H.R. 3960: To provide for an exchange of administrative jurisdiction between the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of Agriculture involving certain Federal property administered as part of the Chattahoochee National Forest, but permitted to the Secretary of the Army for Camp Frank D. Merrill, and certain Army Corps of Engineers property adjacent to Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Georgia.
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H.R. 3960: To provide for an exchange of administrative jurisdiction between the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of Agriculture involving certain Federal property administered as part of the Chattahoochee National Forest, but permitted to the Secretary of the Army for Camp Frank D. Merrill, and certain Army Corps of Engineers property adjacent to Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Georgia.
113th Congress · introduced 2014-01-29 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
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- Who proposed it: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9] · what a sponsor is
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Official title
To provide for an exchange of administrative jurisdiction between the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of Agriculture involving certain Federal property administered as part of the Chattahoochee National Forest, but permitted to the Secretary of the Army for Camp Frank D. Merrill, and certain Army Corps of Engineers property adjacent to Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Georgia.
Plain summary
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to transfer to the Secretary of the Army, for Army force protection measures, certain federal land administered as part of the Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia, but permitted to the Secretary of the Army for Camp Frank D. Merrill, in exchange for certain federal land administered by the Army Corps of Engineers that is adjacent to Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Georgia, to be used by the Secretary of Agriculture for administrative purposes.
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To provide for an exchange of administrative jurisdiction between the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary of Agriculture involving certain Federal property administered as part of the Chattahoochee National Forest, but permitted to the Secretary of the Army for Camp Frank D. Merrill, and certain Army Corps of Engineers property adjacent to Lake Lanier in Gainesville, Georgia.
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Sponsor: Rep. Collins, Doug [R-GA-9] · 0 cosponsors
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- Jurisdiction
- The area or the matters a government or court has authority over.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-113hr3960.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/113/hr>
Record fed-us-cong113-hr3960 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong113 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong113