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SENATE 440118th CongressReferred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text: CR S5231-5232)

A resolution expressing support for the designation of October 2023 as "National Youth Justice Action Month".

Last Action
10/30/2023

Actions

  • 2023-07-11Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 123.
  • 2023-07-11Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 118-51.
  • 2023-07-11Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin without amendment. With written report No. 118-51.
  • 2023-05-17Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
  • 2023-02-15Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  • 2023-02-15Introduced in Senate

CRS Summary

As of 2023-07-11 (25)

Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act

This bill designates specified Bureau of Land Management land in Oregon as the Rogue Canyon and Molalla Recreation Areas and adds approximately 59,512 acres of federal land to the Wild Rogue Wilderness.

The Department of the Interior, for public land, and the Department of Agriculture (USDA), for National Forest System land, must conduct a wildfire risk assessment that covers the recreation areas, the Wild Rogue Wilderness, and any adjacent federal land. Interior and USDA must develop plans to mitigate wildfire risk to communities located near the land.

No new permanent or temporary roads shall be constructed within the recreation areas except as necessary for public safety or to implement the wildfire mitigation plan.

USDA may take measures within such wilderness additions as are necessary to control fire, insects, and disease.

All federal surface and subsurface land within the recreation areas or the wilderness additions is withdrawn from

  • entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws;
  • location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and
  • disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral leasing, geothermal leasing, or mineral materials.

The bill also withdraws identified federally owned lands and interests within the Hunter Creek, Pistol River Headwaters Withdrawal Proposal, or the Rough and Ready and Baldface Creeks Mineral Withdrawal Proposal in Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon, and any land or interest in land located within such withdrawal proposals that is acquired by the federal government.

Cosponsors (1)

  • Jeff Merkley (D-OR)

Subjects

  • Emergency planning and evacuation
  • Fires
  • Forests, forestry, trees
  • Government studies and investigations
  • Land use and conservation
  • Oregon
  • Parks, recreation areas, trails
  • Roads and highways
  • Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
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