Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act

This bill would add several areas of federal land in Colorado to the national wilderness system, including additions near Ptarmigan Peak, Holy Cross, Eagles Nest, Lizard Head, and Mount Sneffels, and new Hoosier Ridge, Tenmile, and McKenna Peak wilderness areas. It would create wildlife conservation areas and special management areas that limit new roads, motorized vehicles, and commercial logging. It would close the Thompson Divide area to new mining and oil and gas leasing, and would let holders of existing leases there give them up in exchange for credits on other federal leases in Colorado. It would also create a federal pilot program to inventory, lease, capture, or destroy methane leaking from coal mines in four Colorado counties.

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Sponsors

• Michael F. Bennet Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors