Document - Testimony of American Whitewater in Senate Energy and Natural Resources Recreation Hearing
Abstract
On behalf of the whitewater paddling community, American Whitewater writes to express our appreciation for holding a full committee hearing on outdoor recreation. Several of the individual bills are of particular interest to the whitewater paddling community including Environmental Justice in Recreation Permitting Act (S. 1269); Federal Interior Land Media (FILM) Act (S. 1616); Recreation Not Red-Tape Act (S. 1874); Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act (S. 2258); Outdoors For All Act (S. 2887); and Outdoor Recreation Act (S. 3266). These legislative proposals before the Committee would affect recreation management and elevate the importance of managing whitewater rivers and the public lands they flow through for their recreation value. Several of the bills also seek to provide more equitable access to outdoor recreation. We are tremendously pleased by, and grateful for, the Committee’s work last Congress to secure the passage of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act as well as the Great American Outdoors Act; we believe the Committee has an opportunity to build on the momentum of this success and work toward passage of similarly well developed legislation that protects and enhances opportunities for outdoor recreation that include whitewater paddling. We also appreciate the opportunity we were afforded to testify before the Committee in March 2019 and raise several issues in an oversight hearing that are addressed in the legislative proposals before the Committee.Description
Testimony on Environmental Justice in Recreation Permitting Act (S. 1269); Federal Interior Land Media (FILM) Act (S. 1616); Recreation Not Red-Tape Act (S. 1874); Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act (S. 2258); Outdoors For All Act (S. 2887); Outdoor Recreation Act (S. 3266).Document Information
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