HR 428 · 115th Congress · Public Lands and Natural Resources

Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act

Introduced 2017-01-10· Sponsored by Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
Committee
House Vote
4
Senate
5
Enacted
Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.(2017-03-07)

Recorded Votes

PassedHouse · 2017-02-14
Roll #92
Yea 250Nay 171
Democrats
15 Yea·171 Nay
Republicans
235 Yea·0 Nay
PassedHouse · 2017-02-14
Roll #92
Yea 250Nay 171
Democrats
15 Yea·171 Nay
Republicans
235 Yea·0 Nay

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Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act This bill directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to commission a survey to identify the South Bank boundary line with respect to land along a specified 116-mile stretch of the Red River in Oklahoma and Texas (the affected area). The survey shall: adhere to the gradient boundary survey method; span the length of the affected area; be conducted by surveyors who are licensed and qualified to conduct official gradient boundary surveys, and selected by and operating under the direction of the Texas General Land Office and the Oklahoma Commissioners of the Land Office (the offices); and be completed within two years of enactment of this bill. The BLM shall submit the survey to the offices for approval and, within 60 days of receiving it, they shall determine whether to approve it. Surveys of individual parcels in the affected area shall be conducted according to the requirements for the survey of the South Bank boundary line. A survey of such a parcel shall be approved or disapproved by the offices within 60 days of receipt. The survey for identifying the South Bank boundary line and any survey of an individual parcel shall not be submitted to …

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Cosponsors (13)

13 Republicans