zli12321/Bills huggingface dataset:
Point Peter Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of Point Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the site of an American fort near Cumberland Island that was attacked by British forces in January 1815 in one of the last battles of the War of 1812, to evaluate the national significance of Point Peter and to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating such area as a unit of the National Park System.

Date: 2011-04-06
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Requires an agency with jurisdiction over federal land, when developing or considering approval of a management plan, to ensure that hunting activities are allowed as a use of such land to the extent that such use is not clearly incompatible with the purposes for which the federal land is managed.

Date: 2011-04-08
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Uranium Resources Stewardship Act or URSA - Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to: (1) withdraw all federal lands permanently from location and entry for uranium, and (2) prescribe a uranium leasing program for such lands.

Date: 2011-04-08
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Catastrophic Wildfire Community Protection Act - Directs the Secretaries of Agriculture (USDA) and the Interior to carry out eligible projects on National Forest System lands and public lands, respectively, which are within or adjacent to at-risk communities or watersheds if the project is consistent with the applicable community wildfire protection plan. Requires eligible projects on such lands to be carried out in a cost-effective manner that focuses on surface, ladder, and canopy fuels reduction activities or implements forest restoration activities in response to extreme weather events or natural disasters. Requires the Secretaries to prepare an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 for each proposed eligible project and evaluate and consider an alternative recommendation if a project is or may be inconsistent with its community wildfire protection plan. Requires administrative and judicial review of eligible projects in accordance with the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003.

Date: 2011-04-12
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) from prohibiting or restricting activities on land under their respective jurisdictions by U.S. Customs and Border Protection to achieve operational control over the international land borders of the United States. Grants U.S. Customs and Border Protection access to such lands to conduct the following activities: (1) construction and maintenance of roads and fences; (2) use of patrol vehicles and aircraft; (3) installation, maintenance, and operation of surveillance equipment and sensors; and (4) deployment of temporary tactical infrastructure, including forward operating bases. States that a waiver by the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) of specified laws regarding sections of the international border between the United States and Mexico and between the United States and Canada shall apply to all land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture within 100 miles of the international land borders of the United States with respect to U.S. Customs and Border Protection activities under this Act. States that this Act shall not be construed to restrict legal use (grazing, hunting, or mining) on, or legal access to, land under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture. Terminates this Act five years after enactment.

Date: 2011-04-13
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
New Philadelphia, Illinois, Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the New Philadelphia archaeological site and the land surrounding it in Illinois (the study area). Requires the Secretary to evaluate the national significance of the study area and determine the suitability and feasibility of designating the study area as a unit of the National Park System.

Date: 2011-04-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Wilderness and Roadless Area Release Act of 2011 - Releases public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) pursuant to the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 that have not been designated as wilderness and identified by BLM as not suitable for designation as wilderness from further study for wilderness designation. Makes such lands no longer subject to the Act's requirement pertaining to the management of wilderness study areas in a manner that does not impair suitability for preservation as wilderness. Releases inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System that have not been designated as wilderness and were not recommended for designation as wilderness as a result of the second roadless area review and evaluation program (RARE II) or the subsequent revision of a land resource management plan, from further study for wilderness designation. Makes such System lands no longer subject to management to maintain roadless character and values and to comply with other land-use restrictions of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, as amended by the Roadless Area Conservation Final Rule (2001) and the State Petitions for Inventoried Roadless Area Management Final Rule (2005).

Date: 2011-04-15
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Federal Land Asset Inventory Reform Act of 2011 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a multipurpose cadastre of federal real property (an inventory of real property of the federal government) to assist with federal land management, resource conservation, environmental protection, and use of real property. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cost-sharing agreements with states to include any non-federal lands in a state in such cadastre. Limits the federal share of any such agreement to 50% of the total cost to a state for the development of the cadastre of the non-federal lands in the state. Requires the Secretary to submit a report on: (1) existing real property inventories or any components of any cadastre, (2) consolidation of inventories and components, (3) the use of existing inventories and components of any cadastre, (4) the cost savings that will be achieved, and (4) recommendations for legislation.

Date: 2011-04-15
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Eagle and Summit County Wilderness Preservation Act - Amends the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to designate certain lands in Colorado in the White River National Forest and certain public lands administered by Colorado River Valley Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). Releases the portions of the Castle Peak and Bull Gulch wilderness study areas that are not designated as wilderness by this Act from further study for designation as wilderness. Designates certain BLM administered lands and certain lands in the White River National Forest as the Red Table Mountain, Pisgah Mountain, and Castle Peak Areas. Provides for the eventual designation of the Castle Peak and Pisgah Mountain Areas as the Castle Peak Wilderness and Pisgah Mountain Wilderness, respectively, upon publication of a notice in the Federal Register that such areas are no longer needed by the Colorado Army National Guard for helicopter training, testing, or evaluation. Designates certain federal lands in the White River National Forest as: (1) the Tenmile and Hoosier Ridge Special Management Areas, and (2) the Porcupine Gulch Special Management Area.

Date: 2011-05-03
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Mt. Andrea Lawrence Designation Act of 2011 - Designates peak 12,240 located 0.6 miles northeast of Donahue Peak on the northern border of the Ansel Adams Wilderness and Yosemite National Park in California as Mt. Andrea Lawrence.

Date: 2011-05-10
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2011 - Designates specified lands in the following areas of Utah as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Great Basin, (2) Grand Staircase-Escalante, (3) Moab-La Sal Canyons, (4) Henry Mountains, (5) Glen Canyon, (6) San Juan-Anasazi, (7) Canyonlands Basin, (8) San Rafael Swell, and (9) Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin. Sets forth administrative provisions regarding: (1) filing by the Secretary of the Interior of a map and a legal description of each designated wilderness area with appropriate congressional committees, (2) the exchange of state-owned lands within such areas, (3) federal reservation of water rights, (4) measurement of setbacks for roads with wilderness, (5) authorized livestock grazing, and (6) withdrawal of such lands from disposition under certain public land laws.

Date: 2011-05-13
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Southern Arizona Public Lands Protection Act of 2011 - Withdraws federal lands and interests located in Pima and Santa Cruz Counties, Arizona, as well as all federally owned subsurface interests under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in lands in Pima County, from: (1) all forms of entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) operation of the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws, and the mineral materials laws. Withdraws all federally owned interests in BLM lands in Pima County from entry, location, or patent under the general mining laws.

Date: 2011-05-25
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Replaces the map subtitled "Sachuest Point Unit RI-04P, Easton Beach Unit RI-05P, Almy Pond Unit RI-06, Hazards Beach Unit RI-07" included in the set of maps entitled "John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System" relating to certain John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System units in Rhode Island, with another map relating to the units entitled "John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System Sachuest Point Unit RI-04P, Easton Beach Unit RI-05P, Almy Pond Unit RI-06, and Hazards Beach Unit RI-07" (dated September 30, 2009).

Date: 2011-05-26
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Idaho Wilderness Water Resources Protection Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to issue a special use authorization to the owners of a water storage, transport, or diversion facility located on National Forest System land in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Idaho for continued operation, maintenance, and reconstruction of such facility if it is determined that: (1) the facility was in existence on the date on which it was designated as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System; (2) the facility has been in continuous use to deliver water for beneficial use on the owner's non-federal land since the date designation; (3) the owner holds a valid water right for use of the water on such land under Idaho state law, with a priority date that predates such date; and (4) it is not practicable or feasible to relocate the facility to land outside of the wilderness and continue the beneficial use of water on the non-federal land. Requires the Secretary, in a special use authorization under this Act, to: (1) allow the use of motorized equipment and mechanized transport for operation, maintenance, or reconstruction of a facility, if it is determined that the use is necessary to continue delivery of water to the non-federal land for beneficial uses and that the use of nonmotorized equipment and nonmechanized transport is impracticable or infeasible; and (2) preclude use of the facility for the storage, diversion, or transport of water in excess of the water right. Allows the Secretary, in such an authorization, to: (1) require or allow modification or relocation of a facility in the wilderness, as determined necessary, to reduce impacts to wilderness values if the beneficial use of water on the non-federal land is not diminished; and (2) require that the owner provide a reciprocal right of access across the non-federal property, in which case the owner shall receive market value for any right-of-way or other interest in real property conveyed to the United States. Permits the market value to be paid by the Secretary, in whole or in part, by the grant of a reciprocal right-of-way or by reduction of fees or other costs that may accrue to the owner in obtaining an authorization for water facilities.

Date: 2011-05-26
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, to remove all deed restrictions, including easements and covenants, described in a specified quitclaim deed from the United States to Accomack County, Virginia, relating to a parcel of land consisting of approximately 31.6 acres situated in the Atlantic District of the county.

Date: 2011-06-02
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), in any land exchange involving the conveyance of certain National Forest System land within the boundaries of Inyo National Forest in California, to accept for acquisition in such exchange certain non-federal lands in California lying outside the boundaries of the Forest, if acquiring them is desirable for National Forest System purposes. Authorizes the Secretary to accept a cash equalization payment that exceeds 25%. Requires any such payment to be deposited into the Treasury account established under the Sisk Act and made available for the acquisition of land for addition to the System. Prohibits anything in this Act from being construed as granting the Secretary new land exchange authority. States that this Act modifies the use of land exchange authorities already available to the Secretary as of the enactment of this Act.

Date: 2011-06-13
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Rare Earth Policy Task Force and Materials Act - Establishes within the Department of the Interior the Rare Earth Policy Task Force to assist federal agencies in reviewing federal, state, local, and tribal laws, regulations, and policies that discourage investment, exploration, and development of domestic rare earths. Instructs the Secretary to: (1) submit biennially to certain congressional committees a plan for research, development, demonstration, and commercial application to ensure the long-term, secure, and sustainable supply of rare earth materials; and (2) support new or significantly improved processes and technologies in the rare earth materials industry. Authorizes the Secretary to collaborate with the agencies of foreign countries with interests relating to rare earth materials.

Date: 2011-06-15
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Colorado Wilderness Act of 2011 - Amends the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to add specified lands in Colorado managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (proposed as the Powderhorn Wilderness Addition) to the Powderhorn Wilderness. Designates specified lands in Colorado managed by the BLM or the U.S. Forest Service as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). Designates specified lands in Colorado administered by the BLM, Forest Service, and Bureau of Reclamation as wilderness and as components of the NWPS. Incorporates such lands into the West Elk Wilderness. Authorizes the Colorado Army National Guard, through the High-Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, to conduct aerial navigation training maneuver exercises over the wilderness areas designated by this Act. Allows the Secretary to continue authorizing competitive running events currently permitted in the Redcloud Peak Wilderness and Handies Peak Wilderness Areas. Provides for the securing, adjudication, and use of U.S. water rights for certain of the wilderness areas designated by this Act.

Date: 2011-07-06
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Makes specified federal regulations known as the Roadless Area Conservation Rule inapplicable with respect to National Forest System lands in Alaska.

Date: 2011-07-13
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
American Land Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), for FY2012-FY2016, to offer for competitive sale by auction 8% of the federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and 8% of the National Forest System lands. Requires the lands to be sold to be configured so as to maximize their marketability or to achieve management objectives. Permits either Secretary to include the mineral rights in a sale of land under this Act land for not more than 50% of the total acreage sold, if such inclusion is likely to maximize that land's marketability.

Date: 2011-07-19
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Forest Stewardship and Fire Fuels Reductions Act of 2011 - Amends the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to make permanent the authority of the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to enter into stewardship end result contracting projects with private persons or other public or private entities to perform services to achieve land management goals for national forests and public lands that meet local and rural community needs.

Date: 2011-07-20
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Hudson Valley VA Health Care System Campus Protection Act - Prohibits the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from declaring specified federal land and improvements as excess to the respective needs of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Hudson Valley Healthcare System's: (1) Franklin Delano Roosevelt Campus in Montrose, New York; and (2) Castle Point Campus in Castle Point, New York. Precludes the Secretary from taking any action to lease, sell, exchange, trade, auction, transfer, or otherwise dispose of, or reduce the acreage of such land and improvements.

Date: 2011-07-26
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Armed forces and national security
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey, without consideration, to the Mullins and Sturgill Cemetery Association of Pound, Virginia, specified National Forest System land in the Jefferson National Forest in Wise County, Virginia, which contains the Mullins and Sturgill Cemetery and its access road. Requires such conveyance to be subject to the condition that the real property be accepted by the recipient in its "as is" condition at the time of conveyance. Requires such property's exact acreage and legal description to be determined by a survey that is satisfactory to the Secretary, the cost of which to be borne by the recipient.

Date: 2011-08-01
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Prohibits the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) from restricting the use of dogs in deer hunting activities within the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana unless those restrictions are applicable to the smallest practicable parts and are necessary for the reduction or control of trespassing onto adjacent land.

Date: 2011-08-05
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey to Miami-Dade County, Florida, federally owned land comprising the Subtropical Horticulture Research Station in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Directs the County to pay specified costs.

Date: 2011-08-19
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Communication and Alert Maintenance Program for Early Response Act or CAMPER Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) provide technical assistance to a state or local government to develop and implement an emergency notification system to warn persons using public recreational lands administered by such government of emergency situations, and (2) make grants to state and local governments to procure and install such systems. Limits a grant to $100,000. Requires a recipient to match not less than 5% of the federal funds provided. Authorizes the Secretary to establish conditions under which the cost-sharing requirement may be reduced or waived. Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees, for each fiscal year such assistance is provided, regarding: (1) the state of preparedness of state park and recreation departments to provide adequate emergency notification, and (2) recommendations for appropriate additional legislative action.

Date: 2011-09-07
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Emergency management
Action Plan for Public Lands and Education Act of 2011 - Makes grants of land to the following states in lieu of receiving, for the support of the common schools, 5% of the proceeds of the sales of federally owned land within such states which have not been sold by the United States as of January 1, 2011: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Makes the amount of land granted to each state 5% of the number of acres of federally owned land within that state as of January 1, 2011. Requires land selected to be held in trust to be sold or leased and the proceeds to be used only for the support of public education.

Date: 2011-09-07
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Establishes the San Juan Islands National Conservation Area in the state of Washington. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop a comprehensive plan for the long-term management of the Conservation Area. Requires the Secretary to manage the Conservation Area in a manner to conserve, protect, and enhance the resources of such area. Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe measures for the control of nonnative invasive plants and noxious weeds within the Conservation Area. Instructs the Secretary to work with Indian tribes to ensure the protection of religious and cultural sites within the Conservation Area and to provide access to them by tribal members for traditional cultural and customary uses. Directs the Secretary to establish the San Juan Islands National Conservation Area Advisory Council to advise the Secretary on the preparation and implementation of the management plan.

Date: 2011-09-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Colorado Wilderness Act of 2011 - Amends the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 to add specified lands in Colorado managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (proposed as the Powderhorn Wilderness Addition) to the Powderhorn Wilderness. Designates specified lands in Colorado managed by the BLM or the U.S. Forest Service as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). Designates specified lands in Colorado administered by the BLM, Forest Service, and Bureau of Reclamation as wilderness and as components of the NWPS. Incorporates such lands into the West Elk Wilderness. Allows the Secretary of the Interior to continue authorizing competitive running events currently permitted in the Redcloud Peak Wilderness and Handies Peak Wilderness Areas. Authorizes the Colorado Army National Guard, through the High-Altitude Army National Guard Aviation Training Site, to conduct aerial navigation training maneuver exercises over the wilderness areas designated by this Act. Designates specified lands managed by the BLM as: (1) potential wilderness areas, and (2) as the Deep Creek Wilderness and the Pisgah Mountain Wilderness upon publication by the Secretary of a notice in the Federal Register that all nonconforming uses of such lands authorized by this Act for the conduct of such exercises and overflights of military helicopters in violation of the Wilderness Act have ceased. Provides for the securing, adjudication, and use of U.S. water rights for certain of the wilderness areas designated by this Act.

Date: 2011-09-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to release, without consideration, specified conditions (including the reversionary interest retained by the United States) on the use of certain land conveyed to the state of Minnesota for the establishment of an airport in Cook County, Minnesota.

Date: 2011-09-15
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Maine Coastal Islands Wilderness Act of 2011- Designates specified lands in Maine within the Cross Island National Wildlife Refuge, to be known as the Cross Island Wilderness, and within the Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge, to be known as the Maine Coastal Islands Wilderness, as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS).

Date: 2011-09-21
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Target Practice and Marksmanship Training Support Act - Amends the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act to: (1) authorize a state to pay up to 90% of the costs of acquiring land for, expanding, or constructing a public target range; (2) authorize a state to elect to allocate 10% of a specified amount apportioned to it from the federal aid to wildlife restoration fund for such costs; (3) limit the federal share of such costs under such Act to 90%; and (4) require amounts provided for such costs under such Act to remain available for expenditure and obligation for five fiscal years. Shields the United States from any civil action or claim for money damages for injury to or loss of property, personal injury, or death caused by an activity occurring at a public target range that is funded by the federal government pursuant to such Act or located on federal land, except to the extent provided under the Federal Tort Claims Act with respect to the exercise or performance of a discretionary function. Urges the Chief of the Forest Service and the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to cooperate with state and local authorities and other entities to carry out waste removal and other activities on any federal land used as a public target range to encourage its continued use for target practice or marksmanship training.

Date: 2011-09-23
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Designates specified federal land within Olympic National Park, Washington, as wilderness or potential wilderness. Incorporates such land in the Olympic Wilderness.

Date: 2011-10-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act - Designates specified National Forest System lands, National Park System lands, and public lands in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness and as components or additions to existing components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). Sets forth provisions for the management of the lands designated as wilderness by this Act, including regarding water rights, tribal rights, fish and wildlife, and grazing permits and leases. Authorizes the Secretaries of the Interior and of Agriculture (USDA) to take necessary measures for the control of fire, insects, and disease on such lands. Establishes a Northern Rockies Fish and Wildlife Habitat and Corridors Information Program. Requires the development of a Northern Rockies Habitat and Corridors Information System. Sets forth specified additional provisions with regard to Indian tribes. Permits provisions of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to be applied, as appropriate, in the implementation of this Act. Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of specified rivers and creeks in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Date: 2011-11-03
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Carson National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act - Adjusts the boundary of the Carson National Forest in New Mexico to incorporate approximately 4,990 acres of land identified as the Miranda Canyon Boundary on the map entitled "Carson National Forest Boundary Adjustment" and dated September 21, 2010.

Date: 2011-11-03
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Pine Forest Range Recreation Enhancement Act of 2011- Designates specified federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Humboldt County, Nevada, and to be known as the Pine Forest Range Wilderness, as wilderness and as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). Sets forth provisions for the management of such land, including regarding livestock grazing, water rights, Native American tribal rights and cultural and religious uses, fish and wildlife management, and climate data collection. Releases BLM land in any part of the Blue Lakes and Alder Creek wilderness study areas not designated as wilderness by this Act from further study for wilderness designation. Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to take necessary measures in the wilderness designated by this Act to control fire, insects, and diseases. Authorizes land exchanges involving identified federal and non-federal lands in Humboldt County. Incorporates acquired lands and interests in or adjoining the Pine Forest Range Wilderness Area into and administered as part of such wilderness area.

Date: 2011-11-04
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Cabin Fee Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to set an annual fee for, and requires the payment of such fee to the United States by, an authorized owner of a privately built and owned recreational cabin located on National Forest System land. Reduces such fee to $100 annually if access to a cabin is significantly impaired, either by natural causes or governmental actions. Requires payment of a transfer fee to the United States upon the transfer of a cabin between private parties for consideration. Requires the Secretary to grant a cabin owner the right to administrative appeal of a cabin fee decision, which may be reviewed by bringing a civil action in U.S. district court.

Date: 2011-11-10
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to modify a land grant patent issued to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society, Chippewa County, Michigan.

Date: 2011-11-14
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Rural Economic Vitalization Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) or the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) accept and terminate any grazing permit or lease that is waived by a grazing permittee or lessee; and (2) not issue any new grazing permit or lease within the grazing allotment covered by the retired permit or lease, and ensure a permanent end to livestock grazing on such allotment. Directs the appropriate Secretary, if a grazing allotment covered by a waived permit or lease is also covered by another permit or lease that is not waived, to reduce the level of commercial livestock grazing on the grazing allotment to reflect such waiver. Deems a permittee or lessee who waives a grazing permit or lease to have waived any claim to all range developments on the associated grazing allotment.

Date: 2011-11-15
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Adds specified federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the Wild Rogue Wilderness as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS). Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to add specified segments of creeks to the designation of the Rogue River in Oregon as a component of the national wild and scenic rivers system. Prohibits: (1) the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from licensing the construction of any dam, conduit, reservoir, powerhouse, transmission line, or other project works affecting specified stream segments; and (2) any federal department or agency from assisting in the construction of any water resources project affecting any such segment, except for maintaining or repairing existing projects.

Date: 2011-11-16
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Wasatch Range Recreation Access Enhancement Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey, by sale, a specified parcel of National Forest System land within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest in Salt Lake County, Utah, to Canyons-SkiLink, LLC, to allow it to construct a ski-lift, gondola, or tramway to serve as a public-access transportation interconnection of the Wasatch Front and the Wasatch Back Mountains. Requires Canyons-SkiLink to pay to the Secretary an amount that is equal to at least the fair market value of such land. Requires the deposit of any funds received by the Secretary under this Act in the general Treasury fund to reduce the federal deficit. Requires the fair market value of the National Forest System land to be conveyed under this Act to be determined based on an appraisal that is acceptable to the Secretary. Instructs the Secretary to complete all actions that may be required under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and all other applicable laws in making the conveyance under this Act.

Date: 2011-11-17
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Act - Identifies roadless areas within the National Forest System set forth in specified maps as National Forest Inventoried Roadless Areas, and directs the Secretary of Agriculture to manage such Areas to maintain their roadless character. Authorizes the Forest Service to modify such maps for the sole purpose of improving their accuracy or inclusiveness. Requires any substantial modification of those maps to be made through the national forest management planning process and documented in an environmental impact statement.

Date: 2011-11-17
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey a parcel of National Forest System land, comprising approximately 652 square feet on Big Mountain within the Flathead National Forest in Montana, and containing a World War II memorial, to Whitefish Mountain Resort of Whitefish, Montana, in exchange for a parcel of land that is acceptable to the Secretary and approximately equal in value. Requires the Secretary and Whitefish Mountain Resort to share equally the nominal costs associated with a land exchange involving parcels of such a small size. Incorporates the land acquired by the United States in the land exchange under this Act into Flathead National Forest.

Date: 2011-11-18
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Meers Point Boundary Adjustment Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, after completing a survey of Meers Point which covers those portions of lots 34, 35, 37, and 38 that are currently within the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge in Yuma County, Arizona, to convey to the current landowner or landowners of certain properties within such lots (grantees) by quitclaim deed that federal land that is within each grantee's lot. Requires each grantee to pay a percentage of the total administrative costs incurred by the United States. Waives such payment respecting any conveyance of federal land to the state of Arizona. Requires any proceeds paid to the Secretary to remain available for visitor services and resource protection at the Imperial National Wildlife Refuge.

Date: 2011-12-05
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire up to 18 acres of land and interests in Mariposa, California, near the junction of highways CA-49 and CA-140. Prohibits the acquisition of such property by eminent domain. Requires acquired lands and interests to be administered as part of Yosemite National Park. Allows the Secretary to partner with Mariposa County with regard to land use planning related to such land and interests.

Date: 2011-12-13
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Amends the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act (the Act) to extend the term of the pilot forest management project for the Plumas, Lassen, and Tahoe National Forests in California. Requires that when the Regional Forester for Region 5 initiates the process of amending or revising such plans for the pilot project area (the federal lands within the Plumas and Lassen National Forests and the Sierraville Ranger District of Tahoe National Forest designated as available for group selection) the process include the preparation of at least one alternative that incorporates the pilot project and area designations, the resource management activities, and other aspects of the Quincy Library Group Community Stability Proposal. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to expand the pilot project area to include all of the National Forest System lands in California or Nevada that lie within the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Province, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, and Humboldt-Toiyabe and Inyo National Forests. Deems those areas that are designated as deferred under the Act, but located in Tehama County, south and west of Lassen Peak, as being designated as available for group selection.

Date: 2011-12-15
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Sandia Pueblo Settlement Technical Amendment Act - Amends the T'uf Shur Bien Preservation Trust Area Act to require the Secretary of Agriculture, upon the receipt of certain consideration and at the request of the Sandia Pueblo of New Mexico and the Secretary of the Interior, to transfer certain National Forest land to the Secretary of the Interior to be held in trust for the Pueblo, provided a land exchange with the Pueblo required by that Act is not completed within 90 days of this Act's enactment. Requires that National Forest land to be preserved in its natural state. Requires the Pueblo to transfer to the Secretary, in exchange for such land, the Pueblo's La Luz tract and an amount equal to the difference between the value of: (1) the National Forest land in its natural state, and (2) the La Luz tract and the compensation owed to the Pueblo by the Secretary for the right-of-way and conservation easement on its Piedra Lisa tract.

Date: 2011-12-19
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Native Americans
Amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to prohibit payments from the Abandoned Mine Reclamation Fund to a state or Indian tribe certified as having completed coal reclamation.

Date: 2011-12-20
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Black Hills Cemetery Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to convey to the local communities in South Dakota that are currently managing certain community cemeteries all interest of the United States in: (1) the parcels of National Forest System land that contain the cemeteries, and (2) up to an additional two acres adjoining each cemetery to ensure that such conveyances include unmarked gravesites and allow for the expansion of those cemeteries. Requires: (1)  each such conveyance to be subject to the condition that the recipient accept the conveyed real property in the condition it is in at the time of conveyance, (2) the conveyed lands to continue to be used in the same manner and for the same purposes as they were used immediately before their conveyance, and (3) the recipients of the parcels of the real property conveyed under this Act to bear the cost of the survey for their particular parcel.

Date: 2012-02-01
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Reinforcing Existing Permit Sanctions On Leases Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from issuing any lease for federal lands (including submerged lands) to: (1) any person who has violated the Trading with the Enemy Act, (2) any person who conducts business with a state sponsor of terrorism, or (3) any person at least 5% of which is owned or controlled by at least one person who conducts business with a state sponsor of terrorism.

Date: 2012-02-01
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Southern Nevada Higher Education Land Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey three parcels of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land to: (1) the Nevada System of Higher Education for the Great Basin College and the College of Southern Nevada; and (2) the System for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Authorizes the Nevada System of Higher Education to use the conveyed federal land for: (1) any purpose related to the establishment, operation, growth, and maintenance of the System; and (2) other related uses, including residential and commercial development that would generally be associated with an institution of higher education.

Date: 2012-02-09
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Yerington Land Conveyance and Sustainable Development Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the city of Yerington, Nevada, all interest of the United States in the federal lands located in Lyon and Mineral Counties, Nevada, identified as "City of Yerington Sustainable Development Conveyance Lands" in exchange for consideration in an amount that is equal to their fair market value. Makes the city of Yerington responsible for all survey, appraisal, and other administrative costs associated with the conveyance of such lands. Releases the United States, upon such conveyance, from liabilities or claims of any kind or nature arising from the presence, release, or threat of release of any hazardous substance, pollutant, contaminant, petroleum product (or derivative thereof), solid waste, mine materials, or mining- related features on the federal land in existence on or before the date of the conveyance.

Date: 2012-02-15
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to accept the quitclaim, disclaimer, and relinquishment by the Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway Company of a specified right-of-way adjacent to Pike National Forest that was originally granted to the Mt. Manitou Park and Incline Railway Company for the construction of a railroad and station in El Paso County, Colorado.

Date: 2012-02-17
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Los Padres Conservation and Recreation Act of 2012 - Designates specified National Forest System lands in California that are administered as part of the Los Padres National Forest as wilderness and as additions to existing components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate specified creek segments in California as wild, scenic, or recreational rivers. Establishes the Condor Ridge Scenic Area within the National Forest. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to develop a comprehensive management plan for such area. Designates within the National Forest: (1) specified roads and trails for certain off-highway vehicle use, and (2) specified areas as off-highway vehicle areas. Directs the Secretary to study and report on the feasibility of and the public interest in the construction of specified new trails respecting the National Forest. Los Padres National Forest Land Exchange Act - Directs the Secretary to convey specified National Forest System lands to the United Water Conservation District of California in exchange for the conveyance of specified non-federal lands to the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to reserve easements for all trails and roads considered necessary for administrative purposes and to ensure public access.

Date: 2012-02-29
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
El Yunque National Forest Preservation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to acquire, by donation or purchase from willing sellers, tracts of land or interests in land not in federal ownership that are located within the established boundaries of El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico or that abut such boundaries. Provides for the adjustment of the boundary of El Yunque National Forest to include any acquired lands.

Date: 2012-03-01
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Directs the Attorney General to convey, without consideration, to Leon County, Florida, all interest of the United States in a parcel of Bureau of Prisons land in the county comprising approximately 9.1 acres of specified undeveloped land. Subjects such conveyance to the condition that Leon County accept such real property in its "as is" condition at the time of conveyance. Requires: (1) the exact acreage and legal description of the property to be conveyed to be determined by a survey that is satisfactory to the Attorney General, and (2) the cost of such survey to be borne by Leon County.

Date: 2012-03-07
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources
Land Acquisition to cut National Debt Act or LAND Act - Bars the Secretary of the Interior from using federal funding to purchase land resulting in a net increase of land acreage being under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service (NPS), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), or the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) unless the federal budget is balanced for the year in which such land would be purchased. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to lands purchased with funding made available through the sale of Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps. Bars the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) from using federal funding to purchase land resulting in a net increase of land acreage included in the National Forest System unless the federal budget is balanced for the year in which that land would be purchased.

Date: 2012-03-08
Topic: Public Lands (Public Lands)
Subject: Public lands and natural resources