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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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Calendar No. 539
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session JSENATE 1 115-320
SANTA ANA RIVER WASH PLAN LAND EXCHANGE ACT
AUGUST 15, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKJ, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 497]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (H.R. 497) to direct the Secretary of the Interior
to convey certain Federal lands in San Bernardino County, Cali-
fornia, to the San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District,
and to accept in return certain non-Federal lands, and for other
purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of H.R. 497 is to direct the Secretary of the Interior
(Secretary) to enter into a land exchange with the San Bernardino
Valley Water Conservation District (District), to convey certain
Federal lands in San Bernardino County, California, in exchange
for certain non-Federal lands owned by the District.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The District, along with San Bernardino County, the Cities of
Redlands and Highlands, state and Federal Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice agencies, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), environ-
mental groups, and other stakeholders, have been working since
1993 to develop the Upper Santa Ana Wash Land Management and
Habitat Conservation Plan (Plan) along the Santa Ana River flood-
plain just below Seven Oaks Dam in California. The Plan covers
roughly 4,600 acres of both public and private land. Once fully im-
plemented, the Plan will provide for habitat protection, ground-
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