S 3427
116th Congress
Senate
Public Lands and Natural Resources
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
Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act
Introduced: March 10, 2020
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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.
Mar 10, 2020
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Mar 10, 2020
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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 outdoor recreation data related to federal lands.
Interior, the Forest Service, and the Corps of Engineers must digitize and publish geographic information system mapping data that includes
- federal interests, including easements and rights-of-way, in private land;
- 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;
- the boundaries of areas where hunting or recreational shooting is regulated or closed; and
- the boundaries of any portion of a body of water that is closed to entry, is closed to watercraft, or has horsepower limitations for watercraft.
What's happening now
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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