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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-869
FLATSIDE WILDERNESS ADDITIONS ACT
DECEMBER 12, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. WESTERMAN, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 3971]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3971) to designate the Flatside-Bethune Wilderness in
the Ouachita National Forest, and for other purposes, having con-
sidered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment
and recommends that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following new
text:
SEC. 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Flatside Wilderness Additions Act.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONS TO FLATSIDE WILDERNESS.
Section 3(d) of Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-508; 98 Stat.
2349) is amended by inserting and certain land in the Ouachita National Forest,
which comprise approximately 2,212 acres, generally depicted as 'Land Proposed for
Wilderness Designation' on the map titled 'Flatside Wilderness, Proposed Addition
Designation', dated November 12, 2024 after 1984.
SEC. 3. FIRE, INSECTS, AND DISEASES.
Nothing in this Act or the amendment made by section 2 shall be construed to
limit the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture under section 4(d)(1) of the Wil-
derness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(1)), in accordance with existing laws (including regu-
lations).
SEC. 4. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS ADDITION.
The wilderness designated by section 3(d) of Arkansas Wilderness Act of 1984
(Public Law 98-508; 98 Stat. 2349), shall be known as the Flatside-Bethune Wil-
derness. Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record
of the United States to such portion of the Flatside Wilderness shall be deemed to
be a reference to the Flatside-Bethune Wilderness.
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