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[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3465 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3465

  To protect inventoried roadless areas in the National Forest System.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 17, 2011

  Mr. Inslee (for himself, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Markey, Ms. DeGette, Mr. 
Hinchey, Mr. Langevin, Mr. Berman, Mr. George Miller of California, Ms. 
  DeLauro, Mr. Serrano, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. 
 Moran, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Connolly of Virginia, Mr. Waxman, Mr. Honda, 
Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, Mr. Levin, Mr. Gutierrez, Ms. Slaughter, 
    Mr. Nadler, Mr. Cummings, Ms. Tsongas, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Larson of 
  Connecticut, Ms. Schwartz, Mr. Ackerman, Mr. Carson of Indiana, Mr. 
   Stark, Mr. Lipinski, Ms. Kaptur, Mr. Murphy of Connecticut, Mrs. 
 Napolitano, Mr. Rahall, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Schiff, Ms. 
 Edwards, Ms. McCollum, Mrs. Davis of California, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. 
 Garamendi, Mr. Lujan, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Holt, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Braley of 
 Iowa, Mrs. Capps, Ms. Moore, Mr. Dingell, Mr. Ryan of Ohio, Mr. Price 
of North Carolina, Ms. Chu, Mr. Rothman of New Jersey, Ms. Woolsey, Mr. 
 Walz of Minnesota, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Pascrell, Mr. McNerney, 
Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Olver, Ms. Eshoo, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Conyers, 
Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Tierney, Mr. Carnahan, Ms. Norton, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. 
   Filner, Ms. Speier, Ms. Matsui, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Ms. Eddie 
   Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mr. Farr, Ms. Jackson Lee of Texas, Mr. 
 Quigley, Ms. Roybal-Allard, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Hastings of 
 Florida, Ms. Brown of Florida, Ms. Sutton, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Sarbanes, 
  Ms. Fudge, Mr. McGovern, Mr. Higgins, Mr. Jackson of Illinois, Ms. 
Schakowsky, Mr. Miller of North Carolina, Mr. Kildee, Mr. Doggett, Mr. 
 Neal, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Cicilline, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Rush, Mr. Israel, Mr. 
    Keating, Mr. Kucinich, Ms. Richardson, Mr. Clay, Mr. Tonko, Mr. 
 Sherman, Mr. Fattah, Mr. Johnson of Illinois, Mr. Kind, Mrs. McCarthy 
of New York, and Ms. Castor of Florida) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to 
  the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL

 
  To protect inventoried roadless areas in the National Forest System.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Forest Roadless Area 
Conservation Act''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIED ROADLESS AREAS.

    (a) Identification of Inventoried Roadless Areas.--The inventoried 
roadless areas within the National Forest System set forth in the maps 
contained in the Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation, Final 
Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 2, dated November 2000, shall be 
known and identified as National Forest Inventoried Roadless Areas. The 
Forest Service may modify such maps for the sole purpose of improving 
their accuracy or inclusiveness. Any substantial modification of such 
maps shall be made through the national forest management planning 
process and documented in an environmental impact statement.
    (b) Management and Protection.--The Secretary of Agriculture shall 
manage the National Forest Inventoried Roadless Areas identified in 
subsection (a) to maintain the roadless character and values of the 
areas in accordance with the final rule and record of decision 
published in the Federal Register on January 12, 2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 
3244 et seq.).
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