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King Cove Road Land Exchange Act
(Sec. 4) This bill declares that, if the state of Alaska offers to convey to the Department of the Interior 43,093 acres of state-owned land, Interior shall convey to Alaska, in exchange, 206 acres of federal land within the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and 131 acres of federal land within the Izembek Wilderness, for purposes of: (1) designating a road corridor through the refuge, and (2) constructing a single-lane gravel road along the road corridor.
The values of the federal and nonfederal lands to be exchanged: (1) shall be equal, or (2) if not equal, shall be equalized in accordance with this bill.
Interior and Alaska shall select an appraiser to conduct appraisals of the federal and nonfederal lands in accordance with nationally recognized appraisal standards.
Upon completion of the exchange of the federal and nonfederal lands: (1) the boundary of the Wilderness shall be adjusted to exclude the federal land, and (2) the nonfederal land shall be added to the Wilderness.
(Sec. 5) The bill requires the route of the road corridor to follow a specified southern road alignment.
(Sec. 6) The bill makes the requirements relating to the usage, barrier cables, and dimensions and the limitation on the location of support facilities with regard to the construction of a single-lane gravel road between the communities of King Cove and Cold Bay, Alaska (as set forth under the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009) applicable to the road to be constructed in the road corridor.
(Sec. 7) The bill states that the exchange of the federal and nonfederal lands and the road to be constructed under this bill (including the issuance of any permit that may be required from any federal agency to construct such road) shall not constitute a major federal action requiring environmental impact review under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 218 as passed House amended on Jul 20, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
Jul 20, 2017Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveJul 20, 2017
House Jul 20, 2017 · the primary vote
King Cove Road Land Exchange Act
Passed
248 Yea 179 Nay 6 not voting
Party-line vote 18 of 427 voting members broke with their own party: 15 Democrats, 3 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
433 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Organizations that named H.R. 218 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
22 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.