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Version 35 · Passed Senate amended · Sep 29, 2006
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the Senate on April 20, 2006. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Boy Scouts of America Land Transfer Act of 2006 - Authorizes the Utah National Parks Council of the Boy Scouts of America (the Boy Scouts) to convey to Brian Head Resort certain public land in Utah acquired under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act (the Act) for the purpose of operating a camp in exchange for conveyance by Brian Head Resort of certain of its private land to the Boy Scouts.
Requires that, upon conveyance to the Boy Scouts, the private land shall be subject to the terms and conditions imposed on the entire tract of land acquired by the Boy Scouts for a camp under a specified Bureau of Land Management (BLM) patent.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior, upon completion of the land exchanges under this Act, to amend the original BLM patent providing for the conveyance of the public land to the Boy Scouts under the Act to take into account such exchanges.
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Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] · R–UT
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Held at the desk.
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Received in the House.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S10528; text as passed Senate: CR S10528)
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S10528; text as passed Senate: CR S10528)
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 393.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici under authority of the order of the Senate of 04/07/2006 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-231.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici under authority of the order of the Senate of 04/07/2006 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-231.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 109-19.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced in Senate
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