Title: Unlocking Public Lands Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Unlocking Public Lands Act
This bill releases specified wilderness study areas in Montana as adequately studied for wilderness designation. Such lands shall be managed in accordance with land management plans adopted by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5149 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5149

  To provide that certain wilderness study areas in Montana have been 
             adequately studied for wilderness designation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 1, 2018

Mr. Gianforte introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide that certain wilderness study areas in Montana have been 
             adequately studied for wilderness designation.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Unlocking Public Lands Act''.

SEC. 2. RELEASE OF CERTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS.

    (a) Finding.--Congress finds that, for the purposes of section 
603(c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
1782(c)), the study areas described in subsection (c) have been 
adequately studied for wilderness designation.
    (b) Release.--A study area described in subsection (c)--
            (1) is no longer subject to section 603(c) of the Federal 
        Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1782(c)); and
            (2) shall be managed in accordance with land management 
        plans adopted under section 202 of the Federal Land Policy and 
        Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712).
    (c) Description of Study Areas.--The study areas referred to in 
subsections (a) and (b) are--
            (1) the Axolotl Lakes Wilderness Study Area;
            (2) the Bell/Limekiln Canyons Wilderness Study Area;
            (3) the Henneberry Ridge Wilderness Study Area;
            (4) the Hidden Pasture Wilderness Study Area;
            (5) the Twin Coulee Wilderness Study Area;
            (6) the Black Sage Wilderness Study Area;
            (7) the Blacktail Mountains Wilderness Study Area;
            (8) the Centennial Mountains Wilderness Study Area;
            (9) the East Fork Blacktail Deer Creek Wilderness Study 
        Area;
            (10) the public land that is--
                    (A) included in the Farlin Creek Wilderness Study 
                Area; and
                    (B) not depicted on the map entitled ``East 
                Pioneers Wilderness'' and dated September 13, 2010;
            (11) the Ruby Mountains Wilderness Study Area;
            (12) the Bitter Creek Wilderness Study Area;
            (13) the Billy Creek Wilderness Study Area;
            (14) the Bridge Coulee Wilderness Study Area;
            (15) the Seven Blackfoot Wilderness Study Area;
            (16) the Terry Badlands Wilderness Study Area;
            (17) the Hoodoo Mountain Wilderness Study Area;
            (18) the Wales Creek Wilderness Study Area;
            (19) the Antelope Creek Wilderness Study Area;
            (20) the Cow Creek Wilderness Study Area;
            (21) the Dog Creek South Wilderness Study Area;
            (22) the Ervin Ridge Wilderness Study Area;
            (23) the Stafford Wilderness Study Area; and
            (24) the Woodhawk Wilderness Study Area.
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