NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Mr. Speaker, tonight before us is an important bipartisan bill that will help school districts around the country by…”

“Mr. Speaker, tonight before us is an important bipartisan bill that will help school districts around the country by allowing those districts to apply for conveyances of small tracts of Forest Service land at a nominal cost for the purposes of building, renovating or expanding school facilities. Currently, only school districts near Bureau of Land Management lands can apply for conveyances under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act, and modeled after that act this legislation simply adds Forest Service lands to the equation. It is worth noting, as my colleagues have before me, that H.R. 150 unanimously passed this House by a recorded vote with 420 of us in attendance voting yes; not a single voice, not a single vote, Mr. Speaker, in opposition in June of last year.”