118th Congress Public Lands and Natural Resources
S. 1348: Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023
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- Passed Senate (completed)
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Summary
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.
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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.
Written by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Roll calls
No roll call votes have been held on this bill.
Amendments
No amendments were offered to this bill.
Cosponsors
- Cynthia Lummis R-WYOriginal
Who scored on this bill
- 1John Barrasso SponsorIntroduced, reported, passed Senate3 events+50
- 2Cynthia LummisCosponsored; cosponsored bill passed2 events+4
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History
- Passed the Senate with an amendment by voice vote.
- Introduced in the Senate by John Barrasso.
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- Received in the House.
- Held at the desk.
- Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
- Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S7288-7297; text: CR S7288-7292)
- Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 118-185.
- Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 422.
- Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
- Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-311.
- Introduced in Senate
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.