Local Community and Sportsmen Input in Monuments Act

Bill: 114-s-3460
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT]
Introduced: 2016-09-29
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Latest action: action_date: 2016-09-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6269)

Summaries:
action_date: 2016-09-29
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Local Community and Sportsmen Input in Monuments Act</b></p> <p>This bill makes the designation of a national monument by the President subject to the following consultation and approval requirements. </p> <p>No national monuments may be designated by the President unless:</p> <ul> <li>each county, borough, parish, or equivalent unit of local government within and adjacent to the boundaries of which the proposed monument is to be located has been consulted respecting the designation and has approved it; and</li> <li>the governor and the legislature of each state within the boundaries of which such monument is to be located has approved it. </li> </ul> <p>Any national monument that is designated subject to such requirements shall be open to hunting, fishing, other forms of recreation, grazing, and historic or traditional uses, unless the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture (USDA), or the Department of the Army closes all or a portion of the monument to one or more of such uses in accordance with the purposes of federal law relating to monuments, ruins, sites, and objects of antiquity. </p> <p>Interior shall not impose any restrictions on hunting, fishing, grazing, wildlife management, or other historic or traditional uses at a national monument that is designated subject to this bill until the end of an appropriate review period which provides for, respecting the proposed restriction, concurrence by the applicable state wildlife management agencies, public input, and approval by Congress.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3460 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 29, 2016 Mr. Daines introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources A BILL To amend title 54, United States Code, to provide certain limitations on the designation and use of national monuments.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Local Community and Sportsmen Input in Monuments Act . 2. Designation and use of national monuments Section 320301 of title 54, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking The President may, in the President's discretion, and inserting Subject to subsection (e), the President may ; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (e) Consultation and approval required before designation No national monument may be designated under subsection (a) until— (1) each county, borough, parish, or equivalent unit of local government within and adjacent to the boundaries of which the proposed national monument is to be located— (A) has been consulted with respect to the designation; and (B) has approved the designation; and (2) the Governor and legislature of each State within the boundaries of which the proposed national monument is to be located has approved the proposed national monument. (f) Restrictions on use (1) In general Any national monument designated under subsection (a) shall be open to hunting, fishing, other forms of recreation, grazing, and other historic or traditional uses in accordance with applicable law, unless the Secretary concerned closes all or a portion of the national monument to one or more of those uses, in accordance with the purposes of this chapter. (2) Review period The Secretary shall not impose any restriction on hunting, fishing, grazing, wildlife management, or other historic or traditional uses at a national monument designated under subsection (a) until the date of expiration of an appropriate review period, as determined by the Secretary, providing for, with respect to the proposed restriction, the concurrence by applicable State wildlife management agencies, public input, and approval by Congress. .