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Calendar No. 141
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session SENATE 118-67
M.H. DUTCH SALMON GREATER GILA WILD AND SCENIC
RIVER ACT
JULY 19, 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. 776]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 776), to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act
to designate certain segments of the Gila River system in the State
of New Mexico as components of the National Wild and Scenic Riv-
ers System, to provide for the transfer of administrative jurisdic-
tion over certain Federal land in the State of New Mexico, and for
other purposes, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purposes of S. 776 are to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers
Act to designate certain segments of the Gila River system in the
State of New Mexico as components of the National Wild and Sce-
nic Rivers System, and to provide for the transfer of administrative
jurisdiction over approximately 440 acres of Federal land in New
Mexico from the Forest Service to the National Park Service, for
inclusion in the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The Greater Gila Watershed comprises the largest remaining
network of natural free-flowing river segments in the United
States. S. 776 designates approximately 411 miles of certain por-
tions of the Gila River, some of its tributaries, and certain other
rivers in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico as components
of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, to be administered
by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior.
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