Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act
Bill: H.R.3113 | Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Blake D. (R-UT)
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Modernizing Access to our Public Land Act or the MAPLand Act
This bill directs the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to jointly develop and adopt interagency standards to ensure compatibility and interoperability among federal databases for the collection and dissemination of outdoor recreation data related to federal lands and used to depict locations at which recreation uses are available to the public.
Interior, the Forest Service, and the Corps of Engineers must digitize and publish geographic information system data that includes
Interior, the Forest Service, and the Corps of Engineers may work with the U.S. Geological Survey to collect, digitize, standardize, or publish data to meet the requirements of this bill.

[117th Congress Public Law 114]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]



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Public Law 117-114
117th Congress

                                          An Act
                                          
 
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. <<NOTE: APR 26, 2022 -  [H.R. 3131]>>

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,Modernizing Access 
to Our Public Land Act


SECTION 1.SHORT TITLE. 
   This Act may be cited as the 
 ``Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act''.

SEC. 2.DEFINITIONS 
   In this Act:(1) Federal land.--The term 
``Federal land'' means any land 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 NationalPark 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) Road or trail.--The term ``road or trail'' means a road or 
trail designated by 1 or more of the Secretaries for public use.
(4)Secretaries.--The term ``Secretaries'' means--
(A) the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the 
Forest Service;
(B) the Secretary of the Interior; and
(C) the Secretary of the Army, acting 
through the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works.>> .

SEC. 3.INTERAGENCY DATA STANDARDIZATION Not later than 30 months 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretaries shall
jointly develop and adoptinteragency standards to ensure
compatibility and interoperability among applicable Federal
databases with respect to the collection and dissemination
of data--
(1) relating to public outdoor recreational use on Federal land; and
(2) used to depict locations at which recreation uses are available 
to the public..


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SEC. 4. DIGITIZATION AND PUBLICATION OF EASEMENTS.
(a) In General.--Not later than 4 years after 
the date of enactment of this Act, each of the Secretaries, to the
maximum 
extent practicable, shall digitize and publish on the applicable 
agency 
website geographic information system mapping data that specifies
, with 
respect to the relevant Secretary, all Federal interests in private
land, 
including easements (other than flowage easements), reservations,
and 
rights-of-way--
(1) to which the Federal Government does not have a fee title 
interest; and
(2) that may be used to provide public recreational access to 
the Federal land.
(b) T5Public CommentK._The Secretaries shall develop a process
to allow
members of the public to submit questions or comments regarding
the information
described in subsection (a).

SEC. 5.DATA CONSOLIDATION AND PUBLICATION OF ROUTE AND 
AREA DATA FOR PUBLIC RECREATIONAL USE.
(a)  In General.--Beginning not later than 5 
years after the date of enactment of this Act, each of the
Secretaries, to 
the maximum extent practicable, shall 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 data with 
respect to the following:
(1) Status information with respect to whether roads and 
trails on the Federal land are open or closed.
(2) The dates on which roads and trails on the Federal land are 
seasonally closed.
(3) The classes of vehicles and types of recreational uses that
are allowed on each segment of roads and trails on the Federal
land, including the permissibility of_
(A) off-highway vehicles;
(B) motorcycles;
(C) nonmotorized bicycles;
(D) electric bicycles;
(E) passenger vehicles;
(F) nonmechanized transportation; and
(G) over-snow vehicles.

(4) The boundaries of areas where hunting or recreational shooting 
(including archery, firearm discharge, and target shooting) is 
permanently restricted or prohibited on the Federal land.
 (b)Updates_
  (1) In general.The Secretaries, to the maximum extent practicable,
  shall update the data described in subsection (a) not less frequently
  than twice per year.

(2) Public comment.-The Secretaries shall develop a process to
allowmembers of the public to submit questions or comments
regarding the information described in subsection (a).
(c)Effect.-Geographic information system data made publicly 
available under subsection (a) shall not disclose information
regarding the nature, location, character, or ownership of
historic, paleontological,or archaeological resources, consistent
with applicable law.


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SEC. 6. COOPERATION AND COORDINATION
(a) Third-party Providers.--The Secretaries may 
enter into an agreement with a third party to carry out any 
provision of this Act.
(b) US Geological SurveyK.-The Secretaries may work with the
Director of the United States Geological Survey to collect, 
aggregate, digitize,standardize, or publish data on behalf of 
the Secretary of the Interior to meet the requirements of this
Act.

SEC. 7.REPORTS
Not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this Act and annually thereafter through March 30,
2031, the Secretaries shall submit a report on the progress made
by the Secretaries with respect to meeting the requirements of
this Act to--
(1) the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate;
(2) the Committee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate;
(3) the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of 
Representatives; and
(4) the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
Representatives.
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SEC. 8. 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 2022; and
(B) $5,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2025;
(2) to the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out 
this Act--4(A) $2,500,000 for fiscal year 2022; and
(B) $5,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2025; and
(3) to the Secretary of the Army to 
carry out this Act--
(A) $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2022; and(B) 
$2,500,000 for each of fiscal years 2023 through 2025.

 Approved April 29, 2022.
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--H.R. 3113

HOUSE REPORTS: No. 117-272, Pt. 1 (Comm. on Natural Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 168 (2022):
            Mar. 15, considered and passed House.
            Apr. 6, considered and passed Senate.

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