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Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act

USA117th CongressS-4752| Senate 
| Updated: 8/3/2022
Ron Wyden

Ron Wyden

Democratic Senator

Oregon

Cosponsors (1)
Jeff Merkley (Democratic)

Energy and Natural Resources Committee

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act This bill addresses various public land concerns in Malheur County in Oregon. The bill directs the Department of the Interior to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for certain federal land in the county. Interior shall develop plans for areas that are ecologically degraded or most at risk of being ecologically degraded. Interior shall establish the Malheur Community Empowerment for Owyhee Group, which shall, among other things, use such statement to review projects proposed to the Bureau of Land Management by group members, ranchers holding grazing permits on the federal land, or other members of the public. The bill also establishes a network to monitor such land, designates 1,133,481 acres of federal lands in the county as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, designates a 14.7-mile segment of Owyhee River as a recreational river, establishes improvements for certain loop roads, requires separate feasibility studies concerning Owyhee Reservoir, requires improvements to existing Oregon State Parks and private camps on the shore of the Reservoir, establishes a dude ranch at Birch Creek, requires a feasibility study on a specified rails-to-trails project, requires a feasibility study on marketing communities or portions of the county as the Gateway to the Oregon Owyhee, requires a determination of the use and conditions under which the Jordan Valley Airstrip may be used to support firefighting, establishes the Native Seed Center as the primary federal native seed repository in the Western States, and requires that land be taken into trust for the benefit of the Burns Paiute Tribe.
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Bill from Previous Congress

S 116-2828
Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act
Aug 3, 2022
Introduced in Senate
Aug 3, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  • Bill from Previous Congress

    S 116-2828
    Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act


  • August 3, 2022
    Introduced in Senate


  • August 3, 2022
    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

Public Lands and Natural Resources

Aviation and airportsEnvironmental assessment, monitoring, researchFiresForests, forestry, treesGovernment studies and investigationsHorticulture and plantsLakes and riversLand use and conservationLicensing and registrationsLivestockOregonOutdoor recreationParks, recreation areas, trailsRailroadsRoads and highwaysWater storageWilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats

Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act

USA117th CongressS-4752| Senate 
| Updated: 8/3/2022
Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act This bill addresses various public land concerns in Malheur County in Oregon. The bill directs the Department of the Interior to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for certain federal land in the county. Interior shall develop plans for areas that are ecologically degraded or most at risk of being ecologically degraded. Interior shall establish the Malheur Community Empowerment for Owyhee Group, which shall, among other things, use such statement to review projects proposed to the Bureau of Land Management by group members, ranchers holding grazing permits on the federal land, or other members of the public. The bill also establishes a network to monitor such land, designates 1,133,481 acres of federal lands in the county as wilderness and components of the National Wilderness Preservation System, designates a 14.7-mile segment of Owyhee River as a recreational river, establishes improvements for certain loop roads, requires separate feasibility studies concerning Owyhee Reservoir, requires improvements to existing Oregon State Parks and private camps on the shore of the Reservoir, establishes a dude ranch at Birch Creek, requires a feasibility study on a specified rails-to-trails project, requires a feasibility study on marketing communities or portions of the county as the Gateway to the Oregon Owyhee, requires a determination of the use and conditions under which the Jordan Valley Airstrip may be used to support firefighting, establishes the Native Seed Center as the primary federal native seed repository in the Western States, and requires that land be taken into trust for the benefit of the Burns Paiute Tribe.
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Bill from Previous Congress

S 116-2828
Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act
Aug 3, 2022
Introduced in Senate
Aug 3, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  • Bill from Previous Congress

    S 116-2828
    Malheur Community Empowerment for the Owyhee Act


  • August 3, 2022
    Introduced in Senate


  • August 3, 2022
    Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Ron Wyden

Ron Wyden

Democratic Senator

Oregon

Cosponsors (1)
Jeff Merkley (Democratic)

Energy and Natural Resources Committee

Public Lands and Natural Resources

  • Introduced
  • In Committee
  • On Floor
  • Passed Chamber
  • Enacted
Aviation and airportsEnvironmental assessment, monitoring, researchFiresForests, forestry, treesGovernment studies and investigationsHorticulture and plantsLakes and riversLand use and conservationLicensing and registrationsLivestockOregonOutdoor recreationParks, recreation areas, trailsRailroadsRoads and highwaysWater storageWilderness and natural areas, wildlife refuges, wild rivers, habitats