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Calendar No. 126
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 118-54
CERRO DE LA OLLA WILDERNESS DESIGNATION
JULY 11, 2023.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. MANCHIN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 593]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 593), to amend the John D. Dingell, Jr. Con-
servation, Management, and Recreation Act to establish the Cerro
de la Olla Wilderness in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monu-
ment and to modify the boundary of the Rio Grande del Norte Na-
tional Monument, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 593 is to establish the Cerro de la Olla Wilder-
ness in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mex-
ico and to modify the boundary of the Monument.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Rio Grande del Norte National Monument lies north of Taos
on the border with Colorado and straddles New Mexico's Taos and
Rio Arriba Counties. The 252,000-acre national monument was es-
tablished by President Obama in 2013 using the authority of the
Antiquities Act. Proclamation 8946, 78 Fed. Reg. 18783 (Mar. 28,
2013). In 2019, Congress designated two areas within the monu-
ment totaling just over 21,000 acres as wilderness. Public Law
116-9, sec. 1202.
Cerro de la Olla is a towering shield volcano at an elevation of
9,475 feet. The upper elevations of the volcano offer opportunities
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