The bill would allows for no more than 3 million acres to be sold, but gives interested parties an opportunity to consider purchasing from large swaths of land

The sale of public lands as part of Trump's tax bill has been a divisive measure, and a proposal to sell around 500,000 acres of federal land in Utah and Nevada was struck off the legislation by the House after some Republican lawmakers opposed the move.

Conservation groups are alarmed that up to 3 million acres would be sold. But the idea sounds good the mayor of the Ketchikan Gateway Borough, within the Tongass National Forest.