text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Federal-Utah State Trust Lands 
  Consolidation Act''.
  
  SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
  
      (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
              (1) The San Rafael Swell in Utah is a 900-square mile, wild 
          and beautiful region west of the Green River. The San Rafael 
          Swell is dominated by the jagged, uplifted San Rafael Reef, 
          which has nearly two dozen major canyons and many side draws 
          and box canyons. The San Rafael Swell towers above the desert 
          like a wilderness castle, ringed by 1,000-foot ramparts of 
          Navajo sandstone. Its highlands have been fractured by uplift 
          and scooped hollow by erosion over countless millennia, leaving 
          a tremendous basin punctuated by mesas, buttes, and canyons and 
          traversed by sediment-laden desert streams.
              (2) The San Rafael Swell region was one of the country's 
          last frontiers and possesses important natural, historical, and 
          cultural resources, including exceptional backcountry 
          recreation opportunities, productive habitat for Desert Bighorn 
          Sheep, important historical sites, including sections of the 
          Old Spanish Trail and the Outlaw Trail, significant 
          paleontological resources, and multiple wilderness study areas 
          created pursuant to section 603 of the Federal Lands Policy and 
          Management Act of 1976, or otherwise identified by local 
          government and conservation interests as having significant 
          conservation values. The beautiful rural landscapes, historic 
          and cultural landscapes, and spectacular scenic vistas of the 
          San Rafael Swell region contain significant undeveloped 
          recreational opportunities for people throughout the United 
          States.
              (3) The State of Utah owns approximately 102,871 acres of 
          land located in the San Rafael Swell region and administered by 
          the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration. 
          These lands were granted by the Congress to the State of Utah 
          pursuant to the Utah Enabling Act of 1894 (chapter 138; 23 
          Stat. 107), to be held in trust for the benefit of the State's 
          public school system and other public institutions. The lands 
          are largely scattered in checkerboard fashion amidst the 
          Federal lands comprising the remainder of the San Rafael Swell 
          area.
              (4) Development of surface and mineral resources on State 
          trust lands within the San Rafael Swell area, or the sale of 
          such lands into private ownership, could be incompatible with 
          management of such lands for nonimpairment of their wilderness 
          characteristics pursuant to section 603(c) of the Federal Land 
          Policy and Management Act of 1976, with future congressional 
          designation of the lands as wilderness, or with future 
          designation of such lands as a national monument, national 
          heritage area, or other conservation designation.
              (5) The State of Utah also owns 3,533 acres of land within 
          or directly adjacent to the Manti-La Sal National Forest in 
          Grand and Emery Counties, Utah, and 6,411 acres of land within 
          the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, a conservation reserve 
          established in 1995 by the United States and Washington County, 
          Utah, to implement a multiple-species habitat conservation plan 
          approved by the Fish and Wildlife Service under section 10(a) 
          of the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The Reserve contains the 
          highest density of critical habitat for the Mojave desert 
          tortoise, a threatened species, in the United States. These 
          State trust lands are also administered by the Utah School and 
          Institutional Trust Lands Administration, but the use of such 
          lands by the State is limited because of the conservation 
          designations of surrounding Federal lands.
              (6) The United States owns lands and interests in lands 
          elsewhere in Utah that can be transferred to the State of Utah 
          in exchange for the San Rafael Swell inholdings, the Manti-La 
          Sal forest lands, and the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve lands 
          without jeopardizing Federal management objectives or needs.
              (7) The large presence of State trust land inholdings in 
          the San Rafael Swell region, the Manti-La Sal National Forest, 
          and the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve makes land and resource 
          management in these areas difficult, costly, and controversial 
          for both the State of Utah and the United States.
              (8) It is in the public interest to reach agreement on 
          exchange of such inholdings, on terms fair to both the State of 
          Utah and the United States. Such an agreement, subject to 
          ratification by Congress and consent by the Utah legislature, 
          would save much time and delay in meeting the legitimate 
          expectations of the State school and institutional trusts, in 
          simplifying management of Federal lands, and in avoiding the 
          significant time and expense associated with administrative 
          land exchanges.
              (9) The State of Utah and the United States have reached an 
          agreement under which the State would exchange certain State 
          trust lands within the San Rafael Swell region, the Manti-La 
          Sal National Forest, and the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve for 
          various Federal lands outside of those areas but in the same 
          region of Utah.
              (10) The parties agreed at the outset of negotiations to 
          avoid identifying Federal assets for conveyance to the State 
          where any of the following was known to exist or likely to be 
  an issue as a result of foreseeable future uses of the lands:
                      (A) Wilderness study areas.
                      (B) Areas proposed for wilderness designation in 
                  pending Federal legislation.
                      (C) Significant endangered species habitat.
                      (D) Significant archaeological resources.
                      (E) Areas of critical environmental concern.
                      (F) Other lands known to raise significant 
                  environmental concerns of any kind.
              (11) Because the State trust lands to be acquired by the 
          Federal Government include properties within some of the most 
          spectacular wild areas in the western United States, and 
          because a mission of the Utah School and Institutional Trust 
          Lands Administration is to produce economic benefits for Utah's 
          public schools and other beneficiary institutions, the exchange 
          of lands called for in this agreement will resolve longstanding 
          environmental conflicts with respect to existing and proposed 
          wilderness study areas, place important natural lands into 
          public ownership, and further the interests of the State trust 
          lands, the school children of Utah, and these conservation 
          resources.
              (12) Under this agreement, the State interests to be 
          conveyed to the United States by the State of Utah, and the 
          Federal interests to be conveyed to the State of Utah by the 
          United States, have been examined by licensed independent real 
          estate consultants and, taken as a whole, have been found to be 
          approximately equal in value.
      (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to enact into law and 
  direct prompt implementation of this agreement, and thereby to further 
  the public interest by consolidating State and Federal lands into 
  manageable units while facilitating the protection of lands with 
  significant scientific, cultural, and natural resources.
  
  SEC. 3. RATIFICATION OF THE AGREED EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE STATE OF UTAH 
                AND THE UNITED STATES.
  
      (a) Agreement.--The State of Utah, the Department of the Interior, 
  and the Department of Agriculture have agreed to exchange certain 
  Federal lands in the State of Utah for lands of approximately equal 
  value managed by the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands 
  Administration in the San Rafael Swell area of Utah, the Manti-La Sal 
  National Forest, and the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve.
      (b) Ratification.--All terms, conditions, procedures, covenants, 
  reservations, and other provisions set forth in the document entitled 
  ``Agreement for Exchange of Lands 2002 Federal-Utah State Trust Lands 
  Consolidation'', dated June ____, 2002 (in this Act referred to as 
  ``the Agreement''), are hereby incorporated in this Act, are ratified 
  and confirmed, and set forth the obligations of the United States, the 
  State of Utah, and the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands 
  Administration, as a matter of Federal law.
  
  SEC. 4. CONVEYANCES.
  
      (a) Conveyances.--All conveyances under sections 2, 3, and 4 of the 
  Agreement shall be completed not later than 70 days after enactment of 
  this Act.
      (b) Maps and Legal Descriptions.--
              (1) In general.--The maps and legal descriptions referred 
          to in the Agreement depict the lands subject to the conveyances 
          under the Agreement.
              (2) Public availability.--The maps and legal descriptions 
          referred to in the Agreement shall be on file and available for 
          public inspection in the offices of the Secretary of the 
          Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Intermountain 
          Regional Office of the Forest Service, and the Utah State 
          Director of the Bureau of Land Management.
              (3) Conflict.--In case of any conflict between the maps and 
          the legal descriptions in the Agreement, the legal descriptions 
          shall control.
  
  SEC. 5. MINERAL DEVELOPMENT.
  
      All payments received by the United States pursuant to section 
  13(c) of the Agreement shall be subject to sharing with the State of 
  Utah in the same manner the United States shares bonus bids, rentals, 
  and royalties with the State of Utah under section 35 of the Mineral 
  Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 191).
  
  SEC. 6. AUTHORIZATION.
  
      There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary 
  to carry out this Act, including such sums as may be desired to reduce 
  the balance of the interest and principal amounts owed by the United 
  States to the Trust Lands Administration pursuant to sections 4 and 5 
  of the Agreement.
  
  SEC. 7. COSTS.
  
      The United States and the State of Utah shall each bear its own 
  respective costs incurred in the implementation of this Act.
target: Federal-Utah State Trust Lands Consolidation Act - Establishes that the State of Utah, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of Agriculture have agreed to exchange certain Federal lands in the State of Utah for certain Utah State lands. Ratifies, confirms, and incorporates all provisions set forth in the "Agreement for Exchange of Lands 2002 Federal-Utah State Trust Lands Consolidation."Directs the Federal Government to share payments pursuant to the Agreement with the State of Utah as bonus bids, rental, and royalties are shared under the Mineral Leasing Act.
feat_title: A bill to provide for the exchange of certain lands in Utah.