Protecting America’s Wilderness Act

IIB 116TH CONGRESS 2D SESSION H. R. 2546 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES FEBRUARY 13, 2020 Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources AN ACT To designate certain lands in the State of Colorado as com- ponents of the National Wilderness Preservation System, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:38 Feb 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2546.RFS H2546 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 2 HR 2546 RFS SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 2 ‘‘Protecting America’s Wilderness Act’’. 3 (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 4 this Act is as follows: 5 Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. TITLE I—COLORADO WILDERNESS Sec. 101. Short title; definition. Sec. 102. Additions to National Wilderness Preservation System in the State of Colorado. Sec. 103. Administrative provisions. Sec. 104. Water. Sec. 105. Sense of Congress. Sec. 106. Department of defense study on impacts that the expansion of wilder- ness designations in the western united states would have on the readiness of the armed forces of the united states with re- spect to aviation training. TITLE II—NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA WILDERNESS, RECREATION, AND WORKING FORESTS Sec. 201. Short title. Sec. 202. Definitions. Subtitle A—Restoration and Economic Development Sec. 211. South Fork Trinity-Mad River Restoration Area. Sec. 212. Redwood National and State Parks restoration. Sec. 213. California Public Lands Remediation Partnership. Sec. 214. Trinity Lake visitor center. Sec. 215. Del Norte County visitor center. Sec. 216. Management plans. Sec. 217. Study; partnerships related to overnight accommodations. Subtitle B—Recreation Sec. 221. Horse Mountain Special Management Area. Sec. 222. Bigfoot National Recreation Trail. Sec. 223. Elk Camp Ridge Recreation Trail. Sec. 224. Trinity Lake Trail. Sec. 225. Trails study. Sec. 226. Construction of mountain bicycling routes. Sec. 227. Partnerships. Subtitle C—Conservation Sec. 231. Designation of wilderness. Sec. 232. Administration of wilderness. Sec. 233. Designation of potential wilderness. Sec. 234. Designation of wild and scenic rivers. VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:38 Feb 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6211 E:\BILLS\H2546.RFS H2546 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 3 HR 2546 RFS Sec. 235. Sanhedrin Special Conservation Management Area. Subtitle D—Miscellaneous Sec. 241. Maps and legal descriptions. Sec. 242. Updates to land and resource management plans. Sec. 243. Pacific Gas and Electric Company Utility facilities and rights-of-way. TITLE III—CENTRAL COAST HERITAGE PROTECTION Sec. 301. Short title. Sec. 302. Definitions. Sec. 303. Designation of wilderness. Sec. 304. Designation of the Machesna Mountain Potential Wilderness. Sec. 305. Administration of wilderness. Sec. 306. Designation of Wild and Scenic Rivers. Sec. 307. Designation of the Fox Mountain Potential Wilderness. Sec. 308. Designation of scenic areas. Sec. 309. Condor National Scenic Trail. Sec. 310. Forest service study. Sec. 311. Nonmotorized recreation opportunities. Sec. 312. Use by members of Tribes. TITLE IV—SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS FOOTHILLS AND RIVERS PROTECTION Sec. 401. Short title. Sec. 402. Definition of State. Subtitle A—San Gabriel National Recreation Area Sec. 411. Purposes. Sec. 412. Definitions. Sec. 413. San Gabriel National Recreation Area. Sec. 414. Management. Sec. 415. Acquisition of non-Federal land within Recreation Area. Sec. 416. Water rights; water resource facilities; public roads; utility facilities. Sec. 417. San Gabriel National Recreation Area Public Advisory Council. Sec. 418. San Gabriel National Recreation Area Partnership. Sec. 419. Visitor services and facilities. Subtitle B—San Gabriel Mountains Sec. 421. Definitions. Sec. 422. National monument boundary modification. Sec. 423. Designation of Wilderness Areas and Additions. Sec. 424. Administration of Wilderness Areas and Additions. Sec. 425. Designation of Wild and Scenic Rivers. Sec. 426. Water rights. TITLE V—RIM OF THE VALLEY CORRIDOR PRESERVATION Sec. 501. Short title. Sec. 502. Boundary adjustment; land acquisition; administration. TITLE VI—WILD OLYMPICS WILDERNESS AND WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:38 Feb 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6211 E:\BILLS\H2546.RFS H2546 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 4 HR 2546 RFS Sec. 601. Short title. Sec. 602. Designation of Olympic National Forest Wilderness Areas. Sec. 603. Wild and Scenic River Designations. Sec. 604. Existing rights and withdrawal. Sec. 605. Treaty rights. TITLE VII—STUDY ON FLOOD RISK MITIGATION Sec. 701. Study on Flood Risk Mitigation. TITLE VIII—MISCELLANEOUS Sec. 801. Promoting health and wellness for veterans and servicemembers. Sec. 802. Fire, insects, and diseases. Sec. 803. Military activities. TITLE IX—PAYGO Sec. 901. Determination of Budgetary Effects. TITLE I—COLORADO 1 WILDERNESS 2 SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE; DEFINITION. 3 (a) SHORT TITLE.—This title may be cited as the 4 ‘‘Colorado Wilderness Act of 2020’’. 5 (b) SECRETARY DEFINED.—As used in this title, the 6 term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of the Interior or 7 the Secretary of Agriculture, as appropriate. 8 SEC. 102. ADDITIONS TO NATIONAL WILDERNESS PRESER- 9 VATION SYSTEM IN THE STATE OF COLO- 10 RADO. 11 (a) ADDITIONS.—Section 2(a) of the Colorado Wil- 12 derness Act of 1993 (Public Law 103–77; 107 Stat. 756; 13 16 U.S.C. 1132 note) is amended by adding at the end 14 the following paragraphs: 15 ‘‘(23) Certain lands managed by the Colorado 16 River Valley Field Office of the Bureau of Land 17 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:38 Feb 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2546.RFS H2546 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 5 HR 2546 RFS Management, which comprise approximately 316 1 acres, as generally depicted on a map titled ‘Maroon 2 Bells Addition Proposed Wilderness’, dated July 20, 3 2018, which is hereby incorporated in and shall be 4 deemed to be a part of the Maroon Bells-Snowmass 5 Wilderness Area designated by Public Law 88–577. 6 ‘‘(24) Certain lands managed by the Gunnison 7 Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management, 8 which comprise approximately 38,217 acres, as gen- 9 erally depicted on a map titled ‘Redcloud & Handies 10 Peak Proposed Wilderness’, dated October 9, 2019, 11 which shall be known as the Redcloud Peak Wilder- 12 ness. 13 ‘‘(25) Certain lands managed by the Gunnison 14 Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management or 15 located in the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gun- 16 nison National Forests, which comprise approxi- 17 mately 26,734 acres, as generally depicted on a map 18 titled ‘Redcloud & Handies Peak Proposed Wilder- 19 ness’, dated October 9, 2019, which shall be known 20 as the Handies Peak Wilderness. 21 ‘‘(26) Certain lands managed by the Royal 22 Gorge Field Office of the Bureau of Land Manage- 23 ment, which comprise approximately 16,481 acres, 24 as generally depicted on a map titled ‘Table Moun- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:38 Feb 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2546.RFS H2546 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 6 HR 2546 RFS tain & McIntyre Hills Proposed Wilderness’, dated 1 November 7, 2019, which shall be known as the 2 McIntyre Hills Wilderness. 3 ‘‘(27) Certain lands managed by the Colorado 4 River Valley Field Office of the Bureau of Land 5 Management, which comprise approximately 10,282 6 acres, as generally depicted on a map titled ‘Grand 7 Hogback Proposed Wilderness’, dated October 16, 8 2019, which shall be known as the Grand Hogback 9 Wilderness. 10 ‘‘(28) Certain lands managed by the Grand 11 Junction Field Office of the Bureau of Land Man- 12 agement, which comprise approximately 25,624 13 acres, as generally depicted on a map titled 14 ‘Demaree Canyon Proposed Wilderness’, dated Octo- 15 ber 9, 2019, which shall be known as the Demaree 16 Canyon Wilderness. 17 ‘‘(29) Certain lands managed by the Grand 18 Junction Field Office of the Bureau of Land Man- 19 agement, which comprise approximately 28,279 20 acres, as generally depicted on a map titled ‘Little 21 Books Cliff Proposed Wilderness’, dated October 9, 22 2019, which shall be known as the Little Bookcliffs 23 Wilderness. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:38 Feb 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2546.RFS H2546 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 7 HR 2546 RFS ‘‘(30) Certain lands managed by the Colorado 1 River Valley Field Office of the Bureau of Land 2 Management, which comprise approximately 14,886 3 acres, as generally depicted on a map titled ‘Bull 4 Gulch & Castle Peak Proposed Wilderness’, dated 5 January 29, 2020, which shall be known as the Bull 6 Gulch Wilderness. 7 ‘‘(31) Certain lands managed by the Colorado 8 River Valley Field Office of the Bureau of Land 9 Management, which comprise approximately 12,016 10 acres, as generally depicted on a map titled ‘Bull 11 Gulch & Castle Peak Proposed Wilderness Areas’, 12 dated January 29, 2020, which shall be known as 13 the Castle Peak Wilderness.’’. 14 (b) FURTHER ADDITIONS.—The following lands in 15 the State of Colorado administered by the Bureau of Land 16 Management or the United States Forest Service are here- 17 by designated as wilderness and, therefore, as components 18 of the National Wilderness Preservation System: 19 (1) Certain lands managed by the Colorado 20 River Valley Field Office of the Bureau of Land 21 Management or located in the White River National 22 Forest, which comprise approximately 19,240 acres, 23 as generally depicted on a map titled ‘‘Assignation 24 Ridge Proposed Wilderness’’, dated November 12, 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:38 Feb 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2546.RFS H2546 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 8 HR 2546 RFS 2019, which shall be known as the Assignation 1 Ridge Wilderness. 2 (2) Certain lands managed by the Royal Gorge 3 Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management or 4 located in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests, 5 which comprise approximately 23,116 acres, as gen- 6 erally depicted on a map titled ‘‘Badger Creek Pro- 7 posed Wilderness’’, dated November 7, 2019, which 8 shall be known as the Badger Creek Wilderness. 9 (3) Certain lands managed by the Royal Gorge 10 Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management or 11 located in the Pike and San Isabel National Forests, 12 which comprise approximately 35,251 acres, as gen- 13 erally depicted on a map titled ‘‘Beaver Creek Pro- 14 posed Wilderness’’, dated November 7, 2019, which 15 shall be known as the Beaver Creek Wilderness. 16 (4) Certain lands managed by the Royal Gorge 17 Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management or 18 the Bureau of Reclamation or located in the Pike 19 and San Isabel National Forests, which comprise ap- 20 proximately 32,884 acres, as generally depicted on a 21 map titled ‘‘Grape Creek Proposed Wilderness’’, 22 dated November 7, 2019, which shall be known as 23 the Grape Creek Wilderness. 24 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:38 Feb 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2546.RFS H2546 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 9 HR 2546 RFS (5) Certain lands managed by the Grand Junc- 1 tion Field Office of the Bureau of Land Manage- 2 ment, which comprise approximately 13,351 acres, 3 as generally depicted on a map titled ‘‘North & 4 South Bangs Canyon Proposed Wilderness’’, dated 5 October 9, 2019, which shall be known as the North 6 Bangs Canyon Wilderness. 7 (6) Certain lands managed by the Grand Junc- 8 tion Field Office of the Bureau of Land Manage- 9 ment, which comprise approximately 5,144 acres, as 10 generally depicted on a map titled ‘‘North & South 11 Bangs Canyon Proposed Wilderness’’, dated October 12 9, 2019, which shall be known as the South Bangs 13 Canyon Wilderness. 14 (7) Certain lands managed by the Grand Junc- 15 tion Field Office of the Bureau of Land Manage- 16 ment, which comprise approximately 26,624 acres, 17 as generally depicted on a map titled ‘‘Unaweep & 18 Palisade Proposed Wilderness’’, dated October 9, 19 2019, which shall be known as The Palisade Wilder- 20 ness. 21 (8) Certain lands managed by the Grand Junc- 22 tion Field Office of the Bureau of Land Manage- 23 ment or located in the Grand Mesa, Uncompaghre, 24 and Gunnison National Forests, which comprise ap- 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:38 Feb 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2546.RFS H2546 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 10 HR 2546 RFS proximately 19,776 acres, as generally depicted on a 1 map titled ‘‘Unaweep & Palisade Proposed Wilder- 2 ness’’, dated October 9, 2019, which shall be known 3 as the Unaweep Wilderness. 4 (9) Certain lands managed by the Grand Junc- 5 tion Field Office of the Bureau of Land Manage- 6 ment and Uncompaghre Field Office of the Bureau 7 of Land Management and in the Manti-LaSal Na- 8 tional Forest, which comprise approximately 37,637 9 acres, as generally depicted on a map titled 10 ‘‘Sewemup Mesa Proposed Wilderness’’, dated No- 11 vember 7, 2019, which shall be known as the 12 Sewemup Mesa Wilderness. 13 (10) Certain lands managed by the Kremmling 14 Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management, 15 which comprise approximately 31 acres, as generally 16 depicted on a map titled ‘‘Platte River Addition Pro- 17 posed Wilderness’’, dated July 20, 2018, and which 18 are hereby incorporated in and shall be deemed to 19 be part of the Platte River Wilderness designated by 20 Public Law 98–550. 21 (11) Certain lands managed by the 22 Uncompahgre Field Office of the Bureau of Land 23 Management, which comprise approximately 17,587 24 acres, as generally depicted on a map titled 25 VerDate Sep 11 2014 22:38 Feb 13, 2020 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2546.RFS H2546 pbinns on DSKJLVW7X2PROD with BILLS 11 HR 2546 RFS ‘‘Roubideau Proposed Wilderness’’, dated October 9, 1 2019, which shall be known as the Roubideau Wil- 2 derness. 3 (12) Certain lands managed by the 4 Uncompahgre Field Office of the Bureau of Land 5 Management or located in the Grand Mesa, 6 Uncompaghre, and Gunnison National Forests, 7 which comprise approximately 12,102 acres, as gen- 8 erally depicted on a map titled ‘‘Norwood Canyon 9 Proposed Wilderness’’, dated November 7, 2019, 10 which shall be known as the Norwood Canyon Wil- 11 derness. 12 (13) Certain lands managed by the Tres Rios 13 Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management, 14 which comprise approximately 24,475 acres, as g [Text truncated for display. 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