PlainBillCongress, translated.Legislation. Context. Public interest.Committee on Energy and Natural Resources received executive comment from Department of the Interior.
Congressional Research Service
Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · Jan 26, 1993
Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 - Designates certain lands in Colorado as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Transfers administrative jurisdiction over designated lands from the Bureau of Land Management to the Forest Service. Amends the Endangered American Wilderness Act of 1978 with respect to the study of certain potential wilderness areas. Redesignates the Big Blue Wilderness as the Uncompahgre Wilderness. Establishes the Fossil Ridge Recreation Management Area, in Colorado. Withdraws such lands from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws; from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and from disposition under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws. Establishes the Bowen Gulch Protection Area in the Arapaho National Forest in Colorado. Applies the same restrictions concerning land withdrawal for the Fossil Ridge Recreation Management Area to the Protection Area. Prohibits the President and any other employee of the United States from issuing a license or permit for the development or enlargement of any water resource facility within specified areas described in this Act. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to allow reasonable access to water resource facilities within specified areas. Sets forth various restrictions on water rights. Withdraws certain lands in the Piedra, Roubideau, and Tabeguache areas of specified national forests from all forms of location, leasing, patent, disposition, or disposal under the public land, mining, and mineral and geothermal leasing laws of the United States. Permits livestock grazing in such areas. Bars mechanized or motorized travel in such areas, with exceptions. Requires the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to compile data concerning the water resources of such areas and water resources facilities affecting such values. Directs the Secretary: (1) to report to specified congressional committees on the status of private property interests located within the Spanish Peaks Further Planning Area of the Pike-San Isabel National Forest in Colorado; and (2) to manage the Area as provided by the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1980.
People & committees
Sen. Brown, Hank [R-CO] · R–CO
Legislative record
A procedural vote is different from passage. Passage in one chamber does not establish enactment. Explore the glossary.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources received executive comment from Department of the Interior.
Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 103-19.
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requested executive comment from Department of Agriculture, and Office of Management and Budget.
Referred to Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S713-714)
Introduced in Senate
Primary sources
Text links open the official source. We currently store references to these documents.
No related bills are listed in this snapshot. This does not establish whether the proposal has appeared in earlier Congresses.
Source last updated: Sep 8, 2026. Consult Congress.gov for the current record.
AI Conversation Starters
Choose a perspective, copy a prompt, and paste it into your preferred AI. Each prompt includes the bill version and available official source links, and asks for counterarguments as well as supporting evidence.
Analyze S.206 as objectively as possible. Explain its main provisions, who would be affected, possible benefits and harms, implementation, exceptions, and uncertainties. Present the strongest arguments for and against it, and identify evidence needed to assess its public impact.
Examine S.206 through a progressive lens, focusing on fairness, access, economic inequality, and effects on vulnerable communities. Explain potential benefits, costs, and unintended consequences. Consider the strongest counterarguments and distinguish stated goals from demonstrated outcomes.
Examine S.206 through a conservative lens, focusing on fiscal responsibility, institutional stability, federalism, and the scope of government. Explain potential benefits, costs, and unintended consequences. Consider the strongest counterarguments and any provisions that challenge this perspective.
Examine S.206 through a civil-liberties and limited-government lens. Consider individual rights, privacy, voluntary choice, accountability, and government power. Explain tradeoffs, possible safeguards, and the strongest counterarguments without assuming the proposal is beneficial or harmful.