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Main Subject: Public Lands and Natural Resources

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 Wilderness as a potential wilderness area,
the Tenmile Recreation Management Area,
the Porcupine Gulch Wildlife Conservation Area,
the Williams Fork Wildlife Conservation Area,
the Camp Hale National Historic Landscape,
the Sheep Mountain and Liberty Bell East Special Management Areas, and
the Curecanti National Recreation Area.

The bill adjusts the boundary of the White River National Forest, the Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness, and the Arapaho National Forest.

The bill directs the Department of Agriculture to permit by special use authorization nonmotorized access and use of the Bolts Ditch headgate and the Bolts Ditch within the Holy Cross Wilderness for the diversion of water and use, maintenance, and repair of the ditch and headgate by the town of Minturn.

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 Department of the Interior shall carry out a program to lease federal methane from coal mines leaking methane in the North Fork Valley.

S37-116, S241-116, HR474-116, HRES656-116,

Senate Actions

Committee
Nov. 18 2020	Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 116-382.

IntroReferral
Oct. 31 2019	Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.

House floor actions Actions

Floor

Oct. 31
2019

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On passage Passed by recorded vote: 227 - 182 (Roll no. 609).
On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 199 - 210 (Roll no. 608).
The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
Floor summary: DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Tipton motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to require that nothing in the bill restricts any low-level overflight of military aircraft, flight testing or the establishment of a new special air space over any land areas covered by the bill.
Mr. Tipton moved to recommit with instructions to the Committee on Natural Resources. (text: CR H8701)
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 823.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question on agreeing to amendments to H.R. 823 which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H8698-8703)

Oct. 30
2019

Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 823 as unfinished business.
On motion that the committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
Mr. Neguse moved that the committee rise.
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Crow amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment, and by voice vote announced that the ayes had prevailed. Mr. Tipton demanded a recorded vote, and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.
DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 656, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Crow amendment No. 6.
POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Tipton amendment No. 5, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment, and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Tipton demanded a recorded vote, and the Chair postponed further proceedings until a time to be announced.