S681-119

In Committee

Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2025

119th Congress Introduced Feb 20, 2025

Analysis under review: This bill has generated analysis that may be too generic or incomplete. Clause-level evidence remains available below.

Summary

What This Bill Does

This bill, Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users. The main policy domain is Environment, Energy, Transportation.

Who Benefits and How

environmental regulators and natural-resource users may benefit from new authority, funding, eligibility, regulatory clarity, or reduced risk created by the bill.

Who Bears the Burden and How

federal implementing agencies, environmental regulators and natural-resource users may take on implementation duties, reporting obligations, compliance costs, or oversight responsibilities.

Key Provisions

  • Section id66b296165d1043a58b496f3b422afe52: 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2025.
  • Section id5ecc123aa23e4ca4abe6661057bc7179: 2. Definitions In this Act: The term Bureau means the Bureau of Land Management. The term range improvement has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the...
  • Section id84655e756954452cbdd14bd8848e22df: 3. Designation of wilderness areas In accordance with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.), the following areas in the State are designated as...
  • Section id8a6409a0403140c1ba1c32bba7abf021: 4. Administration of wilderness areas Subject to valid existing rights, the Secretary shall administer the wilderness areas in accordance with this section and...
  • Section idb8d65a70b81a417591256a6a2f452238: 5. Release of Wilderness Study Areas Congress finds that, for purposes of section 603(c) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C....

Evidence Chain:

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At a Glance

What This Bill Does

This bill, Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Key Policy Areas

Environment, Energy, Transportation

Primary Purpose

This bill, Wyoming Public Lands Initiative Act of 2025, changes federal law or congressional policy affecting environmental regulators and natural-resource users.

Policy Domains

Environment Energy Transportation

Whole bill

Identified Gains
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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environmental regulators and natural-resource users:
Identified Costs
  • federal implementing agencies
  • environmental regulators and natural-resource users
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federal implementing agencies:
environmental regulators and natural-resource users:

Legislative Progress

In Committee
Introduced Committee Passed
Feb 20, 2025

Mr. Barrasso (for himself and Ms. Lummis) introduced the following …

Feb 20, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and …

Feb 20, 2025

Introduced in Senate

Stakeholder Effects

cui bono?

How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.

Federal Administration
4 mentions across 4 clauses
+1 positive ?3 uncertain

Bureau of Land Management, Federal land administered by the Bureau in the State, Forest Service

Land Development
1 mention across 1 clause
-1 negative

Public and private entities seeking land appropriation or disposal within the designated area

General Public
1 mention across 1 clause
-1 negative

Federal land in designated areas

Government
1 mention across 1 clause
+1 positive

Wilderness Study Areas listed in subsection (b)

8/10
sections analyzed
Full impact breakdown

Bill Structure & Actor Mappings

Who is "The Secretary" in each section?

Domains
Environment Energy Transportation
Actor Mappings
"the_commission"
→ The commission identified in the operative section
"secretary_of_agriculture"
→ Secretary of Agriculture

Key Definitions

Terms defined in this bill

1 term
"County" §idb1ae906382934a7b8a72a770718fe602

Fremont County, Wyoming. The Secretary shall pursue transfers in which land managed by the Bureau in the County is exchanged for land owned by the State that is within the boundaries of— the Lander Slope Area of Critical Environmental Concern

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