To amend the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 to clarify authorized recreational uses in the Palisades, High Lakes, and Shoal Creek Wilderness Study Areas.

Bill: 115-hr-4697
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cheney, Liz [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2017-12-20
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Outdoor recreation

Parks, recreation areas, trails

Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Wyoming
Latest action: action_date: 2018-01-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-12-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 to direct the Department of Agriculture, with respect to helicopter skiing in the Palisades Wilderness Study Area in the Bridger-Teton and Targhee National Forests in Wyoming, to authorize the number of permitted days of helicopter skiing to be at least the number of days specified in the High Mountain Heli-Skiing Final Environmental Impact Statement for certain national forest districts in Wyoming and Idaho, issued by the Forest Service on June 30, 2005. </p> <p>Subject to such requirement, all recreational uses occurring before the enactment of this bill within the Palisades, High Lakes, and Shoal Creek Wilderness Study Areas, including horseback riding, snowmobiling, dirt bike riding, mountain biking, and helicopter skiing shall continue to be permitted in those areas. </p> <p>The bill bars the construction of any recreational access points in such wilderness study areas, except by an express authorization of Congress. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4697 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 20, 2017 Ms. Cheney introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To amend the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 to clarify authorized recreational uses in the Palisades, High Lakes, and Shoal Creek Wilderness Study Areas.

1. Recreational uses; access points for Palisades, High Lakes, and Shoal Creek Wilderness Study Areas Section 301(c) of the Wyoming Wilderness Act of 1984 ( Public Law 98–550 ; 98 Stat. 2811) is amended— (1) in paragraph (3), by striking ; and and inserting a semicolon; (2) by amending paragraph (4) to read as follows: (4) subject to paragraph (5), all recreational uses occurring within such Wilderness Study Areas on the date before the day of the enactment of this Act, including horseback riding, snowmobiling, dirt bike riding, mountain biking, and helicopter skiing, shall be permitted in such Areas; ; and (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: (5) with respect to helicopter skiing in the Palisades Wilderness Study Area, the Secretary shall authorize the number of permitted days of helicopter skiing to be at least the number of days specified in the High Mountain Heli-Skiing Final Environmental Impact Statement for certain national forest districts in Wyoming and Idaho issued on June 30, 2005, by the Forest Service; and (6) no recreational access points shall be constructed in such Wilderness Study Areas after the date of the enactment of this paragraph, except by express authorization of Congress. .