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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6169 
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 recre-
ation, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 10, 2020 
Mr. FULCHER (for himself and Mr. KILMER) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addi-
tion to the Committees on Agriculture, and Transportation and Infra-
structure, 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 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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Modernizing Access 
to Our Public Land Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds that— 
(1) recreational fishing and hunting and other 
forms of outdoor recreation are important and tradi-
tional activities in which millions of people in the 
United States participate; 
(2) a lack of information about publicly avail-
able outdoor recreation opportunities depresses par-
ticipation in those traditional activities; 
(3) it is in the public interest to provide en-
hanced and expanded information about access to 
Federal land for recreational opportunities; 
(4) modern Global Positioning System tech-
nologies can provide detailed and real-time informa-
tion to the public about access to, and recreation op-
portunities on, Federal land; 
(5) many of the access easement records held 
by Federal land management agencies are held on 
paper files and cannot be easily integrated into dig-
ital mapping systems; and 
(6) 
Federal 
land 
management 
agencies 
should— 
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(A) accelerate efforts to digitize rec-
reational access information into geospatial 
files; and 
(B) make that recreational access informa-
tion available to the public. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘Federal land’’ 
means any land or water managed by a Federal land 
management agency. 
(2) FEDERAL LAND MANAGEMENT AGENCY.— 
The term ‘‘Federal land management agency’’ 
means— 
(A) the Bureau of Reclamation; 
(B) the National Park Service; 
(C) the Bureau of Land Management; 
(D) the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service; 
(E) the Forest Service; and 
(F) the Corps of Engineers. 
(3) SECRETARIES.—The term ‘‘Secretaries’’ 
means— 
(A) the Secretary of Agriculture; 
(B) the Secretary of the Interior; and 
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(C) the Secretary of the Army, acting 
through the Assistant Secretary of the Army 
for Civil Works. 
SEC. 4. INTERAGENCY DATA STANDARDIZATION. 
Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretaries shall jointly develop and adopt 
interagency standards to ensure compatibility and inter-
operability among applicable Federal databases with re-
spect to the collection and dissemination of outdoor recre-
ation data relating to Federal land. 
SEC. 5. DATA CONSOLIDATION, DIGITIZATION, AND PUBLI-
CATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 3 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, each of the Secretaries, to 
the maximum extent practicable, shall digitize and make 
publicly available on the website of the Department of the 
Interior, the Forest Service, and the Corps of Engineers, 
as applicable, geographic information system mapping 
data that includes, with respect to the Federal land ad-
ministered by the relevant Secretary— 
(1) all Federal interests, including easements 
and rights-of-way, in private land— 
(A) to which the Federal Government does 
not have a fee title interest; and 
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(B) that is used to provide recreational ac-
cess to the Federal land; 
(2) status information with respect to whether 
roads and trails on the Federal land are open or 
closed; 
(3) the dates on which roads and trails on the 
Federal land are seasonally opened and closed; 
(4) the types of vehicles that are allowed on 
each segment of the roads and trails on the Federal 
land, including the permissibility of— 
(A) off-highway vehicles; 
(B) motorcycles; 
(C) bicycles; and 
(D) passenger vehicles; 
(5) the boundaries of areas where hunting or 
recreational shooting is regulated or closed on the 
Federal land; and 
(6) the boundaries of any portion of a body of 
water on the Federal land that— 
(A) is closed to entry; 
(B) is closed to watercraft; or 
(C) 
has 
horsepower 
limitations 
for 
watercraft. 
(b) UPDATES.— 
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(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretaries shall bienni-
ally update the data described in subsection (a). 
(2) PUBLIC EVALUATION OF ACCURACY.—The 
Secretaries shall include on each website referred to 
in subsection (a), as applicable, a point of contact to 
allow members of the public to confirm or dispute 
the accuracy of the information described in that 
subsection. 
SEC. 6. REPORTS. 
Not later than October 1 of each year— 
(1) each of the Secretary of the Interior and 
the Secretary of Agriculture shall submit to the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the 
Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of 
the House of Representatives a report on the 
progress made by the Secretary of the Interior and 
the Secretary of Agriculture, respectively, toward 
meeting the requirements of section 5; and 
(2) the Secretary of the Army, acting through 
the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, 
shall submit to the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works of the Senate and the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
Representatives a report on the progress made by 
the Secretary of the Army, acting through the As-
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sistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, to-
ward meeting the requirements of section 5. 
SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated— 
(1) to the Secretary of the Interior to carry out 
this Act— 
(A) $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2021; and 
(B) $5,500,000 for each of fiscal years 
2022 and 2023; 
(2) to the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out 
this Act— 
(A) $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2021; and 
(B) $5,500,000 for each of fiscal years 
2022 and 2023; and 
(3) to the Secretary of the Army to carry out 
this Act— 
(A) $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2021; and 
(B) $2,500,000 for each of fiscal years 
2022 and 2023. 
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