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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3113 

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 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 11, 2021 

Mr. MOORE of Utah (for himself, Mr. FULCHER, Mr. NEGUSE, and Ms. 

SCHRIER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committees on Agriculture, and Transportation and Infrastructure, 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 

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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

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

3 to our Public Land Act’’, or ‘‘MAPLand Act’’. 

4 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

5 Congress finds that— 

6 (1) recreational fishing and hunting and other 

7 forms of outdoor recreation are important and tradi8 tional activities in which millions of people in the 

9 United States participate; 

10 (2) a lack of information about publicly avail11 able outdoor recreation opportunities depresses par12 ticipation in those traditional activities; 

13 (3) it is in the public interest to provide en14 hanced and expanded information about access to 

15 Federal land for recreational opportunities; 

16 (4) modern Global Positioning System tech17 nologies can provide detailed and real-time informa18 tion to the public about access to, and recreation op19 portunities on, Federal land; 

20 (5) many of the access easement records held 

21 by Federal land management agencies are held on 

22 paper files and cannot be easily integrated into dig23 ital mapping systems; and 

24 (6) Federal land management agencies 

25 should— 


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1 (A) accelerate efforts to digitize rec2 reational access information into geospatial 

3 files; and 

4 (B) make that recreational access informa5 tion available to the public. 

6 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

7 In this Act: 

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

9 means any land or water managed by a Federal land 

10 management agency. 

11 (2) FEDERAL LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCY.— 

12 The term ‘‘Federal land management agency’’ 

13 means— 

14 (A) the Bureau of Reclamation; 

15 (B) the National Park Service; 

16 (C) the Bureau of Land Management; 

17 (D) the United States Fish and Wildlife 

18 Service; 

19 (E) the Forest Service; and 

20 (F) the Corps of Engineers. 

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

22 means— 

23 (A) the Secretary of Agriculture; 

24 (B) the Secretary of the Interior; and 


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1 (C) the Secretary of the Army, acting 

2 through the Assistant Secretary of the Army 

3 for Civil Works. 

4 SEC. 4. INTERAGENCY DATA STANDARDIZATION. 

5 Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment 

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

7 interagency standards to ensure compatibility and inter8 operability among applicable Federal databases with re9 spect to the collection and dissemination of outdoor recre10 ation data relating to Federal land. 

11 SEC. 5. DATA CONSOLIDATION, DIGITIZATION, AND PUBLI12 CATION. 

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

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

15 the maximum extent practicable, shall digitize and make 

16 publicly available on the website of the Department of the 

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

18 as applicable, geographic information system mapping 

19 data that includes, with respect to the Federal land ad20 ministered by the relevant Secretary— 

21 (1) all Federal interests, including easements 

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

23 (A) to which the Federal Government does 

24 not have a fee title interest; and 


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1 (B) that is used to provide recreational ac2 cess to the Federal land; 

3 (2) status information with respect to whether 

4 roads and trails on the Federal land are open or 

5 closed; 

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

7 Federal land are seasonally opened and closed; 

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

9 each segment of the roads and trails on the Federal 

10 land, including the permissibility of— 

11 (A) off-highway vehicles; 

12 (B) motorcycles; 

13 (C) bicycles; and 

14 (D) passenger vehicles; 

15 (5) the boundaries of areas where hunting or 

16 recreational shooting is regulated or closed on the 

17 Federal land; and 

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

19 water on the Federal land that— 

20 (A) is closed to entry; 

21 (B) is closed to watercraft; or 

22 (C) has horsepower limitations for 

23 watercraft. 

24 (b) UPDATES.— 


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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretaries shall bienni2 ally update the data described in subsection (a). 

3 (2) PUBLIC EVALUATION OF ACCURACY.—The 

4 Secretaries shall include on each website referred to 

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

6 allow members of the public to confirm or dispute 

7 the accuracy of the information described in that 

8 subsection. 

9 SEC. 6. REPORTS. 

10 Not later than October 1 of each year— 

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

12 the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the 

13 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 

14 Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of 

15 the House of Representatives a report on the 

16 progress made by the Secretary of the Interior and 

17 the Secretary of Agriculture, respectively, toward 

18 meeting the requirements of section 5; and 

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

20 the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, 

21 shall submit to the Committee on Environment and 

22 Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on 

23 Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 

24 Representatives a report on the progress made by 

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1 sistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, to2 ward meeting the requirements of section 5. 

3 SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

4 There are authorized to be appropriated— 

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

6 this Act— 

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

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

9 2023 and 2024; 

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

11 this Act— 

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

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

14 2023 and 2024; and 

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

16 this Act— 

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

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

19 2023 and 2024. 

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