Title: To amend the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 to clarify authorized recreational uses in the Palisades, High Lakes, and Shoal Creek Wilderness Study Areas.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
This bill amends the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 to direct the Department of Agriculture, with respect to helicopter skiing in the Palisades Wilderness Study Area in the Bridger-Teton and Targhee National Forests in Wyoming, to authorize the number of permitted days of helicopter skiing to be at least the number of days specified in the High Mountain Heli-Skiing Final Environmental Impact Statement for certain national forest districts in Wyoming and Idaho, issued by the Forest Service on June 30, 2005.
Subject to such requirement, all recreational uses occurring before the enactment of this bill within the Palisades, High Lakes, and Shoal Creek Wilderness Study Areas, including horseback riding, snowmobiling, dirt bike riding, mountain biking, and helicopter skiing shall continue to be permitted in those areas.
The bill bars the construction of any recreational access points in such wilderness study areas, except by an express authorization of Congress.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4697 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4697

   To amend the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 to clarify authorized 
    recreational uses in the Palisades, High Lakes, and Shoal Creek 
                        Wilderness Study Areas.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 20, 2017

  Ms. Cheney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 to clarify authorized 
    recreational uses in the Palisades, High Lakes, and Shoal Creek 
                        Wilderness Study Areas.

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

SECTION 1. RECREATIONAL USES; ACCESS POINTS FOR PALISADES, HIGH LAKES, 
              AND SHOAL CREEK WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS.

    Section 301(c) of the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 
98-550; 98 Stat. 2811) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ``; and'' and inserting a 
        semicolon;
            (2) by amending paragraph (4) to read as follows:
            ``(4) subject to paragraph (5), all recreational uses 
        occurring within such Wilderness Study Areas on the date before 
        the day of the enactment of this Act, including horseback 
        riding, snowmobiling, dirt bike riding, mountain biking, and 
        helicopter skiing, shall be permitted in such Areas;''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
            ``(5) with respect to helicopter skiing in the Palisades 
        Wilderness Study Area, the Secretary shall authorize the number 
        of permitted days of helicopter skiing to be at least the 
        number of days specified in the High Mountain Heli-Skiing Final 
        Environmental Impact Statement for certain national forest 
        districts in Wyoming and Idaho issued on June 30, 2005, by the 
        Forest Service; and
            ``(6) no recreational access points shall be constructed in 
        such Wilderness Study Areas after the date of the enactment of 
        this paragraph, except by express authorization of Congress.''.
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