16 U.S.C. § 460cccc — John Wesley Powell National Conservation Area

(a) Definitions (1) "Map" means the Bureau of Land Management map called "Proposed John Wesley Powell National Conservation Area," dated December 10, 2018. (2) "National Conservation Area" means the area set up in subsection (b)(1). (b) Establishment (1) Subject to valid existing rights, this section creates the John Wesley Powell National Conservation Area in Utah. (2) The Conservation Area covers about 29,868 acres of public land run by the Bureau of Land Management, shown on the Map. (c) Purposes The Conservation Area exists to protect and improve its historic, cultural, natural, scientific, scenic, recreational, archaeological, educational, and wildlife resources, for people now and in the future. (d) Map and legal description (1) As soon as possible after March 12, 2019, the Secretary must file a map and legal description with the Senate and House committees that handle these matters. (2) That map and description count as if written into this law, except the Secretary can fix small errors in them. (3) A copy must be available for the public to look at, at Bureau of Land Management offices. (e) Management The Secretary must manage the Conservation Area: (1) to protect and improve its resources; (2) following the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, this section, and any other applicable law; and (3) as part of the National Landscape Conservation System. (4) Management plan: Within 2 years of March 12, 2019, the Secretary must write a management plan. The Secretary must write it working with the State of Utah, Uintah County, and affected Indian Tribes, and after taking public input. (f) Uses The Secretary may only allow uses that further the purposes for which the Conservation Area was set up. (g) Acquisition (1) The Secretary may acquire land or land interests inside the Conservation Area by buying from a willing seller, by donation, or by exchange. (2) Any land inside the boundary that the United States acquires after March 12, 2019, becomes part of the Conservation Area. (3) If the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration asks, the Secretary must try to acquire all state-owned land inside the boundary — by exchange or purchase — within 5 years if practical, as long as money is available. (h) Motorized vehicles (1) Except for administrative or emergency use, motorized vehicles may only be used on roads the management plan designates. (2) Until the management plan is finished, motorized vehicle use follows the existing Bureau of Land Management resource management plan. (i) Grazing Livestock grazing that existed before March 12, 2019, may continue. The Secretary can set reasonable rules for it, based on applicable law, the Conservation Area's purposes, and guidelines in a specific 1990 House committee report (Appendix A of House Report 101–405). (j) Fish and wildlife This section does not change Utah's authority to manage fish and wildlife on federal land in the state. (k) Wildlife water projects The Secretary, working with Utah, may approve wildlife water projects, including "guzzlers" (small water catchments for wildlife), in the Conservation Area. (l) Greater sage-grouse conservation projects This section does not limit the Secretary's power to run Greater sage-grouse conservation projects — including managing vegetation by mechanical means — to support the Conservation Area's purposes. (m) Water rights This section does not: (1) create any U.S. claim to water rights in the Conservation Area; (2) change any water rights in Utah; (3) change the use of water rights that existed on March 12, 2019; (4) change any water right that was legally established by that date, including ones the U.S. holds; (5) change any interstate water agreement in effect on that date; or (6) reduce any water rights the U.S. already held in Utah before that date. (n) No buffer zones (1) This section does not create a protective buffer zone around the Conservation Area. (2) An activity outside the Conservation Area is still allowed even if it can be seen or heard from inside it. (o) Withdrawal (1) Subject to valid existing rights, all federal land in the Conservation Area (including land acquired later) is closed off from: (A) entry, claiming, or disposal under public land laws; (B) mining claims and patents; and (C) mineral, mineral-materials, and geothermal leasing. (p) Vegetation management The Secretary may still run vegetation management projects, including reducing wildfire fuel, if they fit this section and its purposes. (q) Wildland fire operations The Secretary may still run wildfire prevention and restoration work, in consultation with other agencies, consistent with this section's purposes. (r) Recreation fees Except for improved campgrounds, the Secretary may not charge entrance or use fees in the Conservation Area. (s) Outfitting and guide activities Commercial outfitting and guide services are allowed, following this section and other applicable law. (t) Non-Federal land (1) This section does not affect non-federal land or interests inside the Conservation Area. (2) The Secretary must give reasonable access to non-federal land inside the Conservation Area. (u) Research and interpretive management The Secretary may set up scientific, historical, cultural, archeological, and natural-study programs, including through public-private partnerships, to support the Conservation Area's purposes.