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U.S. GOVERNMENT
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-124
REMOVING OUTDATED RESTRICTIONS TO ALLOW FOR
JOB GROWTH ACT
MAY 16, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. CONAWAY, from the Committee on Agriculture,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1177]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 1177) to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release on be-
half of the United States the condition that certain lands conveyed
to the City of Old Town, Maine, be used for a municipal airport,
and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do
pass.
BRIEF EXPLANATION
The Removing Outdated Restrictions to Allow for Job Growth
Act, H.R. 1177, directs the Secretary of Agriculture to release on
behalf of the United States the condition that certain lands con-
veyed to the City of Old Town, Maine, be used for a municipal air-
port.
PURPOSE AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
In the early 1980s, the City of Old Town, Maine, purchased land
from the federal government to be part of the Old Town Airport.
The deed included a use restriction, as required by a 1941 amend-
ment to the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937, limiting use
of the land to a municipal airport or other public use. Old Town
has invested heavily in this land in order to attract businesses, but
the deed restriction needs to be lifted before further economic de-
velopment can occur.
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