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The bill clears title so a local government can transfer the parcel to a nonprofit for community use, but it also removes federal oversight and imposes restrictive sale/use conditions that may delay redevelopment and limit alternative economic uses.
City of Paducah and a local nonprofit (Oscar Cross Boys & Girls Club) gain clearer title enabling transfer of the parcel for community recreational reuse and local nonprofit programming.
Restrictive transfer and use terms — limiting sale to a specific nonprofit, requiring procedural offers to the Secretary, and mandating continued public/recreation-compatible use — could reduce marketability, delay redevelopment, and constrain alternative economic uses of the parcel.
Taxpayers and the public may lose federal control and any oversight or public-benefit conditions previously tied to the federal parcel once title is cleared and transferred.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to remove deed restrictions placed by a 2012 quitclaim deed on a specific 3.62-acre parcel in Paducah, Kentucky (Paducah Memorial Army Reserve Center), while preserving a set of conditions that limit who may receive the property and how it can be used. The conveyance must include a restriction that the City may only transfer the parcel to the Oscar Cross Boys & Girls Club of Paducah, that the Club must first offer the parcel back to the Secretary without consideration before transferring it to another party, and that future uses remain compatible with public or recreational purposes.
Introduced February 13, 2025 by James Comer · Last progress March 4, 2026