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Directs the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (and the relevant Cabinet Secretaries) to prioritize updating travel management plans and motor vehicle use maps for public lands and sets mandatory rules for how motorized routes and off‑road vehicle (ORV) access are designated. It defines key terms, requires counting and prioritizing roads for recreational access, mandates coordination with States, Tribes, and local governments, protects certain disability‑accessible lands and unresolved historic claims, and prescribes public notice/hearing and limited environmental review procedures for closures, openings, and new roads. The Act also clarifies it does not itself create roads in Wilderness System components, inventoried roadless areas, congressionally designated primitive areas, or most National Park System units, and it does not block Secretaries from building new roads or trails where law allows.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced October 3, 2025 by Mike Lee · Last progress October 3, 2025
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining. Hearings held.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Introduced in Senate