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INFORMATION .
Calendar No. 308
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-156
MONTANA SPORTSMEN CONSERVATION ACT
JANUARY 9, 2024.-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. 2216]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 2216) to release from wilderness study area
designation certain land in the State of Montana, to improve the
management of that land, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and
recommends that the bill, as amended, do pass.
AMENDMENT
Beginning on page 1, strike line 6 and all that follows through
page 6, line 11, and insert the following:
SEC. 2. RELEASE AND IMPROVED MANAGEMENT OF LAND
COMPRISING CERTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY
AREAS.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 2216 is to release the 81,000-acre Middle Fork
Judith Wilderness Study Area, the 11,380-acre Hoodoo Mountain
Wilderness Study Area, and the 11,580-acre Wales Creek Wilder-
ness Study Area from designation as a wilderness study area, re-
turning those lands to management under applicable land manage-
ment plans.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
In 1977, the Montana Wilderness Study Act (Public Law 95-150)
directed the Forest Service to evaluate the suitability of nine Wil-
derness Study Areas in Montana totaling 973,000 acres for poten-
tial inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. The
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