3.0.0 452 2020-01-29T20:29:01Z 2020-01-29T20:29:01Z Senate S S 2009-02-23 111 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-02-23T20:26:00Z Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act 111 2025 HR 2010-06-22 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Identical bill CRS Text similarities House 2009-02-23 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2009-02-23 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000880 Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID] Mike Crapo R ID N R000584 Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] James Risch R ID E. 2009-02-23 True Public Lands and Natural Resources Administrative law and regulatory procedures Aviation and airports Department of Agriculture Department of the Interior Forests, forestry, trees Land transfers Land use and conservation Parks, recreation areas, trails Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2009-02-23 Introduced in Senate 2009-05-05T21:09:32Z Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act - Prohibits the Secretaries of the Interior or Agriculture from taking any action that would permanently close, restrict, or render or declare unserviceable any aircraft landing strip located on land under their jurisdiction unless: (1) the action has been approved by the head of the aviation department of the state in which the landing strip is located; (2) the Secretary publishes notice of the proposed action and provides for a 90-day public comment thereafter; and (3) the Secretary and appropriate state aviation department head have taken into consideration any comments received.

Requires the Secretaries to: (1) establish a nationwide policy for governing backcountry aviation issues relating to the management of federal land under the jurisdiction of the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture; and (2) require officials with jurisdiction over such land to adhere to such policy.

Requires private and publicly-owned aircraft land strips acquired by the government to be made available to the public for unrestricted use.

]]> Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act Short Titles as Introduced Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act Display Title Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to ensure public access to Federal land and to the airspace over Federal land. Introduced in Senate 2009-02-23T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s452is/xml/BILLS-111s452is.xml 2009-02-23 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.