[House Report 114-822]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
114th Congress } { Report
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
2d Session } { 114-822
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DANIEL J. EVANS OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK WILDERNESS ACT
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November 14, 2016.--Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be
printed
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Mr. Bishop of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources, submitted
the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany S. 3028]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred
the bill (S. 3028) to redesignate the Olympic Wilderness as the
Daniel J. Evans Wilderness, having considered the same, report
favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill
do pass.
Purpose of the Bill
The purpose of S. 3028 is to redesignate the Olympic
Wilderness as the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness.
Background and Need for Legislation
Daniel J. Evans was elected Governor of Washington in 1964,
and was reelected in 1968 and 1972. In 1983, he was appointed
to fill the term of the late Senator Henry M. ``Scoop'' Jackson
and served an additional term in the Senate before retiring in
January 1989. From 1993 through 2005, Senator Evans served as a
member of the University of Washington Board of Regents.
During his time in the Senate, Senator Evans was a leader
in the passage of two major wilderness bills in the State of
Washington. He was a cosponsor of the 1984 Washington
Wilderness Act, which designated more than one million acres of
national forest lands in Washington as wilderness. In addition,
he was the lead sponsor of the Washington Park Wilderness Act
of 1988, which designated more than 1.5 million acres of
wilderness in Olympic, Mount Rainier, and North Cascade
National Parks.
The Olympic Wilderness, which would be renamed by this
bill, covers 876,447 acres in the Olympic National Park, and is
the largest wilderness area in the State of Washington. This
renaming will not affect the management of the national park or
the wilderness.
Committee Action
S. 3028 was introduced on June 7, 2016, by Senator Maria
Cantwell (D-WA). It passed the Senate without an amendment by
unanimous consent on July 14, 2016. The bill was referred to
the Committee on Natural Resources, and within the Committee to
the Subcommittee on Federal Lands. On September 21, 2016, the
Natural Resources Committee met to consider the bill. The
Subcommittee was discharged by unanimous consent. No amendments
were offered and the bill was adopted and ordered favorably
reported to the House of Representatives by unanimous consent
on September 22, 2016.
Committee Oversight Findings and Recommendations
Regarding clause 2(b)(1) of rule X and clause 3(c)(1) of
rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, the
Committee on Natural Resources' oversight findings and
recommendations are reflected in the body of this report.
Compliance With House Rule XIII
1. Cost of Legislation and Section 308(a) of the
Congressional Budget Act. With respect to the requirements of
clause 3(c)(2) and (3) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House
of Representatives and sections 308(a) and 402 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the Committee has received
the enclosed cost estimate for the bill from the Director of
the Congressional Budget Office:
U.S. Congress,
Congressional Budget Office,
Washington, DC, September 30, 2016.
Hon. Rob Bishop,
Chairman, Committee on Natural Resources,
House of Representatives, Washington, DC.
Dear Mr. Chairman: The Congressional Budget Office has
reviewed S. 3028, the Daniel J. Evans Olympic National Park
Wilderness Act, as ordered reported by the House Committee on
Natural Resources on September 22, 2016.
CBO estimates that enacting S. 3028, which would rename the
Olympic Wilderness, would have no significant effect on the
federal budget and would not affect direct spending or
revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. CBO
estimates that enacting the legislation would not increase net
direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four
consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2027.
S. 3028 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector
mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and
would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal
governments.
On August 4, 2016, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for S.
3028, as passed by the Senate on July 14, 2016. The two
versions of the act are similar and CBO's estimates of their
budgetary effects are the same.
If you wish further details on this estimate, we will be
pleased to provide them. The CBO staff contact is Jon Sperl.
Sincerely,
Keith Hall.
2. General Performance Goals and Objectives. As required by
clause 3(c)(4) of rule XIII, the general performance goal or
objective of this bill is to redesignate the Olympic Wilderness
as the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness.
Earmark Statement
This bill does not contain any Congressional earmarks,
limited tax benefits, or limited tariff benefits as defined
under clause 9(e), 9(f), and 9(g) of rule XXI of the Rules of
the House of Representatives.
Compliance With Public Law 104-4
This bill contains no unfunded mandates.
Compliance With H. Res. 5
Directed Rule Making. The Chairman does not believe that
this bill directs any executive branch official to conduct any
specific rule-making proceedings.
Duplication of Existing Programs. This bill does not
establish or reauthorize a program of the federal government
known to be duplicative of another program. Such program was
not included in any report from the Government Accountability
Office to Congress pursuant to section 21 of Public Law 111-139
or identified in the most recent Catalog of Federal Domestic
Assistance published pursuant to the Federal Program
Information Act (Public Law 95-220, as amended by Public Law
98-169) as relating to other programs.
Preemption of State, Local or Tribal Law
This bill is not intended to preempt any State, local or
tribal law.
Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported
In compliance with clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of
the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by
the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law
proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new
matter is printed in italic, and existing law in which no
change is proposed is shown in roman):
SECTION 101 OF THE WASHINGTON PARK WILDERNESS ACT OF 1988
SEC. 101. DESIGNATION
(a) Wilderness.--In furtherance of the purposes of the
Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.; 78 Stat. 890), certain
lands in the Olympic National Park, Washington, which--
(1) comprise approximately eight hundred and seventy-
six thousand six hundred and sixty-nine acres of
wilderness, and approximately three hundred and
seventy-eight acres of potential wilderness additions,
and
(2) are depicted on a map entitled ``Wilderness
Boundary, Olympic National Park, Washington'', numbered
149/60,051A and dated August 1988,
are hereby designated as wilderness and therefore as components
of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Such lands
shall be known as the [Olympic Wilderness] Daniel J. Evans
Wilderness.
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