[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 346 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 346

To withdraw certain land located in Curry County and Josephine County, 
 Oregon, from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the 
 public land laws, location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, 
 and operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 3, 2015

Mr. Wyden (for himself and Mr. Merkley) 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 withdraw certain land located in Curry County and Josephine County, 
 Oregon, from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the 
 public land laws, location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, 
 and operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws, 
                        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 ``Southwestern Oregon Watershed and 
Salmon Protection Act of 2015''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Eligible federal land.--The term ``eligible Federal 
        land'' means--
                    (A) any federally owned land or interest in land 
                depicted on the Maps as within the Hunter Creek and 
                Pistol River Headwaters Withdrawal Proposal or the 
                Rough and Ready and Baldface Creeks Mineral Withdrawal 
                Proposal; or
                    (B) any land or interest in land located within 
                such withdrawal proposals that is acquired by the 
                Federal Government after the date of enactment of this 
                Act.
            (2) Maps.--The term ``Maps'' means--
                    (A) the Bureau of Land Management map entitled 
                ``Hunter Creek and Pistol River Headwaters Withdrawal 
                Proposal'' dated June 25, 2014; and
                    (B) the Bureau of Land Management map entitled 
                ``Rough and Ready and Baldface Creeks Mineral 
                Withdrawal Proposal'' dated June 12, 2014.

SEC. 3. WITHDRAWAL OF FEDERAL LAND, CURRY COUNTY AND JOSEPHINE COUNTY, 
              OREGON.

    (a) Withdrawal.--Subject to valid existing rights, the eligible 
Federal land is withdrawn from all forms of--
            (1) entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land 
        laws;
            (2) location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and
            (3) operation under the mineral leasing and geothermal 
        leasing laws.
    (b) Availability of Maps.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Maps shall be made available to the public 
at each appropriate office of the Bureau of Land Management.

SEC. 4. EXISTING USES NOT AFFECTED.

    Except with respect to the withdrawal under section 3, nothing in 
this Act restricts recreational uses, hunting, fishing, forest 
management activities, or other authorized uses allowed on the date of 
enactment of this Act on the eligible Federal land in accordance with 
applicable law.

SEC. 5. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS ACT RELATING TO 
              THE CHETCO RIVER, OREGON.

    Paragraph (69) of section 3(a) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1274(a)) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(69) Chetco, Oregon.--
    ``(A) Designations.--The 44.5-mile segment from its headwaters to 
the Siskiyou National Forest boundary; to be administered by the 
Secretary of Agriculture in the following classes:
                            ``(i) The 27.5-mile segment from its 
                        headwaters to Mislatnah Creek as a wild river.
                            ``(ii) The 7.5-mile segment from Mislatnah 
                        Creek to Eagle Creek as a scenic river.
                            ``(iii) The 9.5-mile segment from Eagle 
                        Creek to the Siskiyou National Forest boundary, 
                        one mile below Wilson Creek, as a recreational 
                        river.
    ``(B) Withdrawal.--Subject to valid rights, the Federal land within 
the boundaries of the river segments designated by subparagraph (A), is 
withdrawn from all forms of--
                            ``(i) entry, appropriation, or disposal 
                        under the public land laws;
                            ``(ii) location, entry, and patent under 
                        the mining laws; and
                            ``(iii) operation under the mineral leasing 
                        and geothermal leasing laws.''.
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