H.R. 9221 — Outdoor Americans with Disabilities Act

This section defines disability-accessible land as each square mile of public land with at least 2.5 miles of authorized roads for motorized or off-road vehicles. It also defines off-road vehicle, public land (National Forest System land and land under the Secretary of the Interior), and Secretary concerned (Secretary of Agriculture for Forest Service lands and Secretary of the Interior for other public lands).

This section directs the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture to prioritize updates to travel management plans and motor vehicle use plans for the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service.

This section directs the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to account for the total length of traversable approved roads per square mile of public land, prioritize routes providing access to diverse recreation including hunting, fishing, camping, and motorized vehicle use, coordinate with federal, state, local, and Tribal entities to ensure disability-accessible land, and keep unadjudicated R.S. 2477 roads open when developing motor vehicle use maps and designating land as open, limited, or closed to off-road vehicles. It prohibits net reductions in motorized access on disability-accessible land except for temporary or safety-related closures, bars additional closures on other land unless roads pose direct safety threats or are not needed for fuels reduction or search and rescue, requires public notice and hearings, mandates nomination and establishment of replacement roads within one year, applies categorical exclusions from NEPA, and creates a rebuttable presumption that roads remain open.

This section provides that the Act neither prohibits the Secretary from developing new roads or trails for motorized or off-road vehicles on public land nor establishes any such roads or trails in a National Wilderness System component, inventoried roadless area, congressionally designated primitive area, or National Park System unit other than a National Recreation Area.