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GOP lawmaker squares off with USDA, tribes over farm bill land transfer 
The decades-long battle over nearly 9,500 acres in Oklahoma is coming to a head in Washington, D.C.  Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) secured a farm bill provision that would block transfer of the land, which currently hosts a USDA research facility and sits atop sizable oil and gas reserves, “except as otherwise specifically authorized by law.”  The USDA facility that occupies part of Fort Reno is the Oklahoma and Central Plains Agricultural Research Center, previously Grazinglands Research Laboratory, which Lucas has called "one of the crown jewels of our nation’s agricultural research facilities.”  The provision could clear the runway to expand agricultural and climate research by r

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