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H.R.483 To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out certain land exchanges involving small parcels of National Forest System land in the Tahoe National Forest in the State of California, and for other purposes.

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to acquire land from Irving N. Christensen and Dennis and Cindy McCreary in the Tahoe National Forest in exchange for other land in the Forest.

The Christensen deal is described as:

SW 1/4 NW 1/4 of section 16, township 19 north, range 9 east, Mount Diablo meridian, lying southwest of California State Highway 49 and that portion of the S 1/2 NE 1/4 of section 17 of the same township and range lying southwest of California State Highway 49 and northeast of the North Fork Yuba River, through an exchange of all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a parcel National Forest System land in Tahoe National Forest, California, lying north of California State Highway 49 within the N 1/2 N 1/2 of such section 17.

The McCreary deal is described as:

in lot 19 of section 35, township 20 north, range 10 east, Mount Diablo meridian, through an exchange of all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a parcel National Forest System land in Tahoe National Forest, California, in lot 121 of such section 35. For purposes of Public Law 97-465,

. The McCreary land is ‘deemed to involve a mineral survey fraction. All lands to be exchanged under this section are withdrawn from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws of the United States.

This deal is governed by a bill made law in 1993  introduced by Rep. Doolittle. This transaction comes under the facilitation of small tracts exchanges of public lands regulations but the 2005 law makes these two exchanges as a special case under 16 U.S.C. 521c et seq as amended.

Sponsor:  Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA-4^th)

Vote: Passed the House by voice vote July 10, 2007

Cost to the taxpayers: No cost data given

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