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GD2G93 8 (c) No AUTHORIZATION OF EMINENT DoMAIN.-Nothing contained in this Act au- thorizes, and nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize, the acquisition of real property by eminent domain. (d) MANAGEMENT.-Notwithstanding the provisions of section 4(a) of this Act, for a period of three fears from the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall manage the SpanIsh Peaks planning area as provided by section l05(c) of Public Law 96-560. SEC. 11. PUMPING PlANT NAME CHANGE. The facility of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, known 8S the Granby Pumping Plant of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, in the State of Colorado, shall hereafter be known as the Farr Pumping Plant. Any reference to the Granby Pumping Plant in any law, re~lation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States shall be conSidered to be a reference to the Farr Pump- mg Plant. PuRPOSE H.R. 631,1 as amended, would designate as wilderness approxi- mately 611,700 acres in Colorado managed by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, would specify the future man- agement of other national forest and public lands in that State, and would rename one existing wilderness area. BACKGROUND AND NEED In 1980, the enactment of P.L. 96-560, Congress specified the fu- ture management of most of the Colorado national forest lands with regard to which the President, pursuant to the Wilderness Act, previously had made recommendations relating to wilderness designation, including recommendations resulting from the Forest Service's "RARE II" review process. Regarding 11 other areas in Colorado, however, P.L. 96-560 pro- vided for further study and for the submission of recommendations for their future management as components of the National Wilder- ness Preservation System or otherwise. This bill is the product of the Committee's consideration of Ad- ministration recommendations regarding those 11 areas and of pro- posals for future management of some other portions of Colorado's National Forests. The bill also addresses the future management of some public lands in Colorado managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that, pursuant to section 603 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, have been studied for possible designa- tion as wilderness. (Under the bill as reported, some of these public lands would be transferred to management by the Forest Service while others would continue to be managed by the BLM.) However, decisions abut the future management of the majority of public lands administered by the BLM in Colorado that were studied for possible wilderness designation have left for future legislation. After enactment of P.L. 96-560, more than a decade elapsed be- fore both the House and Senate again acted on a Colorado wilder- ness bill. The primary reason for the long delay was the fact that because of Executive Branch policies and judicial decisions, Con- gressional decisions about wilderness in the west <.:ame to involve explicit decisions about water and water law. 1 H.R. 631 W!lB introduced on January 26, 1993 by &presentatives Skaggs. Mcinnis, and Schroeder.