Requires the Forest Service to convey the Crossett Experimental Forest in Arkansas to the state at no cost, by quitclaim deed, if Arkansas requests it within 180 days of enactment.

• Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Forest Service, to convey the Crossett Experimental Forest and the R.R. Reynolds Research Natural Area to Arkansas if the state submits a written request within 180 days, subject to valid existing rights.
• Requires Arkansas to pay the conveyance costs and to designate the land the Crossett State Forest, managed under state forest laws that do not conflict with the bill.
• Limits use of the land to forest research, education, and demonstration, coordinated with the University of Arkansas at Monticello and the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture, and allows reversion to the United States if the state fails to comply within 180 days of written notice.
• Provides that the conveyance is not a major federal action under the National Environmental Policy Act and that the National Historic Preservation Act's section 306108 does not apply to it.

• Natural Resources Committee (House)
• Federal Lands Subcommittee

Public Lands and Natural Resources