1. Short title; table of contents (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Hunting, Education, And Recreational Development Act or the HEARD Act . (b) Table of contents The table of contents for this Act is: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Findings and purpose. Sec. 3. Definitions. Sec. 4. Disposal. Sec. 5. Lands to provide or increase recreational and other opportunities. Sec. 6. Public availability of information on land potentially available for disposal. Sec. 7. Recreation and Public Purposes Act. Sec. 8. Limitations for administrative costs. Sec. 9. Recording. 2. Findings and purpose (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The total Federal estate exceeds more than 635,000,000 acres. (2) The Federal Government owns parcels of varying size interspersed with or adjacent to private, State, and tribal lands throughout the United States, making many of these parcels difficult to manage and more appropriate for disposal. (3) The Bureau of Land Management identifies certain lands potentially available for disposal in revisions to resource management plans. (4) Existing law does not require the Bureau of Land Management to dispose of identified lands on a regular or frequent basis. As a result, lands identified as potentially available for disposal under valid resource management plans are rarely disposed of by the Bureau of Land Management. (5) The Forest Service has several authorities to dispose of Federal lands, but such authorities are rarely used. (b) Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (1) to provide for the orderly disposal of certain Federal lands; (2) to benefit education through the sales of such lands and research focused on natural resource issues at educational institutions; (3) to consolidate Federal lands to achieve better management