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117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-678
FEDERAL LAND ASSET INVENTORY REFORM ACT OF 2021
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. 5522]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 5522) to require the Secretary of the Interior to develop
and maintain a cadastre of Federal real property, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and
recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 5522 is to require the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to develop and maintain a cadastre of federal real property.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 5522 directs the Department of the Interior (DOI) to de-
velop and maintain a current, centralized inventory of federal land
to assist with land management activities like resource develop-
ment and conservation, agricultural use, active forest management,
environmental protection, and real estate transactions. The FLAIR
Act allows DOI to enter into cost-sharing agreements with states
to include non-federal lands in the inventory. The inventory will be
made publicly available.
There is no current centralized inventory of federal property. In
2012, the GAO asked multiple DOI agencies for more than 100
types of data on federal lands ranging from potential quantities of
fossil fuels to the number of cultural and historic sites. DOI was
unable to provide any information for 33 of the data points and
could provide a complete response to only four.1 As of 2005, DOI
used over 100 different land management systems across multiple
1GAO-12-691T. Availability and Potential Reliability of Selected Data Elements at Five
Agencies.
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