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<br />0J2715 <br /> <br />30 <br /> <br />sections 3(c) and 3(d) of the Wilderness Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 892), <br />his recommendations on the suitability or unsuitability for inclu- <br />sion in the National Wilderness Preservation System of the follow- <br />ing area: <br />[(1) the Oh-Be-Joyful Wilderness Study Area, consisting of <br />approximately five thousand five hundred acres in the Gunni- <br />son National Forest, as generally depicted on a map entitled <br />"Oh-Be-Joyful Wilderness Study Area-Proposed", dated No- <br />vember 1980. <br />[(b) Subject to valid existing rights, the Oh-Be-Joyful Wilderness <br />Study Area shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture <br />so as to maintain its presently existing wilderness character and <br />potential for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation Sys- <br />tem: Provided, That such management requirement shall not ex- <br />tend beyond a period of two years from the date of submission to <br />Congress of the President's recommendation that such area be des- <br />ignated as wilderness, or beyond the date of submission to Con- <br />gress of the President's recommendation that such area not be des- <br />ignated as wilderness: Provided further, That, with respect to oil, <br />gas and mineral exploration and development operations in such <br />study area, the terms of the Wilderness Act of 1964 shall apply.] <br />SEC. 107. (a)'" ... ... <br />(b) On the basis of such review, the Congress hereby determines <br />and directs that- <br />(1) without passing on the question of the legal and factual <br />sufficiency of the RARE II Final Environmental Statement <br />(dated January 1979) with respect to National Forest System <br />lands in States other than Colorado, such statement shall not <br />be subject to judicial review with respect to National Forest <br />System lands in the State of Colorado; <br />(2) with respect to the National Forest System lands in the <br />State of Colorado which were reviewed by the Department of <br />Agriculture in the second Roadless Area Review and Evalua- <br />tion (RARE II), [except those lands remaining in further plan- <br />ning upon enactment of this Act, areas listed in sections 105 <br />and 106 of this Act, or previously congressional designated wil- <br />derness study areas,] that review and evaluation shall be <br />deemed for the purposes of the initial land management plans <br />required for such lands by the Forest and Range Land Renew- <br />able Resources Planning Act of 1974 as amended by the Na- <br />tional Forest Management Act of 1976 to be an adequate con- <br />sideration of the suitability of such lands for inclusion in the <br />National Wilderness Preservation System and the Department <br />of Agriculture shall not be required to review the wilderness <br />option prior to the revision of the initial plans and in no case <br />prior to the date established by law for completion of the initial <br />planning cycle; <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />o <br />