Flatside Wilderness Additions Act

Bill: 117-hr-9103
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Hill, J. French [R-AR-2]
Introduced: 2022-09-30
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Latest action: action_date: 2022-09-30
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

Summaries:
action_date: 2022-09-30
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Flatside Wilderness Additions Act</strong></p> <p>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.</p>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 9103 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 30, 2022 Mr. Hill introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources A BILL To designate the Flatside-Bethune Wilderness in the Ouachita National Forest, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Flatside Wilderness Additions Act . 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. . 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). 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.