US SB2828 | 2019-2020 | 116th Congress
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on November 7 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-09-16 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on November 7 2019 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2020-09-16 - Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Addresses various public land concerns in Malheur County in Oregon. The bill directs the Department of the Interior to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for certain federal land in the county. Interior shall develop plans for areas that are ecologically degraded or most at risk of being ecologically degraded. Interior shall establish the Malheur Community Empowerment for Owyhee Group, which shall, among other things, use such statement to review projects proposed to the Bureau of Land Management by group members, ranchers holding grazing permits on the federal land, or other members of the public. The bill also establishes a network to monitor such land, designates 1,133,481 acres of federal lands in the county as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, designates a 14.7-mile segment of Owyhee River as a recreational river, establishes improvements for certain loop roads, requires separate feasibility studies concerning Owyhee Reservoir, requires improvements to existing Oregon State Parks and private camps on the shore of the Reservoir, establishes a dude ranch at Birch Creek, requires a feasibility study on a specified rails-to-trails project, requires a feasibility study on marketing communities or portions of the county as the Gateway to the Oregon Owyhee, requires a determination of the use and conditions under which the Jordan Valley Airstrip may be used to support firefighting, and establishes the Native Seed Center as the primary federal native seed repository in the Western States.
Title
Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act
Sponsors
Sen. Ron Wyden [D-OR] | Sen. Jeff Merkley [D-OR] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2020-09-16 | Senate | Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. |
2019-11-07 | Senate | Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
Subjects
Aviation and airports
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Horticulture and plants
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Livestock
Oregon
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public lands and natural resources
Railroads
Roads and highways
Water storage
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
Environmental assessment, monitoring, research
Fires
Forests, forestry, trees
Government studies and investigations
Horticulture and plants
Lakes and rivers
Land use and conservation
Licensing and registrations
Livestock
Oregon
Outdoor recreation
Parks, recreation areas, trails
Public lands and natural resources
Railroads
Roads and highways
Water storage
Wilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats
US Congress State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/2828/all-info |
Text | https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s2828/BILLS-116s2828is.pdf |