Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act
Summary
Modernizing Access to our Public Land Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to jointly develop and adopt interagency standards to ensure compatibility and interoperability among federal databases for the collection and dissemination of certain data. Specifically, these requirements shall apply to outdoor recreation data related to federal lands and used to depict locations at which recreation uses are available to the public. Each such department shall digitize and make publicly available on their websites, as applicable, geographic information system mapping data that specifies, with respect to the relevant department, all federal interests in private land, including easements, reservations, and rights-of-way to which the federal government does not have a fee title interest, and that may be used to provide recreational access to the federal land. Interior, the Forest Service, and the Corps of Engineers must digitize and publish geographic information system mapping data that includes status information as to whether roads and trails are open or closed, the dates on which roads and trails are seasonally opened and closed, the types of vehicles that are allowed on each segment of roads and trails, and the boundaries of areas where hunting or recreational shooting is regulated or closed.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2021
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced Mar 23, 2021
Last action Feb 28, 2022
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
6
Key actions
3
Committee
4
Feb 28, 2022
Upper · Passed
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Manchin with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 117-83.
upper
Nov 18, 2021
Upper · Passed
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
upper
Jun 16, 2021
Upper · Passed
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
upper
Mar 23, 2021
Committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
upper
Mar 23, 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
1 primary · 17 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
James E. Risch
RRepublican
Co
Angus S. King, Jr.
IIndependent
Co
Cynthia M. Lummis
RRepublican
Co
Jacky Rosen
DDemocratic
Co
Joe Manchin, III
IIndependent
Co
John Barrasso
RRepublican
Co
John W. Hickenlooper
DDemocratic
Co
Jon Tester
DDemocratic
Co
Kyrsten Sinema
IIndependent
Co
Margaret Wood Hassan
DDemocratic
Co
Mark Kelly
DDemocratic
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