Outdoor Americans with Disabilities Act

This bill sets rules for how the Forest Service and the Interior Department manage motor vehicle roads on federal public land. It defines "disability-accessible land" as each square mile of public land with at least 2.5 miles of authorized road open to motorized or off-road vehicles, and bars closing roads that would drop land below that level, except for temporary roads or roads that pose a direct health or safety threat. On other public land, agencies would have to consider reopening roads closed in the past 10 years and could close additional roads only for health or safety threats, with notice, a public hearing, and a replacement road within 1 year. Such closures and new roads would be exempt from standard environmental review, and roads under unresolved historic right-of-way claims would stay open until those claims are settled.

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Sponsors

• Mike Kennedy Republican sponsor
• 0 cosponsors