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This bill prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from using federal funds to finalize or implement specific travel management plans in Utah during a defined "applicable period" that begins with the bill's enactment and ends when certain legal cases (known as R.S. 2477 cases) are adjudicated. The bill covers ten specific travel management areas, including regions like the Henry Mountains, Dinosaur, Book Cliffs, and San Rafael Swell, and four additional specific travel management plans. R.S. 2477 refers to a historic statute related to rights-of-way across public lands, and this bill involves ongoing legal disputes between multiple Utah counties and the United States government regarding land management. The prohibition applies to creating new travel management plans or implementing existing plans in these designated areas, effectively halting federal land management activities in these regions until the specified legal cases are resolved. The bill seems designed to pause federal land management actions in Utah pending the resolution of these longstanding legal challenges, giving local counties and the state more control over how these lands are managed in the interim.

Agriculture and Natural Resources

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/376/all-info