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HR 3336 114th Congress House Public Lands and Natural Resources Colorado Land transfers Water use and supply Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Colorado Wilderness Act of 2015

Introduced: July 29, 2015 Introduced by: DeGette, Diana Democratic · Colorado See on congress.gov
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Aug 31, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.
Aug 31, 2015
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Jul 29, 2015
Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Jul 29, 2015
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Colorado Wilderness Act of 2015

Amends the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to add specified lands in Colorado managed by the Bureau of Land Management (proposed as the Powderhorn Wilderness Addition) of the Department of the Interior to the Powderhorn Wilderness.

Designates specified lands in Colorado managed by the BLM or the U.S. Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Designates specified lands in Colorado administered by the BLM, Forest Service, and Bureau of Reclamation as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Incorporates such lands into the West Elk Wilderness.

Allows Interior to continue authorizing competitive running events currently permitted in the Redcloud Peak Wilderness and Handies Peak Wilderness Areas.

Authorizes the Colorado Army National Guard, through the High-Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, to conduct aerial navigation training maneuver exercises over the wilderness areas designated by this Act.

Designates specified lands managed by the BLM as: (1) potential wilderness areas, and (2) as the Deep Creek Wilderness and the Pisgah Mountain Wilderness upon publication by Interior of a notice in the Federal Register that all nonconforming uses of such lands authorized by this Act for the conduct of such exercises and overflights of military helicopters in violation of the Wilderness Act have ceased.

Provides for the securing, adjudication, and use of U.S. water rights for certain of the wilderness areas designated by this Act.

What's happening now August 31, 2015

Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans.

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