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FLOI9349 SLE. 1167H CONGRESS Ast SESSION S. ‘To designate vertain land administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service in the State of Oregon as wilderness and national recreation areas, 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 lows, and for other purposes. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES anc We Merkle fatroducod the following bills which was read twice and referred to the Committee on ‘Mr. Wypei A BILL tain land admini To designate ed by the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service in the State of Oregon as wilderness and national recreation areas, to withdraw certain land located in Curry County and Josephine County, Oregon, from all forms of entry, ap- propriation, or disposal under the public land laws, loca- tion, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and oper- ation under the mineral leasing and geothermal leasing laws, and for other purposes. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- 2. tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, py FLOI9349 SLC 1 2 3 4 5 Secwru.a 1 TT 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 26 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the “Oregon Reereation En- hancement Act”. SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. In this Act: (1) Secrerary—The — term means— (A) the Secretary of the Interior, with re- spect to public land administered by the See- retary of the Interior; or (B) the Sceretary of Agriculture, with re- spect to National Forest System land. (2) Srars.—The term “State” means the State of Oregon. SEC. 3. ROGUE CANYON AND MOLALLA RECREATION AREAS, OREGON. (a) DESIGNATION OF ROGUE CANYON AND MOLALLA RECREATION AREAS—For the purposes of protecting, conserving, and enhancing the unique and nationally im- portant recreational, ecological, scenic, cultural, water- shed, and fish and wildlife values of the areas, the fol- lowing areas in the State are designated as recreation areas for management hy the Seeretary in accordance with subsection (¢): (1) ROGUE CANYON RECREATION ARBA.—The approximately 98,150 acres of Burean of Land Man- FLOI9349 oY Awe oH 10 u 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 suc 3 agement land within the boundary generally depieted as the “Rogue Canyon Recreation Area” on the map entitled “Rogue Canyon Re n Area Wild Rogue Wilderness Additions” and dated October 10, 2018, which is designated as the “Rogue Canyon Reereation Area”. (2) MOLALLA RECREATION AREA—The ap- proximately 29,884 acres of Bureau of Land Man- agement land within the boundary generally depicted on the map entitled “Molalla Reereation Area” and dated September 26, 2018, which is designated as the “Molalla Recreation Area”. (b) Maps AND LEGAL DescripTions— (1) IN GNERAL—As soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall ap 2 map and legal description of each are ion area designated by subsection (a). (2) EFF ot.—The maps and legal descriptions prepared under paragraph (1) shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act, except that the Secretary may correct any minor errors in the maps and legal descriptions (3) Pubnic avaAptury.—The maps and legal descriptions prepared under paragraph (1)

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