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Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act

Introduced: May 1, 2019 Introduced by: Wyden, Ron Democratic · Oregon See on congress.gov
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 18, 2019
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 382.
Dec 18, 2019
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with amendments. Without written report.
Dec 12, 2019
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
May 14, 2019
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-323.
May 1, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
May 1, 2019
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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All federal surface and subsurface land within the recreation areas or the wilderness additions is withdrawn from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

What's happening now December 18, 2019

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 382.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
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