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S 90 115th Congress Senate Public Lands and Natural Resources Lakes and rivers Oklahoma Texas

Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act

Introduced: January 10, 2017 Introduced by: Cornyn, John Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 9 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 11, 2018
By Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 115-426. Minority and Supplemental views filed.
Nov 29, 2018
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 687.
Nov 29, 2018
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. Without written report.
Oct 2, 2018
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Jul 26, 2017
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-482.
Feb 28, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Feb 28, 2017
Senate Committee on the Judiciary discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Jan 10, 2017
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan 10, 2017
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act

This bill directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to commission a survey to identify the South Bank boundary line with respect to land along a specified 116-mile stretch of the Red River in Oklahoma and Texas (the affected area).

The survey shall:

  • adhere to the gradient boundary survey method;
  • span the length of the affected area;
  • be conducted by surveyors who are licensed and qualified to conduct official gradient boundary surveys, and selected by and operating under the direction of the Texas General Land Office and the Oklahoma Commissioners of the Land Office (the offices); and
  • be completed within two years of enactment of this bill.

The BLM shall submit the survey to the offices for approval and, within 60 days of receiving it, they shall determine whether to approve it.

Surveys of individual parcels in the affected area shall be conducted according to the requirements for the survey of the South Bank boundary line. A survey of such a parcel shall be approved or disapproved by the offices within 60 days of receipt.

The survey for identifying the South Bank boundary line and any survey of an individual parcel shall not be submitted to the BLM for approval.

After a survey for an individual parcel has been approved, the offices shall submit to the BLM:

  • a notice of the approval of such survey, and
  • a copy of such survey and any field notes related to the parcel.
What's happening now December 11, 2018

By Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 115-426. Minority and Supplemental views filed.

 Committees of jurisdiction 3
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1