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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-515
NATIONAL GEOLOGIC MAPPING ACT REAUTHORIZATION
ACT
JANUARY 12, 2018.-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. 4033]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4033) to reauthorize the National Geologic Mapping Act
of 1992, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with-
out amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 4033 is to reauthorize the National Geologic
Mapping Act of 1992.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Geologic Mapping Act of 1992 established the National Coop-
erative Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP).1 This program was
designed to foster cooperation and coordination between the United
States Geological Survey and the State Geologic Surveys in gener-
ating modern, detailed, digitized, geologic maps in a cost effective
and efficient manner. These maps are intended to foster resource
development, environmental protection, and identification and miti-
gation of natural hazards. Geologic maps are records of the nature
and distribution of rocks and soils, water, energy and mineral re-
sources both on the surface and subsurface. There are three sub-
components to the NCGMP: FEDMAP-A federal mapping effort
by the U.S. Geological Survey; STATEMAP-A state mapping ef-
fort by State Geologic Surveys; and EDMAP-University programs
143 U.S.C. 31.
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