[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3460 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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114th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3460

 To amend title 54, United States Code, to provide certain limitations 
           on the designation and use of national monuments.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 29, 2016

  Mr. Daines introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 54, United States Code, to provide certain limitations 
           on the designation and use of national monuments.

    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 ``Local Community and Sportsmen Input 
in Monuments Act''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION AND USE OF NATIONAL MONUMENTS.

    Section 320301 of title 54, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``The President may, in 
        the President's discretion,'' and inserting ``Subject to 
        subsection (e), the President may''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Consultation and Approval Required Before Designation.--No 
national monument may be designated under subsection (a) until--
            ``(1) each county, borough, parish, or equivalent unit of 
        local government within and adjacent to the boundaries of which 
        the proposed national monument is to be located--
                    ``(A) has been consulted with respect to the 
                designation; and
                    ``(B) has approved the designation; and
            ``(2) the Governor and legislature of each State within the 
        boundaries of which the proposed national monument is to be 
        located has approved the proposed national monument.
    ``(f) Restrictions on Use.--
            ``(1) In general.--Any national monument designated under 
        subsection (a) shall be open to hunting, fishing, other forms 
        of recreation, grazing, and other historic or traditional uses 
        in accordance with applicable law, unless the Secretary 
        concerned closes all or a portion of the national monument to 
        one or more of those uses, in accordance with the purposes of 
        this chapter.
            ``(2) Review period.--The Secretary shall not impose any 
        restriction on hunting, fishing, grazing, wildlife management, 
        or other historic or traditional uses at a national monument 
        designated under subsection (a) until the date of expiration of 
        an appropriate review period, as determined by the Secretary, 
        providing for, with respect to the proposed restriction, the 
        concurrence by applicable State wildlife management agencies, 
        public input, and approval by Congress.''.
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