H.R. 5009: Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act of 2010
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H.R. 5009: Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act of 2010
111th Congress · introduced 2010-04-13 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2010-04-13 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title
Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act of 2010
Plain summary
Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act of 2010 - Designates specified federal lands in the vicinity of the Lone Peak Wilderness and the Mount Olympus Wilderness, and specified federal lands comprising the Bear Trap Wilderness and the Wayne Owens Grandeur Peaks/ Mount Aire Wilderness within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forests in Salt Lake County, Utah, as wilderness and as either a new component or as an addition to an existing component of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Designates specified federal lands contiguous to the existing Mount Olympus, Twin Peaks, and Lone Peak Wilderness Areas and the Wayne Owens Grandeur Peak/Mount Aire Wilderness Area enacted by this Act as the Heliskiing Special Management Area. Requires activities within the Special Management Area to be managed to maintain its presently existing wilderness character and potential for inclusion in the System. Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to allow heliskiing activities that have been authorized on the federal lands included within the Special Management Area to continue. Designates the federal lands included within the Special Management Area as wilderness and as a new component of the System when the Secretary publishes a notice in the Federal Register that all commercial helicopter-assisted skiing and snowboarding activities on such lands have been terminated. Renames the Special Management Area upon designation as the Wasatch Mountain Wilderness. Requires the Secretary to expedite a land exchange concerning certain lands in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Requires the land acquired by the Secretary to be included in the National Forest and to be managed to maintain its existing wilderness character for potential inclusion in the System.
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Official text
Wasatch Wilderness and Watershed Protection Act of 2010
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Sponsor: Rep. Matheson, Jim [D-UT-2] · 0 cosponsors
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- A law that creates or continues a government program and says what it may do, often with a suggested spending ceiling. An authorization alone does not provide money; a separate appropriation does.
- Federal Register
- The official daily publication of the U.S. government for agency rules, proposed rules, public notices and presidential documents.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-111hr5009.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/111/hr>
Record fed-us-cong111-hr5009 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong111 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong111