[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2044 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2044

 To provide that funds available to the Department of Agriculture for 
     the prescription of final regulations relating to certain law 
 enforcement activities of the Forest Service be utilized instead for 
   the improvement of trails on National Forest System lands for the 
  purpose of improving the access of individuals with disabilities to 
                              such lands.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               April 26 (legislative day, April 11), 1994

   Mr. Burns introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that funds available to the Department of Agriculture for 
     the prescription of final regulations relating to certain law 
 enforcement activities of the Forest Service be utilized instead for 
   the improvement of trails on National Forest System lands for the 
  purpose of improving the access of individuals with disabilities to 
                              such lands.

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

SECTION 1. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF TRAILS.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, all 
funds appropriated for or otherwise available to the Department of 
Agriculture for the purpose of prescribing the regulations referred to 
in subsection (b) shall be utilized by the Secretary of Agriculture, in 
lieu of such purpose, for the purpose of improving trails on lands of 
the National Forest System in order to improve the access of 
individuals with disabilities to such lands.
    (b) Covered Regulations.--The regulations referred to in subsection 
(a) are the final regulations on law enforcement activities of the 
National Forest Service on National Forest System lands the proposed 
rules for which were published by the Director of the National Forest 
Service in the Federal Register on February 16, 1994 (59 Fed. Reg. 
7880).

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