Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009



Bill passage
On March 3, the House passed the bill by a vote of 394-13. 

On March 19, the Senate passed the bill as amended by a vote of 77-20. 

On March 25, the House passed the bill with the Senate's amendments by a vote of 285 to 140. 

On March 30, 2009, President Barack Obama signed the bill into law, saying it “protects treasured places from the Appalachians of Virginia and West Virginia to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula; from the canyons of Idaho to the sandstone cliffs of Utah; from the Sierra Nevadas in California to the Badlands of Oregon.”

External resources

 * 1) Department of the Interior info page on National Landscape Conservation System