[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 71 (Friday, June 9, 2000)]
[House]
[Pages H4175-H4176]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:

                               H.R. 4578

                         Offered By: Mr. Stupak

       Amendment No. 1: Insert before the short title the 
     following new sections:
       Sec. ____. (a) Restrictions on Roadless Initiative.--During 
     the period described in subsection (b), none of the funds 
     appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be 
     used--
       (1) to implement the environmental impact statement and 
     proposed rule issued by the Forest Service known as the 
     ``Roadless Initiative'', as it applies to both inventoried 
     roadless areas and any other unroaded areas considered within 
     the scope of the Roadless Initiative;
       (2) to impose any additional national restrictions on the 
     construction or reconstruction of forest roads of any size or 
     definition; or
       (3) to impose or enforce any change in permissive access to 
     National Forest System lands for forest management or public 
     use, beyond such land use and road management decisions as 
     are made with full public participation as required by the 
     Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 
     (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.).
       (b) Duration.--The restrictions imposed by subsection (a) 
     apply during the period beginning on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act and ending on the date the Secretary of 
     Agriculture certifies to Congress that--
       (1) all pertinent unroaded areas considered under the 
     Roadless Initiative have been properly mapped, analyzed, and 
     displayed for adequate public review;
       (2) site-specific resource concerns within each area mapped 
     pursuant to paragraph (1) have been identified; and
       (3) site-specific economic effects related to such areas 
     have been analyzed and displayed.
       Sec. ____. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to close, decommission, 
     abandon, obliterate, or block any road on National Forest 
     System lands or easement or right-of-way administered by the 
     Forest Service until the Forest Service has developed and 
     published in the Federal Register--
       (1) a schedule, staffing plan, and budget for completion of 
     the road analyses for National Forest System lands, as 
     described in the Draft Road Management Policy dated March 2, 
     2000; and
       (2) a description of how these analyses will be completed 
     in a comprehensive and systematic manner to assure reasonable 
     continued public access to National Forest System lands.

                               H.R. 4578

                         Offered By: Mr. Stupak

       Amendment No. 2: Insert before the short title the 
     following:

                 TITLE V--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used--
       (1) to implement the environmental impact statement and 
     proposed rule issued by the Forest Service known as the 
     ``Roadless Initiative'';
       (2) to impose any additional national restrictions on the 
     construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of forest roads 
     of any size or definition; or
       (3) to impose or enforce any change in permissive access to 
     National Forest System lands for forest management or public 
     use, beyond such land use and road management decisions as 
     are made with full public participation as required by the 
     Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 
     (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.).
       Sec. 502. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to close, decommission, 
     abandon, obliterate, or block any road on National Forest 
     System lands or easement or right-of-way administered by the 
     Forest Service.

                               H.R. 4578

                         Offered By: Mr. Stupak

       Amendment No. 3: Insert before the short title the 
     following:

                 TITLE V--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used--
       (1) to implement the environmental impact statement and 
     proposed rule issued by the Forest Service known as the 
     ``Roadless Initiative'';
       (2) to impose any additional national restrictions on the 
     construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of forest roads 
     of any size or definition; or
       (3) to impose or enforce any change in permissive access to 
     National Forest System lands for forest management or public 
     use, beyond such land use and road management decisions as 
     are made with full public participation as required by the 
     Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 
     (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.).

                               H.R. 4578

                         Offered By: Mr. Stupak

       Amendment No. 4: Insert before the short title the 
     following:

                 TITLE V--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used--
       (1) to implement the environmental assessment and proposed 
     rules issued by the Forest Service known as the ``Road 
     Management and Transportation Strategy'';
       (2) to impose any additional national restrictions on the 
     construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of forest roads 
     of any size or definition;
       (3) to impose or enforce any change in permissive access to 
     National Forest System lands for forest management or public 
     use, beyond such land use and road management decisions as 
     are made with full public participation as required by the 
     Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 
     (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.); or
       (4) to close, decommission, abandon, obliterate, or block 
     any road on National Forest System lands or easement or 
     right-of-way administered by the Forest Service, as might be 
     prescribed by these rules.

                               H.R. 4578

                         Offered By: Mr. Stupak

       Amendment No. 5: Insert before the short title the 
     following:

                 TITLE V--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to implement the 
     environmental impact statement prepared pursuant to the 
     notice of intent published by the Forest Service in the 
     Federal Register on October 19, 1999 (64 Fed. Reg. 56306), 
     and issued May 11, 2000, and the proposed rules regarding the 
     protection of remaining roadless areas within the National 
     Forest System (known as the ``Roadless Initiative'').

                               H.R. 4578

                         Offered By: Mr. Stupak

       Amendment No. 6: Insert before the short title the 
     following:

                 TITLE V--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

  Sec. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
by this Act may be used to implement the environmental assessment dated 
February 16, 2000, and the proposed rules published by the Forest 
Service in the Federal Register on March 3, 2000 (65 Fed. Reg. 11680) 
to revise regulations concerning the development, use, maintenance, and 
management of the National Forest transportation system (known as the 
``Road Management and Transportation Strategy'').

                               H.R. 4578

                         Offered By: Mr. Stupak

       Amendment No. 7: Insert before the short title the 
     following:

                 TITLE V--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used--
       (1) to implement the environmental impact statement 
     prepared pursuant to the notice of intent published by the 
     Forest Service in the Federal Register on October 19, 1999 
     (64 Fed. Reg. 56306), and issued May 11, 2000, and the 
     proposed rules regarding the protection of remaining roadless 
     areas within the National Forest System (known as the 
     ``Roadless Initiative'');
       (2) to implement the environmental assessment dated 
     February 16, 2000, and the proposed rules published by the 
     Forest Service in the Federal Register on March 3, 2000 (65 
     Fed. Reg. 11680) to revise regulations concerning the 
     development, use, maintenance, and management of the National 
     Forest transportation system (known as the ``Road Management 
     and Transportation Strategy'');
       (3) to impose any additional national restrictions on the 
     construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of forest roads 
     of any size or definition;

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       (4) to close, decommission, abandon, obliterate, or block 
     any road on National Forest System lands or easement or 
     right-of-way administered by the Forest Service, as might be 
     prescribed by these rules; or
       (5) to impose or enforce any change in permissive access to 
     National Forest System lands for forest management or public 
     use, beyond such land use and road management decisions as 
     are made with full public participation as required by the 
     Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 
     (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.).

                               H.R. 4578

                         Offered By: Mr. Stupak

       Amendment No. 8: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following:

                 TITLE V--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 501. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to remove or rescind a designation, in existence as 
     of the date of enactment of this Act, of a route or water 
     surface for use by snowmobiles under section 2.18(c) of title 
     36, Code of Federal Regulations, or any special regulations 
     promulgated thereunder, in the Pictured Rocks National 
     Lakeshore unit of the National Park System.

                               H.R. 4578

                         Offered By: Mr. Stupak

       Amendment No. 9: At the end of the bill, insert after the 
     last section (preceding the short title) the following:

                 TITLE V--ADDITIONAL GENERAL PROVISIONS

       Sec. 501. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to remove or rescind a designation, in existence as 
     of the date of enactment of this Act, of a route or water 
     surface for use by snowmobiles under section 2.18(c) of title 
     36, Code of Federal Regulations, or any special regulations 
     promulgated thereunder, in the following units of the 
     National Park System:
       (1) The Herbert Hoover and Perry's Victory National 
     Historic Sites.
       (2) The Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.
       (3) The Cedar Breaks, Dinosaur, and Grand Portage National 
     Monuments.
       (4) The Acadia, Black Canyon of Gunnison, Crater Lake, 
     Grand Teton, Mount Ranier, North Cascades, Olympic, Rocky 
     Mountain, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Theodore Roosevelt, 
     Yellowstone, and Zion National Parks.
       (5) The Bighorn Canyon, Curecanti, Delaware Water Gap, Lake 
     Chelan, and Ross Lake National Recreation Areas.
       (6) The Appalachian National Scenic Trail and the Saint 
     Croix National Scenic River.
       (7) The Blue Ridge and John D. Rockefellar, Jr., Parkways.