Sec. 2. Findings and purpose
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Congress finds the following: The total Federal estate exceeds more than 635,000,000 acres. The Federal Government owns parcels of varying size interspersed with or adjacent to private, State, and tribal lands throughout the United States, making many of these parcels difficult to manage and more appropriate for disposal. The Bureau of Land Management identifies certain lands potentially available for disposal in revisions to resource management plans. Existing law does not require the Bureau of Land Management to dispose of identified lands on a regular or frequent basis.
As a result, lands identified as potentially available for disposal under valid resource management plans are rarely disposed of by the Bureau of Land Management. The Forest Service has several authorities to dispose of Federal lands, but such authorities are rarely used. The purposes of this Act are— to provide for the orderly disposal of certain Federal lands; to benefit education through the sales of such lands and research focused on natural resource issues at educational institutions; to consolidate Federal lands to achieve better management; and to provide for the acquisition of certain lands to provide or increase recreational and other purposes.