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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 85
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-67
TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE TO MAINTAIN OR RE-
PLACE CERTAIN FACILITIES AND STRUCTURES FOR COMMERICAL
RECREATION SERVICES AT SMITH GULCH IN IDAHO, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
MAY 16, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 590]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 590) to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture
to maintain or replace certain facilities and structures for commer-
cial recreation services at Smith Gulch in Idaho, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with-
out amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 590 is to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture
to maintain or replace certain facilities and structures for commer-
cial recreation services at Smith Gulch in Idaho.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Smith Gulch is located within the main Salmon Wild River cor-
ridor in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho.
Both the Wild and Scenic River and Wilderness were designated in
the Central Idaho Wilderness Act of 1980 (16 U.S.C. 1132). The Act
mandates that the main Salmon River corridor be managed accord-
ing to the requirements of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
In 2004, Congress amended the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16
U.S.C. 1271 et seq.) to direct the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to con-
tinue the established use and occupancy of three commercial recre-
ation services including the services at Smith Gulch (section 340 of
Public Law 108-447). Currently, the USFS does not interpret the
2004 Act as providing the authority to allow the Lodge at Smith
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