VotedBy VotedBy ⌕
Election Day · Tue, Nov 3See how your members of Congress voted →

S. 483 · 115th Congress

Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Key: what the circles and colors mean

Each circle is a bill. The ring fills as it moves through Congress:

IntroducedPassed one chamberPassed both chambersBecame law (gold)Resolution agreed to (full, dark)Failed or vetoed (gray)

Under the number: the Yea · Nay count of its final (or latest) recorded vote. On a member's page, the small badge is how that member voted: Y Yea / Aye, N Nay / No, P Present, – Not voting.

Gold and violet are only for Yea and Nay; they never mean a party. A member's party is the letter on their photo.

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 115th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

No cosponsors.

This bill designates: (1) certain federal land in the Olympic National Forest in the state of Washington as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System; and (2) certain other land, identified on the same map as such proposed areas, as potential wilderness.

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Mar 1, 2017

Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

This bill designates: (1) certain federal land in the Olympic National Forest in the state of Washington as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System; and (2) certain other land, identified on the same map as such proposed areas, as potential wilderness.

The bill amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate as wild, scenic, or recreational rivers specified segments of the following rivers in the state of Washington:

  • Elwha River;
  • Dungeness River;
  • Big Quilcene River;
  • Dosewallips River;
  • Duckabush River;
  • Hamma Hamma River;
  • South Fork Skokomish River;
  • Middle Fork Satsop River;
  • West Fork Satsop River;
  • Wynoochee River;
  • East Fork Humptulips River;
  • West Fork Humptulips River;
  • Quinault River;
  • Queets River;
  • Hoh River;
  • Bogachiel River;
  • South Fork Calawah River;
  • Sol Duc River; and
  • Lyre River.

The Department of Agriculture may take necessary measures to control fire, insects, and diseases in the wilderness areas designated by this bill.

The federal land within the boundaries of the designated river segments is withdrawn from: (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and (3) disposition under all laws relating to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Wild Olympics Wilderness and Wild and Scenic Rivers Act

Latest action (Aug 22, 2018): Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 115-528.

Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Mar 1, 2017

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.