[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 26, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S4418]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3095. Mr. BENNET submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 2, to provide for the reform and continuation of 
agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture 
through fiscal year 2023, and for other purposes; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of part II of subtitle F of title VIII, add the 
     following:

     SEC. 86____. SENSE OF THE SENATE RELATING TO WILDERNESS STUDY 
                   AREA LEGISLATION.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
       (1) wilderness study areas are an important component of 
     the National Forest System;
       (2) legislation to release wilderness study areas has, in 
     the past, been informed through a robust public process that 
     includes several meetings near the affected acreage attended 
     by a variety of local stakeholders; and
       (3) the release of the Molas Pass Wilderness Study Area in 
     the San Juan National Forest in the State of Colorado under 
     section 3062(f)(2) of the Carl Levin and Howard P. ``Buck'' 
     McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     2015 (16 U.S.C. 539q(f)(2)) was informed though multiple 
     public meetings conducted over a period of several years in 
     the region in which the wilderness study area was located.
       (b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate 
     that legislation to release wilderness study areas should be 
     informed by a robust stakeholder process that includes 
     numerous stakeholder meetings in the region in which the 
     wilderness study area is located.
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