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SJR2 Urges Congress to take certain actions concerning wilderness areas and wilderness study areas. (BDR R-604)
- Introduced On: Feb 09, 2009
- By: Senate Natural Resources
- Feb 10, 2009 - From printer. To Committee on Natural Resources.
- Apr 08, 2009 - From committee, Amended, recommendation to pass as ammended.
- Apr 13, 2009 - Read second time in Seante, Amended (Adendment No. 385).
- Apr 15, 2009 - Read third time in Senate, passed as amended. To Assembly.
- Apr 16, 2009 - To Committee on Elections, Procedures, Ethics, and Constitutional Amendments.
- May 13, 2009 - From Committee on Elections, Procedures, Ethics, and Constitutional Amendments, recommendation to pass.
- May 20, 2009 - Passed by Assembly. To Senate
- May 22, 2009 - Enrolled by the Senate. Delivered to the Secretaqry of State.
Background for SJR 2 Nevada currently has 2,552,457 acres of Wilderness Study Areas (WSA) created pursuant to a
federally mandated inventory conducted almost 30 years ago. This inventory and the resulting studies concluded that 1,831,979
acres were “not suitable for wilderness designation” – yet the U.S. Senate has not passed a bill to remove the WSA classification
from these lands. As an aside and to make matters worse, the U.S. Senate recently passed S.22 – The Omnibus Public Land Management
Act of 2009 – that will put all WSAs, regardless of their suitability for wilderness, into a newly created protection class – The
National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS). Amendment Number 386 weakened this resolutions. The orignial text included language
directing our Congressiojnal Delegation not to adopt any legislation concerning the use of public lands, or addition of wilderness
areas, without support of the local county commissioners. Admendment No. 386 struck this language. Here is the
full text of S.J.R. 2, as passed. Here is the
modification made by Admendment No. 386.
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