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SENATE 904117th CongressPlaced on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 284.

Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act

Last Action
2/28/2022

Actions

  • 2022-02-28Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 284.
  • 2022-02-28Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 117-83.
  • 2022-02-28Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 117-83.
  • 2021-11-18Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
  • 2021-06-16Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 117-141.
  • 2021-03-23Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  • 2021-03-23Introduced in Senate

CRS Summary

As of 2022-02-28 (25)

Modernizing Access to our Public Land Act

This bill directs the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to jointly develop and adopt interagency standards to ensure compatibility and interoperability among federal databases for the collection and dissemination of certain data.

Specifically, these requirements shall apply to outdoor recreation data related to federal lands and used to depict locations at which recreation uses are available to the public.

Each such department shall digitize and make publicly available on their websites, as applicable, geographic information system mapping data that specifies, with respect to the relevant department, all federal interests in private land, including easements, reservations, and rights-of-way

  • to which the federal government does not have a fee title interest, and
  • that may be used to provide recreational access to the federal land.

Interior, the Forest Service, and the Corps of Engineers must digitize and publish geographic information system mapping data that includes

  • status information as to whether roads and trails are open or closed,
  • the dates on which roads and trails are seasonally opened and closed,
  • the types of vehicles that are allowed on each segment of roads and trails, and
  • the boundaries of areas where hunting or recreational shooting is regulated or closed.

Cosponsors (17)

  • Angus King (I-ME)
  • Steve Daines (R-MT)
  • Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
  • Mike Crapo (R-ID)
  • Joseph Manchin (D-WV)
  • Susan Collins (R-ME)
  • Mark Kelly (D-AZ)
  • John Barrasso (R-WY)
  • Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
  • Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
  • Jon Tester (D-MT)
  • John Hickenlooper (D-CO)
  • Ron Wyden (D-OR)
  • Maggie Hassan (D-NH)
  • Ted Cruz (R-TX)
  • Jacklyn Rosen (D-NV)
  • Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)

Subjects

  • Congressional oversight
  • Digital media
  • Geography and mapping
  • Government information and archives
  • Hunting and fishing
  • Land use and conservation
  • Marine and inland water transportation
  • Motor vehicles
  • Outdoor recreation
  • Parks, recreation areas, trails
  • Pedestrians and bicycling
  • Roads and highways
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