Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023
- Last Action
- 12/24/2024
Actions
- 2024-12-24Held at the desk.
- 2024-12-24Received in the House.
- 2024-12-23Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- 2024-12-20Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S7288-7297; text: CR S7288-7292)
- 2024-12-20Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
- 2024-06-18Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 422.
- 2024-06-18Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-185.
- 2024-06-18Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-185.
- 2023-12-14Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- 2023-10-25Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-311.
- 2023-04-27Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
- 2023-04-27Introduced in Senate
CRS Summary
As of 2023-04-27 (00)
Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023
This bill designates specified wilderness study areas, special management areas, a National Conservation Area, and other areas in Wyoming.
The bill designates the following areas as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System:
- certain land within the Encampment River Canyon Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Encampment River Canyon Wilderness;
- certain land within the Prospect Mountain Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Prospect Mountain Wilderness;
- certain land within the Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Upper Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness and the Lower Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness; and
- certain land within the Bobcat Draw Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Bobcat Draw Wilderness.
The bill designates the following special management areas:
- Bennett Mountains,
- Black Cat,
- Sweetwater Rocks, and
- Cedar Mountain.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) shall divide the land within the Dubois Badlands Wilderness Study Area into the Dubois Motorized Recreation Area and the Dubois Badlands National Conservation Area, separating the two with a fence.
The bill designates Fortification Creek, Fraker Mountain, and North Fork as management areas.
The proposed BLM rule titled Conservation and Landscape Health or any substantially similar rule shall not apply to the land covered by this bill.
Cosponsors (1)
- Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
Subjects
- Congressional oversight
- Fires
- Forests, forestry, trees
- Government studies and investigations
- Land transfers
- Land use and conservation
- Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
- Wyoming
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