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105TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 105-471
EXCHANGE OF CERTAIN MINERAL INTERESTS IN BILLINGS
COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA
MARCH 30, 1998.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
ADDITIONAL VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 2574]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 2574) to consolidate certain mineral interests in the National
Grasslands in Billings county, North Dakota, through the exchange
of Federal and private mineral interests to enhance land manage-
ment capabilities and environmental and wildlife protection, 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. 2574 is to consolidate certain mineral inter-
ests in the National Grasslands in Billings County, North Dakota,
through the exchange of federal and private mineral interests to
enhance land management capabilities and environmental and
wildlife protection.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
For over a decade, the United States Forest Service and Bur-
lington Resources Oil & Gas Company (formerly Meridian Oil, Inc.)
have been considering a possible exchange of oil and gas rights in
the Bullion Butte and Ponderosa Pine areas of the Little Missouri
National Grasslands in North Dakota. The land ownership pattern
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