[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1582 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1582

  To give any State in which lands are more than 25 percent federally 
  owned the right to disapprove the establishment of Wilderness Areas 
                         located in that State.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 1993

  Mr. Hansen (for himself, Mrs. Vucanovich, Mr. Young of Alaska, Mr. 
  Stump, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Doolittle, Mr. Lewis of California, and Mr. 
  Gallegly) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To give any State in which lands are more than 25 percent federally 
  owned the right to disapprove the establishment of Wilderness Areas 
                         located in that State.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. WILDERNESS DISAPPROVAL BY A STATE.

    (a) Authority To Submit Notice of Disapproval.--Any State in which 
more than 25 percent of the land is owned by the United States 
(including land held in trust for Indians or Indian tribes) may submit 
to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro 
tempore of the Senate a notice of disapproval of the designation of an 
area in that State as wilderness.
    (b) Notice of Disapproval.--For the purpose of this Act, the term 
``notice of disapproval'' means a notice which--
            (1) disapproves the designation by Federal law of an area 
        as wilderness, and
            (2) is submitted--
                    (A) on or before 90 days after the date of 
                enactment of the Act designating such area as 
                wilderness, and
                    (B) on behalf of a State by the Governor, State 
                legislature, or authority designated under State law,
        to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 
        President pro tempore of the Senate.

SEC. 2. EFFECT OF NOTICE OF DISAPPROVAL.

    (a) Effective Date of Designation As Wilderness Area.--
Notwithstanding any other provison of law, the designation of an area 
as wilderness in a State described in section 1(a) shall be effective 
at the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of enactment of 
the Act containing such designation unless, during such 90-day period, 
the State in which such area is located submits a notice of 
disapproval.
    (b) Management of Area During 90-Day Period.--Any area designated 
as wilderness by a Federal law shall be managed during the 90-day 
period specified in subsection (a) as if such area were wilderness.
    (c) Management of Area After Submission of Notice of Disapproval.--
An area with respect to which a notice of disapproval has been 
submitted to the Congress under this Act shall be managed by the 
appropriate Federal agency in the same manner as such area was managed 
on the day before the date on which such area would have, but for this 
Act, been designated as wilderness.

SEC. 3. OVERRIDE OF STATE NOTICE OF DISAPPROVAL.

    The Congress, by joint resolution, may override the effect of a 
notice of disapproval only if such joint resolution specifically 
overrides such notice of disapproval.

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