Title: Crooked River Ranch Fire Protection Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Crooked River Ranch Fire Protection Act
This bill requires the Department of the Interior to adjust the eastern boundary of the Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls Wilderness Study Area in Oregon to exclude approximately 832 acres, as depicted on the map entitled " "Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls Wilderness Study Area" dated April 6, 2017, to facilitate fire prevention and response activities on the excluded public lands and adjacent private property.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2075 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2075

To adjust the eastern boundary of the Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls 
    Wilderness Study Area in the State of Oregon to facilitate fire 
prevention and response activities in order to protect adjacent private 
                   property, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 6, 2017

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To adjust the eastern boundary of the Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls 
    Wilderness Study Area in the State of Oregon to facilitate fire 
prevention and response activities in order to protect adjacent private 
                   property, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Crooked River Ranch Fire Protection 
Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds the following:
            (1) The Crooked River Ranch is an unincorporated community 
        with a population of 5,000 residents.
            (2) The current lands located adjacent to Crooked River 
        Ranch are managed by the Bureau of Land Management and are 
        classified as a Wilderness Study Area.
            (3) There is currently only one entrance/exit to the 
        Crooked River Ranch.
            (4) Jefferson County and Crooked River Ranch have 
        determined that the Wilderness Study Area lands are in the 
        highest risk category for exposure to devastating wildfire due 
        to overstocked juniper stands under the federally mandated and 
        locally promulgated Jefferson County Community Wildfire 
        Protection Plan (CWPP).
            (5) The current Wilderness Study Area classification 
        prevents mechanical fire prevention activities within the 
        overstocked juniper stands.
            (6) Advancing this proposed legislation will greatly 
        enhance the life and safety of people and property by reducing 
        the extreme fire threat to these lands.

SEC. 3. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT, DESCHUTES CANYON-STEELHEAD FALLS 
              WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, OREGON.

    (a) Boundary Adjustment Required.--The Secretary of the Interior 
shall adjust the eastern boundary of the Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead 
Falls Wilderness Study Area in the State of Oregon to exclude 
approximately 832 acres, as depicted on the map entitled ``Deschutes 
Canyon-Steelhead Falls Wilderness Study Area'' and dated April 6, 2017, 
in order to facilitate fire prevention and response activities on the 
excluded public lands and adjacent private property.
    (b) Effect of Exclusion.--Effective on the date of the enactment of 
this Act, the public lands to be excluded from the Deschutes Canyon-
Steelhead Falls Wilderness Study Area pursuant to subsection (a) are no 
longer subject to section 603(c) of the Federal Land Policy and 
Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1782(c)).
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