Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act

Bill: 109-hr-2514
Sponsor: Rep. Simpson, Michael K. [R-ID-2]
Introduced: 2005-05-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural research
Agriculture and Food
Air routes
Airports
Airspace (Law)
All terrain vehicles
Animals
Architecture and the disabled
Bears
Bicycles
Bikeways
Bridges
Camping
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Deer
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elk
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal-Indian relations
Fire prevention
Fishing
Forest conservation
Forest fires
Forest health
Forest management
Forest products
Forest roads
Goats
Government Operations and Politics
Government aircraft
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Grazing
Habitat conservation
Horses
Hunting
Idaho
Infrastructure
Insect control
Land transfers
Land use
Landscape protection
Law
Licenses
Logging
Lumber trade
Maintenance and repair
Maps
Military aviation
Mining claims
Minorities
Motor vehicles
Motorcycles
National forests
National recreation areas
Native Americans
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Pedestrians
Planning
Recreation areas
Relocation
Restoration ecology
Risk
Road construction
Science, Technology, Communications
Sheep
Snowmobiles
Soil conservation
Sports and Recreation
State laws
State parks
Sustainable development
Tourism
Trails
Transportation and Public Works
Trapping
Tree diseases
User charges
Water Resources Development
Water conservation
Water rights
Wilderness areas
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management
Wolves

Summary:
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: 
Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act - Requires the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Chief of the Forest Service, and the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to convey specified parcels of Federal land to certain counties and cities in central Idaho.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the State of Idaho a specified parcel of BLM land for a motorized recreation park. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to construct a trail for use by pedestrians and non-motorized vehicles and as a snowmobile route.
 
Addresses the extension of guide and outfitter operating permits authorizing activities in the Boulder-White Cloud Management Area (BWCMA) established by this Act or wilderness areas designated under this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to submit to Congress a specified study addressing fire risk mitigation measures in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA).
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to expand and improve the Herd Lake Campground facilities located below the outlet of Herd Lake.
 
Designates specified parcels of Federal land in central Idaho as wilderness areas to be managed as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). 
 
Repeals existing law requiring review of portions of the SNRA for possible inclusion in the NWPS.
 
Establishes the BWCMA on Federal lands in the Challis National Forest, SNRA, and Challis District of the BLM that are not designated as wilderness areas under this Act. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for a grant to Idaho's Off Road Motor Vehicle Program.
 
Establishes a voluntary grazing permit waiver program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2005-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health.
action_date: 2005-05-31
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior, USDA.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Resources.
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2005-05-19
text: Introduced in House