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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 888 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To designate certain land administered by the Bureau of Land Management |
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| 6 | 6 | | and the Forest Service in the State of Oregon as wilderness and national |
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| 7 | 7 | | recreation areas, to withdraw certain land located in Curry County and |
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| 8 | 8 | | Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of entry, appropriation, or |
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| 9 | 9 | | disposal under the public land laws, location, entry, and patent under |
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| 10 | 10 | | the mining laws, and operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal |
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| 11 | 11 | | leasing laws, and for other purposes. |
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| 12 | 12 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 13 | 13 | | MARCH6, 2025 |
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| 14 | 14 | | Mr. W |
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| 15 | 15 | | YDEN(for himself and Mr. MERKLEY) introduced the following bill; |
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| 16 | 16 | | which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Nat- |
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| 17 | 17 | | ural Resources |
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| 18 | 18 | | A BILL |
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| 19 | 19 | | To designate certain land administered by the Bureau of |
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| 20 | 20 | | Land Management and the Forest Service in the State |
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| 21 | 21 | | of Oregon as wilderness and national recreation areas, |
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| 22 | 22 | | to withdraw certain land located in Curry County and |
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| 23 | 23 | | Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of entry, ap- |
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| 24 | 24 | | propriation, or disposal under the public land laws, loca- |
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| 25 | 25 | | tion, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and oper- |
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| 26 | 26 | | ation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing |
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| 27 | 27 | | laws, and for other purposes. |
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| 28 | 28 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 1 |
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| 34 | 34 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Oregon Recreation En-2 |
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| 35 | 35 | | hancement Act’’. 3 |
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| 36 | 36 | | SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | In this Act: 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (1) S |
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| 39 | 39 | | ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ 6 |
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| 40 | 40 | | means— 7 |
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| 41 | 41 | | (A) the Secretary of the Interior, with re-8 |
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| 42 | 42 | | spect to public land administered by the Sec-9 |
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| 43 | 43 | | retary of the Interior; or 10 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (B) the Secretary of Agriculture, with re-11 |
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| 45 | 45 | | spect to National Forest System land. 12 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (2) S |
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| 47 | 47 | | TATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means the State 13 |
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| 48 | 48 | | of Oregon. 14 |
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| 49 | 49 | | SEC. 3. ROGUE CANYON AND MOLALLA RECREATION 15 |
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| 50 | 50 | | AREAS, OREGON. 16 |
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| 51 | 51 | | (a) D |
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| 52 | 52 | | ESIGNATION OFROGUECANYON ANDMOLALLA 17 |
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| 53 | 53 | | R |
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| 54 | 54 | | ECREATIONAREAS.—For the purposes of protecting, 18 |
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| 55 | 55 | | conserving, and enhancing the unique and nationally im-19 |
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| 56 | 56 | | portant recreational, ecological, scenic, cultural, water-20 |
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| 57 | 57 | | shed, and fish and wildlife values of the areas, the fol-21 |
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| 58 | 58 | | lowing areas in the State are designated as recreation 22 |
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| 59 | 59 | | areas for management by the Secretary in accordance with 23 |
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| 60 | 60 | | subsection (c): 24 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (1) R |
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| 62 | 62 | | OGUE CANYON RECREATION AREA .—The 25 |
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| 63 | 63 | | approximately 98,150 acres of Bureau of Land Man-26 |
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| 66 | 66 | | •S 888 IS |
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| 67 | 67 | | agement land within the boundary generally depicted 1 |
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| 68 | 68 | | as the ‘‘Rogue Canyon Recreation Area’’ on the map 2 |
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| 69 | 69 | | entitled ‘‘Rogue Canyon Recreation Area Wild 3 |
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| 70 | 70 | | Rogue Wilderness Additions’’ and dated November 4 |
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| 71 | 71 | | 19, 2019, which is designated as the ‘‘Rogue Canyon 5 |
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| 72 | 72 | | Recreation Area’’. 6 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (2) M |
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| 74 | 74 | | OLALLA RECREATION AREA .—The ap-7 |
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| 75 | 75 | | proximately 29,884 acres of Bureau of Land Man-8 |
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| 76 | 76 | | agement land within the boundary generally depicted 9 |
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| 77 | 77 | | on the map entitled ‘‘Molalla Recreation Area’’ and 10 |
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| 78 | 78 | | dated September 26, 2018, which is designated as 11 |
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| 79 | 79 | | the ‘‘Molalla Recreation Area’’. 12 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (b) M |
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| 81 | 81 | | APS ANDLEGALDESCRIPTIONS.— 13 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (1) I |
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| 83 | 83 | | N GENERAL.—As soon as practicable after 14 |
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| 84 | 84 | | the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary 15 |
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| 85 | 85 | | shall prepare a map and legal description of each 16 |
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| 86 | 86 | | recreation area designated by subsection (a). 17 |
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| 87 | 87 | | (2) E |
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| 88 | 88 | | FFECT.—The maps and legal descriptions 18 |
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| 89 | 89 | | prepared under paragraph (1) shall have the same 19 |
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| 90 | 90 | | force and effect as if included in this Act, except 20 |
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| 91 | 91 | | that the Secretary may correct any minor errors in 21 |
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| 92 | 92 | | the maps and legal descriptions. 22 |
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| 93 | 93 | | (3) P |
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| 94 | 94 | | UBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The maps and 23 |
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| 95 | 95 | | legal descriptions prepared under paragraph (1) 24 |
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| 99 | 99 | | shall be available for public inspection in the appro-1 |
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| 100 | 100 | | priate offices of the Bureau of Land Management. 2 |
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| 101 | 101 | | (c) A |
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| 102 | 102 | | DMINISTRATION.— 3 |
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| 103 | 103 | | (1) A |
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| 104 | 104 | | PPLICABLE LAW.—The Secretary shall ad-4 |
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| 105 | 105 | | minister each recreation area designated by sub-5 |
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| 106 | 106 | | section (a)— 6 |
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| 107 | 107 | | (A) in a manner that conserves, protects, 7 |
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| 108 | 108 | | and enhances the purposes for which the recre-8 |
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| 109 | 109 | | ation area is established; and 9 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (B) in accordance with— 10 |
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| 111 | 111 | | (i) this section; 11 |
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| 112 | 112 | | (ii) the Federal Land Policy and Man-12 |
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| 113 | 113 | | agement Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701 et 13 |
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| 114 | 114 | | seq.); and 14 |
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| 115 | 115 | | (iii) other applicable laws. 15 |
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| 116 | 116 | | (2) U |
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| 117 | 117 | | SES.—The Secretary shall only allow those 16 |
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| 118 | 118 | | uses of a recreation area designated by subsection 17 |
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| 119 | 119 | | (a) that are consistent with the purposes for which 18 |
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| 120 | 120 | | the recreation area is established. 19 |
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| 121 | 121 | | (3) W |
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| 122 | 122 | | ILDFIRE RISK ASSESSMENT .—Not later 20 |
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| 123 | 123 | | than 280 days after the date of enactment of this 21 |
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| 124 | 124 | | Act, the Secretary, in consultation with the Oregon 22 |
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| 125 | 125 | | Governor’s Council on Wildfire Response, shall con-23 |
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| 126 | 126 | | duct a wildfire risk assessment that covers— 24 |
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| 130 | 130 | | (A) the recreation areas designated by sub-1 |
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| 131 | 131 | | section (a); 2 |
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| 132 | 132 | | (B) the Wild Rogue Wilderness; and 3 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (C) any Federal land adjacent to an area 4 |
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| 134 | 134 | | described in subparagraph (A) or (B). 5 |
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| 135 | 135 | | (4) W |
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| 136 | 136 | | ILDFIRE MITIGATION PLAN.— 6 |
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| 137 | 137 | | (A) I |
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| 138 | 138 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year 7 |
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| 139 | 139 | | after the date on which the wildfire risk assess-8 |
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| 140 | 140 | | ment is conducted under paragraph (3), the 9 |
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| 141 | 141 | | Secretary shall develop a wildfire mitigation 10 |
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| 142 | 142 | | plan, based on the wildfire risk assessment, that 11 |
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| 143 | 143 | | identifies, evaluates, and prioritizes treatments 12 |
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| 144 | 144 | | and other management activities that can be 13 |
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| 145 | 145 | | implemented on the Federal land covered by the 14 |
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| 146 | 146 | | wildfire risk assessment (other than Federal 15 |
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| 147 | 147 | | land designated as a unit of the National Wil-16 |
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| 148 | 148 | | derness Preservation System) to mitigate wild-17 |
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| 149 | 149 | | fire risk to communities located near the appli-18 |
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| 150 | 150 | | cable Federal land. 19 |
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| 151 | 151 | | (B) P |
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| 152 | 152 | | LAN COMPONENTS .—The wildfire 20 |
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| 153 | 153 | | mitigation plan developed under subparagraph 21 |
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| 154 | 154 | | (A) shall include— 22 |
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| 155 | 155 | | (i) vegetation management projects 23 |
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| 156 | 156 | | (including mechanical treatments to reduce 24 |
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| 160 | 160 | | hazardous fuels and improve forest health 1 |
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| 161 | 161 | | and resiliency); 2 |
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| 162 | 162 | | (ii) evacuation routes for communities 3 |
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| 163 | 163 | | located near the applicable Federal land, 4 |
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| 164 | 164 | | which shall be developed in consultation 5 |
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| 165 | 165 | | with State and local fire agencies; and 6 |
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| 166 | 166 | | (iii) strategies for public dissemination 7 |
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| 167 | 167 | | of emergency evacuation plans and routes. 8 |
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| 168 | 168 | | (C) A |
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| 169 | 169 | | PPLICABLE LAW.—The wildfire miti-9 |
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| 170 | 170 | | gation plan under subparagraph (A) shall be 10 |
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| 171 | 171 | | developed in accordance with— 11 |
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| 172 | 172 | | (i) this section; and 12 |
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| 173 | 173 | | (ii) any other applicable law. 13 |
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| 174 | 174 | | (5) R |
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| 175 | 175 | | OAD CONSTRUCTION.— 14 |
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| 176 | 176 | | (A) I |
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| 177 | 177 | | N GENERAL.—Except as provided in 15 |
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| 178 | 178 | | subparagraph (B) or as the Secretary deter-16 |
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| 179 | 179 | | mines necessary for public safety, no new per-17 |
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| 180 | 180 | | manent or temporary roads shall be constructed 18 |
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| 181 | 181 | | (other than the repair and maintenance of ex-19 |
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| 182 | 182 | | isting roads) within a recreation area des-20 |
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| 183 | 183 | | ignated by subsection (a). 21 |
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| 184 | 184 | | (B) T |
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| 185 | 185 | | EMPORARY ROADS .—Consistent with 22 |
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| 186 | 186 | | the purposes of this Act, the Secretary may 23 |
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| 187 | 187 | | construct temporary roads within a recreation 24 |
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| 188 | 188 | | area designated by subsection (a) to implement 25 |
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| 192 | 192 | | the wildfire mitigation plan developed under 1 |
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| 193 | 193 | | paragraph (4), unless the temporary road would 2 |
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| 194 | 194 | | be within an area designated as a unit of the 3 |
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| 195 | 195 | | National Wilderness Preservation System. 4 |
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| 196 | 196 | | (C) E |
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| 197 | 197 | | FFECT.—Nothing in this paragraph 5 |
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| 198 | 198 | | affects the administration by the Secretary of 6 |
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| 199 | 199 | | the Molalla Forest Road in accordance with ap-7 |
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| 200 | 200 | | plicable resource management plans. 8 |
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| 201 | 201 | | (6) E |
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| 202 | 202 | | FFECT ON WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT .— 9 |
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| 203 | 203 | | Nothing in this section alters the authority of the 10 |
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| 204 | 204 | | Secretary (in cooperation with other Federal, State, 11 |
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| 205 | 205 | | and local agencies, as appropriate) to conduct 12 |
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| 206 | 206 | | wildland fire operations within a recreation area des-13 |
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| 207 | 207 | | ignated by subsection (a), consistent with the pur-14 |
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| 208 | 208 | | poses of this Act. 15 |
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| 209 | 209 | | (7) W |
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| 210 | 210 | | ITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing 16 |
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| 211 | 211 | | rights, all Federal surface and subsurface land with-17 |
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| 212 | 212 | | in a recreation area designated by subsection (a) is 18 |
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| 213 | 213 | | withdrawn from all forms of— 19 |
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| 214 | 214 | | (A) entry, appropriation, or disposal under 20 |
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| 215 | 215 | | the public land laws; 21 |
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| 216 | 216 | | (B) location, entry, and patent under the 22 |
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| 217 | 217 | | mining laws; and 23 |
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| 221 | 221 | | (C) disposition under all laws pertaining to 1 |
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| 222 | 222 | | mineral leasing, geothermal leasing, or mineral 2 |
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| 223 | 223 | | materials. 3 |
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| 224 | 224 | | (8) N |
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| 225 | 225 | | O EFFECT ON WILDERNESS AREAS .—Any 4 |
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| 226 | 226 | | wilderness area located within a recreation area des-5 |
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| 227 | 227 | | ignated by subsection (a) shall be administered in 6 |
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| 228 | 228 | | accordance with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 7 |
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| 229 | 229 | | et seq.). 8 |
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| 230 | 230 | | (d) A |
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| 231 | 231 | | DJACENTMANAGEMENT.—Nothing in this sec-9 |
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| 232 | 232 | | tion creates any protective perimeter or buffer zone 10 |
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| 233 | 233 | | around a recreation area designated by subsection (a). 11 |
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| 234 | 234 | | SEC. 4. EXPANSION OF WILD ROGUE WILDERNESS AREA. 12 |
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| 235 | 235 | | (a) D |
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| 236 | 236 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 13 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (1) M |
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| 238 | 238 | | AP.—The term ‘‘map’’ means the map en-14 |
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| 239 | 239 | | titled ‘‘Rogue Canyon Recreation Area Wild Rogue 15 |
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| 240 | 240 | | Wilderness Additions’’ and dated November 19, 16 |
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| 241 | 241 | | 2019. 17 |
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| 242 | 242 | | (2) W |
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| 243 | 243 | | ILDERNESS ADDITIONS.—The term ‘‘Wil-18 |
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| 244 | 244 | | derness additions’’ means the land added to the Wild 19 |
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| 245 | 245 | | Rogue Wilderness under subsection (b)(1). 20 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (b) E |
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| 247 | 247 | | XPANSION OF WILDROGUEWILDERNESS 21 |
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| 248 | 248 | | A |
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| 249 | 249 | | REA.— 22 |
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| 250 | 250 | | (1) E |
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| 251 | 251 | | XPANSION.—The approximately 59,512 23 |
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| 252 | 252 | | acres of Federal land in the State generally depicted 24 |
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| 253 | 253 | | on the map as ‘‘Proposed Wilderness’’ shall be 25 |
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| 257 | 257 | | added to and administered as part of the Wild 1 |
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| 258 | 258 | | Rogue Wilderness in accordance with the Endan-2 |
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| 259 | 259 | | gered American Wilderness Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 3 |
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| 260 | 260 | | 1132 note; Public Law 95–237), except that— 4 |
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| 261 | 261 | | (A) the Secretary of the Interior and the 5 |
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| 262 | 262 | | Secretary of Agriculture shall administer the 6 |
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| 263 | 263 | | Federal land under their respective jurisdiction; 7 |
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| 264 | 264 | | and 8 |
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| 265 | 265 | | (B) any reference in that Act to the Sec-9 |
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| 266 | 266 | | retary of Agriculture shall be considered to be 10 |
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| 267 | 267 | | a reference to the Secretary of Agriculture or 11 |
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| 268 | 268 | | the Secretary of the Interior, as applicable. 12 |
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| 269 | 269 | | (2) M |
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| 270 | 270 | | AP; LEGAL DESCRIPTION.— 13 |
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| 271 | 271 | | (A) I |
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| 272 | 272 | | N GENERAL.—As soon as practicable 14 |
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| 273 | 273 | | after the date of enactment of this Act, the Sec-15 |
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| 274 | 274 | | retary shall prepare a map and legal description 16 |
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| 275 | 275 | | of the wilderness area designated by paragraph 17 |
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| 276 | 276 | | (1). 18 |
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| 277 | 277 | | (B) F |
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| 278 | 278 | | ORCE OF LAW.—The map and legal 19 |
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| 279 | 279 | | description filed under subparagraph (A) shall 20 |
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| 280 | 280 | | have the same force and effect as if included in 21 |
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| 281 | 281 | | this section, except that the Secretary may cor-22 |
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| 282 | 282 | | rect typographical errors in the map and legal 23 |
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| 283 | 283 | | description. 24 |
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| 287 | 287 | | (C) PUBLIC AVAILABILITY.—The map and 1 |
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| 288 | 288 | | legal description filed under subparagraph (A) 2 |
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| 289 | 289 | | shall be on file and available for public inspec-3 |
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| 290 | 290 | | tion in the appropriate offices of the Bureau of 4 |
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| 291 | 291 | | Land Management and Forest Service. 5 |
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| 292 | 292 | | (3) F |
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| 293 | 293 | | IRE, INSECTS, AND DISEASE.—The Sec-6 |
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| 294 | 294 | | retary may take such measures within the Wilder-7 |
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| 295 | 295 | | ness additions as the Secretary determines to be 8 |
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| 296 | 296 | | necessary for the control of fire, insects, and disease, 9 |
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| 297 | 297 | | in accordance with section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness 10 |
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| 298 | 298 | | Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(1)). 11 |
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| 299 | 299 | | (4) W |
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| 300 | 300 | | ITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing 12 |
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| 301 | 301 | | rights, the Wilderness additions are withdrawn from 13 |
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| 302 | 302 | | all forms of— 14 |
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| 303 | 303 | | (A) entry, appropriation, or disposal under 15 |
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| 304 | 304 | | the public land laws; 16 |
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| 305 | 305 | | (B) location, entry, and patent under the 17 |
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| 306 | 306 | | mining laws; and 18 |
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| 307 | 307 | | (C) disposition under all laws pertaining to 19 |
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| 308 | 308 | | mineral leasing, geothermal leasing, or mineral 20 |
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| 309 | 309 | | materials. 21 |
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| 310 | 310 | | (5) T |
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| 311 | 311 | | RIBAL RIGHTS.—Nothing in this sub-22 |
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| 312 | 312 | | section alters, modifies, enlarges, diminishes, or ab-23 |
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| 313 | 313 | | rogates the treaty rights of any Indian Tribe. 24 |
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| 317 | 317 | | SEC. 5. WITHDRAWAL OF FEDERAL LAND, CURRY COUNTY 1 |
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| 318 | 318 | | AND JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON. 2 |
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| 319 | 319 | | (a) D |
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| 320 | 320 | | EFINITIONS.—In this section: 3 |
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| 321 | 321 | | (1) E |
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| 322 | 322 | | LIGIBLE FEDERAL LAND .—The term ‘‘eli-4 |
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| 323 | 323 | | gible Federal land’’ means— 5 |
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| 324 | 324 | | (A) any federally owned land or interest in 6 |
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| 325 | 325 | | land depicted on the Maps as within the Hunter 7 |
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| 326 | 326 | | Creek and Pistol River Headwaters Withdrawal 8 |
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| 327 | 327 | | Proposal or the Rough and Ready and Baldface 9 |
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| 328 | 328 | | Creeks Mineral Withdrawal Proposal; or 10 |
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| 329 | 329 | | (B) any land or interest in land located 11 |
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| 330 | 330 | | within such withdrawal proposals that is ac-12 |
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| 331 | 331 | | quired by the Federal Government after the 13 |
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| 332 | 332 | | date of enactment of this Act. 14 |
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| 333 | 333 | | (2) M |
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| 334 | 334 | | APS.—The term ‘‘Maps’’ means— 15 |
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| 335 | 335 | | (A) the Bureau of Land Management map 16 |
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| 336 | 336 | | entitled ‘‘Hunter Creek and Pistol River Head-17 |
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| 337 | 337 | | waters Withdrawal Proposal’’ and dated Janu-18 |
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| 338 | 338 | | ary 12, 2015; and 19 |
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| 339 | 339 | | (B) the Bureau of Land Management map 20 |
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| 340 | 340 | | entitled ‘‘Rough and Ready and Baldface 21 |
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| 341 | 341 | | Creeks Mineral Withdrawal Proposal’’ and 22 |
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| 342 | 342 | | dated January 12, 2015. 23 |
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| 343 | 343 | | (b) W |
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| 344 | 344 | | ITHDRAWAL.—Subject to valid existing rights, 24 |
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| 345 | 345 | | the eligible Federal land is withdrawn from all forms of— 25 |
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| 349 | 349 | | (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the 1 |
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| 350 | 350 | | public land laws; 2 |
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| 351 | 351 | | (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining 3 |
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| 352 | 352 | | laws; and 4 |
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| 353 | 353 | | (3) operation under the mineral leasing and 5 |
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| 354 | 354 | | geothermal leasing laws. 6 |
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| 355 | 355 | | (c) A |
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| 356 | 356 | | VAILABILITY OFMAPS.—Not later than 30 days 7 |
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| 357 | 357 | | after the date of enactment of this Act, the Maps shall 8 |
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| 358 | 358 | | be made available to the public at each appropriate office 9 |
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| 359 | 359 | | of the Bureau of Land Management. 10 |
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| 360 | 360 | | (d) E |
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| 361 | 361 | | XISTINGUSESNOTAFFECTED.—Except with 11 |
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| 362 | 362 | | respect to the withdrawal under subsection (b), nothing 12 |
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| 363 | 363 | | in this section restricts recreational uses, hunting, fishing, 13 |
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| 364 | 364 | | forest management activities, or other authorized uses al-14 |
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| 365 | 365 | | lowed on the date of enactment of this Act on the eligible 15 |
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| 366 | 366 | | Federal land in accordance with applicable law. 16 |
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