3.0.0 2108 2023-01-13T04:49:18Z 2023-01-13T04:49:18Z Senate S S 2005-12-15 109 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2005-12-15T20:03:01Z Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act 109 4970 HR 2006-03-21 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Identical bill CRS Text similarities House 2005-12-15 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2005-12-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID N C000858 Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID] LARRY CRAIG R ID EDWIN 2005-12-15 True E000194 Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV] JOHN ENSIGN R NV 2006-03-03 False Public Lands and Natural Resources Access to airports Administrative procedure Air routes Airports Airspace (Law) Citizen participation Department of Agriculture Department of the Interior Federal-state relations Government Operations and Politics Government publicity Land transfers Law Maintenance and repair National forests National parks Private aviation Transportation and Public Works Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2005-12-15 Introduced in Senate 2006-02-02T17:39:54Z Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action that would permanently close, restrict, render or declare as unserviceable any aircraft landing strip located on federal land under their respective jurisdiction, unless: (1) the head of the aviation department of each state in which the aircraft landing strip is located approves the action; (2) notice of the proposed action has been published in the Federal Register; (3) a public comment period on the action has been provided; and (4) the relevant Secretary and the head of the aviation department of each state in which the affected aircraft landing strip is located have taken into consideration any comments received during the comment period.

Directs the Secretaries to: (1) adopt a nationwide policy for governing backcountry aviation issues related to the management of federal land under their jurisdiction; and (2) require regional managers to adhere to it. Declares that a policy affecting air access to an aircraft landing strip located on federal land will not take effect unless certain conditions are met.

]]> Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act Display Title Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to ensure general aviation aircraft access to Federal land and to the airspace over Federal land. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act Introduced in Senate 2005-12-15T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-109s2108is/xml/BILLS-109s2108is.xml 2005-12-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. 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.