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

Summary:
Crooked River Ranch Fire Protection Act
This bill (1) modifies the boundary of the Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls Wilderness Study Area in Oregon to exclude approximately 688 acres of public land; and (2) directs the Department of the Interior to manage such land to improve fire resiliency and forest health, including the conduct of wildfire prevention and response activities.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 524 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 524

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 11, 2019

  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 
 and Deschutes Canyon Wilderness Study Areas in the State of Oregon to 
 facilitate fire prevention and response activities to protect 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. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT, DESCHUTES CANYON-STEELHEAD FALLS 
              WILDERNESS STUDY AREA BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT, OREGON.

    (a) Boundary Adjustment.--The boundary of the Deschutes Canyon-
Steelhead Falls Wilderness Study Area is modified to exclude 
approximately 688 acres of public land, as depicted on the map entitled 
``Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls Wilderness Study Area (WSA) Proposed 
Boundary Adjustment'' and dated September 26, 2018.
    (b) Effect of Exclusion.--
            (1) In general.--The public land excluded from the 
        Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls Wilderness Study Area under 
        subsection (a)--
                    (A) 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
                    (B) shall be managed in accordance with--
                            (i) this section;
                            (ii) the Federal Land Policy and Management 
                        Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.); and
                            (iii) any applicable resource management 
                        plan.
            (2) Management.--The Secretary of the Interior shall manage 
        the land excluded from the Deschutes Canyon-Steelhead Falls 
        Wilderness Study Area under subsection (a) to improve fire 
        resiliency and forest health, including the conduct of wildfire 
        prevention and response activities, as appropriate.
            (3) Off-road recreational motorized use.--The Secretary of 
        the Interior shall not permit off-road recreational motorized 
        use on the public land excluded from the Deschutes Canyon-
        Steelhead Falls Wilderness Study Area under subsection (a).
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