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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-209
CLEAR CREEK NATIONAL RECREATION AREA AND
CONSERVATION ACT
JULY 11, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 1913]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 1913) to establish the Clear Creek National Recreation
Area in San Benito and Fresno Counties, California, to designate
the Joaquin Rocks Wilderness in such counties, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with-
out amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 1913 is to establish the Clear Creek Na-
tional Recreation Area in San Benito and Fresno Counties, Cali-
fornia, and to designate the Joaquin Rocks Wilderness in such
counties.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
In 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found that
naturally occurring asbestos (NOA) in the Clear Creak Manage-
ment Area's (CCMA) serpentine soils posed a significant public
health risk, particularly to off-highway vehicle (OHV) users.1 Later
that year, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) temporarily
closed the CCMA and initiated a process to develop a long-term Re-
source Management Plan (RMP) governing recreational uses in the
'United States Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. EPA Risk Assessment: Clear Creek
Management Area Asbestos Increases Long-Term Cancer Risk, 04/30/2008, https://
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