1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Human-Powered Travel in Wilderness Areas Act . 2. Returning human-powered travel to wilderness areas Section 4(c) of the Wilderness Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1133(c) ) is amended— (1) by striking the subsection designation and heading and all that follows through Except as and inserting the following: (c) Prohibition of certain uses (1) Definitions In this subsection: (A) Local official The term local official means the officer or employee who is the head of a unit or jurisdiction of, as applicable— (i) the Bureau of Land Management; (ii) the National Park Service; (iii) the Forest Service; or (iv) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. (B) Nonmotorized travel The term nonmotorized travel means a method of human travel that does not use a propulsive internal or external motor with a nonliving power source. (C) Permitted route The term permitted route means any new or existing path, trail, paved or unpaved road, or way over snow or ice, located within a wilderness area designated by this Act on which one or more forms of nonmotorized recreational use is permitted under applicable law (including regulations) on the date on which a local official makes a determination under paragraph (3) or the date that is 2 years after the date of enactment of the Human-Powered Travel in Wilderness Areas Act , as applicable in accordance with paragraph (3). (2) Prohibitions (A) Commercial enterprises; permanent roads Except as ; (2) in paragraph (2) (as so designated)— (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking this Act and, except as and inserting the following: this Act. (B) Temporary roads; motor vehicles, motorized equipment, and other forms of travel Except as ; and (B) in subparagraph (B) (as so designated), by inserting (but not including any form of nonmotorized travel, regardless of whether the nonmotorized travel is mechanically assisted, in which the sole propulsive power source is one or more persons) after mechanical transport