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On the recordDecember 5, 2024
Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 8413) to provide for the conveyance of certain Federal land at Swanson Reservoir and Hugh Butler Reservoir in the State of Nebraska, and for other purposes, as amended. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 8413 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Swanson and Hugh Butler Reservoirs Land Conveyances Act''. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Fair market value.--The term ``fair market value'', with respect to a specified property right, means the most probable price, as of a specified date, in cash, terms equivalent to cash, or other precisely revealed terms, for which the specified property right should sell after reasonable exposure in a competitive market under all conditions requisite for a fair sale, with the buyer and seller each acting prudently, knowledgeably, and in the self- interest of the buyer or seller, as applicable, and assuming that the buyer and seller are not under undue duress. (2) Frontier county.--The term ``Frontier County'' means Frontier County, Nebraska, acting through the Board of Commissioners of Frontier County. (3) Hitchcock county.--The term ``Hitchcock County'' means Hitchcock County, Nebraska, acting through the Board of Commissioners of Hitchcock County.…
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Bruce Westerman
Republican · Arkansas

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