H.R. 916 — Introduced in House

I 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 916 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES February 28, 2013 Mr. Kind (for himself and Mr. Bishop of Utah) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To improve Federal land management, resource conservation, environmental protection, and use of Federal real property, by requiring the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property and identifying inaccurate, duplicate, and out-of-date Federal land inventories, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2013. 2. Cadastre of federal land (a) In General The Secretary shall develop a multipurpose cadastre of Federal real property to support Federal land management activities, including, but not limited to: resource development and conservation, travel management, agricultural use, active forest management, environmental protection, and use of real property. (b) Cost-Sharing The Secretary may enter into cost-sharing agreements with States to include any non-Federal lands in a State in the cadastre. The Federal share of any such cost agreement shall not exceed 50 percent of the total cost to a State for the development of the cadastre of non-Federal lands in the State. (c) Consolidation and Report Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate on— (1) the existing real property inventories or any components of any cadastre currently authorized by law or conducted by the Department of the Interior, the statutory authorization for such, and the amount expended by the Federal Government for each such activity in fiscal year 2012; (2) the existing real property inventories or any components of any cadastre currently authorized by law or conducted by the Department of the Interior that will be eliminated or consolidated into the multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act; (3) the existing real property inventories or any components of a cadastre currently authorized by law or conducted by the Department of the Interior that will not be eliminated or consolidated into the multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act, together with a justification for not terminating or consolidating such in the multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act; (4) the use of existing real property inventories or any components of any cadastre currently conducted by any unit of State or local government that can be used to identify Federal real property within such unit of government; (5) the cost-savings that will be achieved by eliminating or consolidating duplicative or unneeded real property inventories or any components of a cadastre currently authorized by law or conducted by the Department of the Interior that will become part of the multipurpose cadastre authorized by this Act; and (6) recommendations for any legislation necessary to increase the cost-savings and enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of replacing, eliminating, or consolidating real property inventories or any components of a cadastre currently authorized by law or conducted by the Department of the Interior. (d) Coordination (1) In general In carrying out this section, the Secretary shall— (A) participate, pursuant to section 216 of Public Law 107–347, in the establishment of such standards and common protocols as are necessary to assure the interoperability of geospatial information pertaining to the cadastre for all users of such information; (B) coordinate with, seek assistance and cooperation of, and provide liaison to the Federal Geographic Data Committee pursuant to Office of Management and Budget Circular A–16 and Executive Order 12906 for the implementation of and compliance with such standards as may be applicable to the cadastre; (C) make the cadastre interoperable with the Federal Real Property Profile established pursuant to Executive Order 13327; (D) integrate with and leverage to the maximum extent practicable current cadastre activities of units of State and local government; and (E) use contracts with the private sector, to the maximum extent practicable, to provide such products and services as are necessary to develop the cadastre. (2) Contracts considered surveying and mapping Contracts entered into under paragraph (1)(E) shall be considered surveying and mapping services as such term is used and as such contracts are awarded in accordance with the selection procedures in title IX of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.). 3. Definitions As used in this Act, the following definitions apply: (1) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior. (2) Cadastre The term cadastre means an inventory of real property of the Federal Government developed through collecting, storing, retrieving, or disseminating graphical or digital data depicting natural or man-made physical features, phenomena, or boundaries of the earth and any information related thereto, including surveys, maps, charts, satellite and airborne remote sensing data, images, and services, with services performed by professionals such as surveyors, photogrammetrists, hydrographers, geodesists, cartographers, and other such services of an architectural or engineering nature including the following data layers: (A) A reference frame consisting of a geodetic network. (B) A series of current, accurate large scale maps. (C) A cadastral boundary overlay delineating all cadastral parcels. (D) A system for indexing and identifying each cadastral parcel. (E) A series of land data files, each including the parcel identifier, which can be used to retrieve information and cross reference between and among other data files, which contains information about the use, value, assets and infrastructure of each parcel, and shall also designate any parcels that the Secretary determines can be better managed through ownership by a non-Federal entity including but not limited to State government, local government, Tribal government, nonprofit organizations, or the private sector. (3) Real property The term real property means real estate consisting of land, buildings, crops, forests, or other resources still attached to or within the land or improvements or fixtures permanently attached to the land or a structure on it, including any interest, benefit, right, or privilege in such property.