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Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023

Introduced: April 27, 2023 Introduced by: Barrasso, John Republican · Wyoming See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 11 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Dec 24, 2024
Held at the desk.
Dec 24, 2024
Received in the House.
Dec 23, 2024
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Dec 20, 2024
Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S7288-7297; text: CR S7288-7292)
Dec 20, 2024
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Jun 18, 2024
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 422.
Jun 18, 2024
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.
Dec 14, 2023
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Oct 25, 2023
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 118-311.
Apr 27, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Apr 27, 2023
Introduced in Senate
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Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023

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.

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.

What's happening now December 24, 2024

Held at the desk.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 4332 Identical bill Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023
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 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 1
All 1 Republican 1
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Lummis, Cynthia M.
Wyoming · Apr 27, 2023
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1348: Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1348/
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"S. 1348: Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1348/.
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S. 1348, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-1348/.
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