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115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6939 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 
Ms. CHENEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Natural Resources 
A BILL 
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. 
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 ‘‘Restoring Local Input 
and Access to Public Lands Act of 2018’’. 
SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT AND 
FOREST SERVICE WILDERNESS STUDY AREA 
DESIGNATIONS. 
(a) RELEASE.—The public lands described in sub-
section (b) are deemed to have been adequately studied 
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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 there-
of, administered by the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment and the Forest Service in Lincoln County. 
(2) Wilderness Study Areas, or portions there-
of, administered by the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment in Sweetwater County. 
(3) Wilderness Study Areas, or portions there-
of, administered by the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment in Bighorn County. 
(c) MANAGEMENT
OF RELEASED LAND.—Federal 
lands identified in subsection (b) shall be managed accord-
ing to the respective Federal land agency’s multiple use 
and sustained yield mandate. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION. 
No new Wilderness or Wilderness Study Area may 
be designated in Wyoming except by a Federal statute 
that— 
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(1) specifically designates such area; and 
(2) is enacted after the date of the enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 4. TREATMENT OF LAND WITH WILDERNESS CHARAC-
TERISTICS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Any Federal land in Wyoming 
inventoried, before the date of the enactment of this Act, 
as a ‘‘Land with Wilderness Characteristics’’ or identified 
as having wilderness characteristics under the planning 
process of the Bureau of Land Management or the Forest 
Service shall no longer be inventoried or identified as such. 
Such lands shall be managed under the respective Federal 
land agency’s multiple use and sustained yield mandate 
and the respective Federal land agency is no longer bound 
to manage the lands according to the non-impairment 
standard. 
(b) FUTURE INVENTORY.—After the date of the en-
actment of this Act, no Federal land in Wyoming shall 
be inventoried as a ‘‘Land with Wilderness Characteris-
tics’’ or shall be identified as having wilderness character-
istics under the planning process of the Bureau of Land 
Management or the Forest Service. 
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