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113TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 113-686
ALPINE LAKES WILDERNESS ADDITIONS AND PRATT AND
MIDDLE FORK SNOQUALMIE RIVERS PROTECTION ACT
DECEMBER 22, 2014.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, from the Committee on Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 361]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 361) to expand the Alpine Lakes Wilderness in the State
of Washington, to designate the Middle Fork Snoqualmie River and
Pratt River as wild and scenic rivers, and for other purposes, hav-
ing considered the same, report favorably thereon with an amend-
ment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions and Pratt and
Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act.
SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF ALPINE LAKES WILDERNESS.
(a) IN GENERAL.-There is designated as wilderness and as a component of the
National Wilderness Preservation System certain Federal land in the Mount Baker-
Snoqualmie National Forest in the State of Washington comprising approximately
21,493 acres that is within the Proposed Alpine Lakes Wilderness Additions Bound-
ary, as generally depicted on the map entitled HR 361, Alpine Lakes Wilderness
Additions and Pratt and Middle Fork Snoqualmie Rivers Protection Act, 2013 and
dated October 25, 2013, which is incorporated in and shall be considered to be a
part of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness.
(b) ADMINISTRATION.-
(1) MANAGEMENT.-Subject to valid existing rights, the land designated as
wilderness by subsection (a) shall be administered by the Secretary of Agri-
culture (referred to in this section as the Secretary), in accordance with the
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), except that any reference in that Act
to the effective date of that Act shall be considered to be a reference to the date
of enactment of this Act, and in accordance with section 4 of this Act.
(2) MILITARY OVERFLIGHTS.-Nothing in this section restricts or precludes-
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