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To provide further protections for the watershed of the Little Sandy River as part of the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit, Oregon, and for other purposes.
To provide further protections for the watershed of the Little Sandy River as part of the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit, Oregon, and for other purposes.
Summary
This Act provides enhanced protections for the Little Sandy River watershed in Oregon's Bull Run Watershed Management Unit by prohibiting the cutting of trees on all federal land within the designated unit, which comprises approximately 98,272 acres. The Act repeals prior management exceptions and establishes a special resources management unit subject to minor boundary adjustments by the appropriate federal Secretary. The Act also authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to negotiate and complete a land exchange with the City of Portland by September 30, 2001, allowing Portland to transfer city-owned land within the National Forest System in Oregon or Washington in exchange for National Forest System land underlying Portland's Bull Run water supply facilities, with an exemption from the standard single-state limitation on land exchanges. The Act does not affect existing water rights held by any person or entity.
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Actions (7)
- Sep 15, 1998 Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands. · house
- Sep 15, 1998 Referred to the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health. · house
- Sep 15, 1998 Executive Comment Requested from USDA, Interior. · house
- Sep 9, 1998 Referred to House Agriculture · house
- Sep 9, 1998 Referred to the Committee on 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 9, 1998 Referred to House Resources · house
- Sep 9, 1998 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 9, 1998
Mr. Blumenauer (for himself, Ms. Furse, and Ms. Hooley of Oregon) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 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
A BILL
To provide further protections for the watershed of the Little Sandy River as part of the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit, Oregon, 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. INCLUSION OF ADDITIONAL PORTION OF THE LITTLE SANDY RIVER WATERSHED IN THE BULL RUN WATERSHED MANAGEMENT UNIT, OREGON.
(a) In General.—Public Law 95-200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is amended by striking section 1 and inserting the following:
“SECTION 1. ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT UNIT; DEFINITION OF SECRETARY.
“(a) Establishment.—
“(1) In general.—There is established, subject to valid existing rights, a special resources management unit in the State of Oregon comprising approximately 98,272 acres, as depicted on a map dated September 1998, and entitled ‘Bull Run Watershed Management Unit’.
“(2) Map.—The map described in paragraph (1) shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the Regional Forester-Pacific Northwest Region, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, and in the offices of the Oregon State Director, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.
“(3) Boundary adjustments.—Minor adjustments in the boundaries of the unit may be made from time to time by the Secretary after consultation with the city and appropriate public notice and hearings.
“(b) Definition of Secretary.—In this Act, the term ‘Secretary’ means—
“(1) with respect to land administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Agriculture; and
“(2) with respect to land administered by the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of the Interior.”.
(b) Conforming and Technical Amendments.—
(1) Secretary.—Public Law 95-200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is amended by striking “Secretary of Agriculture” each place it appears (except subsection (b) of section 1, as added by subsection (a), and except in the amendments made by paragraph
(2)) and inserting “Secretary”.
(2) Applicable law.—
(A) In general.—Section 2(a) of Public Law 95-200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is amended by striking “applicable to National Forest System lands” and inserting “applicable to National Forest System land (in the case of land administered by the Secretary of Agriculture) or applicable to land under the administrative jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management (in the case of land administered by the Secretary of the Interior)”.
(B) Management plans.—The first sentence of section 2(c) of Public Law 95-200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is amended—
(i) by striking “subsection (a) or (b)” and inserting “subsections (a) and (b)”; and
(ii) by striking “, through the maintenance” and inserting “(in the case of land administered by the Secretary of Agriculture) or section 202 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1712) (in the case of land administered by the Secretary of the Interior), through the maintenance”.
SEC. 2. MANAGEMENT.
(a) Timber Harvesting Restrictions.—Section 2(b) of Public Law 95- 200 (16 U.S.C. 482b note) is amended by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following:
“(1) In general.—Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary shall prohibit the cutting of trees on Federal land in the entire unit, as designated in section 1 and depicted on the map referred to in that section.”.
(b) Repeal of Management Exception.—The Oregon Resource Conservation Act of 1996 (division B of Public Law 104-208) is amended by striking section 606 (110 Stat. 3009-543).
(c) Repeal of Duplicative Enactment.—Section 1026 of division I of the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-333; 110 Stat. 4228) and the amendments made by that section are repealed.
(d) Water Rights.—Nothing in this section strengthens, diminishes, or has any other effect on water rights held by any person or entity.
SEC. 3. LAND EXCHANGE.
(a) Land Exchange.—Upon application by the city of Portland, Oregon (referred to in this section as the “city”), the Secretary of Agriculture shall enter into negotiations with the city for the transfer of National Forest System land underlying the city’s Bull Run water supply facilities to the city in exchange for city-owned land lying within the boundaries of any unit of the National Forest System in Oregon or Washington.
(b) Time for Exchange.—Subject to subsection (c), the Secretary shall expedite the negotiations, if the city applies for a land exchange under subsection (a), and shall complete such a land exchange not later than September 30, 2001.
(c) Applicability of Other Laws.—Except as provided in subsection
(d), any land exchange under this section shall be carried out in accordance with section 206 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716) and other applicable law.
(d) Exception to Single State Limitation on Exchange.—The requirement that Federal and non-Federal parcels of land exchanged for each other must be located within the same State, as specified in the Act entitled “An Act to Consolidate National Forest Lands”, approved March 20, 1922 (16 U.S.C. 485), and the first sentence of section 206(b) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1716(b)), shall not apply to the land exchange authorized by this section. <all>
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