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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-322
FEDERAL LAND ASSET INVENTORY REFORM ACT OF 2017
SEPTEMBER 25, 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
[To accompany H.R. 2199]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2199) 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 in-
accurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land inventories, and
for other purposes, 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. 2199 is to improve Federal land manage-
ment, 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 iden-
tifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land inven-
tories.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The federal government owns an estimated 640 million acres of
land, although the actual acreage is not definitively known. The
Bureau of Land Management manages 248.3 million acres of land
and over 700 acres of subsurface minerals; the Forest Service (FS)
manages 192.9 million acres of land; the Fish and Wildlife Service
(FWS) manages 89.1 million acres of land; and the National Park
Service (NPS) manages 79.8 million acres in the United States. The
majority of this land is concentrated in the Western states and
Alaska, with only 4.2% of federal land located in the Midwest and
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