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A bill to amend the Act of June 22, 1948.

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Introduced
In Committee
3
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-02-19
Introduced
1
Cosponsors
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Sponsor

Tina Smith
Tina Smith
Democrat · MN · Senator
Votes with party: 87.2% (873 recorded votes)

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Cosponsors (1)

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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 208.

2025-10-27

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Plain-English Summary

This bill prevents decreases in annual payments provided to Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties in Minnesota for national forest lands in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Specifically, the bill modifies the formula created under the Thye-Blatnik Act that the Department of the Treasury uses to determine the amount of the payments. Treasury must base the payments on the highest fair appraised value, including historical fair appraised values, rather than on the fair appraised value of the land.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Subjects

Public Lands and Natural Resources
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