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To amend the Wilderness Act to ensure that the use of bicycles, wheelchairs, strollers, and game carts is not prohibited in Wilderness Areas, and for other purposes.

H.R. 1349 · 115th Congress · Mar 2, 2017 · Lineage

A BILL

Section 1 Use of certain wheeled devices not prohibited in Wilderness Areas

Section 4 of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133) is amended by adding at the end of subsection (d) the following:

“(8) Allowable uses—Each agency administering any area designated as wilderness may allow the use of motorized wheelchairs, non-motorized wheelchairs, non-motorized adaptive cycles, non-motorized bicycles, non-motorized strollers, non-motorized wheelbarrows, non-motorized survey wheels, non-motorized measuring wheels, or non-motorized game carts within any wilderness area. For the purposes of this paragraph, the term ‘wheelchair’ means a device designed solely for use by a mobility-impaired person for locomotion, that is suitable for use in an indoor pedestrian area.”