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<br />~) OFF-RoAD RECREATION.-Motorized travel shall be pennitted within the recre-
<br />atIon management area only on those established trails and routes existing as of
<br />July 1, 1991, on which such travel was pennitted as of such date, except that other
<br />trails and routes may be used where necessary for administrative purposes or to re-
<br />sp(lnd to an emergency. No later than one year after the date of enactment of this
<br />ACt, the Secretary shall identify such routes and trials and shall prepare and make
<br />av~able to the public a map showing such routes and trials. Nothing in this sub-
<br />section shall be construed as precluding the Secretary from closing any trail or route
<br />from use for purposes of resource protection or public safety.
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<br />IlEC. e. BOWEN GULCH PROTECTION AlmA.
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<br />(a) ESTABLISHMENT.--{1) There is hereby established in the Arapaho National
<br />Forest, Colorado, the Bowen Gulch Protection Area (hereinafter in this Act referred
<br />to as the "protection area").
<br />(2) The protection area shall consist of certain lands in the Arapaho National For-
<br />est, Colorado, which comprise approximately 11,600 acres, as generally depicted as
<br />"Area A" on a map entitled "Bowen Gulch Additions to Never Summer Wilderness
<br />Proposal", dated January, 1993.
<br />(b) ADMINISTRATION.-The Secretary shall administer the protection area in ac-
<br />cordance with this section and the laws and regulations generally applicable to the
<br />National Forest System.
<br />(c) WITHDRAWAL.-Subject to valid existing rights, all lands within the protection
<br />area are hereby withdrawn from all fonns of entry, appropriation, or disposal under
<br />the public land laws, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and
<br />from disp(lsition under the mineral and geothennal leasing laws, including all
<br />amendments thereto.
<br />(d) DEVEWPMENT.-No developed campgrounds shall be constructed within the
<br />protection area. After the date of enactment of this Act, no new roads or trails may
<br />be constructed within the protection area.
<br />(e) TiMBER HARVEsTING.-No timber harvesting shall be allowed within the pro-
<br />tection area except to the extent that would be pennitted in wilderness under sec--
<br />tion 4(dXll of the Wilderness Act for necessary control of fIre, insects, and diseases,
<br />and for public safety.
<br />(f) MOTORIZED TRAVEL.-Motorized travel shall be pennitted within the protection
<br />area only on those designated trails and routes existing as of July 1, 1991, and only
<br />during periods of adequate snow cover. At all other times, mechanized, non-motor-
<br />ized travel shall be pennitted within the protection area.
<br />(g) MANAGEMENT PLAN.-During the revision of the Land and Resource Manage-
<br />ment Plan for the Arapaho National Forest, the Forest Service shall develop a man-
<br />agement plan for the protection area, after providing for public comment.
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<br />SEC. 7. O'I1IER LANDS.
<br />Nothing in this Act shall affect ownership or use of lands or interests therein not
<br />owned by the United States or access to such lands available under other applicable
<br />law.
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<br />SEC. 8. WATER.
<br />(a) FINDINGS, PuRPoSE, AND DEFINITION.--{l) Congress fInds that-
<br />(A) the lands designated as wilderness by this Act are located at the head-
<br />waters of the streams and rivers on those lands, with few, if any, actual or pro-
<br />posed water resource facilities located upstream from such lands and few, if
<br />any, opportunities for diversion, storage, or other uses of water OCCUlTing out-
<br />side such lands that would adversely affect the wilderness values of such lands;
<br />and
<br />(B) the lands designated as wilderness by this Act are not suitable for use
<br />for development of new water resource facilities, or for the expansion of existing
<br />facilities; and
<br />(C) therefore, it ia possible to provide for proper management and protection
<br />of the wilderness value of such lands in ways different from those utilized in
<br />other. legislation designating 88 wilderness lands not sharing the attributes of
<br />the lands designated as wilderness by this Act.
<br />. (2) The puryose of this sec;tion is. to protect t~e wilderness values.of the lands des-
<br />Ignated as wuderness by thiS Act by means other than those based on a federal re-
<br />served water right.
<br />(3) As used in this section, the tenn "water resource facility" means irrigation and
<br />pumping facilities, reservoirs, water conservation works, aqueducts, canals, ditches,
<br />pipelines, wells, hydropower projects, and transmission and other ancillary facilities,
<br />and other water diversion, storage, and carriage structurea.
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