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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 72
115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-59
MOUNT HOOD COOPER SPUR LAND EXCHANGE
CLARIFICATION ACT
MAY 9, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 699]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (H.R. 699) to amend the Omnibus Public Land
Management Act of 2009 to modify provisions relating to certain
land exchanges in the Mt. Hood Wilderness in the State of Oregon,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without
amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of H.R. 699 is to amend the Omnibus Public Land
Management Act of 2009 to modify provisions relating to certain
land exchanges in the Mt. Hood Wilderness in the State of Oregon.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Section 1206 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of
2009 (Public Law 111-11) included authorization for a land ex-
change to guide where future development would take place around
Mount Hood. The land exchange would allow Federal land in Gov-
ernment Camp (120 acres) to be made available for development
while protecting the larger parcel of non-Federal land at Cooper
Spur (770 acres) under Federal ownership.
Although the 2009 authority included language stating that it
was the intent of Congress that the exchange be completed within
16 months after the date of enactment, over six years have passed
without completion of the exchange. The long delay, which has
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