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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 904 

To require the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and 

the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to digitize and 

make publicly available geographic information system mapping data 

relating to public access to Federal land and waters for outdoor recreation, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MARCH 23, 2021 

Mr. RISCH (for himself, Mr. KING, Mr. DAINES, Mr. HEINRICH, Mr. CRAPO, 

Mr. MANCHIN, Ms. COLLINS, Mr. KELLY, and Mr. BARRASSO) introduced 

the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee 

on Energy and Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To require the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of 

Agriculture, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army 

for Civil Works to digitize and make publicly available 

geographic information system mapping data relating to 

public access to Federal land and waters for outdoor 

recreation, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Modernizing Access 

5 to our Public Land Act’’ or the ‘‘MAPLand Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress finds that— 

3 (1) recreational fishing and hunting and other 

4 forms of outdoor recreation are important and tradi5 tional activities in which millions of people in the 

6 United States participate; 

7 (2) a lack of information about publicly avail8 able outdoor recreation opportunities depresses par9 ticipation in those traditional activities; 

10 (3) it is in the public interest to provide en11 hanced and expanded information about access to 

12 Federal land for recreational opportunities; 

13 (4) modern Global Positioning System tech14 nologies can provide detailed and real-time informa15 tion to the public about access to, and recreation op16 portunities on, Federal land; 

17 (5) many of the access easement records held 

18 by Federal land management agencies are held on 

19 paper files and cannot be easily integrated into dig20 ital mapping systems; and 

21 (6) Federal land management agencies 

22 should— 

23 (A) accelerate efforts to digitize rec24 reational access information into geospatial 

25 files; and 


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1 (B) make that recreational access informa2 tion available to the public. 

3 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

4 In this Act: 

5 (1) FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘Federal land’’ 

6 means any land or water managed by a Federal land 

7 management agency. 

8 (2) FEDERAL LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCY.— 

9 The term ‘‘Federal land management agency’’ 

10 means— 

11 (A) the Bureau of Reclamation; 

12 (B) the National Park Service; 

13 (C) the Bureau of Land Management; 

14 (D) the United States Fish and Wildlife 

15 Service; 

16 (E) the Forest Service; and 

17 (F) the Corps of Engineers. 

18 (3) SECRETARIES.—The term ‘‘Secretaries’’ 

19 means— 

20 (A) the Secretary of Agriculture; 

21 (B) the Secretary of the Interior; and 

22 (C) the Secretary of the Army, acting 

23 through the Assistant Secretary of the Army 

24 for Civil Works. 


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1 SEC. 4. INTERAGENCY DATA STANDARDIZATION. 

2 Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment 

3 of this Act, the Secretaries shall jointly develop and adopt 

4 interagency standards to ensure compatibility and inter5 operability among applicable Federal databases with re6 spect to the collection and dissemination of outdoor recre7 ation data relating to Federal land. 

8 SEC. 5. DATA CONSOLIDATION, DIGITIZATION, AND PUBLI9 CATION. 

10 (a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after the 

11 date of enactment of this Act, each of the Secretaries, to 

12 the maximum extent practicable, shall digitize and make 

13 publicly available on the website of the Department of the 

14 Interior, the Forest Service, and the Corps of Engineers, 

15 as applicable, geographic information system mapping 

16 data that includes, with respect to the Federal land ad17 ministered by the relevant Secretary— 

18 (1) all Federal interests, including easements 

19 and rights-of-way, in private land— 

20 (A) to which the Federal Government does 

21 not have a fee title interest; and 

22 (B) that is used to provide recreational ac23 cess to the Federal land; 

24 (2) status information with respect to whether 

25 roads and trails on the Federal land are open or 

26 closed; 


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1 (3) the dates on which roads and trails on the 

2 Federal land are seasonally opened and closed; 

3 (4) the types of vehicles that are allowed on 

4 each segment of the roads and trails on the Federal 

5 land, including the permissibility of— 

6 (A) off-highway vehicles; 

7 (B) motorcycles; 

8 (C) bicycles; and 

9 (D) passenger vehicles; 

10 (5) the boundaries of areas where hunting or 

11 recreational shooting is regulated or closed on the 

12 Federal land; and 

13 (6) the boundaries of any portion of a body of 

14 water on the Federal land that— 

15 (A) is closed to entry; 

16 (B) is closed to watercraft; or 

17 (C) has horsepower limitations for water18 craft. 

19 (b) UPDATES.— 

20 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretaries shall bienni21 ally update the data described in subsection (a). 

22 (2) PUBLIC EVALUATION OF ACCURACY.—The 

23 Secretaries shall include on each website referred to 

24 in subsection (a), as applicable, a point of contact to 

25 allow members of the public to confirm or dispute 


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1 the accuracy of the information described in that 

2 subsection. 

3 SEC. 6. REPORTS. 

4 Not later than October 1 of each year— 

5 (1) each of the Secretary of the Interior and 

6 the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the 

7 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 

8 Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of 

9 the House of Representatives a report on the 

10 progress made by the Secretary of the Interior and 

11 the Secretary of Agriculture, respectively, toward 

12 meeting the requirements of section 5; and 

13 (2) the Secretary of the Army, acting through 

14 the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, 

15 shall submit to the Committee on Environment and 

16 Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on 

17 Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 

18 Representatives a report on the progress made by 

19 the Secretary of the Army, acting through the As20 sistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, to21 ward meeting the requirements of section 5. 

22 SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

23 There are authorized to be appropriated— 

24 (1) to the Secretary of the Interior to carry out 

25 this Act— 


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1 (A) $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2022; and 

2 (B) $5,500,000 for each of fiscal years 

3 2023 and 2024; 

4 (2) to the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out 

5 this Act— 

6 (A) $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2022; and 

7 (B) $5,500,000 for each of fiscal years 

8 2023 and 2024; and 

9 (3) to the Secretary of the Army to carry out 

10 this Act— 

11 (A) $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2022; and 

12 (B) $2,500,000 for each of fiscal years 

13 2023 and 2024. 

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