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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-280
UDALL PARK LAND EXCHANGE COMPLETION ACT
AUGUST 29, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 1547]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1547) to provide for the unencumbering of title to non-
Federal land owned by the city of Tucson, Arizona, for purposes of
economic development by conveyance of the Federal reversionary
interest to the City, having considered the same, report favorably
thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1547 is to provide for the unencumbering of
title to non-Federal land owned by the city of Tucson, Arizona, for
purposes of economic development by conveyance of the Federal re-
versionary interest to the City.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
In 1980, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a Recre-
ation and Public Purposes lease for approximately 173 acres of land
to the City of Tucson for the purpose of operating a public park.
As a part of the lease, BLM included a reversionary interest that
specified it could take back the park if the City no longer used the
land for public purposes or if the City used the park for commercial
purposes. After acquiring the land through the lease, the City of
Tucson began making improvements to the park (named Udall
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