Restoring Local Input and Access to Public Lands Act of 2018

To protect and ensure multiple use and public access to public lands in Wyoming per the request of the respective counties, and for other purposes. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Restoring Local Input and Access to Public Lands Act of 2018 2. Removal of Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service Wilderness Study area designations (a) Release The public lands described in subsection (b) are deemed to have been adequately studied for wilderness designation pursuant to section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 and section 301 of the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 and are no longer subject to the requirements of subsection (c) of each of those sections pertaining to the management of Wilderness Study Areas. (b) Covered Public Lands Subsection (a) shall apply to the following Federal lands in Wyoming: (1) Wilderness Study Areas, or portions thereof, administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service in Lincoln County. (2) Wilderness Study Areas, or portions thereof, administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Sweetwater County. (3) Wilderness Study Areas, or portions thereof, administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Bighorn County. (c) Management of released land Federal lands identified in subsection (b) shall be managed according to the respective Federal land agency’s multiple use and sustained yield mandate. 3. Prohibition No new Wilderness or Wilderness Study Area may be designated in Wyoming except by a Federal statute that— (1) specifically designates such area; and (2) is enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act. 4. Treatment of land with wilderness characteristics (a) In general Any Federal land in Wyoming inventoried, before the date of the enactment of this Act, as a Land with Wilderness Characteristics (b) Future inventory After the date of the enactment of this Act, no Federal land in Wyoming shall be inventoried as a Land with Wilderness Characteristics December 20, 2018 Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed

Summary: Restoring Local Input and Access to Public Lands Act of 2018 This bill releases wilderness study areas or parts of which that are in Lincoln, Sweetwater, or Bighorn Counties in Wyoming from further study for designation as wilderness areas. The bill prohibits the designation of any new wilderness or wilderness study area in Wyoming except by a federal statute that specifically designates such area and is enacted after enactment of this bill. Any federal land in Wyoming that was inventoried as a "Land with Wilderness Characteristics" or identified as having wilderness characteristics under the planning process of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) or the Forest Service shall no longer be inventoried or identified as such. These lands shall be managed under the multiple use and sustained yield mandate of the federal land agency concerned. The federal land agencies concerned shall no longer be bound in managing their respective lands in accordance with the non-impairment standard. Furthermore, after this bill's enactment, no federal land in Wyoming shall be inventoried as a "Land with Wilderness Characteristics" nor shall it be identified as having wilderness characteristics under the planning process of the BLM or the Forest Service.