Title: Restoring Local Input and Access to Public Lands Act of 2018
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Restoring Local Input and Access to Public Lands Act of 2018
This bill releases wilderness study areas or parts of which that are in Lincoln, Sweetwater, or Bighorn Counties in Wyoming from further study for designation as wilderness areas.
The bill prohibits the designation of any new wilderness or wilderness study area in Wyoming except by a federal statute that specifically designates such area and is enacted after enactment of this bill.
Any federal land in Wyoming that was inventoried as a "Land with Wilderness Characteristics" or identified as having wilderness characteristics under the planning process of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) or the Forest Service shall no longer be inventoried or identified as such. These lands shall be managed under the multiple use and sustained yield mandate of the federal land agency concerned. The federal land agencies concerned shall no longer be bound in managing their respective lands in accordance with the non-impairment standard.
Furthermore, after this bill's enactment, no federal land in Wyoming shall be inventoried as a "Land with Wilderness Characteristics" nor shall it be identified as having wilderness characteristics under the planning process of the BLM or the Forest Service.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6939 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6939

To protect and ensure multiple use and public access to public lands in 
   Wyoming per the request of the respective counties, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 27, 2018

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To protect and ensure multiple use and public access to public lands in 
   Wyoming per the request of the respective counties, 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 ``Restoring Local Input and Access to 
Public Lands Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT AND FOREST SERVICE 
              WILDERNESS STUDY AREA DESIGNATIONS.

    (a) Release.--The public lands described in subsection (b) are 
deemed to have been adequately studied for wilderness designation 
pursuant to section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976 and section 301 of the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 and are 
no longer subject to the requirements of subsection (c) of each of 
those sections pertaining to the management of Wilderness Study Areas.
    (b) Covered Public Lands.--Subsection (a) shall apply to the 
following Federal lands in Wyoming:
            (1) Wilderness Study Areas, or portions thereof, 
        administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest 
        Service in Lincoln County.
            (2) Wilderness Study Areas, or portions thereof, 
        administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Sweetwater 
        County.
            (3) Wilderness Study Areas, or portions thereof, 
        administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Bighorn 
        County.
    (c) Management of Released Land.--Federal lands identified in 
subsection (b) shall be managed according to the respective Federal 
land agency's multiple use and sustained yield mandate.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION.

    No new Wilderness or Wilderness Study Area may be designated in 
Wyoming except by a Federal statute that--
            (1) specifically designates such area; and
            (2) is enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 4. TREATMENT OF LAND WITH WILDERNESS CHARACTERISTICS.

    (a) In General.--Any Federal land in Wyoming inventoried, before 
the date of the enactment of this Act, as a ``Land with Wilderness 
Characteristics'' or identified as having wilderness characteristics 
under the planning process of the Bureau of Land Management or the 
Forest Service shall no longer be inventoried or identified as such. 
Such lands shall be managed under the respective Federal land agency's 
multiple use and sustained yield mandate and the respective Federal 
land agency is no longer bound to manage the lands according to the 
non-impairment standard.
    (b) Future Inventory.--After the date of the enactment of this Act, 
no Federal land in Wyoming shall be inventoried as a ``Land with 
Wilderness Characteristics'' or shall be identified as having 
wilderness characteristics under the planning process of the Bureau of 
Land Management or the Forest Service.
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