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H.R.1324 / 114th Congress

Arapaho National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2015

Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 339.

Official summary

Version 80 · Reported to Senate without amendment · Dec 16, 2015

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)

Arapaho National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2015

(Sec. 2) This bill adjusts the boundary of the Arapaho National Forest in Colorado to incorporate approximately 92.95 acres of specified land. The Department of Agriculture shall include all federal land within such boundary in the Bowen Gulch Protection Area established under the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993.

The bill declares that nothing in this Act opens privately owned lands within the boundary to public motorized use or denies motorized access through boundary lands for owners of any non-federal lands within the boundary who historically have had such access.

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Who introduced it

Rep. Polis, Jared [D-CO-2] · D–CO

Committees

  • Energy and Natural Resources Committee
  • Natural Resources Committee
8 cosponsorship records, including any withdrawals

Actions

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  1. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 339.

  2. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 114-194.

  3. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Murkowski without amendment. With written report No. 114-194.

  4. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

  5. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 114-490.

  6. Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

  7. Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  8. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 381 - 30 (Roll no. 175). (text: CR H2488)

    House roll call 175 · Individual votes
  9. Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 381 - 30 (Roll no. 175).(text: CR H2488)

    House roll call 175 · Individual votes
  10. Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H2490)

  11. At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.

  12. DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1324.

  13. Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2488-2489)

  14. Mr. Bishop (UT) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

  15. Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 59.

  16. Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-80.

  17. Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-80.

  18. Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged.

  19. Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.

  20. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

  21. Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

  22. Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.

  23. Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.

  24. Introduced in House

  25. Introduced in House

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