3.0.0 2723 2023-01-14T22:48:26Z 2023-01-14T22:48:26Z Senate S S 2004-07-22 108 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Hearings by 2004-09-14T22:23:42Z Referred to 2004-07-22T18:58:55Z 2004-09-14 sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-737. Committee 2004-07-22 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2004-07-22 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8705-8706) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2004-07-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000779 Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR] Ron Wyden D OR N Public Lands and Natural Resources Agriculture and Food Animals Bicycles Bikeways Biological diversity Bridges Commerce Congress Congressional reporting requirements Department of Agriculture Economic impact statements Economics and Public Finance Electric power transmission Emergency Management Energy Environmental Protection Environmental assessment Environmental monitoring Federal advisory bodies Federal-Indian relations Fees Fire prevention Fishery management Fishing Forest conservation Forest fires Forest health Forest management Forestry research Geothermal resources Government Operations and Politics Government contractors Government procurement Grants-in-aid Highway maintenance History Housing and Community Development Hunting Indian economic development Insect control Irrigation districts Land transfers Leases Licenses Logging Maps Mining leases Minorities National forests National recreation areas Native Americans Old growth forests Oregon Road construction Roads and highways Rural economic development Skiing Sports and Recreation State laws Timber sales Trails Transportation and Public Works Tree diseases Urban affairs Urban forestry User charges Water Resources Development Watersheds West (U.S.) Wild rivers Wilderness areas Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2004-07-22 Introduced in Senate 2004-11-01T17:36:03Z Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness Act of 2004 - Designates specified wilderness additions in Oregon as wilderness areas and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to construct a system of defensible fuel profile zones between the wilderness boundary and community boundary around Cascade Locks and Government Camp.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants to communities that are gateways to Mount Hood Wilderness areas, villages surrounding Mount Hood, and appropriate county governments in Oregon.

Withdraws wilderness areas designated under this Act from all forms of: (1) appropriation; (2) disposal under public law; (3) location, entry, and patent under mining law; and (4) disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral and geothermal leasing or mineral materials.

Designates specified parts of Hood River, Zigzag River, Eagle Creek, and Fifteenmile Creek in Mount Hood National Forest as components of the national wild and scenic rivers system.

Establishes the National Commission on Urban National Forests to examine the role urban national forests play in enriching the lives of urban populations served by such forests.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) identify the winter recreation area between Timberline and Government Camp and around Trillium Lake, Summit Meadows, and Multipor Mountain to be used for specified winter recreation and designate such area as Mount Hood National Forest Southside Winter Recreation Area; and (2) designate the Mount Hood Pedaler's Demonstration Experiment Area around Hell Roaring Creek, Shellrock Mountain, and Fifteenmile Creek and to monitor the effect of mountain biking on such Area's ecology and surrounding communities.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide specified amounts to: (1) Cascade Locks and Hood River County to bury ground power lines adjacent to or within Mount Hood Wilderness areas; and (2) Clackamus County to replace four culverts on the wild and scenic river segments in that County.

Excludes the part of Oregon State Highway 35 that is adjacent to wilderness areas in Mount Hood National Forest from wilderness under this Act.

Authorizes the Secretary to provide funds from Forest Service roads to improve access to wilderness over highway 26.

Provides for a land exchange between the Secretary and Clackamus County.

Directs the Secretary, in Mount Hood National Forest, to: (1) establish a forest health thinning program in plantation second growth stands in Mount Hood National Forest; (2) complete 5000 acres of precommercial thinning; (3) thin 1200 acres in Westside forest plantations; and (4) thin Eastside forests.

Authorizes the Secretary to retain fees from the leases of recreation residences and special use permits in Mount Hood National Forest.

]]> Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness Act of 2004 Display Title Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness Act of 2004 Official Title as Introduced A bill to designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Lewis and Clark Mount Hood Wilderness Act of 2004 Introduced in Senate 2004-07-22T04:00:00Z 2004-09-14 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-737. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.