Title: Little Manatee Wild and Scenic River Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Little Manatee Wild and Scenic River Act
This bill designates a specified segment of the Little Manatee River in Florida as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
The bill withdraws the federal land within the boundaries of the designated river segment from (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws relating to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4358 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4358

 To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the 
   Little Manatee River as a component of the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
                    System, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              July 6, 2021

Mr. Buchanan (for himself and Mr. Soto) introduced the following bill; 
        which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the 
   Little Manatee River as a component of the Wild and Scenic Rivers 
                    System, 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 ``Little Manatee Wild and Scenic River 
Act''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF WILD AND SCENIC RIVER SEGMENTS, LITTLE MANATEE 
              RIVER, FLORIDA.

    Section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 1274(a)) 
is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(231) Little Manatee River, Florida.--
            ``(A) In general.--The approximately 50-mile segment 
        beginning at the source in southeastern Hillsborough County, 
        Florida, downstream to the point at which the river enters 
        Tampa Bay, including appropriate tributaries, to be 
        administered by the Secretary of the Interior as a scenic 
        river.
            ``(B) Set aside.--The designation under this paragraph 
        shall not include--
                    ``(i) those portions lying within Manatee County, 
                Florida, and being more particularly described as 
                Parcel ID 247800059, Parcel ID 248200008 and Parcel ID 
                248100000; and
                    ``(ii) South Fork.
            ``(C) Withdrawal.--Subject to valid existing rights, the 
        Federal land within the boundaries of the river segments 
        designated by subparagraph (A) is withdrawn from all forms of--
                    ``(i) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the 
                public land laws;
                    ``(ii) location, entry, and patent under the mining 
                laws; and
                    ``(iii) disposition under all laws relating to 
                mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials.''.
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