Ensuring Safety of Federal Wilderness Areas Act of 2016
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What it doesSummary introduced in house (Sep 22, 2016)
Ensuring Safety of Federal Wilderness Areas Act of 2016
This bill amends the Wilderness Act to prohibit the Department of Agriculture (for wilderness areas under the jurisdiction of the Forest Service) and the Department of the Interior (for wilderness areas under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management) from adopting, amending, or enforcing, any regulations, policies, or guidance that would delay federal, state, or local emergency response personnel from entering into a wilderness area or wilderness study area to respond to an emergency.
Any entrance by federal, state, or local emergency response personnel into a wilderness area or wilderness study area in response to an emergency shall be reported to the appropriate Department within 24 hours of the time at which such personnel first entered such area.
What just happenedOct 19, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Who’s behind it
- Introduced in HouseSep 22, 2016
- Oct 19, 2016Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.
Forestry Subcommittee - Oct 3, 2016Committee
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Federal Lands Subcommittee - Sep 22, 2016IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Agriculture Committee - Sep 22, 2016IntroReferralH11100-A
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Sep 22, 2016IntroReferralH11100
Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Natural Resources Committee - Sep 22, 2016IntroReferralIntro-H
Introduced in House
- Sep 22, 2016IntroReferral1000
Introduced in House