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S 3241 116th Congress Senate Public Lands and Natural Resources Land use and conservation Monuments and memorials New Mexico Parks, recreation areas, trails Water use and supply Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats Wildlife conservation and habitat protection

A bill to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to establish the Cerro de la Olla Wilderness in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico.

Introduced: January 28, 2020 Introduced by: Heinrich, Martin Democratic · New Mexico See on congress.gov
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Sep 16, 2020
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-380.
Jan 28, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Jan 28, 2020
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill designates specified federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Taos County, New Mexico, comprising 13,103 acres in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, to be known as the Cerro de la Olla Wilderness.

The Department of the Interior shall enter into a cooperative agreement with New Mexico that specifies, subject to certain prohibition provisions under the Wilderness Act, the terms and conditions under which wildlife management activities in the wilderness may be carried out.

Subject to such agreement and such prohibition provisions, Interior may authorize the maintenance of any existing structure or facility for wildlife water development projects (including guzzlers) in the wilderness, if

  • the structure or facility would enhance wilderness values by promoting healthy, viable, and more naturally distributed wildlife populations; and
  • the visual impacts of the structure or facility on the wilderness can reasonably be minimized.
What's happening now September 16, 2020

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-380.

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3241: A bill to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to establish the Cerro de la Olla Wilderness in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico.. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3241/
MLA
"S. 3241: A bill to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to establish the Cerro de la Olla Wilderness in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico.." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3241/.
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S. 3241, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3241/.
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[S. 3241: A bill to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act to establish the Cerro de la Olla Wilderness in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, New Mexico.](https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3241/)
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