Land Acquisition

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This account does not require annual appropriations language due to permanent appropriation authorized includes a statutory requirement for the Department to submit an allocation of Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) funding to Congress as part of the annual budget process. Starting in 2021, pursuant to the GAOA, Federal land acquisition is available as mandatory appropriations Federal Land Policy and Provides authority for acquisition (P.L. 94-579, Sec. 205, 206; 43 Management Act of 1976 U.S.C., 1715, 1716) of lands or interests in lands by purchase, (FLPMA) (P.L. 94-579, exchange, donation, or eminent domain, when it is consistent with the mission of the Department and with land use plans (P.L. 94-579, appropriations from the Land and Water Conservation Fund may be 1701 et seq.) used to purchase lands which are primarily of value for outdoor Federal Land Provides authority for the use of receipts from disposal actions by Transaction Facilitation the BLM to purchase inholdings and lands adjacent to Federally Act of 2000 (FLTFA) designated areas containing exceptional resources, as defined in (P.L 106-248) FLTFA, from willing sellers with acceptable titles, at fair market value, to "promote consolidation of the ownership of public and private lands in a manner that would allow for better overall resource management administrative efficiency, or resource allocation." The reauthorized FLTFA for one year, expiring in July 2011. FLTFA was Bureau of Land Management 2027 Budget Justification Land and Water Authorizes planning, acquisition, and development of needed land Conservation Fund Act and water areas and facilities; in exercising this authority, of 1965, as amended (16 appropriated funds from the LWCF may be used for such acquisition to assist in preserving, developing, and assuring accessibility to U.S.C. 460l-4 et seq.) public lands and waters for the benefit of present and future citizens. Wild and Scenic Rivers Authorizes the Secretary to exchange or dispose of suitable Act of 1968, as amended federally- owned property for non-Federal property within the (16 U.S.C. 1271 et seq.) authorized boundaries of any Federally-administered component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, 1277(d). Similar exchange authority is contained in The National Trails System Act Wilderness Act of 1964 Authorizes the Secretary to acquire privately owned property within (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) the boundary of any area designated as a component of the National National Trails System Authorizes the Secretary to acquire lands or interests in lands Act of 1968, as amended included in the right-of-way selected for a National Historic, Consolidated Permanently reauthorizes the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Appropriations Act (FLTFA) and broadened the Act's applicability to include Act, 2018 (P.L. recreational access and use, in addition to other values. The Act also 115-141) required BLM to establish and maintain a public database containing a comprehensive list of all public lands identified as potentially Other suitable for disposal under a land use plan. Other acts such as, the King Range National Conservation Area 433), authorize the Secretary to enter into acquisitions, including Great American The Great American Outdoors Act, enacted in 2020, amended the Outdoors Act, P.L. 116- LWCF authorization (54 U.S.C 200303) to permanently appropriate 152 full funding ($900 million a year) for the fund.

Extracted from Bureau of Land Management, p. 134. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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