Monument to the Secretary of Ag for Olympic NF management.
Status: Ongoing
Directed / 10/23/1992
PL 102-584. / Arkansas-Idaho Land Exchange Act of 1992 S.2572.ENR / Directs the Secretary to exchange 17,625 acres of scattered tracts of Federal land in Idaho in return for approximately 40,922 acres in Arkansas and 1,170 acres of land in Idaho owned by the Potlatch Corporation.
Status: Ongoing
Directed / 11/2/1992
103rd Congress
PL 103-63.
/ Spring Mountains National Recreation Area Act H.R.63.ENR PDF / Sec. 7: Acquisition of Lands to the Toiyabe National Forest
Status: Completed 8/4/1993
Directed / 8/4/1993
PL 103-91. / To provide for the consolidation and protection of the Gallatin Range. H.R.873.ENR PDF / Gallatin National Forest. Land Exchange
Status: Completed 12/1/1993
Directed / 10/1/1993
PL 103-17. / Idaho Land Exchange Act of 1993 S.252.ENR PDF / 1)Adjust boundaries of Targhee NF
2)Clark Fork LEX
- Directs the Sec of Ag. to exchange 35.27 acres(Clark Fork Ranger District Office) to the Regents of the University of Idaho in exchange for 40 acres owned by the State.
Directed / 4/12/1993
PL 103-255. / To provide for a land exchange between the Secretary of Agriculture and Eagle S.341.ENR PDF / White River National Forest
Status: Ongoing
Directed / 5/19/1994
104th Congress
PL 104-333 Text, PDF / Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 H.R.4236.ENR PDF / Related:H.R.1296,H.R.1415,H.R.1447,H.R.1449,H.R.1542,H.R.1548,H.R.1553,H.R.1961,H.R.1999,H.R.2067,H.R.2100,H.R.2172,H.R.2186,H.R.2188,H.R.2260,H.R.2266,H.R.2465 , H.R.2728,H.R.2763,H.R.3031,H.R.3099,H.R.3193,H.R.3256,H.R.3412,H.R.3707H.R.4059,H.R.4126,S.103,S.1720
Title II; SEC. 209. BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA LAND CONVEYANCE. “Federal lands located in the Plumas National Forest in Butte County, California, in sections 11, 12, 13, and 14, township 21 north, range
Title II; SEC. 210. TAOS PUEBLO LAND TRANSFER. ( Carson National Forest, Taos County, New Mexico)
Title III; Sec. 301. Targhee National Forest land exchange. depicted on the map entitled `Targhee Exchange, Idaho-Wyoming--Proposed, Federal Land',
Title III; Sec. 304. Snowbasin Land Exchange Act.
(a) PURPOSE AND INTENT- The purpose of this section is to authorize and direct the Secretary to exchange 1,320 acres of federally-owned land within the Cache National Forest in the State of Utah
Title III; Sec. 305. Arkansas and Oklahoma land exchange.
the acquisition of the Arkansas Ouachita lands and the Oklahoma lands by the United States for administration by the Forest Service will provide an
Title III; Sec. 307. Lost Creek land exchange.( Beaverhead- Deerlodge & Gallatin National Forest)
Title III; Sec. 308. Cleveland National Forest land exchange.
SEC. 304. SNOWBASIN LAND EXCHANGE ACT. “the Sun Valley Company shall simultaneously convey to the Secretary all right, title and interest of the Sun Valley Company in and to so much of the following offered lands which have been previously identified by the United States Forest Service as desirable by the United States, or which are identified
Title III; Sec. 305 Arkansas & Oklahoma Land Exchange “Weyerhaeuser shall reserve oil and gas interests in and under the lands depicted for reservation upon a map entitled Arkansas-Oklahoma Land Exchange--Weyerhaeuser Oil and Gas Interest Reservation Lands, dated February 1996 / 1/3/1996
PL 104-123 Text, PDF / Greens Creek Land Exchange Act of 1995 H.R.1266.ENR PDF / House Reports: 104-115; Senate Reports: 104-163 [Text, PDF]
Status: Completed 8/1/1998
Directed
Tongass National Forest
105th Congress
PL 105-60 Text, PDF / Hood Bay Land Exchange Act of 1997 H.R.1948.ENR PDF? / Related: S.1015
Status: Completed 4/28/1998
Directed
Tongass National Forest / 10/10/1997
PL 105-77 Text, PDF / A bill to transfer the Dillon Ranger District in the Arapaho National Forest to the White River National Forest in the State of Colorado. S.591 / Status: Completed 7/15/1998
Directed / 11/12/1997
PL: 105-79 Text, PDF / Hoopa Valley Reservation South Boundary Adjustment Act
H.R.79 / House Reports: 105-110; Senate Reports: 105-117
Six Rivers National Forest land transfer
Status: Complete
Directed / 11/12/1997
PL 105-167 Text, PDF / To consolidate certain mineral interests in the National Grasslands in Billings County, North Dakota, through the exchange of Federal and private mineral interests to enhance land management... S.750.ENR PDF / Related: H.R.2574
Senate Reports: 105-92
Status: Completed
Directed / 3/13/1998
PL 105-171 Text, PDF / Virginia Land Conveyance and ImprovementsH.R.3226 / Sec. 1, 2 & Sec 3 outline
sell or exchange all or part of certain administrative sites and other lands in the George Washington National Forest and the Jefferson National Forest, and to use the value derived therefrom to acquire a replacement site and to construct on the site suitable improvements for national forest administrative purposes….
Any funds received … shall be deposited into the fund provided by the Act of December 4, 1967 (16 U.S.C. 484a), commonly known as the Sisk Act, f
(2) the acquisition or construction of administrative improvements in connection with the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests.
Status: Completed 2/15/2001
Directed / 3/24/1996
PL 105-208 Text, PDF / To facilitate the sale of certain land in Tahoe National Forest, in the State of California to Placer County, California.
H.R.1439 / House Resources; Senate Energy and Natural Resources
House Reports: 105-114; Senate Reports: 105-231
Sell 35 acres for county to build a park at Squaw Valley (no reversionary)
Status: Completed
Directed / 4/24/1997
PL 105-238 Text, PDF / A bill to transfer administrative jurisdiction over part of the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area from the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of Agriculture for inclusion in the Wenatchee National Forest. S.1683 / Senate Reports: 105-228
Directs the Secretary of Ag to trade federal lands with the Chelan County PUD in lieu of waste water utility hood-up fees over a prorated time. Eliminates a Special use permit issued to the PUD. Reversionary language is added if facility is no longer used as intended by the Act.
Status: Completed 4/25/1997
Directed / 09/23/1998
PL 105-267 Text, PDF / Gallatin Land Consolidation Act of 1998 H.R.3381.ENR PDF / Related: S.1719
House Reports: 105-723 Part 1
Status: Completed 12/1/2003
Directed / 10/18/1998
PL. 105-277 / Omnibus Consolidated Emergency Supplemental Act of 1999 to authorize the Secretary to exchange timber lands on the Wenatchee, Mt. Baker-Snoqualme, and Gifford Pinchot national Froests / I 90 Land exchange with Plum Creek Timber Company to consolidate checkerboard ownership in the state of Washington.
Status: Completed 4/1/2004
Directed / 10/21/1998
PL 105-282 Text, PDF
/ To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the administrative site for the Rogue River National Forest and use the proceeds for the construction of offices H.R.3796.ENR PDF / Related: S.2513 House Reports: 105-561; Senate Reports: 105-293
Allows for the sale of an administrative site and use the proceeds combined with BLM to construct offices to be shared between the 2 agencies.
Status: Completed 7/15/2004
Directed / 10/26/1998
PL 105-288 Text, PDF
/ Miles Land Exchange Act of 1998 H.R.1021.ENR Related: S.590House Reports: 105-506 / Directs the Sec of Ag. to exchange approximately 84 acres of Federal land in the Routt NF for the 84 acre ‘Miles’ parcel with no further valuation requirements.
Status: Completed 10/15/2005
Directed / 10/27/1988
PL 105-321 Text, PDF / Oregon Public Lands Transfer and Protection Act of 1998 H.R.4326.ENR
To transfer jurisdiction over certain lands within the Rogue River National Forest. / Related: H.R.4526,S.2394. Directs the Secretary of Ag to transfer revested Oregon and California Railroad grant lands jurisdiction to Secretary of Interior.House Reports: 105-810
Status: Completed 10/15/1998
Directed / 10/30/1998
106th Congress
PL 106-41 Text, PDF / Lake Oconee Land Exchange Act S.604.ENR PDF / Status: Completed 12/16/1999 (Directed)
Oconee NF / 08/05/1999
PL 106-66 Text, PDF / A bill to direct the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior and to convey certain lands in San Juan County, New Mexico, to San Juan College. Related:S.293 / Directs the Secretary of Ag. to convey a parcel of real property (including any improvements on the land) not to exceed 20 acres known as the `Old Jicarilla Site' to San Juan College
San Juan NF
Status: In Progress (Directed) / 10/6/1999
PL 106-138 / Terry Peak Land Transfer Act of 1999 H.R.2079.ENR PDF on the Black Hills National Forest. / The purpose of this Act was to direct conveyance of a parcel within the Terry Peak Ski Area to the Ski Area and to utilize the proceeds to acquire inholdings within the Black Hills NF.
Status: Completed 10/15/2002 (Directed) / 12/7/1999
PL 106-144 Text, PDF / S.416, A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey the city of Sisters, Oregon, a certain parcel of land for use in connection with a sewage treatment facility. / Directs the Secretary of Ag to convey Federal land within the City limits of Sister’s, in exchange for service fees to the sewage treatment plant for a Forest Service administrative site located in Sister’s. (Reversionary language is added providing that if not used as enacted, land shall revert to the USA.)
Status: Completed 7/15/2004 (Directed) / 12/7/1999
PL 106-187 Text, PDF / H.R.1231, To direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain National Forest lands to Elko County, Nevada, for continued use as a cemetery. / Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey, without consideration, a described cemetery to Elko County, Nevada,
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
Status: Completed 9/10/2001 (Directed) / 4/28/2000
PL 106-239 Text, PDF / An Act to designate certain facilities of the United States Postal Service in South Carolina. H.R.3018 / Land Transfer to US Postal Service
South Carolina National Forest
Status: Completed (Directed) / July 6, 2000
PL 106-248 Text, PDF / S.1892, A bill to authorize the acquisition of the Valles Caldera, to provide for an effective land and wildlife management program for this resource within the Department of Agriculture
Related:H.R.3288 / Baca Ranch Acquisition and Management:
The purposes of this title was
(1) to authorize Federal acquisition of the Baca ranch;
(2) to protect and preserve for the scientific, scenic, historic, and natural values of the Baca ranch,
Status: Completed 9/30/2005(Directed) / 07/25/2000
PL 106-257 Text, PDF
/ Oregon Land Exchange Act of 2000 S.1629.ENR PDF , involves the Malheur, Umitalla and Whitman National Forests / Related: H.R.1950,H.R.2950 Authorizes the Secretary of Ag to conduct an assembled exchange, known as the Blue Mountain Land Exchange. Due to the complexities of valuation, the exchange as originally addressed, was reconfigured to small exchanges mixed with land purchase.
Status: Completed 12/1/2001 (Directed) / 12/1/2000
PL 106-272 Text, PDF / Jackson Multi-Agency Campus Act of 2000 S.1374.ENR PDF / Bridger-Teton National Forest Land Exchange
Status: Cancelled (Directed) / 9/22/2000
PL 106-283 Text, PDF / S.430, Kake Tribal Corporation Land Transfer Act; / “on the map entitled `Kake Land Exchange-2000', dated May 2000, through a land exchange for the subsurface estate to approximately 1,168 acres of Federal land in southeast Alaska that is under the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary. Any exchange under this paragraph shall be subject to the mutual consent of the United States Forest Service and Sealaska Corporation”
Status: Completed 1/15/2000 (Directed) / 10/6/2000
PL 106-291 / H.R. 4578 Kernville Land exchange on the Sequoia National Forest, California / Involving Camp Erwin Owen; Kern River Fish Hatchery; Wofford Heights Park; and French Gulch Maintenance Yard in exchange for a portion of county-owned Greenhorn Mt. Park
Status: Completed 11/02/2009 (Directed) / 10/11/2000
PL 106-329 Text, PDF / Black Hills National Forest and Rocky Mountain Research Station Improvement Act H.R.4226 House Reports: 106-816 / Grants the Secretary of Ag. authority to sell or exchange approximately 362 acres contained in 9 defined tracts all located in South Dakota.
Status: Completed 05/15/2003 (Directed) / 10/14/2000
PL 106-330 Text, PDF / Texas National Forests Improvement Act of 2000 H.R.4285.ENR PDF / Authority -Secretary of Agriculture may convey, by sale or exchange, any and all right, title, and interest in the following parcels of Texas National Forest
Status: Completed (Directed) / 10/19/2000
PL 106-425 Text, PDF / S.2917, Santo Domingo Pueblo Claims Settlement Act of 2000 / Settle the Santo Domingo Pueblo litigation by in part:
1)directing the transfer of approximately 4,577 acres of public land to the Pueblo;
2)directing the sale of approximately 7,355 acres of national forest lands to the Pueblo; and
3)authorizing the appropriation of $15,000,000 over 3 consecutive years for settlement of the claims. / 11/6/2000
PL 106-434 Text, PDF
/ H.R.3657, To provide for the conveyance of a small parcel of public domain land in the San Bernardino National Forest in the State of California.
Related:S.2111 / Directs the Secretary of AG to convey 1.06 acres of Federal land to the state of California for market value ($16,000).
Status: Completed (Directed) / 11/1/2000
PL 106-458 Text, PDF / Arizona National Forest Improvement Act of 2000 S.1088.ENR PDF / Authorizes the Secretary of Ag. to sell or exchange the following NFS land and administrative sites:
1)The Camp Verde Administrative Site
2)A portion of the Cave Creek Administrative Site,
3)The Fredonia Duplex Housing Site,
4)The Groom Creek Administrative Site,
5)The Payson Administrative Site,
6)The Sedona Administrative Site
Bill also authorized consideration for a sale or exchange of land to include the acquisition of land.
Status: Completed (Directed) / 11/7/2000
PL 106-458 Text, PDF / S.1088, Arizona National Forest Improvement Act of 2000, / Related:H.R.1969
“(a) IN GENERAL- The Secretary may, … sell or exchange any and all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the following National Forest System land and administrative sites:(1) The Camp Verde Administrative Site, comprising approximately 213.60 acres, (2) A portion of the Cave Creek Administrative Site, comprising approximately 16 acres; (3) The Fredonia Duplex Housing Site, comprising approximately 1.40 acres, and the Fredonia Housing Site, comprising approximately 1.58 acres;(4) The Groom Creek Administrative Site, comprising approximately 7.88 acres;(5) The Payson Administrative Site, comprising approximately 296.43 acres;(6) The Sedona Administrative Site, comprising approximately 21.41 acres.(b)
Status: Completed 12/30/2000 (Directed) / 11/7/2000
PL 106-471 Text, PDF / H.R.4646, To designate certain National Forest System lands within the boundaries of the State of Virginia as wilderness areas, and for other purposes.
/ Related:S.2865
Boundary adjustment certain lands in the George Washington National Forest
Status: Completed (Directed) / 11/9/2000
PL 106-526 Text, PDF / S.1936, Bend Pine Nursery Land Conveyance Act, / Deschutes National Forest
Status: Not Completed (Authorized) / 11/22/2000
PL 106-530 Text, PDF / S.2547, Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve Act of 2000
(Rio Grande National Forest) / (Note:”(2) Administrative jurisdiction of lands and interests therein administered by the Secretary of Agriculture within the boundaries of the preserve is transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, to be administered as part of the preserve. The Secretary of Agriculture shall modify the boundaries of the Rio Grande National Forest to exclude the transferred lands from the forest boundaries.”
Status: Completed 4/15/2000 (Directed) / 11/22/2000
PL 106-548 Text, PDF / S.1972, A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to the town of Dolores, Colorado, the current site of the Joe Rowell Park. / Map title “Joe Rowell Park” 7/12/2000 (San Juan National Forest)
Status: Completed 12/13/2000 (Directed) / 12/19/2000
PL 106-558 Text, PDF / S.439, An Act to amend the National Forest and Public Lands of Nevada Enhancement Act of 1988 to adjust the boundary of the Toiyabe National Forest, Nevada / The bill adjusted the boundary of the Toiyabe National Forest, and amended chapter 55 of title 5, United States Code, to authorize equal overtime pay provisions for all Federal employees engaged in wildland fire suppression operations.
Toiyabe National Forest
Status: Completed (Authorized) / 12/21/2000
PL 106-574 Text, PDF / H.R.4020, Dillonwood Giant Sequoia Grove Park Expansion Act / Related:S.2279 Boundary adjustment
(Sequoia National Forest)
Status: Completed (Directed) / 12/28/2000
PL 106-575 Text, PDF / H.R.4656, To authorize the Forest Service to convey certain lands in the Lake Tahoe Basin to the Washoe County School District for use as an elementary school site. Related:H.RES.634,S.2728 / Authorized the direct sale of NFS land to the Washoe County School District for fair market value, but required a reversion clause. Proceeds authorized to be by land subject to Santini-Burton act.
(Lake Tahoe Basin National Forest)
Status: Not Completed (Authorized) / 12/28/2000
PL 106-577 Text, PDF / S.2749, California Trail Interpretive Act; / (Includes HR 150, National Forest Education & Comm. Act which allows for the conveyance of NFS lands for educational purposes).
Status: Not Completed (Authorized) / 12/28/2000
107th Congress
PL 107-329 Text, PDF / To provide for the acquisition of land and construction of an interagency administrative and visitor facility at the entrance to American Fork Canyon, Utah, and for other purposes. S.1240.ENR PDFRelated: H.R.1491,H.R.3928