Border Lands Conservation Act

• Border and law enforcement agencies gain new authorities. The bill authorizes a navigable road infrastructure program, allows the Department of Homeland Security to use wilderness areas for security activities including vehicles, aircraft, roads, and barriers, and protects DHS operations within 100 miles of the borders.
• Public land managers, ranchers, and recreation users face new inventories, cleanup, and management requirements. The bill requires inventories and possible reclamation or reuse of unauthorized roads and trails, creates a Border Fuels Management Initiative to reduce hazards and invasive species along road corridors, and mandates reports to Congress on environmental damage, wildland fires, safety impacts, and costs to ranching and grazing.
• People without lawful immigration status on covered Federal land are affected. The bill prohibits Federal funding for housing such individuals on covered Federal land, with a narrow exception for custody, detention, processing, or removal facilities.

*No specific federal cost or deficit estimate is provided in the sources.*