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117TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-684
RECREATION AND PUBLIC PURPOSES TRIBAL PARITY
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. 8115]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 8115) to amend the Recreation and Public Purposes Act
to authorize sales and leases of certain Federal land to federally
recognized Indian Tribes, and for other purposes, having considered
the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and rec-
ommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 8115 is to amend the Recreation and Public
Purposes Act to authorize sales and leases of certain federal land
to federally recognized Indian Tribes.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Recreation and Public Purposes Act of 1926 provides the Bu-
reau of Land Management (BLM) the ability to purchase and lease
public lands for recreation or public purposes with state and local
governments and eligible nonprofit partners. Land uses under the
Act include municipal facilities, schools, hospitals, parks, historic
monument sites, campgrounds, and law enforcement facilities.
Because the Act allows for the transfer and lease of public lands
at prices far below fair market value, the State, local, and nonprofit
entities that receive the lands must agree always to use them for
public purposes. Any revenue collected by state and local govern-
ments on lands conveyed under the Recreation and Public Purposes
(R&PP) Act must specifically be used on those lands, and BLM re-
tains a reversionary interest in the lands to enforce these terms.
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