To provide for the release of certain Wilderness Study Areas involving public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Lassen and Modoc Counties, California, and Washoe County, Nevada.

Releases the Wilderness Study Areas and the Instant Study Areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Lassen and Modoc Counties, California, and adjoining Wilderness Study Areas managed by the BLM in Washoe County, Nevada, from being subject to the requirements pertaining to the status of public lands during the period of review and determination of areas for designation as wilderness under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4176 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4176

To provide for the release of certain Wilderness Study Areas involving 
 public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Lassen 
       and Modoc Counties, California, and Washoe County, Nevada.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 28, 2005

 Mr. Doolittle (for himself and Mr. Gibbons) introduced the following 
         bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the release of certain Wilderness Study Areas involving 
 public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Lassen 
       and Modoc Counties, California, and Washoe County, Nevada.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. RELEASE OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS, BUREAU OF LAND 
              MANAGEMENT, LASSEN AND MODOC COUNTIES, CALIFORNIA, AND 
              WASHOE COUNTY, NEVADA.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds that, for the purposes of section 
603(c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 
1782(c)), the Wilderness Study Areas and Instant Study Areas managed by 
the Bureau of Land Management in Lassen and Modoc Counties, California, 
and adjoining Wilderness Study Areas managed by the Bureau of Land 
Management in Washoe County, Nevada, which are generally depicted on 
the map entitled ``Wilderness Study Areas in California's 4th 
Congressional District and Adjoining Areas of Washoe County, Nevada'' 
and dated October 17, 2005, have been adequately studied for wilderness 
designation.
    (b) Release.--The Wilderness Study Areas and Instant Study Areas 
generally depicted on the map referred to in subsection (a) are no 
longer subject to the requirements of section 603(c) of the Federal 
Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1782(c)).
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