[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 916 Introduced in House (IH)]
113th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 916
To improve Federal land management, resource conservation,
environmental protection, and use of Federal real property, by
requiring the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose
cadastre of Federal real property and identifying inaccurate,
duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land inventories, and for other
purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
February 28, 2013
Mr. Kind (for himself and Mr. Bishop of Utah) introduced the following
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
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A BILL
To improve Federal land management, resource conservation,
environmental protection, and use of Federal real property, by
requiring the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose
cadastre of Federal real property and identifying inaccurate,
duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land inventories, and for other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 ``Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform
Act of 2013''.
SEC. 2. CADASTRE OF FEDERAL LAND.
(a) In General.--The Secretary shall develop a multipurpose
cadastre of Federal real property to support Federal land management
activities, including, but not limited to: resource development and
conservation, travel management, agricultural use, active forest
management, environmental protection, and use of real property.
(b) Cost-Sharing.--The Secretary may enter into cost-sharing
agreements with States to include any non-Federal lands in a State in
the cadastre. The Federal share of any such cost agreement shall not
exceed 50 percent of the total cost to a State for the development of
the cadastre of non-Federal lands in the State.
(c) Consolidation and Report.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report
to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives
and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate on--
(1) the existing real property inventories or any
components of any cadastre currently authorized by law or
conducted by the Department of the Interior, the statutory
authorization for such, and the amount expended by the Federal
Government for each such activity in fiscal year 2012;
(2) the existing real property inventories or any
components of any cadastre currently authorized by law or
conducted by the Department of the Interior that will be
eliminated or consolidated into the multipurpose cadastre
authorized by this Act;
(3) the existing real property inventories or any
components of a cadastre currently authorized by law or
conducted by the Department of the Interior that will not be
eliminated or consolidated into the multipurpose cadastre
authorized by this Act, together with a justification for not
terminating or consolidating such in the multipurpose cadastre
authorized by this Act;
(4) the use of existing real property inventories or any
components of any cadastre currently conducted by any unit of
State or local government that can be used to identify Federal
real property within such unit of government;
(5) the cost-savings that will be achieved by eliminating
or consolidating duplicative or unneeded real property
inventories or any components of a cadastre currently
authorized by law or conducted by the Department of the
Interior that will become part of the multipurpose cadastre
authorized by this Act; and
(6) recommendations for any legislation necessary to
increase the cost-savings and enhance the effectiveness and
efficiency of replacing, eliminating, or consolidating real
property inventories or any components of a cadastre currently
authorized by law or conducted by the Department of the
Interior.
(d) Coordination.--
(1) In general.--In carrying out this section, the
Secretary shall--
(A) participate, pursuant to section 216 of Public
Law 107-347, in the establishment of such standards and
common protocols as are necessary to assure the
interoperability of geospatial information pertaining
to the cadastre for all users of such information;
(B) coordinate with, seek assistance and
cooperation of, and provide liaison to the Federal
Geographic Data Committee pursuant to Office of
Management and Budget Circular A-16 and Executive Order
12906 for the implementation of and compliance with
such standards as may be applicable to the cadastre;
(C) make the cadastre interoperable with the
Federal Real Property Profile established pursuant to
Executive Order 13327;
(D) integrate with and leverage to the maximum
extent practicable current cadastre activities of units
of State and local government; and
(E) use contracts with the private sector, to the
maximum extent practicable, to provide such products
and services as are necessary to develop the cadastre.
(2) Contracts considered surveying and mapping.--Contracts
entered into under paragraph (1)(E) shall be considered
``surveying and mapping'' services as such term is used and as
such contracts are awarded in accordance with the selection
procedures in title IX of the Federal Property and
Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this Act, the following definitions apply:
(1) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary
of the Interior.
(2) Cadastre.--The term ``cadastre'' means an inventory of
real property of the Federal Government developed through
collecting, storing, retrieving, or disseminating graphical or
digital data depicting natural or man-made physical features,
phenomena, or boundaries of the earth and any information
related thereto, including surveys, maps, charts, satellite and
airborne remote sensing data, images, and services, with
services performed by professionals such as surveyors,
photogrammetrists, hydrographers, geodesists, cartographers,
and other such services of an architectural or engineering
nature including the following data layers:
(A) A reference frame consisting of a geodetic
network.
(B) A series of current, accurate large scale maps.
(C) A cadastral boundary overlay delineating all
cadastral parcels.
(D) A system for indexing and identifying each
cadastral parcel.
(E) A series of land data files, each including the
parcel identifier, which can be used to retrieve
information and cross reference between and among other
data files, which contains information about the use,
value, assets and infrastructure of each parcel, and
shall also designate any parcels that the Secretary
determines can be better managed through ownership by a
non-Federal entity including but not limited to State
government, local government, Tribal government,
nonprofit organizations, or the private sector.
(3) Real property.--The term ``real property'' means real
estate consisting of land, buildings, crops, forests, or other
resources still attached to or within the land or improvements
or fixtures permanently attached to the land or a structure on
it, including any interest, benefit, right, or privilege in
such property.
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