Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act

United States117th CongressHR-577House of Representatives
Updated: Feb 18, 2021

Summary

Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act This bill provides for the conservation of specified lands in Colorado. Specifically, the bill designates specified federal lands within the White River National Forest as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, the proposed Williams Fork Mountains Wilderness as a potential wilderness area, the Tenmile Recreation Management Area, the Porcupine Gulch Wildlife Conservation Area, the Williams Fork Mountains Wildlife Conservation Area, the Camp Hale National Historic Landscape, the Sheep Mountain and Liberty Bell East Special Management Areas, the Curecanti National Recreation Area, and the interpretive site located beside U.S. Route 24 as the Sandy Treat Overlook. The bill adjusts the boundary of the White River National Forest and the Rocky Mountain National Park Potential Wilderness. The bill provides for the inclusion of additional federal lands in the National Wilderness Preservation System. The bill provides for the cancellation of all Thompson Divide oil or gas leases. The bill establishes the Greater Thompson Divide Fugitive Coal Mine Methane Use Pilot Program to promote the capture, beneficial use, mitigation, and sequestration of fugitive methane emissions to reduce methane emissions, improve air quality, and improve public safety, among other things.

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Timeline

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S-173: Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act

Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Failed to report favorably.

  1. Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

    House of Representatives

  2. Introduced in House

  3. Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

    House of Representatives

  4. Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands.

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