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7 U.S.C. 1012a, 16 U.S.C. 478a) , is amended to read 

 as follows: "When the Secretary of Agriculture 

 determines that a tract of National Forest System 

 land in Alaska or in the eleven contiguous Western 

 States is located adjacent to or contiguous to an 

 established community, and that transfer of such 

 land would serve indigenous community objectives 

 that outweigh the public objectives and values 

 which would be served by maintaining such tract 

 in Federal ownership, he may, upon application, 

 set aside and designate as a townsite an area of 

 not to exceed six hundred and forty acres of Na- 

 tional Forest System land for any one application. 

 After public notice, and satisfactory showing of 

 need therefor by any county, city, or other local 

 governmental subdivision, the Secretary may offer 

 such area for sale to a governmental subdivision 

 at a price not less than the fair market value 

 thereof: Provided, however, That the Secretary 

 may condition conveyances of townsites upon the 

 enactment, maintenance, and enforcement of a 

 valid ordinance which assures any land so con- 

 veyed will be controlled by the governmental sub- 

 division so that use of the area will not interfere 

 with the protection, management, and develop- 

 ment of adjacent or contiguous National Forest 

 System lands." 



UNINTENTIONAL TRESPASS ACT 



Sec. 214. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of 

 the Act of September 26, 1968 (82 Stat. 870; 43 

 U.S.C. 1431-1435), hereinafter called the "1968 

 Act", with respect to applications under the 1968 

 Act which were pending before the Secretary as 

 of the effective date of this subsection and which 

 he approves for sale under the criteria prescribed 

 by the 1968 Act, he shall give the right of first 

 refusal to those having a preference right under 

 section 2 of the 1968 Act. The Secretary shall offer 

 such lands to such preference right holders at their 

 fair market value (exclusive of any values added to 

 the land by such holders and their predecessors 

 in interest) as determined by the Secretary as of 

 September 26, 1973. 



(b) Within three years after the date of approval 

 of this Act, the Secretary shall notify the filers 

 of applications subject to paragraph (a) of this 

 section whether he will offer them the lands ap- 

 plied for and at what price; that is, their fair 

 market value as of September 26, 1973, excluding 

 any value added to the lands by the applicants or 

 their predecessors in interest. He will also notify 

 the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the 

 House of Representatives of the lands which he 

 has determined not to sell pursuant to paragraph 

 (a) of this section and the reasons therefor. With 

 respect to such lands which the Secretary deter- 

 mined not to sell, he shall take no other action to 

 convey those lands or interests in them before the 

 end of ninety days (not counting days on which 

 the House of Representatives or the Senate has 

 adjourned for more than three consecutive days) 

 beginning on the date the Secretary has sub- 

 mitted such notice to the Senate and House of 



Representatives. If, during that ninety-day period, 

 the Congress adopts a concurrent resolution, he 

 shall continue such suspension for the specified 

 time period. If the committee to which a reso- 

 lution has been referred during the said ninety-day 

 period, has not reported it at the end of thirty 

 calendar days after its referral, it shall be in 

 order to either discharge the committee from 

 further consideration of such resolution or to dis- 

 charge the committee from consideration of any 

 other resolution with respect to the suspension of 

 action. A motion to discharge may be made only 

 by an individual favoring the resolution, shall be 

 highly privileged i except that it may not be made 

 after the committee has reported such a resolu- 

 tion ) , and debate thereon shall be limited to not 

 more than one hour, to be divided equally between 

 those favoring and those opposing the resolution. 

 An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, 

 and it shall not be in order to move to reconsider 

 the vote by which the motion was agreed to or 

 disagreed to. If the motion to discharge is agreed 

 to or disagreed to, the motion may not be made 

 with respect to any other resolution with respect 

 to the same suspension of action. When the com- 

 mittee has reprinted, or has been discharged from 

 further consideration of a resolution, it shall at 

 any time thereafter be in order (even though a 

 previous motion to the same effect has been dis- 

 agreed to) to move to proceed to the consider- 

 ation of the resolution. The motion shall be highly 

 privileged and shall not be debatable. An amend- 

 ment to the motion shall not be in order, and it 

 shall not be in order to move to reconsider the 

 vote by which the motion was agreed to or dis- 

 agreed to. 



(c) Within five years after the date of approval 

 of this Act, the Secretary shall complete the proc- 

 essing of all applications filed under the 1968 

 Act and hold sales covering all lands which he has 

 determined to sell thereunder. 



Title HI — Administration 



BLM directorate AND FUNCTIONS 



Sec 301. (a) The Bureau of Land Management 

 established by Reorganization Plan Numbered 3, of 

 1946 (5 U.S.C. App. 519) shall have as- its head a 

 Director. Appointments to the position of Director 

 shall hereafter be made by the President, by and 

 with the advice and consent of the Senate, The 

 Director of the Bureau shall have a broad back- 

 ground and substantial experience in public land 

 and natural resource management. He shall carry 

 out such functions and shall perform such duties 

 as the Secretary may prescribe with respect to the 

 management of lands and resources under his juris- 

 diction according to the applicable provisions of 

 this Act and any other applicable law. 



(b) Subject to the discretion granted to him by 

 Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1950 (43 U.S.C. 

 1451 note), the Secretary shall carry out through 

 the Bureau all functions, powers, and duties vested 

 in him and relating to the administration of laws 



