Bill > HR3960

This bill facilitates an exchange of federal land between the Department of the Army and the Department of Agriculture in Georgia. Specifically, the Secretary of Agriculture will transfer approximately 282 acres of land within the Chattahoochee National Forest, currently permitted for use by the Army as Camp Frank D. Merrill, to the Secretary of the Army for force protection measures. In return, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Army Corps of Engineers, will transfer about 10 acres of Army Corps of Engineers property adjacent to Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Georgia, to the Secretary of Agriculture for administrative purposes. The bill also ensures that this land transfer will not negatively impact the critical habitat designations for the Etowah darter and the Holiday darter within the Chattahoochee National Forest, and requires the Secretaries to publish official descriptions and maps of the exchanged properties in the Federal Register. While the land transfers themselves will not involve reimbursement, the Army will reimburse the Agriculture Department for any costs incurred in preparing the necessary legal descriptions and maps.