Utah Test and Training Range Encroachment Prevention and Temporary Closure Act
This bill directs the Department of the Interior and the Air Force to enter into a memorandum of agreement for the continued management by Interior of approximately 625,643 acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Utah in a manner that provides for its limited use by the Air Force.
Under such Agreement the BLM shall continue to manage the BLM land, subject to use by the Air Force for:
If military operations, public safety, or national security require the temporary closure of the use of roads, trails, or other portions of the BLM land to the public, the Air Force may take necessary action to carry out such closure.
The bill establishes the Utah Test and Training Range Community Resource Group to give input to Interior and the Air Force on matters involving public access to, use of, and management of the BLM land.
Interior shall convey to the state of Utah, through the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration in Utah, BLM land in Box Elder, Millard, Juab, Tooele, and Beaver Counties, Utah, in exchange for non-federal land owned by Utah in Box Elder, Juab, and Tooele Counties. Upon conveyance, the non-federal land located: (1) within the Utah Test and Training Range shall be managed according to the memorandum of agreement, and (2) within the Cedar Mountains Wilderness shall be added to and administered as part of such Wilderness.
Interior, respecting BLM land, and the Department of Agriculture, respecting Forest Service land, shall convey to Utah and to Box Elder, Juab, and Tooele Counties separate easements for motorized travel rights of way across the federal land for certain highways.
| Action Date | Type | Text | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-08 | Calendars | Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 670. | House floor actions |
| 2016-12-08 | Discharge | Committee on Armed Services discharged. | House floor actions |
| 2016-12-08 | Committee | Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-857, Part I. | House floor actions |
| 2016-03-16 | Committee | Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 14. | House committee actions |
| 2016-03-16 | Committee | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. | House committee actions |
| 2016-03-15 | Committee | Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged. | House committee actions |
| 2016-03-15 | Committee | Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held. | House committee actions |
| 2016-03-04 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness. | House committee actions |
| 2016-02-25 | Committee | Subcommittee Hearings Held. | House committee actions |
| 2016-02-17 | Committee | Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands. | House committee actions |
| 2016-02-12 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House floor actions |
| 2016-02-12 | IntroReferral | Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. | House floor actions |
| 2016-02-12 | IntroReferral | Introduced in House | Library of Congress |