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H. Rept. 115-1092 1 (2018-12-20)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxacca0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 115TH CONGRESS I 2d Session JHOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT 115-1092 RESTORING LOCAL INPUT AND ACCESS TO PUBLIC LANDS ACT OF 2018 DECEMBER 20, 2018.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT together with DISSENTING VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 6939] The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 6939) to protect and ensure multiple use and public ac- cess to public lands in Wyoming per the request of the respective counties, and for other purposes, having considered the same, re- port favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. PURPOSE OF THE BILL The purpose of H.R. 6939 is to protect and ensure multiple use and public access to public lands in Wyoming per the request of the respective counties. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION The Wilderness Act of 1964 (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) established the National Wilderness Preservation System to maintain some of America's wildest areas for the use and enjoyment of the Amer- ican people in such manner as will leave them unimpaired for fu- ture use and enjoyment as wilderness.1 The Act described wilder- ness lands as areas where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not 116 U.S.C. 1131. 89-006 AUTIENTICATED U.S.GOVERNMENT INFORMATION