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Union Calendar No. 400
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4622
[Report No. 107–653, Part I]
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
APRIL 30, 2002
Mr. RADANOVICH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on 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
SEPTEMBER 11, 2002
Additional sponsors: Mr. MCINNIS, Mr. JONES of North Carolina, Mr. CAL-
VERT, Mr. SKEEN, Mr. REHBERG, Mrs. CUBIN, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr.
OTTER, Mr. HERGER, Ms. DUNN, and Mr. TANCREDO
SEPTEMBER 11, 2002
Reported from the Committee on Resources with an amendment
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
SEPTEMBER 11, 2002
Referral to the Committee on Agriculture extended for a period ending not
later than September 11, 2002
SEPTEMBER 11, 2002
Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the Committee of the
Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April 30, 2002]
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 of 2002’’.
SEC. 2. IMPROVED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEDERAL
LAND MANAGERS AND GATEWAY COMMU-
NITIES TO SUPPORT COMPATIBLE LAND MAN-
AGEMENT OF BOTH FEDERAL AND ADJACENT
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 System,
units of the National Forest System, and lands ad-
ministered 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-
tems, for both visitors to the Federal lands and em-
ployees of Federal land management agencies.
(3) Provision of these vital services by gateway
communities is an essential ingredient for a meaning-
ful and enjoyable experience by visitors to the Federal
lands because Federal land management agencies are
unable to provide, or are prevented from providing,
these services.
(4) Gateway communities serve as an entry
point for persons who visit the Federal lands and are
ideal for establishment of visitor services, including
lodging, food service, fuel and auto repairs, emergency
services, and visitor information.
(5) Development in these gateway communities
affect the management and protection of these Federal
lands, depending on the extent to which advance
planning for the local development is coordinated be-
tween the communities and Federal land managers.
(6) The planning and management decisions of
Federal land managers can have unintended con-
sequences for gateway communities and the Federal
lands, when the decisions are not adequately commu-
nicated to, or coordinated with, the elected officials
and residents of gateway communities.
(7) Experts in land management planning are
available to Federal land managers, but persons with
technical planning skills are often not readily avail-
able to gateway communities, particularly small gate-
way communities.
(8) Gateway communities are often affected by
the policies and actions of several Federal land agen-
cies and both the communities and the agencies would
benefit from greater interagency coordination of those
policies and actions.
(9) Persuading gateway communities to make
decisions and undertake actions in their communities
that would also be in the best interest of the Federal
lands is most likely to occur when such decision-
making and actions are built upon a foundation of
cooperation and coordination.
(b) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this Act to require
Federal land managers to communicate, coordinate, and co-
operate with gateway communities in order to—
(1) improve the relationships among Federal
land managers, elected officials, and residents of gate-
way communities;
(2) enhance the facilities and services in gateway
communities available to visitors to Federal lands,
when compatible with the management of these lands;
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 ‘‘gateway
community’’ means a county, city, town, village, or
other subdivision of a State, or a federally recognized
American Indian tribe or Alaska Native village,
that—
(A) is incorporated or recognized in a coun-
ty or regional land use plan; 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 management
decisions regarding Federal lands administered
by that Federal land manager.
(2) FEDERAL LAND AGENCIES.—The term ‘‘Fed-
eral land agencies’’ means the National Park Service,
United States Forest Service, United States Fish and
Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land Manage-
ment.
(3) FEDERAL LAND MANAGER.—The term ‘‘Fed-
eral 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 National
Forest System.
(d) PARTICIPATION IN FEDERAL PLANNING AND LAND
USE.—
(1) PARTICIPATION IN PLANNING.—The Federal
land agencies shall provide for meaningful public in-
volvement at the earliest possible time by elected and
appointed officials of governments of local gateway
communities in the development of land use plans,
programs, land use regulations, land use decisions,
transportation plans, general management plans, and
any other plans, decisions, projects, or policies for
Federal public lands under the jurisdiction of these
agencies that will have a significant impact 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 non-
technical language of the assumptions, purposes,
goals, and objectives of such a plan, decision, project,
or policy and a description of any anticipated sig-
nificant impact of the plan, decision, 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 referred 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 com-
munity to develop data and analysis relevant to the
preparation of agency plans, decisions, and policies
referred to in paragraph (1).
(5) REVIEW
OF
FEDERAL
LAND
MANAGEMENT
PLANNING.—At the request of a gateway community,
and to the extent practicable, a Federal land manager
shall assist the gateway community to conduct a re-
view of land use, management, or transportation
plans of the Federal land manager likely to affect the
gateway community.
(6) COORDINATION OF LAND USE.—To the extent
consistent with the laws governing the administration
of the Federal public lands, a Federal land manager
may enter into a cooperative agreement with a gate-
way 
community 
to 
provide 
for 
coordination
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 management
activities of other Federal agencies, agencies 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 COORDINA-
TION.—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 gate-
way community, the Federal land agencies involved
shall consolidate and coordinate their plans and plan-
ning 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 En-
vironmental 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
community—
(A) to participate in Federal land planning
or management processes;
(B) to obtain professional land use or trans-
portation planning assistance necessary as a re-
sult of Federal action;
(C) to address and resolve public infrastruc-
ture impacts that are identified through these
processes as a likely result of the Federal land
management decisions and for which sufficient
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 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 op-
eration of the agency to provide funds to Federal land
managers of that agency to make grants under sub-
section (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).
Union Calendar No. 400
107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4622
[Report No. 107–653, Part I]
A BILL
To require Federal land managers to support, and
to communicate, coordinate, and cooperate with,
designated gateway communities, to improve the
ability of gateway communities to participate in
Federal land management planning conducted by
the Forest Service and agencies of the Depart-
ment of the Interior, and to respond to the im-
pacts of the public use of the Federal lands ad-
ministered by these agencies, and for other pur-
poses.
SEPTEMBER 11, 2002
Reported from the Committee on Resources with an
amendment
SEPTEMBER 11, 2002
Referral to the Committee on Agriculture extended for a
period ending not later than September 11, 2002
SEPTEMBER 11, 2002
Committee on Agriculture discharged; committed to the
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the
Union and ordered to be printed