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 PUBLIC LAW 100-409—AUG. 20, 1988

102 STAT. 1091

"(5) any adjustment made by the Secretary of relative value pursuant to section 206(f)(2)(B)(ii) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716).". SEC. 7. ADDITIONAL AMENDMENTS.

The Act of July 26, 1956 (70 Stat. 656, 16 U.S.C. 505a, 505b) is hereby amended as follows: (a) The words "national forest lands" are hereby deleted wherever they occur, and the words "National Forest System lands" are inserted in lieu thereof. (b) The words "a national forest" are hereby deleted in the first paragraph, and the words "a unit of the National Forest System" are inserted in lieu thereof. (c) The following sentence is hereby added at the end of the second paragraph: "Lands interchanged under the authority of this Act shall be deemed to include interests in lands.". SEC. 8. LAND INFORMATION STUDY.

43 USC 751 note.

(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of the Interior shall conduct an assessment of the need for and cost and benefits associated with improvements in the existing methods of land surveying and mapping and of collecting, storing, retrieving, disseminating, and using information about Federal and other lands. (b) CONSULTATION.—In conducting the assessment required by this section, the Secretary of the Interior shall consult with the following— (1) the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) the Secretary of Commerce; (3) the Director of the National Science Foundation; (4) representatives of State and local governments; (5) representatives of private sector surveying and mapping science. (c) REPORT.—No later than one year after the day of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall report to the Congress concerning the results of the assessment required by this section. (d) TOPICS.—In the report required by subsection (c), the Secretary of the Interior shall include a discussion and evaluation of the following: (1) relevant recommendations made by the National Academy Records. of Sciences (National Research Council) on the concept of a multipurpose cadastre from time to time prior to the date of enactment of this Act; (2) ongoing activities concerning development of an overall Records. reference frame for land and resource information, including but not limited to a geodetic network, a series of current and accurate large-scale maps, cadastral overlay maps, unique identifying numbers linking specific land parcels to a common index of all land records in United States cadastral systems, and a series of land data files; (3) ways to achieve better definition of the roles of Federal and other governmental agencies and the private sector in dealing with land information systems; (4) ways to improve the coordination of Federal land information activities; and (5) model standards developed by the Secretary for compatible multipurpose land information systems for use by Federal,

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