Bill > HR5598

Introduced Session

To provide for the protection of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and interconnected Federal lands and waters, including Voyageurs National Park, within the Rainy River Watershed in the State of Minnesota, and for other purposes. This bill withdraws approximately 234,328 acres of federal land and waters in a specified area in the Rainy River Watershed of Superior National Forest in Minnesota from entry, appropriation, and disposal under the public land laws; location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and operation of the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws. The area is adjacent to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Mining Protection Area. Land or interest in land within such area that is acquired by the United States shall be immediately withdrawn in accordance with this bill. The Forest Service is authorized to permit the removal of sand, granite, iron ore, and taconite from national forest system lands within such area if the removal is not detrimental to the water quality, air quality, and health of forest habitat within the Rainy River Watershed.

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Betty McCollum (D)*,  Cindy Axne (D),  Nanette Barragán (D),  Joyce Beatty (D),  Earl Blumenauer (D),  Cheri Bustos (D),  Matt Cartwright (D),  Ed Case (D),  Sean Casten (D),  Judy Chu (D),  Steve Cohen (D),  Peter DeFazio (D),  Diana DeGette (D),  Debbie Dingell (D),  Anna Eshoo (D),  Abby Finkenauer (D),  Ruben Gallego (D),  Chuy García (D),  Raúl Grijalva (D),  Debra Haaland (D),  Alcee Hastings (D),  Jared Huffman (D),  Sheila Jackson-Lee (D),  Dan Kildee (D),  Derek Kilmer (D),  Ron Kind (D),  Barbara Lee (D),  Andy Levin (D),  Zoe Lofgren (D),  Alan Lowenthal (D),  Jim McGovern (D),  Gwen Moore (D),  Grace Napolitano (D),  Joe Neguse (D),  Eleanor Holmes Norton (D),  Ilhan Omar (D),  Dean Phillips (D),  Chellie Pingree (D),  Mark Pocan (D),  Jamie Raskin (D),  Francis Rooney (R),  Jan Schakowsky (D),  Albio Sires (D),  Elissa Slotkin (D),  Tom Suozzi (D),  Fred Upton (R),  Nydia Velázquez (D),  Bonnie Watson Coleman (D), 

Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 556. (on 12/18/2020)

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