Title: Flatside Wilderness Additions Act
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
Flatside Wilderness Additions Act
This bill adds specified lands to the Flatside Wilderness in the Ouachita National Forest in Arkansas. The bill also redesignates the wilderness as the Flatside-Bethune Wilderness.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 9103 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 9103

 To designate the Flatside-Bethune Wilderness in the Ouachita National 
                    Forest, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 30, 2022

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

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                                 A BILL


 
 To designate the Flatside-Bethune Wilderness in the Ouachita National 
                    Forest, 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 ``Flatside Wilderness Additions Act''.

SEC. 2. ADDITIONS TO FLATSIDE WILDERNESS; DESIGNATION.

    Section 3(d) of Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-508; 
98 Stat. 2350) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(d) certain lands in the Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas--
            ``(1) which comprise--
                    ``(A) approximately 10,105 acres, as generally 
                depicted on the map entitled `Flatside Wilderness--
                Proposed', dated September 1984;
                    ``(B) approximately 640 acres, as generally 
                depicted as `Recommended Wilderness Area' on the map 
                entitled `Flatside Wilderness, Recommended Wilderness 
                Area', dated September 6, 2018; and
                    ``(C) approximately 2,215 acres, as generally 
                depicted as `Land Proposed for Wilderness Designation' 
                on the map entitled `Flatside Wilderness Proposed 
                Addition Designation', dated September 29, 2022; and
            ``(2) which shall be known as the Flatside-Bethune 
        Wilderness.''.

SEC. 3. FIRE, INSECTS, AND DISEASES.

    Nothing in this Act or the amendment made by section 2 shall be 
construed to limit the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture under 
section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(1)), in 
accordance with existing laws (including regulations).

SEC. 4. REFERENCES TO WILDERNESS AREA.

    Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other 
record of the United States to the wilderness areas described in the 
amendment made by section 2, including areas previously designated as 
the Flatside Wilderness and the Bethune Woods-Flatside Wilderness, 
shall be deemed to be a reference to the Flatside-Bethune Wilderness.
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