S. 1348 · 118th Congress
Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023
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- Senate Introduced Apr 27, 2023
- Senate Passed Dec 20, 2024
This bill designates specified wilderness study areas, special management areas, a National Conservation Area, and other areas in Wyoming.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Apr 27, 2023
Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023
This bill designates specified wilderness study areas, special management areas, a National Conservation Area, and other areas in Wyoming.
The bill designates the following areas as wilderness and as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System:
- certain land within the Encampment River Canyon Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Encampment River Canyon Wilderness;
- certain land within the Prospect Mountain Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Prospect Mountain Wilderness;
- certain land within the Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Upper Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness and the Lower Sweetwater Canyon Wilderness; and
- certain land within the Bobcat Draw Wilderness Study Area, to be known as the Bobcat Draw Wilderness.
The bill designates the following special management areas:
- Bennett Mountains,
- Black Cat,
- Sweetwater Rocks, and
- Cedar Mountain.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) shall divide the land within the Dubois Badlands Wilderness Study Area into the Dubois Motorized Recreation Area and the Dubois Badlands National Conservation Area, separating the two with a fence.
The bill designates Fortification Creek, Fraker Mountain, and North Fork as management areas.
The proposed BLM rule titled Conservation and Landscape Health or any substantially similar rule shall not apply to the land covered by this bill.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023
Latest action (Dec 24, 2024): Held at the desk.
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Apr 27, 2023
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
- Senate Introduced Apr 27, 2023
- Senate Passed Dec 20, 2024
No recorded floor vote found.