I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1581 
To release wilderness study areas administered by the Bureau of Land Man-
agement that are not suitable for wilderness designation from continued 
management as de facto wilderness areas and to release inventoried 
roadless areas within the National Forest System that are not rec-
ommended for wilderness designation from the land use restrictions of 
the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Final Rule and the 2005 State 
Petitions for Inventoried Roadless Area Management Final Rule, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 15, 2011 
Mr. MCCARTHY of California (for himself, Mr. MCKEON, Mrs. LUMMIS, Mr. 
NUNES, Mr. DENHAM, Mrs. NOEM, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mr. PEARCE, 
Mr. MCCLINTOCK, Mr. CHAFFETZ, Mr. HERGER, Mrs. MCMORRIS ROD-
GERS, Mr. HELLER, Mr. GOODLATTE, Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, 
Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, Mr. GALLEGLY, Mr. TIPTON, Mr. LEWIS of Cali-
fornia, Mr. HUNTER, Mr. LABRADOR, Mr. CALVERT, and Mr. COFFMAN 
of Colorado) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agri-
culture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To release wilderness study areas administered by the Bu-
reau of Land Management that are not suitable for 
wilderness designation from continued management as 
de facto wilderness areas and to release inventoried 
roadless areas within the National Forest System that 
are not recommended for wilderness designation from 
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the land use restrictions of the 2001 Roadless Area 
Conservation Final Rule and the 2005 State Petitions 
for Inventoried Roadless Area Management Final Rule, 
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 ‘‘Wilderness and 
Roadless Area Release Act of 2011’’. 
SEC. 2. RELEASE OF BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT WIL-
DERNESS STUDY AREAS PREVIOUSLY IDENTI-
FIED AS NOT SUITABLE FOR WILDERNESS 
DESIGNATION. 
(a) RELEASE.—Congress finds and directs that the 
public lands described in subsection (b) have been ade-
quately studied for wilderness designation pursuant to sec-
tion 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1782) and are no longer subject to 
the requirement of subsection (c) of such section per-
taining to the management of wilderness study areas in 
a manner that does not impair the suitability of such areas 
for preservation as wilderness. 
(b) COVERED PUBLIC LANDS.—Subsection (a) ap-
plies to public lands administered by the Bureau of Land 
Management pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) that— 
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(1) have not been designated as wilderness by 
an Act of Congress before the date of the enactment 
of this Act; and 
(2) have been identified by the Bureau of Land 
Management before the date of the enactment of 
this Act as not suitable for wilderness designation. 
(c) MANAGEMENT.—Public lands released by sub-
section (a) shall be managed by the Bureau of Land Man-
agement in accordance with the land use plan applicable 
to the lands developed pursuant to section 202 of the Fed-
eral Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
1712). 
(d) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary of the Interior 
may not promulgate or issue any system-wide regulation, 
directive, or order that would direct management of the 
public lands released by subsection (a) in a manner con-
trary to the applicable land use plan. 
(e) TERMINATION OF APPLICABILITY OF WILDLANDS 
ORDER.—Wildlands order 3310 shall not apply with re-
spect to the public lands released by subsection (a). 
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SEC. 3. RELEASE OF INVENTORIED ROADLESS AREAS 
WITHIN THE NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM NOT 
RECOMMENDED FOR WILDERNESS DESIGNA-
TION. 
(a) RELEASE.—Congress finds and directs that the 
National Forest System lands described in subsection (b) 
have been adequately studied for wilderness designation 
pursuant to the second roadless area review and evalua-
tion program (RARE II) and the land and resource man-
agement plan revision process under section 6 of the For-
est and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 
1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604) and are no longer subject to man-
agement to maintain the roadless character and values of 
the lands and comply with other land-use restrictions of 
the Roadless Area Conservation Rule contained in part 
294 of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, and amended 
in the final rule and record of decision published in the 
Federal Register on January 12, 2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 
3244), and the final rule and record of decision published 
in the Federal Register on May 13, 2005 (70 Fed. Reg. 
25654). 
(b) COVERED NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM LANDS.— 
Subsection (a) applies to inventoried roadless areas within 
the National Forest System set forth in the maps con-
tained in the Forest Service Roadless Area Conservation, 
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Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 2, dated 
November 2000, that— 
(1) have not been designated as wilderness by 
an Act of Congress before the date of the enactment 
of this Act; and 
(2) were not recommended for designation as 
wilderness as a result of the second roadless area re-
view and evaluation program (RARE II) or the sub-
sequent revision of a land and resource management 
plan under section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland 
Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 
U.S.C. 1604). 
(c) MANAGEMENT.—National Forest System lands 
released by subsection (a) shall be managed by the Forest 
Service under the principles of the Multiple-Use Sus-
tained-Yield Act of 1960 (16 U.S.C. 528 et seq.) in ac-
cordance with the land and resource management plan de-
veloped for the unit of the National Forest System con-
taining the lands. 
(d) PROHIBITION.—The Secretary of Agriculture 
may not promulgate or issue any system-wide regulation, 
directive, or order that would direct management of the 
National Forest System lands released by subsection (a) 
in a manner contrary to the applicable land and resource 
management plan. 
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