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Calendar No. 422
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-185
WYOMING PUBLIC LANDS INITIATIVE ACT OF 2023
JUNE 18, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. MANCHIN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1348]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1348) to redesignate land within certain wilder-
ness study areas in the State of Wyoming, and for other purposes,
having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an
amendment in the nature of a substitute and recommends that the
bill, as amended, do pass.
AMENDMENT
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2023.
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act:
(1) BUREAU.-The term Bureau means the Bureau of Land Management.
(2) RANGE IMPROVEMENT.-The term range improvement has the meaning
given the term in section 3 of the Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978
(43 U.S.C. 1902).
(3) SECRETARY.-The term Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior.
(4) STATE.-The term State means the State of Wyoming.
(5) WILDERNESS AREA.-The term wilderness area means a wilderness area
designated by section 3.
SEC. 3. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS.
In accordance with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the following
areas in the State are designated as wilderness and as components of the National
Wilderness Preservation System:
(1) ENCAMPMENT RIVER CANYON WILDERNESS.-
(A) IN GENERAL.-Certain Federal land administered by the Bureau in
the State, comprising approximately 4,523.84 acres, as generally depicted
on the map entitled Proposed Encampment River Wilderness and dated
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