[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1053 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1053

    To require the Secretary of the Interior to issue new resource 
      management plans applicable to the Beaver Dam Wash National 
 Conservation Area and the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area and a 
new amendment to the St. George Field Office Resource Management Plan, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 4, 2017

  Mr. Hatch (for himself and Mr. Lee) introduced the following bill; 
   which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                           Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Secretary of the Interior to issue new resource 
      management plans applicable to the Beaver Dam Wash National 
 Conservation Area and the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area and a 
new amendment to the St. George Field Office Resource Management Plan, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ISSUANCE OF NEW RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLANS FOR THE BEAVER DAM 
              WASH AND RED CLIFFS NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREAS AND A NEW 
              AMENDMENT TO THE ST. GEORGE FIELD OFFICE RESOURCE 
              MANAGEMENT PLAN.

    The Secretary of the Interior (acting through the Director of the 
Bureau of Land Management)--
            (1) shall not implement or enforce the resource management 
        plans for the Beaver Dam Wash National Conservation Area or the 
        Red Cliffs National Conservation Area or the amendment to the 
        St. George Field Office Resource Management Plan described in 
        the notice of the Bureau of Land Management entitled ``Notice 
        of Availability of the Record of Decision and the Approved 
        Resource Management Plans for the Beaver Dam Wash and Red 
        Cliffs National Conservation Areas; and Approved Amendment to 
        the St. George Field Office Resource Management Plan in 
        Washington County, Utah'' (81 Fed. Reg. 93707 (December 21, 
        2016)); and
            (2) shall issue new resource management plans and a new 
        amendment to replace the resource management plans and 
        amendment to the resource management plan referred to in 
        paragraph (1) that are prepared--
                    (A) in accordance with the requirements for 
                management plans established under subtitle O of title 
                I of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 
                (Public Law 111-11; 123 Stat. 1075); and
                    (B) in coordination with affected units of local 
                government, in accordance with section 202(c)(9) of the 
                Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 
                U.S.C. 1712(c)(9)).
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