H.R. 488 Summary

H.R.488

Sponsor: Rep Shays, Christopher (introduced 2/6/2001)
Latest Major Action: 2/15/2001 House committee/subcommittee actions
Title: To designate as wilderness, wild and scenic rivers, national park and preserve study areas, wild land recovery areas, and biological connecting corridors certain public lands in the States of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, and for other purposes.

SUMMARY AS OF:
2/6/2001--Introduced.

Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act of 2001 - Designates the following lands in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System (System): (1) Greater Glacier/Northern Continental Divide ecosystem; (2) Greater Yellowstone ecosystem; (3) Greater Salmon/Selway ecosystem; (4) Greater Cabinet/Yaak/Selkirk ecosystem; (5) Islands in the Sky Wilderness; and (6) Blackfeet Wilderness.

Designates: (1) specified wild land areas as Biological Connecting Corridors to protect the life flow of the Northern Rockies Bioregion; (2) the inventoried roadless areas identified as part of the Corridors as components of the System; and (3) certain biological connecting corridors as special corridor management areas.

Establishes the Hells Canyon/Chief Joseph National Park and Preserve as a National Park System unit. Repeals Federal law provisions that establish the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area.

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) implement a program of ecosystem restoration in the Preserve; and (2) study the feasibility of creating a Flathead National Park and Preserve in the area generally known as the Glacier View Ranger District of the Flathead National Forest.

Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of specified rivers and creeks in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Establishes the National Wildland Restoration and Recovery System and the National Wildland Recovery Corps.

Requires the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to assure nonexclusive access to the specified areas and corridors designated by this Act by Native Americans for traditional cultural and religious purposes.

COSPONSORS(69), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:

Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 2/6/2001	Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 3/13/2001
Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 2/6/2001	Rep Berkley, Shelley - 2/13/2001
Rep Berman, Howard L. - 3/13/2001	Rep Blumenauer, Earl - 2/6/2001
Rep Bonior, David E. - 2/6/2001	Rep Borski, Robert A. - 3/1/2001
Rep Brown, Sherrod - 2/6/2001	Rep Capps, Lois - 2/6/2001
Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 2/6/2001	Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy - 2/13/2001
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 2/6/2001	Rep Coyne, William J. - 2/27/2001
Rep Delahunt, William D. - 2/6/2001	Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. - 3/1/2001
Rep Engel, Eliot L. - 3/7/2001	Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 3/7/2001
Rep Evans, Lane - 2/6/2001	Rep Filner, Bob - 2/8/2001
Rep Frank, Barney - 2/8/2001	Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 2/6/2001
Rep Hoeffel, Joseph M. - 3/6/2001	Rep Holt, Rush D. - 3/7/2001
Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. - 3/1/2001	Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 3/6/2001
Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice - 2/6/2001	Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 2/6/2001
Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. - 2/6/2001	Rep Lantos, Tom - 2/8/2001
Rep Leach, James A. - 5/3/2001	Rep Lee, Barbara - 2/6/2001
Rep Lewis, John - 2/6/2001	Rep LoBiondo, Frank A. - 5/3/2001
Rep Lowey, Nita M. - 3/21/2001	Rep Luther, Bill - 3/7/2001
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 2/6/2001	Rep Markey, Edward J. - 2/6/2001
Rep McCarthy, Carolyn - 3/13/2001	Rep McGovern, James P. - 2/6/2001
Rep McKinney, Cynthia A. - 2/6/2001	Rep Millender-McDonald, Juanita - 3/7/2001
Rep Miller, George - 2/6/2001	Rep Moran, James P. - 2/6/2001
Rep Morella, Constance A. - 2/6/2001	Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 2/13/2001
Rep Napolitano, Grace F. - 4/4/2001	Rep Neal, Richard E. - 3/6/2001
Rep Olver, John W. - 2/6/2001	Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 2/6/2001
Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr. - 3/7/2001	Rep Payne, Donald M. - 2/13/2001
Rep Pelosi, Nancy - 2/6/2001	Rep Price, David E. - 2/6/2001
Rep Rangel, Charles B. - 2/6/2001	Rep Rothman, Steve R. - 2/6/2001
Rep Sanders, Bernard - 2/6/2001	Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 2/6/2001
Rep Simmons, Rob - 2/6/2001	Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 2/27/2001
Rep Smith, Christopher H. - 2/6/2001	Rep Solis, Hilda L. - 5/3/2001
Rep Tierney, John F. - 2/6/2001	Rep Towns, Edolphus - 2/6/2001
Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. - 5/3/2001	Rep Walsh, James T. - 2/13/2001
Rep Weiner, Anthony D. - 2/6/2001	Rep Wexler, Robert - 2/6/2001
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 3/6/2001