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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1014
To require Federal land managers to support, and to communicate, coordi-
nate, and cooperate with, designated gateway communities, to improve 
the ability of gateway communities to participate in Federal land manage-
ment planning conducted by the Forest Service and agencies of the 
Department of the Interior, and to respond to the impacts of the public 
use of the Federal lands administered by these agencies, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 27, 2003
Mr. RADANOVICH (for himself, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. MCINNIS, Mrs. 
CUBIN, Mr. CANNON, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. OTTER, and Mr. BISHOP of 
Utah) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To require Federal land managers to support, and to commu-
nicate, coordinate, and cooperate with, designated gate-
way communities, to improve the ability of gateway com-
munities to participate in Federal land management 
planning conducted by the Forest Service and agencies 
of the Department of the Interior, and to respond to 
the impacts of the public use of the Federal lands admin-
istered by these agencies, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Gateway Communities 
Cooperation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. IMPROVED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEDERAL 
LAND MANAGERS AND GATEWAY COMMU-
NITIES 
TO 
SUPPORT 
COMPATIBLE 
LAND 
MANAGEMENT OF BOTH FEDERAL AND ADJA-
CENT LANDS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following: 
(1) Communities that are adjacent to or near 
Federal lands, including units of the National Park 
System, units of the National Wildlife Refuge Sys-
tem, units of the National Forest System, and lands 
administered by the Bureau of Land Management, 
are vitally impacted by the management and public 
use of these Federal lands. 
(2) These communities, commonly known as 
gateway communities, fulfill an integral part in the 
mission of the Federal lands by providing necessary 
services, such as schools, roads, search and rescue, 
emergency, medical, provisioning, logistical support, 
living quarters, and drinking water and sanitary sys-
lands when compatible with the management of 
these lands, including the availability of historical 
and cultural resources; and 
(3) result in better local land use planning and 
decisions by Federal land managers. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) GATEWAY COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘gate-
way community’’ means a county, city, town, village, 
or other subdivision of a State, or a federally recog-
nized American Indian tribe or Alaska Native vil-
lage, that—
(A) is incorporated or recognized in a 
county or regional land use plan or within tribal 
jurisdictional boundaries; and 
(B) a Federal land manager (or the head 
of the tourism office for the State) determines 
is significantly affected economically, socially, 
or environmentally by planning and manage-
ment decisions regarding Federal lands admin-
istered by that Federal land manager. 
(2) FEDERAL
LAND
AGENCIES.—The term 
‘‘Federal land agencies’’ means the National Park 
Service, United States Forest Service, United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land 
Management.
(3) FEDERAL
LAND
MANAGER.—The term 
‘‘Federal land manager’’ means—
(A) the superintendent of a unit of the Na-
tional Park System; 
(B) the manager of a national wildlife ref-
uge; 
(C) the field office manager of a Bureau of 
Land Management area; or 
(D) the supervisor of a unit of the Na-
tional Forest System. 
(d) PARTICIPATION
IN FEDERAL PLANNING
AND 
LAND USE.—
(1) PARTICIPATION IN PLANNING.—The Fed-
eral land agencies shall provide for meaningful pub-
lic involvement at the earliest possible time by elect-
ed and appointed officials of governments of local 
gateway communities in the development of land use 
plans, programs, land use regulations, land use deci-
sions, transportation plans, general management 
plans, and any other plans, decisions, projects, or 
policies for Federal public lands under the jurisdic-
tion of these agencies that will have a significant im-
pact on these gateway communities. To facilitate 
such involvement, the Federal land agencies shall 
provide these officials, at the earliest possible time,
with a summary in nontechnical language of the as-
sumptions, purposes, goals, and objectives of such a 
plan, decision, project, or policy and a description of 
any anticipated significant impact of the plan, deci-
sion, project, or policy on gateway communities. 
(2) EARLY NOTICE OF PROPOSED DECISIONS.—
To the extent practicable, the Federal land agencies 
shall provide local gateway communities with early 
public notice of proposed decisions of these agencies 
that may have a significant impact on gateway com-
munities. 
(3) TRAINING
SESSIONS.—The Federal land 
agencies shall offer training sessions for elected and 
appointed officials of gateway communities at which 
such officials can obtain a better understanding of—
(A) agency planning processes; and 
(B) the methods by which they can partici-
pate most meaningfully in the development of 
the agency plans, decisions, and policies re-
ferred to in paragraph (1). 
(4) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—At the request of 
the government of a gateway community, a Federal 
land agency shall assign, to the extent practicable, 
an agency employee or contractor to work with the 
community to develop data and analysis relevant to
the preparation of agency plans, decisions, and poli-
cies referred to in paragraph (1). 
(5) REVIEW OF FEDERAL LAND MANAGEMENT 
PLANNING.—At the request of a gateway commu-
nity, and to the extent practicable, a Federal land 
manager shall assist the gateway community to con-
duct a review of land use, management, or transpor-
tation plans of the Federal land manager that are 
likely to affect the gateway community. 
(6) COORDINATION OF LAND USE.—To the ex-
tent consistent with the laws governing the adminis-
tration of the Federal public lands, a Federal land 
manager may enter into a cooperative agreement 
with a gateway community to provide for coordina-
tion between—
(A) the land use inventory, planning, and 
management activities for the Federal lands ad-
ministered by the Federal land manager; and 
(B) the land use planning and manage-
ment activities of other Federal agencies, agen-
cies of the State in which the Federal lands are 
located, and local and tribal governments in the 
vicinity of the Federal lands. 
(7) INTERAGENCY COOPERATION AND COORDI-
NATION.—To the extent practicable, when the plans
and activities of two or more Federal land agencies 
are anticipated to have a significant impact on a 
gateway community, the Federal land agencies in-
volved shall consolidate and coordinate their plans 
and planning processes to facilitate the participation 
of the gateway community in the planning processes. 
(8) TREATMENT AS COOPERATING AGENCIES.—
When a proposed action is determined to require the 
preparation of an environmental impact statement, 
the Federal land agencies shall, as soon as prac-
ticable, but not later than the scoping process, ac-
tively solicit the participation of gateway commu-
nities as cooperating agencies under the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 
et seq.). 
(e) GRANTS TO ASSIST GATEWAY COMMUNITIES.—
(1) GRANTS AUTHORIZED; PURPOSES.—A Fed-
eral land manager may make grants to an eligible 
gateway community to enable the gateway commu-
nity—
(A) to participate in Federal land planning 
or management processes; 
(B) to obtain professional land use or 
transportation planning assistance necessary as 
a result of Federal action;
(C) to address and resolve public infra-
structure impacts that are identified through 
these processes as a likely result of the Federal 
land management decisions and for which suffi-
cient funds are not otherwise available; and 
(D) to provide public information and in-
terpretive services about the Federal lands ad-
ministered by the Federal land manager and 
about the gateway community. 
(2) ELIGIBLE GATEWAY COMMUNITIES.—To be 
eligible for a grant under this subsection, a gateway 
community may not have a population in excess of 
10,000 persons. 
(f) FUNDING SOURCES.—
(1) GENERAL AGENCY FUNDS.—A Federal land 
agency may use amounts available for the general 
operation of the agency to provide funds to Federal 
land managers of that agency to make grants under 
subsection (e). 
(2) OTHER PLANNING OR PROJECT DEVELOP-
MENT FUNDS.—Funds available to a Federal land 
manager for planning, construction, or project devel-
opment may also be used to fund programs under 
subsection (d) and make grants under subsection 
(e).
(3) COMBINATION
OF
FUNDS.—Federal land 
managers from different Federal land agencies may 
combine financial resources to make grants under 
subsection (e). 
(g) PLACEMENT
OF FACILITIES.—Whenever plan-
ning new or expanded facilities, including administrative, 
operational, housing, or visitor information facilities for 
Federal lands administered by a Federal land manage-
ment agency, the Federal land management agency shall 
give priority consideration, to the extent practicable, to lo-
cating the facilities in a gateway community.
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