Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act

Bill: 116-s-1262
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2019-05-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Emergency planning and evacuation
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Land use and conservation
Oregon
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Roads and highways
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Summary:
action_date: 2019-05-01
text: 

Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act
 
 
This bill designates specified Bureau of Land Management land in Oregon as the Rogue Canyon and Molalla Recreation Areas. 
 
Approximately 59,512 acres of specified federal land are added to the Wild Rogue Wilderness in Oregon. 
 
Such recreation areas and lands are withdrawn from (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under all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 pertaining to mineral leasing, geothermal leasing, or mineral materials. 
 
The bill also withdraws identified federally owned lands and interests within the Hunter Creek, Pistol River Headwaters, or the Rough and Ready and Baldface Creeks Mineral Withdrawal Proposal in Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon.

action_date: 2019-12-18
text: 

Oregon Recreation Enhancement Act
 
 
This bill designates specified Bureau of Land Management land in Oregon as the Rogue Canyon and Molalla Recreation Areas and adds approximately 59,512 acres of federal land to the Wild Rogue Wilderness. 
 
The Department of the Interior, for public land, and the Department of Agriculture (USDA), for National Forest System land, must conduct a wildfire risk assessment that covers the recreation areas, the Wild Rogue Wilderness, and any adjacent federal land. Interior and USDA must develop plans to mitigate wildfire risk to communities located near the land.
 
No new permanent or temporary roads shall be constructed within the recreation areas except as necessary for public safety or to implement the wildfire mitigation plan.
 
 USDA may take measures within such wilderness additions as are necessary to control fire, insects, and disease. 
 
All federal surface and subsurface land within the recreation areas or the wilderness additions is withdrawn from
 
 
entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; 
 
location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and 
 
disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral leasing, geothermal leasing, or mineral materials. 
 
 
The bill also withdraws identified federally owned lands and interests within the Hunter Creek, Pistol River Headwaters Withdrawal Proposal, or the Rough and Ready and Baldface Creeks Mineral Withdrawal Proposal in Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon, and any land or interest in land located within such withdrawal proposals that is acquired by the federal government.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 382.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2019-12-18
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2019-12-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
action_date: 2019-05-14
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-323.
action_date: 2019-05-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2019-05-01
text: Introduced in Senate