Human-Powered Travel in Wilderness Areas Act

United States116th CongressS-1695Senate
Latest legislative activity: Nov 18, 2020

Summary

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Human-Powered Travel in Wilderness Areas Act

This bill requires the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior to authorize their respective local offices to determine all permissible forms of nonmotorized travel over routes within wilderness areas.

Local offices must seek to accommodate all forms of nonmotorized travel to the maximum extent practicable. If a local office fails to make such a determination about a route within two years after this bill's enactment, then any form of nonmotorized travel shall be allowable on that route.

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Timeline

  1. Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

    Senate

  2. Introduced in Senate

  3. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-382.

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