Great Smoky Mountains Wilderness Act - Designates specified lands in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee as the Great Smoky Mountains Wilderness. Sets forth requirements with respect to the management of the wilderness area, including rights and easements, cemeteries, and roads and trails. Provides that the designation of such area shall not affect motorized recreation or other activities on Fontana Reservoir. Authorizes the Tennessee Valley Authority to retain only those rights and easements in such area which are necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Fontana Reservoir and Dam and associated transmission lines which involve lands outside such area.
Provides for the settlement of all claims of Swain County, North Carolina, against the United States under the agreement of July 30, 1943, providing for construction of a road along the north shore of Fontana Reservoir.
Authorizes appropriations.
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Report No: 100-318.
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Report No: 100-318.
Placed on Union Calendar No: 195.
Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Referred to Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Department of the Interior, OMB, Tennessee Valley Authority.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported in lieu of S. 693 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Johnston under the authority of the order of Mar 4, 88 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 100-297. Minority views filed.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator Johnston under the authority of the order of Mar 4, 88 with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 100-297. Minority views filed.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 580.
Cloture motion on the motion to proceed presented in Senate.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate.
Second cloture motion on the motion to proceed presented in Senate.
First cloture on the motion to proceed not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 49-35. Record Vote No: 192.
Roll Call #192 (Senate)Second cloture on the motion to proceed not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 54-42. Record Vote No: 195.
Roll Call #195 (Senate)Star Print ordered Report 100-297.
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