[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 12 (Monday, January 26, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S477]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 166. Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself and Mr. Sullivan) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by her to the bill S. 1, to approve 
the Keystone XL Pipeline; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. _. RELEASE OF CERTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS.

       (a) Bureau of Land Management Land.--With respect to Bureau 
     of Land Management land identified as a wilderness study area 
     and recommended for a wilderness designation under section 
     603(a) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 
     (43 U.S.C. 1782(a)), if, within 1 year of receiving the 
     recommendation, Congress has not designated the wilderness 
     study area as wilderness, the area shall no longer be subject 
     to--
       (1) section 603(c) of that Act; or
       (2) Secretarial Order No. 3310 issued by the Secretary of 
     the Interior on December 22, 2010.
       (b) Fish and Wildlife Service Land.--With respect to land 
     administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
     that has been recommended by the President or the Secretary 
     of the Interior for designation as wilderness under the 
     Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), if, within 1 year of 
     receiving the recommendation, Congress has not designated the 
     land as wilderness, the land shall no longer be managed in a 
     manner that protects the wilderness character of the land.
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