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H. Rept. 114-822 1 (2016-11-14)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxrxk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP 114TH CONGRESS REPORT 2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 114-822 DANIEL J. EVANS OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK WILDERNESS ACT NOVEMBER 14, 2016.-Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 3028] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (S. 3028) to redesignate the Olympic Wilderness as the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of S. 3028 is to redesignate the Olympic Wilderness as the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION Daniel J. Evans was elected Governor of Washington in 1964, and was reelected in 1968 and 1972. In 1983, he was appointed to fill the term of the late Senator Henry M. Scoop Jackson and served an additional term in the Senate before retiring in January 1989. From 1993 through 2005, Senator Evans served as a member of the University of Washington Board of Regents. During his time in the Senate, Senator Evans was a leader in the passage of two major wilderness bills in the State of Wash- ington. He was a cosponsor of the 1984 Washington Wilderness Act, which designated more than one million acres of national for- est lands in Washington as wilderness. In addition, he was the lead sponsor of the Washington Park Wilderness Act of 1988, which des- ignated more than 1.5 million acres of wilderness in Olympic, Mount Rainier, and North Cascade National Parks. The Olympic Wilderness, which would be renamed by this bill, covers 876,447 acres in the Olympic National Park, and is the larg- 69-006

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