# Presentation: 810271

## Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation ActH.R. 222

- Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation ActH.R. 222

## Four Components Addressed in Legislation

- 1.  Economic development in Custer County.
- 2.  Recreation and motorized users who need    certainty to guarantee continued access.
- 3.  Ensuring ranchers, outfitters, miners and others to operate on public lands in Boulder-White Clouds.
- 4.  Creates wilderness areas  = 318,765 acres; plus releasing  131,616 acres of wilderness study areas.

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## 1. Economic Development in Custer County.

- $5 million to Custer County
- Transfer of Federal Lands to Custer County
- Transfer of Federal Lands to Blaine County
- Transfer of Federal Lands to Stanley, Clayton, Challis and Mackay

## Federal Land Transfers Included in H.R. 222

**Federal Land Transfers Included in H.R. 222**

**Blaine County Conveyances, Map #1  total 444 acres / 5 parcels**
**Blaine County Conveyances, Map #2  total 168 acres / 2 parcels**
**City of Clayton Conveyances, Clayton Map / 33 acres / 4 parcels**
**Custer County and City of Mackay / 853 acres / 6 parcels**
**Custer County and City of Challis / 3,198 / 6 parcels**
**State of Idaho Ada County Motorized Park / 1000 acres / 1 parcel**
**City of Stanley, Custer County/ 162 acers / 3 parcels**

## 2. Recreation and motorized users who need certainty to guarantee continued access.

## CIEDRA Considers All Recreation Users

**CIEDRA Considers All Recreation Users**

**Authorizes the First-Ever Wheel Chair Accessible Trails in Wilderness**
** ****Locks in existing Motorized use for ATV and snowmobiles.**
** ****Protects approx. 318,000 Acres as Wilderness**

## 3. Ensuring Ranchers, Outfitters, and others to operate on public land in the BWC. 

- 3. Ensuring Ranchers, Outfitters, and others to operate on public land in the BWC.

**Grazing Memorandum of Agreement**** **
**Outfitters and Guides permit extension**** **

## 4.  Creates 318,765 acres  of Wilderness Area  

- 4.  Creates 318,765 acres  of Wilderness Area

## Three Wilderness Areas = 318,765 acres        An area almost 1⁄2 the size of Rhode Island

- Three Wilderness Areas = 318,765 acres        An area almost 1⁄2 the size of Rhode Island

- Hemingway-Boulders Wilderness
-  (110,438 acres)
-  White Clouds Wilderness (76,657 acres)
-  Jerry Peak Wilderness (131,670 acres)

## Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers
Blaine County
Boulder-White Clouds Council
City of Bellevue
City of Sun Valley
City Council of the City of Hailey
City Council of the City of Ketchum
City Council of the City of Stanley
Campaign for America’s Wilderness
Chaco
Cooperative Wilderness Handicapped Outdoor Group
Custer County
Idaho AFL-CIO
Idaho Conservation League
Izaak Walton League of America
Living Independent Network Corporation
National Public Lands Grazing Campaign 
National Wildlife Federation
Outdoor Industry Association
Pulp and Paper Workers Resources Council
The Wilderness Society 
Sun Valley Adaptive Sports
Sawtooth Society

**Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers**
**Blaine County**
**Boulder-White Clouds Council**
**City of Bellevue**
**City of Sun Valley**
**City Council of the City of Hailey**
**City Council of the City of Ketchum**
**City Council of the City of Stanley**
**Campaign for America’s Wilderness**
**Chaco**
**Cooperative Wilderness Handicapped Outdoor Group**
**Custer County**
**Idaho AFL-CIO**
**Idaho Conservation League**
**Izaak Walton League of America**
**Living Independent Network Corporation**
**National Public Lands Grazing Campaign **
**National Wildlife Federation**
**Outdoor Industry Association**
**Pulp and Paper Workers Resources Council**
**The Wilderness Society **
**Sun Valley Adaptive Sports**
**Sawtooth Society**

***The following organizations/individuals support all and/or part of H.R. 222****** ***

**Sun Valley/Ketchum Chamber & Visitors Bureau**
**Trout Unlimited**
**United Steel Workers Local 712 608**
**Cecil Andrus (D-ID), former Governor of Idaho and Former Secretary of the Department of Interior**
**James McClure (R-ID), former U.S. Senator Idaho**
**Bethine Church, former president of the Sawtooth Society and wife of the late Senator Frank Church (D-ID)     ****   **
**More than 150 Idaho businesses support Congressman Simpson’s efforts to protect the BWC Area as wilderness. **
**More than 5,000 Idahoans have written**** in support of Congressman Simpson’s efforts. **

## CIEDRA

- Releases 131,616 acres of Wilderness Study Areas
- Creates BWCMA 503,737 acres of USFS and BLM land surrounding wilderness areas

## To Find out more...

**To Find out more...**

- Login to www.house.gov/simpson  click on legislation then  click on CIEDRA
- Mike can be found in the iTunes Store on the PBS show NOW or by visiting pbs.org