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   Under clause 8 of rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as follows:

   H.R. 4578

   Offered By: Mr. Stupak

    AMENDMENT NO. 1: Insert before the short title the following new sections:

    SEC. __. (a) RESTRICTIONS ON ROADLESS INITIATIVE.--During the period described in subsection (b), none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used--

    (1) to implement the environmental impact statement and proposed rule issued by the Forest Service known as the ``Roadless Initiative'', as it applies to both inventoried roadless areas and any other unroaded areas considered within the scope of the Roadless Initiative;

    (2) to impose any additional national restrictions on the construction or reconstruction of forest roads of any size or definition; or

    (3) to impose or enforce any change in permissive access to National Forest System lands for forest management or public use, beyond such land use and road management decisions as are made with full public participation as required by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.).

    (b) DURATION.--The restrictions imposed by subsection (a) apply during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on the date the Secretary of Agriculture certifies to Congress that--

    (1) all pertinent unroaded areas considered under the Roadless Initiative have been properly mapped, analyzed, and displayed for adequate public review;

    (2) site-specific resource concerns within each area mapped pursuant to paragraph (1) have been identified; and

    (3) site-specific economic effects related to such areas have been analyzed and displayed.

    SEC. __. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to close, decommission, abandon, obliterate, or block any road on National Forest System lands or easement or right-of-way administered by the Forest Service until the Forest Service has developed and published in the Federal Register--

    (1) a schedule, staffing plan, and budget for completion of the road analyses for National Forest System lands, as described in the Draft Road Management Policy dated March 2, 2000; and

    (2) a description of how these analyses will be completed in a comprehensive and systematic manner to assure reasonable continued public access to National Forest System lands.

   H.R. 4578

   Offered By: Mr. Stupak

    AMENDMENT NO. 2: Insert before the short title the following:

    SEC. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used--

    (1) to implement the environmental impact statement and proposed rule issued by the Forest Service known as the ``Roadless Initiative'';

    (2) to impose any additional national restrictions on the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of forest roads of any size or definition; or

    (3) to impose or enforce any change in permissive access to National Forest System lands for forest management or public use, beyond such land use and road management decisions as are made with full public participation as required by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.).

    SEC. 502. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to close, decommission, abandon, obliterate, or block any road on National Forest System lands or easement or right-of-way administered by the Forest Service.

   H.R. 4578

   Offered By: Mr. Stupak

    AMENDMENT NO. 3: Insert before the short title the following:

    SEC. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used--

    (1) to implement the environmental impact statement and proposed rule issued by the Forest Service known as the ``Roadless Initiative'';

    (2) to impose any additional national restrictions on the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of forest roads of any size or definition; or

    (3) to impose or enforce any change in permissive access to National Forest System lands for forest management or public use, beyond such land use and road management decisions as are made with full public participation as required by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.).

   H.R. 4578

   Offered By: Mr. Stupak

    AMENDMENT NO. 4: Insert before the short title the following:

    SEC. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used--

    (1) to implement the environmental assessment and proposed rules issued by the Forest Service known as the ``Road Management and Transportation Strategy'';

    (2) to impose any additional national restrictions on the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of forest roads of any size or definition;

    (3) to impose or enforce any change in permissive access to National Forest System lands for forest management or public use, beyond such land use and road management decisions as are made with full public participation as required by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.); or

    (4) to close, decommission, abandon, obliterate, or block any road on National Forest System lands or easement or right-of-way administered by the Forest Service, as might be prescribed by these rules.

   H.R. 4578

   Offered By: Mr. Stupak

    AMENDMENT NO. 5: Insert before the short title the following:

    SEC. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to implement the environmental impact statement prepared pursuant to the notice of intent published by the Forest Service in the Federal Register on October 19, 1999 (64 Fed. Reg. 56306), and issued May 11, 2000, and the proposed rules regarding the protection of remaining roadless areas within the National Forest System (known as the ``Roadless Initiative'').

   H.R. 4578

   Offered By: Mr. Stupak

    AMENDMENT NO. 6: Insert before the short title the following:

   SEC. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used to implement the environmental assessment dated February 16, 2000, and the proposed rules published by the Forest Service in the Federal Register on March 3, 2000 (65 Fed. Reg. 11680) to revise regulations concerning the development, use, maintenance, and management of the National Forest transportation system (known as the ``Road Management and Transportation Strategy'').

   H.R. 4578

   Offered By: Mr. Stupak

    AMENDMENT NO. 7: Insert before the short title the following:

   Sec. 501. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used--

    (1) to implement the environmental impact statement prepared pursuant to the notice of intent published by the Forest Service in the Federal Register on October 19, 1999 (64 Fed. Reg. 56306), and issued May 11, 2000, and the proposed rules regarding the protection of remaining roadless areas within the National Forest System (known as the ``Roadless Initiative'');

    (2) to implement the environmental assessment dated February 16, 2000, and the proposed rules published by the Forest Service in the Federal Register on March 3, 2000 (65 Fed. Reg. 11680) to revise regulations concerning the development, use, maintenance, and management of the National Forest transportation system (known as the ``Road Management and Transportation Strategy'');

    (3) to impose any additional national restrictions on the construction, reconstruction, or maintenance of forest roads of any size or definition;

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    (4) to close, decommission, abandon, obliterate, or block any road on National Forest System lands or easement or right-of-way administered by the Forest Service, as might be prescribed by these rules; or

    (5) to impose or enforce any change in permissive access to National Forest System lands for forest management or public use, beyond such land use and road management decisions as are made with full public participation as required by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.).

   H.R. 4578

   Offered By: Mr. Stupak

    AMENDMENT NO. 8: At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following:

    SEC. 501. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to remove or rescind a designation, in existence as of the date of enactment of this Act, of a route or water surface for use by snowmobiles under section 2.18(c) of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, or any special regulations promulgated thereunder, in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore unit of the National Park System.

   H.R. 4578

   Offered By: Mr. Stupak

    AMENDMENT NO. 9: At the end of the bill, insert after the last section (preceding the short title) the following:

    SEC. 501. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to remove or rescind a designation, in existence as of the date of enactment of this Act, of a route or water surface for use by snowmobiles under section 2.18(c) of title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, or any special regulations promulgated thereunder, in the following units of the National Park System:

    (1) The Herbert Hoover and Perry's Victory National Historic Sites.

    (2) The Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

    (3) The Cedar Breaks, Dinosaur, and Grand Portage National Monuments.

    (4) The Acadia, Black Canyon of Gunnison, Crater Lake, Grand Teton, Mount Ranier, North Cascades, Olympic, Rocky Mountain, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Theodore Roosevelt, Yellowstone, and Zion National Parks.

    (5) The Bighorn Canyon, Curecanti, Delaware Water Gap, Lake Chelan, and Ross Lake National Recreation Areas .

    (6) The Appalachian National Scenic Trail and the Saint Croix National Scenic River.

    (7) The Blue Ridge and John D. Rockefellar, Jr., Parkways.

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