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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session |
Senate: FED DPA 4-3-0-0 | Third Read 16-11-3-0 |
SB 1281: federal government; land acquisition; consent
Sponsor: Senator Farnsworth, LD 10
Committee on Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections
Overview
Requires the Arizona State Land Department (ASLD) to maintain a catalog of all existing or newly created covered federal designations, rather than national monuments. Adopts reporting requirements for escrow agents engaged in the sale or transfer of title interest of private real property to the federal government.
History
Currently, ASLD is required to maintain a catalog of each existing or newly created national monument in Arizona. For each national monument, ASLD must request from the federal government all of the following:
1) a detailed accounting of each individual item to be protected;
2) the precise GPS location of each item to be protected;
3) the square footage that each item to be protected occupies;
4) the total square footage of the parcel of land comprising the national monument; and
5) a peer-reviewed justification for the protection of the object by the federal government.
ASLD is required to determine whether the limits of a parcel comprising a national monument in Arizona are not confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected by the national monument.
If ASLD determines that the limits of a parcel comprising a national monument in Arizona are not confined to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected by the national monument, ASLD is required to notify the Attorney General (AG). On receipt of the notice, the AG may commence an action to confine the limits of the parcel comprising the national monument to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected by the national monument (A.R.S. § 37-620.03).
Provisions
1. Requires ASLD to maintain a catalog of each existing or newly created covered federal designation in Arizona, rather than a catalog of each existing or newly created national monument in Arizona. (Sec. 1)
2. Specifies that ASLD must request outlined information from the federal government for a covered federal designation as it pertains to each item of natural, scenic, historical or cultural value or each resource, landscape, species, ecosystem, habitat or characteristic to be protected by the covered federal designation. (Sec. 1)
3. Requires ASLD to determine whether the limits of a parcel comprising a covered federal designation, rather than a national monument, are contained to the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the item of natural, scenic, historical or cultural value or the resource, landscape, species, ecosystem, habitat or characteristic to be protected. (Sec. 1)
4. Directs ASLD to notify the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives if ASLD determines the limits of such a parcel are not confined to the smallest area compatible with proper care and management. (Sec. 1)
5. Allows the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to commence an action to confine the limits of the parcel comprising the covered federal designation to the smallest area compatible with proper care and management. (Sec. 1)
6. Requires an escrow agent, upon the opening of escrow for the sale or transfer of title interest of private real property to the federal government or a federal agency, to notify the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives that a contract for the sale or transfer of private real property to the federal government or a federal agency has been placed in escrow. (Sec. 3)
7. Defines covered federal designation. (Sec. 1)
8. Contains a legislative findings clause. (Sec. 4)
9. Cites the legislation as the Tax Base Protection Act. (Sec. 5)
10. Makes technical changes. (Sec. 1, 2)
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