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Advancing Conservation and Education Act

Floor Speech

Date: June 25, 2018
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Natural Resources

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 4257 creates a process to expedite land exchanges between the Federal Government and State land grant agencies.

Currently, the primary method of eliminating State trust lands from conservation areas has been through legislative land exchanges, which can be time-consuming and complicated. This bipartisan bill, introduced by Representatives Stewart and Polis, offers a new way to speed up the process of removing State lands from Federal conservation areas.

H.R. 4257 could incentivize State land agencies to be good partners and supporters of additional conservation legislation by removing an important barrier to new conservation designations and improving the management of existing conservation areas.

Mr. Speaker, I support passage of this bill, and I reserve the balance of my time.
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