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Wild and Scenic Rivers Act <br />specified in section 7(b) of this Act. <br />Page 44 of 50 <br />Limitations on mineral entry and development on Public Lands; designated rivers. <br />SECTION 9. (a) Nothing in this Act shall affect the applicability of the United States mining and <br />mineral leasing laws within components of the national wild and scenic rivers system except that -- (i) <br />all prospecting, mining operations, and other activities on mining claims which, in the case of a <br />component of the system designated in section 3 of this Act, have not heretofore been perfected or <br />which, in the case of a component hereafter designated pursuant to this Act or any other Act of <br />Congress, are not perfected before its inclusion in the system and all mining operations and other <br />activities under a mineral lease, license, or permit issued or renewed after inclusion of a component in <br />the system shall be subject to such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior or, in the case of national <br />forest lands, the Secretary of Agriculture may prescribe to effectuate the purposes of this Act; (ii) <br />subject to valid existing rights, the perfection of, or issuance of a patent to, any mining claim affecting <br />lands within the system shall confer or convey a right or title only to the mineral deposits and such rights <br />only to the use of the surface and the surface resources as are reasonably required to carrying on <br />prospecting or mining operations and are consistent with such regulations as may be prescribed by the <br />Secretary of the Interior, or in the case of national forest lands, by the Secretary of Agriculture; and (iii) <br />subject to valid existing rights, the minerals in Federal lands which are part of the system and constitute <br />the bed or bank or are situated within one - quarter mile of the bank of any river designated a wild river <br />under this Act or any subsequent Act are hereby withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the <br />mining laws and from operation of the mineral leasing laws including, in both cases, amendments <br />thereto. Regulations issued pursuant to paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this subsection shall, among other <br />things, provide safeguards against pollution of the river involved and unnecessary impairment of the <br />scenery within the component in question. <br />Study rivers. <br />(b) The minerals in any Federal lands which constitute the bed or bank or are situated within one - <br />quarter mile of the bank of any river which is listed in section 5, subsection (a) of this Act are hereby <br />withdrawn from all forms of appropriation under the mining laws during the periods specified in section <br />7, subsection (b) of this Act. Nothing contained in this subsection shall be construed to forbid <br />prospecting or the issuance of leases, licenses, and permits under the mineral leasing laws subject to <br />such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior and, in the case of national forest lands, the Secretary of <br />Agriculture find appropriate to safeguard the area in the event it is subsequently included in the system. <br />Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this subsection or any other provision of this Act, all public <br />lands which constitute the bed or bank, or are within an area extending two miles from the bank of the <br />river channel on both sides of the river segments referred to in paragraphs (77) through (88) of section 5 <br />(a), are hereby withdrawn, subject to valid existing rights, from all forms of appropriation under the <br />mining laws and from operation of the mineral leasing laws including, in both cases, amendments <br />thereto, during the periods specified in section 7(b) of this Act. <br />Management direction. <br />SECTION 10. (a) Each component of the national wild and scenic rivers system shall be <br />administered in such manner as to protect and enhance the values which caused it to be included in said <br />system without, insofar as is consistent therewith, limiting other uses that do not substantially interfere <br />with public use and enjoyment of these values. In such administration primary emphasis shall be given <br />to protecting its aesthetic, scenic, historic,, archaeologic, and scientific features. Management plans for <br />any such component may establish varying degrees of intensity for its protection and development, <br />based on the special attributes of the area. <br />http:// www .biologicaldiversity.orglswcbdI Programs /watershedslwildlwsract.html 8/29/2007 <br />