(Measure passed House, amended) Nebraska Wilderness Act of 1985 - Title I: Wilderness - Designates the Soldier Creek Wilderness in the Nebraska National Forest as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Provides that the RARE II (second roadless area review and evaluation) final environmental statement (dated January 1979) with respect to national forest system lands in Nebraska shall not be subject to judicial review. Releases national forest system lands in Nebraska which were reviewed in the RARE II program from further review by the Department of Agriculture, pending the revision of initial national forest management plans. Releases lands in Nebraska reviewed in the RARE II program and not designated as wilderness from management as wilderness areas. Prohibits the Department of Agriculture from conducting any further statewide roadless area review and evaluation of national forest system lands in Nebraska without express congressional authorization. Title II: Pine Ridge National Recreation Area - Designates the Pine Ridge National Recreation Area in the Nebraska National Forest to be managed so as to preserve primitive and semiprimitive recreational use in a natural setting as well as other resource conservation values. Requires the Secretary to report a management plan to specified congressional committees within 18 months of enactment.
S 816 - 99Nebraska Wilderness Act of 1985
Became Public Law No: 99-504.
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Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 99-504.
Became Public Law No: 99-504.
Measure Signed in Senate.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Resolving differences -- Senate actions: Senate agreed to the House amendments by Voice Vote.
Senate agreed to the House amendments by Voice Vote.
Message on House action received in Senate and held at desk: House amendments to Senate bill.
Called up by House Under Suspension of Rules.
Passed/agreed to in House: Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Passed House (Amended) by Voice Vote.
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Report No: 99-854 (Part I).
Reported to House (Amended) by House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Report No: 99-854 (Part I).
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended).
Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee (Amended).
Subcommittee Hearings Held.
Referred to Subcommittee on Public Lands.
Referred to Subcommittee on Forest, Family Farms, and Energy.
Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.
Referred to House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Passed Senate with an amendment by Voice Vote.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator McClure with an amendment. With written report No. 99-122.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported to Senate by Senator McClure with an amendment. With written report No. 99-122.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 269.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment favorably.
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 99-79.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources received executive comment from Department of Agriculture. Favorable.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Agriculture Department, OMB.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Referred to Subcommittee on Public Lands and Reserved Water.