3.0.0 3427 2022-09-04T09:59:04Z 2022-09-04T09:59:04Z Senate S 2020-03-10 116 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Hearings by 2020-09-16T18:30:56Z Referred to 2020-03-10T18:21:15Z Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act 116 6169 HR 2020-03-19 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife. Identical bill CRS 2020-09-16 sseg03 Public Lands, Forests, and Mining Subcommittee Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-380. Committee 2020-03-10 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2020-03-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress M001197 Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ] Martha McSally R AZ N K000383 Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] Angus King I ME S. 2020-03-10 True D000618 Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] Steve Daines R MT 2020-07-02 False M001183 Sen. Manchin, Joe, III [D-WV] Joseph Manchin D WV 2020-07-21 False C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2020-07-21 False R000584 Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] James Risch R ID E. 2020-09-14 False Public Lands and Natural Resources Congressional oversight Digital media Geography and mapping Government information and archives Hunting and fishing Land use and conservation Marine and inland water transportation Motor vehicles Outdoor recreation Parks, recreation areas, trails Pedestrians and bicycling Roads and highways Public Lands and Natural Resources 00 2020-03-10 Introduced in Senate 2020-05-01T21:13:37Z 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 outdoor recreation data related to federal lands.

Interior, the Forest Service, and the Corps of Engineers must digitize and publish geographic information system mapping data that includes

  • federal interests, including easements and rights-of-way, in private land;
  • 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;
  • the boundaries of areas where hunting or recreational shooting is regulated or closed; and
  • the boundaries of any portion of a body of water that is closed to entry, is closed to watercraft, or has horsepower limitations for watercraft.
]]> Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act Display Title Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act Short Title(s) as Introduced Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to require the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works to digitize and make publicly available geographic information system mapping data relating to public access to Federal land and waters for outdoor recreation, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s3427is/xml/BILLS-116s3427is.xml 2020-09-16 Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-380. 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.