Arizona would review federal land designations and flag private land sales to the federal government

The department would keep a catalog of federal land designations in Arizona and ask the federal government for details on what each one protects. The list covers areas of critical environmental concern, national forests, parks, monuments, wildlife refuges, conservation areas, recreation areas, and scenic areas, plus scenic, historical, and recreation trails, roadless areas, wild and scenic rivers, and wilderness and wilderness study areas. For each one, the department would ask for a detailed accounting and the GPS location of each protected item or resource, how much square footage each occupies, the total size of the parcel, and a peer-reviewed justification for the protection.

The department would decide whether each federal designation is confined to the smallest area compatible with proper care and management of what it protects. This applies to the covered federal designations in Arizona. If the department finds a designation is larger than that, it must notify the Senate president, the House speaker, and the attorney general. Any of those three officials may then sue to confine the designation to the smallest area compatible with proper care and management.

An escrow agent would have to tell the Senate president and the House speaker when a contract to sell or transfer private real property to the federal government goes into escrow. This applies to escrow agents handling sales or transfers of private real property to the federal government or a federal agency. The notice is due when escrow opens.