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U.GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-673
ADVANCING CONSERVATION AND EDUCATION ACT
DECEMBER 30, 2022.-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
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 2348]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2348) to maximize land management efficiencies, promote
land conservation, generate education funding, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with-
out amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 2348 is to maximize land efficiencies, pro-
mote land conservation, and generate education funding.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Stemming from the General Land Ordinance of 17851 and the
Northwest Ordinance,2 Congress in its earliest days granted each
new state certain federal lands to be held in trust by that state for
the sole purpose of generating income for public institutions, in
particular for education.3 Today, there are approximately 46 mil-
1Land Ordinance of 1785, Act of May 20, 1785, 28 J. CONT'L CONG. 375, available at http://
memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lljc&fileName=028/lljc028.db&recNum=386.
2Northwest Ordinance of 1787, Act of July 13, 1787, 32 J. CONT'L CONG. 334, available at
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lljc&fileName=032/lljc032.db&recNum=343 (expand-
ing upon the Land Ordinance of 1785); see also Northwest Ordinance of 1789, Act of Aug. 7,
1789, ch. VIII, 1 Stat. 50, 50-51, 51 n.(a), https://uscode.house.gov/
statviewer.htm?volume=1&page=50 (Here the 1st U.S. Congress reaffirmed-under the new U.S.
Constitution-the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which the Congress of the Confederation had
previously enacted under the Articles of Confederation.).
3Act of May 20, 1785, 28 J. CONT'L CONG. 375, 378 (There shall be reserved [for the United
States] the lot N 16, of every township, for the maintenance of public schools, within the said
township . . . .), available at http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=lljc&fileName=028/
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