[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4083 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4083

To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act by designating the Lower Salmon 
 River in Idaho as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
                    System, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 17, 1994

 Mr. LaRocco introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act by designating the Lower Salmon 
 River in Idaho as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
                    System, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Lower Salmon River Recreational and 
Scenic Rivers Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. RECREATIONAL AND SCENIC RIVER DESIGNATIONS.

    (a) In General.--Section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 
U.S.C. 1274(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
    ``( ) Lower salmon river, idaho.--(A)(i) The 23.7 mile segment from 
Long Tom Bar in the southeast quarter of section 31, township 25 north, 
range 5 east to the line between range 1 east and range 2 east, to be 
administered by the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior as a 
recreational river.
    ``(ii) The 35.3 mile segment from the line between range 1 east and 
range 2 east to the mouth of Hammer Creek in the southwest quarter of 
section 15, township 28 north, range 1 east, to be administered by the 
Secretary of the Interior as a recreational river.
    ``(iii) The 53 mile segment from Hammer Creek to the confluence of 
the Snake River, to be administered by the Secretary of the Interior as 
a scenic river.
    ``(B) Notwithstanding subsection (b), the boundaries of the public 
lands of the segments described in subparagraph (A) shall be the 
boundaries of the public lands withdrawn by the Secretary of the 
Interior through Public Land Order 6629, effective November 13, 1986, 
and Public Land Order 6670, effective April 1, 1988, and for those 
lands not included in Public Land Orders 6629 and 6670, the boundaries 
shall be the legal subdivision line nearest one-quarter mile from the 
mean high water line of the river.''.
    (b) Limitation.--Nothing in this Act, or in the amendment to the 
Wild and Scenic Rivers Act made by this Act, shall be construed as 
authorizing any acquisition of any scenic easement that without the 
consent of the landowner would affect any regular use of relevant lands 
that was exercised prior to the acquisition of such easement. Nothing 
in this Act, or in the amendments to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act 
made by this Act, shall affect any existing use of the Lower Salmon 
River, provided that such use occurs at levels consistent with the 
resource management plan.

SEC. 3. PERMANENT WITHDRAWAL.

    The withdrawals made by the Secretary of the Interior through 
Public Land Order 6629, effective November 13, 1986, and Public Land 
Order 6670, effective April 1, 1988, are made permanent.

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