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S 2537 113th Congress Senate Public Lands and Natural Resources Lakes and rivers Land transfers Oklahoma Texas

Red River Private Property Protection Act

Introduced: June 26, 2014 Introduced by: Cornyn, John Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 2 steps
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To President
Became law
Jun 26, 2014
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4156)
Jun 26, 2014
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Red River Private Property Protection Act - Directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to relinquish and transfer, by quitclaim deed, all interest of the United States in and to the lands along the approximately 539-mile stretch of the Red River between Texas and Oklahoma to any claimant who demonstrates that official county or state records indicate that such claimant holds all interest to those lands.

Requires publication in the Federal Register and on official and appropriate websites of a process for receiving submissions of such documents.

Instructs BLM to ensure that no parcels of Red River lands are treated as federal land for the purpose of any resource management plan until the Secretary of the Interior has ensured that such parcels are not subject to transfer by this Act.

What's happening now June 26, 2014

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4156)

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