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Representative Fernández urges law change to return small community cemeteries on Forest Service land to local ownership
Summary
Representative Leisure Fernández introduced H.R. 4284 to allow the Forest Service to convey small historic cemetery parcels on federal land to states, tribes, local governments and New Mexico land grants without requiring purchase or exchange.
Representative Leisure Fernández introduced H.R. 4284, the Small Cemetery Conveyance Act, describing centuries‑old community cemeteries in New Mexico and elsewhere that now sit on federal lands after historical adjudication and land transfers. Fernández said the bill would amend the Small Tract Act of 1983 to let the Forest Service convey small parcels that contain historic cemeteries to states, tribal governments, local governments and New Mexico land grants without requiring a purchase or land…
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