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113TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 113-190
POWELL SHOOTING RANGE LAND CONVEYANCE ACT
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, from the Committee on Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 130]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (S. 130) to require the Secretary of the Interior to convey cer-
tain Federal land to the Powell Recreation District in the State of
Wyoming, having considered the same, report favorably thereon
without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of S. 130 is to require the Secretary of the Interior
to convey certain Federal land to the Powell Recreation District in
the State of Wyoming.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The town of Powell is located in Park County, in northwestern
Wyoming. Since 1980, the Powell Recreation District has used ap-
proximately 322 acres of public land as a public shooting range. Be-
cause the lands are located within the boundaries of an irrigation
district, they were presumed to be under the jurisdiction of the Bu-
reau of Reclamation. The Bureau issued the original lease for the
shooting range in 1980 and a renewal in 2007. Recently, it was de-
termined that the lands are actually administered by the Bureau
of Land Management (BLM).
In October 2005, the recreation district applied for a transfer of
the land under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act (RPPA, 43
U.S.C. 869 et seq.). The land, however, had not been identified by
BLM as appropriate for conveyance under the RPPA, and the De-
partment of the Interior concluded that it does not have authority
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