H.R. 428Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act

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Sponsor: WILLIAM THORNBERRY [R-TX-13]
Cosponsors: 13 · 13 Republicans
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Committees: Natural Resources Committee, Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Latest action: Mar 7, 2017 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

IntroducedJan 10, 2017
Passed the HouseFeb 14, 2017
Passed the SenateNot yet reached
Sent to the PresidentNot yet reached
Became lawNot yet reached

What the measure doesCRS summary

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act

(Sec. 3) 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. The offices shall determine whether to approve the survey within 60 days after receiving 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 parcel survey also shall be approved or disapproved by the offices within 60 days of receipt.

Neither the South Bank boundary survey nor any parcel survey shall be submitted to the BLM for approval.

After a survey for an individual parcel has been approved, the offices shall submit to the BLM:

a notice of the approval of such survey; and

a copy of such survey and any field notes related to the parcel.

After receiving a notice of the approval of a survey related to an individual parcel, the BLM shall provide to each landowner of land adjacent to that parcel:

such notice; and

a copy of such survey and any field notes related to the parcel.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 428 as passed House without amendment on Feb 14, 2017. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.

How every member votedHouse roll call 92

House Feb 14, 2017

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Red River Gradient Boundary Survey Act

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250 Yea 171 Nay 10 not voting

Party-line vote 15 of 421 voting members broke with their own party: 15 Democrats.

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Democratic193 members

Republican238 members

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Cosponsors13 · 13 Republicans

Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 428 and vote against it. 1 signed when it was filed.

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