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S. 904: Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act

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S. 904: Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act

117th Congress · introduced 2021-03-23 · Public Lands and Natural Resources · Latest: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 284.

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2021-03-23 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 284. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
  5. If it becomes law and spends money: follow the money to money laws, then agencies and contracts and grants.

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Official title

Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act

Plain summary

Modernizing Access to our Public Land Act This bill directs the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to jointly develop and adopt interagency standards to ensure compatibility and interoperability among federal databases for the collection and dissemination of certain data. Specifically, these requirements shall apply to outdoor recreation data related to federal lands and used to depict locations at which recreation uses are available to the public. Each such department shall digitize and make publicly available on their websites, as applicable, geographic information system mapping data that specifies, with respect to the relevant department, all federal interests in private land, including easements, reservations, and rights-of-way to which the federal government does not have a fee title interest, and that may be used to provide recreational access to the federal land. Interior, the Forest Service, and the Corps of Engineers must digitize and publish geographic information system mapping data that includes status information as to whether roads and trails are open or closed, the dates on which roads and trails are seasonally opened and closed, the types of vehicles that are allowed on each segment of roads and trails, and the boundaries of areas where hunting or recreational shooting is regulated or closed.

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Official text

Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Reported to Senate)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] · 17 cosponsors

Cost estimate: CBO cost estimate: S. 904, Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act (2022-03-04)

Cosponsors on this site

Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME), Steve Daines (R-MT), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Susan M. Collins (R-ME), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), John Barrasso (R-WY), Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Jacky Rosen (D-NV)

Sponsor's campaign money: Sen. Risch, James E. [R-ID] reported raising $3.9 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.

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Record fed-us-cong117-s904 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117