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115TH CONGRESS I
2d Session JHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
REPORT
115-1092
RESTORING LOCAL INPUT AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC
LANDS ACT OF 2018
DECEMBER 20, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 6939]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 6939) to protect and ensure multiple use and public ac-
cess to public lands in Wyoming per the request of the respective
counties, and for other purposes, having considered the same, re-
port favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that
the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 6939 is to protect and ensure multiple use
and public access to public lands in Wyoming per the request of the
respective counties.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
The Wilderness Act of 1964 (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) established
the National Wilderness Preservation System to maintain some of
America's wildest areas for the use and enjoyment of the Amer-
ican people in such manner as will leave them unimpaired for fu-
ture use and enjoyment as wilderness.1 The Act described wilder-
ness lands as areas where the earth and its community of life are
untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not
116 U.S.C. 1131.
89-006
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