US Congress House Bill 2588 (Prior Session Legislation)

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July 22 2011 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

American Land Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), for FY2012-FY2016, to offer for competitive sale by auction 8% of the federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and 8% of the National Forest System lands. Requires the lands to be sold to be configured so as to maximize their marketability or to achieve management objectives. Permits either Secretary to include the mineral rights in a sale of land under this Act land for not more than 50% of the total acreage sold, if such inclusion is likely to maximize that land's marketability.

American Land Act

Rep Poe, Ted

Rep Hartzler, Vicky

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-07-22	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry.
2011-07-21	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
2011-07-20	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5241)
2011-07-19	House	Referred to House Agriculture
2011-07-19	House	Referred to House Natural Resources
2011-07-19	House	Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN02588:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr2588ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr2588ih.pdf