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114TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 2d Session 114–822 

DANIEL J. EVANS OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK 

WILDERNESS ACT 

NOVEMBER 14, 2016.—Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 

Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, 

submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany S. 3028] 

[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] 

The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the 

bill (S. 3028) to redesignate the Olympic Wilderness as the Daniel 

J. Evans Wilderness, having considered the same, report favorably 

thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. 

PURPOSE OF THE BILL

The purpose of S. 3028 is to redesignate the Olympic Wilderness 

as the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness. 

BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION

Daniel J. Evans was elected Governor of Washington in 1964, 

and was reelected in 1968 and 1972. In 1983, he was appointed to 

fill the term of the late Senator Henry M. ‘‘Scoop’’ Jackson and 

served an additional term in the Senate before retiring in January 

1989. From 1993 through 2005, Senator Evans served as a member 

of the University of Washington Board of Regents. 

During his time in the Senate, Senator Evans was a leader in 

the passage of two major wilderness bills in the State of Washington. He was a cosponsor of the 1984 Washington Wilderness 

Act, which designated more than one million acres of national forest lands in Washington as wilderness. In addition, he was the lead 

sponsor of the Washington Park Wilderness Act of 1988, which designated more than 1.5 million acres of wilderness in Olympic, 

Mount Rainier, and North Cascade National Parks. 

The Olympic Wilderness, which would be renamed by this bill, 

covers 876,447 acres in the Olympic National Park, and is the largVerDate Sep 11 2014 04:46 Nov 26, 2016 Jkt 069006 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\HR822.XXX HR822

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est wilderness area in the State of Washington. This renaming will 

not affect the management of the national park or the wilderness. 

COMMITTEE ACTION

S. 3028 was introduced on June 7, 2016, by Senator Maria Cantwell (D–WA). It passed the Senate without an amendment by 

unanimous consent on July 14, 2016. The bill was referred to the 

Committee on Natural Resources, and within the Committee to the 

Subcommittee on Federal Lands. On September 21, 2016, the Natural Resources Committee met to consider the bill. The Subcommittee was discharged by unanimous consent. No amendments 

were offered and the bill was adopted and ordered favorably reported to the House of Representatives by unanimous consent on 

September 22, 2016. 

COMMITTEE OVERSIGHT FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Regarding clause 2(b)(1) of rule X and clause 3(c)(1) of rule XIII 

of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the Committee on 

Natural Resources’ oversight findings and recommendations are reflected in the body of this report. 

COMPLIANCE WITH HOUSE RULE XIII 

1. Cost of Legislation and Section 308(a) of the Congressional 

Budget Act. With respect to the requirements of clause 3(c)(2) and 

(3) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives and 

sections 308(a) and 402 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 

the Committee has received the enclosed cost estimate for the bill 

from the Director of the Congressional Budget Office: 

U.S. CONGRESS, CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE, Washington, DC, September 30, 2016. 

Hon. ROB BISHOP, 

Chairman, Committee on Natural Resources, 

House of Representatives, Washington, DC. 

DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: The Congressional Budget Office has reviewed S. 3028, the Daniel J. Evans Olympic National Park Wilderness Act, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on September 22, 2016. 

CBO estimates that enacting S. 3028, which would rename the 

Olympic Wilderness, would have no significant effect on the federal 

budget and would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, 

pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO estimates that enacting the legislation would not increase net direct spending or onbudget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2027. 

S. 3028 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would 

not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments. 

On August 4, 2016, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for S. 3028, 

as passed by the Senate on July 14, 2016. The two versions of the 

act are similar and CBO’s estimates of their budgetary effects are 

the same. 


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If you wish further details on this estimate, we will be pleased 

to provide them. The CBO staff contact is Jon Sperl. 

Sincerely, 

KEITH HALL. 

2. General Performance Goals and Objectives. As required by 

clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII, the general performance goal or objective 

of this bill is to redesignate the Olympic Wilderness as the Daniel 

J. Evans Wilderness. 

EARMARK STATEMENT

This bill does not contain any Congressional earmarks, limited 

tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined under clause 9(e), 

9(f), and 9(g) of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives. 

COMPLIANCE WITH PUBLIC LAW 104–4 

This bill contains no unfunded mandates. 

COMPLIANCE WITH H. RES. 5 

Directed Rule Making. The Chairman does not believe that this 

bill directs any executive branch official to conduct any specific 

rule-making proceedings. 

Duplication of Existing Programs. This bill does not establish or 

reauthorize a program of the federal government known to be duplicative of another program. Such program was not included in 

any report from the Government Accountability Office to Congress 

pursuant to section 21 of Public Law 111–139 or identified in the 

most recent Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance published pursuant to the Federal Program Information Act (Public Law 95–220, 

as amended by Public Law 98–169) as relating to other programs. 

PREEMPTION OF STATE, LOCAL OR TRIBAL LAW

This bill is not intended to preempt any State, local or tribal law. 

CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE BILL, AS REPORTED

In compliance with clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 

House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, 

as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, 

and existing law in which no change is proposed is shown in 

roman): 

SECTION 101 OF THE WASHINGTON PARK WILDERNESS 

ACT OF 1988 

SEC. 101. DESIGNATION 

(a) WILDERNESS.—In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.; 78 Stat. 890), certain lands in the 

Olympic National Park, Washington, which— 

(1) comprise approximately eight hundred and seventy-six 

thousand six hundred and sixty-nine acres of wilderness, and 

approximately three hundred and seventy-eight acres of potential wilderness additions, and 


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(2) are depicted on a map entitled ‘‘Wilderness Boundary, 

Olympic National Park, Washington’’, numbered 149/60,051A 

and dated August 1988, 

are hereby designated as wilderness and therefore as components 

of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Such lands shall 

be known as the øOlympic Wilderness¿ Daniel J. Evans Wilderness. 

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