(3) discretionary limitations on recreational 
fishing, hunting, and shooting determined to be nec-
essary and reasonable as supported by the best sci-
entific evidence and advanced through a transparent 
public process. 
(b) MANAGEMENT.—Consistent with subsection (a), 
the head of each Federal public land management agency 
shall exercise its land management discretion— 
(1) in a manner that supports and facilitates 
recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting opportu-
nities; 
(2) to the extent authorized under applicable 
State law; and 
(3) in accordance with applicable Federal law. 
(c) PLANNING.— 
(1) EVALUATION OF EFFECTS ON OPPORTUNI-
TIES TO ENGAGE IN RECREATIONAL FISHING, HUNT-
ING, OR SHOOTING.—Federal public land planning 
documents, including land resources management 
plans, resource management plans, and comprehen-
sive conservation plans, shall include a specific eval-
uation of the effects of such plans on opportunities 
to engage in recreational fishing, hunting, or shoot-
ing. 
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(2) NO MAJOR FEDERAL ACTION.—No action 
taken under this title, or under section 4 of the Na-
tional Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 
1966 (16 U.S.C. 668dd), either individually or cu-
mulatively with other actions involving Federal pub-
lic lands or lands managed by the United States 
Fish and Wildlife Service, shall be considered under 
the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) to be a major Federal action 
significantly affecting the quality of the human envi-
ronment, and no additional identification, analysis, 
or consideration of environmental effects, including 
cumulative effects, is necessary or required with re-
spect to such an action. 
(3) OTHER ACTIVITY NOT CONSIDERED.—Fed-
eral public land management officials are not re-
quired to consider the existence or availability of rec-
reational fishing, hunting, or shooting opportunities 
on adjacent or nearby public or private lands in the 
planning for or determination of which Federal pub-
lic lands are open for these activities or in the set-
ting of levels of use for these activities on Federal 
public lands, unless the combination or coordination 
of such opportunities would enhance the recreational 
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fishing, hunting, or shooting opportunities available 
to the public. 
(d) FEDERAL PUBLIC LANDS.— 
(1) LANDS OPEN.—Notwithstanding any other 
law, lands under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of 
Land Management or the Forest Service, including 
Wilderness Areas, Wilderness Study Areas, lands 
designated as wilderness or administratively classi-
fied as wilderness eligible or suitable and primitive 
or semi-primitive areas and National Monuments, 
but excluding lands on the Outer Continental Shelf, 
shall be open to recreational fishing, hunting, and 
shooting unless the managing Federal agency acts to 
close lands to such activity. Lands may be made 
subject to closure to or restriction on recreational 
fishing, hunting, or shooting if determined by the 
head of the agency concerned to be necessary and 
reasonable and supported by facts and evidence, for 
purposes including resource conservation, public 
safety, energy or mineral production, energy genera-
tion or transmission infrastructure, water supply fa-
cilities, protection of other permittees, protection of 
private property rights or interest, national security, 
or compliance with other law. 
(2) SHOOTING RANGES.— 
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(A) IN GENERAL.—The head of each Fed-
eral agency shall use his or her authorities in 
a manner consistent with this title and other 
applicable law, to— 
(i) lease or permit use of lands under 
the jurisdiction of the agency for shooting 
ranges; and 
(ii) designate specific lands under the 
jurisdiction of the agency for recreational 
shooting activities. 
(B) LIMITATION ON LIABILITY.—Any des-
ignation under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall not 
subject the United States to any civil action or 
claim for monetary damages for injury or loss 
of property or personal injury or death caused 
by any activity occurring at or on such des-
ignated lands. 
(e) NECESSITY IN WILDERNESS AREAS AND ‘‘WITH-
IN AND SUPPLEMENTAL TO’’ WILDERNESS PURPOSES.— 
(1) MINIMUM
REQUIREMENTS
FOR
ADMINIS-
TRATION.—The provision of opportunities for rec-
reational fishing, hunting, and shooting and the con-
servation of fish and wildlife to provide sustainable 
use recreational opportunities on designated Federal 
wilderness areas shall constitute measures necessary 
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to meet the minimum requirements for the adminis-
tration of the wilderness area, provided that this de-
termination shall not authorize or facilitate com-
modity development, use, or extraction, motorized 
recreational access or use that is not otherwise al-
lowed under the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et 
seq.), or permanent road construction or mainte-
nance within designated wilderness areas. 
(2) APPLICATION OF WILDERNESS ACT.—Provi-
sions of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et 
seq.), stipulating that wilderness purposes are ‘‘with-
in and supplemental to’’ the purposes of the under-
lying Federal land unit are reaffirmed. When seek-
ing to carry out fish and wildlife conservation pro-
grams and projects or provide fish and wildlife de-
pendent recreation opportunities on designated wil-
derness areas, the head of each Federal agency shall 
implement these supplemental purposes so as to fa-
cilitate, enhance, or both, but not to impede the un-
derlying Federal land purposes when seeking to 
carry out fish and wildlife conservation programs 
and projects or provide fish and wildlife dependent 
recreation opportunities in designated wilderness 
areas, provided that such implementation shall not 
authorize or facilitate commodity development, use 
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or extraction, or permanent road construction or use 
within designated wilderness areas. 
(f) REPORT.—Beginning on the second October 1 
after the date of the enactment of this Act and biennially 
on October 1 thereafter, the head of each Federal agency 
who has authority to manage Federal public land on which 
recreational fishing, hunting, or shooting occurs shall sub-
mit to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources of the Senate a report that describes— 
(1) any Federal public land administered by the 
agency head that was closed to recreational fishing, 
hunting, or shooting at any time during the pre-
ceding year; and 
(2) the reason for the closure. 
(g) CLOSURES OR SIGNIFICANT RESTRICTIONS OF 
640 OR MORE ACRES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Other than closures estab-
lished or prescribed by land planning actions re-
ferred to in subsection (d) or emergency closures de-
scribed in paragraph (3) of this subsection, a perma-
nent or temporary withdrawal, change of classifica-
tion, or change of management status of Federal 
public land that effectively closes or significantly re-
stricts 640 or more contiguous acres of Federal pub-
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lic land to access or use for recreational fishing or 
hunting or activities related to recreational fishing 
or hunting, or both, shall take effect only if, before 
the date of withdrawal or change, the head of the 
Federal agency that has jurisdiction over the Fed-
eral public land— 
(A) publishes appropriate notice of the 
withdrawal or change, respectively; 
(B) demonstrates that coordination has oc-
curred with a State fish and wildlife agency; 
and 
(C) submits to the Committee on Natural 
Resources of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Re-
sources of the Senate written notice of the with-
drawal or change, respectively. 
(2) AGGREGATE OR CUMULATIVE EFFECTS.—If 
the aggregate or cumulative effect of separate with-
drawals or changes effectively closes or significantly 
restricts 1,280 or more acres of land or water, such 
withdrawals and changes shall be treated as a single 
withdrawal or change for purposes of paragraph (1). 
(3) EMERGENCY CLOSURES.—Nothing in this 
title prohibits a Federal land management agency 
from establishing or implementing emergency clo-
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sures or restrictions of the smallest practicable area 
to provide for public safety, resource conservation, 
national security, or other purposes authorized by 
law. Such an emergency closure shall terminate after 
a reasonable period of time unless converted to a 
permanent closure consistent with this title. 
(h) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE UNITS NOT AF-
FECTED.—Nothing in this title shall affect or modify man-
agement or use of units of the National Park System. 
(i) NO PRIORITY.—Nothing in this title requires a 
Federal land management agency to give preference to 
recreational fishing, hunting, or shooting over other uses 
of Federal public land or over land or water management 
priorities established by Federal law. 
(j) CONSULTATION WITH COUNCILS.—In fulfilling 
the duties set forth in this Act, the heads of Federal agen-
cies shall consult with respective advisory councils as es-
tablished in Executive Order Nos. 12962 and 13443. 
(k) AUTHORITY OF THE STATES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Nothing in this title shall be 
construed as interfering with, diminishing, or con-
flicting with the authority, jurisdiction, or responsi-
bility of any State to exercise primary management, 
control, or regulation of fish and wildlife under State 
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law (including regulations) on land or water within 
the State, including on Federal public land. 
(2) FEDERAL LICENSES.—Nothing in this title 
shall be construed to authorize the head of a Federal 
agency to require a license, fee, or permit to fish, 
hunt, or trap on land or water in a State, including 
on Federal public land in the States, except that this 
paragraph shall not affect the Migratory Bird Stamp 
requirement set forth in the Migratory Bird Hunting 
and Conservation Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718 et 
seq.). 
SEC. 404. VOLUNTEER HUNTERS; REPORTS; CLOSURES AND 
RESTRICTIONS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section: 
(1) PUBLIC
LAND.—The term ‘‘public land’’ 
means— 
(A) units of the National Park System; 
(B) National Forest System lands; and 
(C) land and interests in land owned by 
the United States and under the administrative 
jurisdiction of— 
(i) the Fish and Wildlife Service; or 
(ii) the Bureau of Land Management. 
(2) 
SECRETARY.—The 
term 
‘‘Secretary’’ 
means— 
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(A) the Secretary of the Interior and in-
cludes the Director of the National Park Serv-
ice, with regard to units of the National Park 
System; 
(B) the Secretary of the Interior and in-
cludes the Director of the Fish and Wildlife 
Service, with regard to Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice lands and waters; 
(C) the Secretary of the Interior and in-
cludes the Director of the Bureau of Land 
Management, with regard to Bureau of Land 
Management lands and waters; and 
(D) the Secretary of Agriculture and in-
cludes the Chief of the Forest Service, with re-
gard to National Forest System lands. 
(3) VOLUNTEER FROM THE HUNTING COMMU-
NITY.—The term ‘‘volunteer from the hunting com-
munity’’ means a volunteer who holds a valid hunt-
ing license issued by a State. 
(b) VOLUNTEER HUNTERS.—When planning wildlife 
management involving reducing the size of a wildlife popu-
lation on public land, the Secretary shall consider the use 
of and may use volunteers from the hunting community 
as agents to assist in carrying out wildlife management 
on public land. The Secretary shall not reject the use of 
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Insurance Corporation certifies that 
flooding was not an acceptable method 
of destruction to obtain crop insur-
ance under the Federal Crop Insur-
ance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.). 
‘‘(E) WATERFOWL.—The term ‘waterfowl’ 
means native species of the family Anatidae. 
‘‘(2) PROHIBITION.—It shall be unlawful for 
any person— 
‘‘(A) to take any migratory game bird by 
baiting or on or over any baited area, if the 
person knows or reasonably should know that 
the area is a baited area; or 
‘‘(B) to place or direct the placement of 
bait on or adjacent to an area for the purpose 
of causing, inducing, or allowing any person to 
take or attempt to take any migratory game 
bird by baiting or on or over the baited area. 
‘‘(3) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of the In-
terior may promulgate regulations to implement this 
subsection.’’. 
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