[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 213 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 213

  To designate the wilderness within the Lake Clark National Park and 
 Preserve in the State of Alaska as the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Area.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 24, 2017

 Ms. Murkowski (for herself and Mr. Sullivan) 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 designate the wilderness within the Lake Clark National Park and 
 Preserve in the State of Alaska as the Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Area.

    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 ``Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Act of 
2017''.

SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF JAY S. HAMMOND WILDERNESS AREA.

    (a) Designation.--The approximately 2,600,000 acres of National 
Wilderness Preservation System land located within the Lake Clark 
National Park and Preserve designated by section 201(e)(7)(a) of the 
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 
410hh(e)(7)(a)) shall be known and designated as the ``Jay S. Hammond 
Wilderness Area''.
    (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the wilderness area 
referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the 
``Jay S. Hammond Wilderness Area''.
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