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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-134
BIG BEAR LAND EXCHANGE ACT
JUNE 27, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 255]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 255) to provide for an exchange of lands with San
Bernardino County, California, to enhance management of lands
within the San Bernardino National Forest, 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. 255 is to provide for an exchange of lands
with San Bernardino County, California, to enhance management
of lands within the San Bernardino National Forest.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
San Bernardino County is the largest county in the contiguous
United States and is home to a large portion of the San Bernardino
National Forest. Like many counties in the western United States,
almost 80% of the entire county is federal public land.
This bill authorizes an equal-value land exchange of 73 acres of
federal land in the San Bernardino National Forest for 71 acres of
non-federal land. The non-federal land is currently owned by Oso
Grande, a local disposal corporation, and is surrounded by U.S.
Forest Service land.
The federal parcel contains a less-than-0.5-mile section of the Pa-
cific Crest National Scenic Trail, which the bill proposes to relocate
to adjacent land before the land exchange is finalized.
San Bernardino County plans to use the 73 acres to build a re-
source conservation and recovery facility to increase the efficiency
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