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<br />0013\l1 <br /> <br />4. By July 1980, complete a Bureauwide accelerated wilderness <br /> <br />inventory to find roadless areas with wilderness characteristics and <br /> <br />verify wilderness study areas Bureauwide with emphasis on the 11 Western <br /> <br />States and island inventory coming second (Alaska inventory will be <br /> <br />postponed until native claims land tenure has been finalized); <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />s. By July 1980, report to the President the wilderness <br /> <br />suitability or nonsuitability of all formally identified primitive and <br /> <br />natural areas; and <br /> <br />6. By October 21, 1991, develop recommendations on the <br /> <br />suitability or nonsuitability of all wilderness study areas for <br /> <br />wilderness preservation and report to the President as they are <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />,; <br /> <br />completed. <br /> <br />V. Proposed Wilderness Review Procedure <br /> <br />A. Overview <br /> <br />,. <br /> <br />The proposed Wilderness Review Process consists of three phases: <br /> <br />1. Wilderness Inventory: The process of making prelimi- <br /> <br />nary identification of roadless areas and islands with wilderness <br /> <br />characteristics (areas and islands identified in this step will be referred <br /> <br />to as "wilderness study areas"). <br /> <br />2. Wilderness Study: The process applied to all wilderness <br /> <br />study areas, and resulting, within as short a time as possible, in a <br /> <br />finding as to whether the area. or part of it, is suitable or non- <br /> <br />suitable for wilderness; it involves the identification and consideration <br /> <br />of all resource opportunities in the area. <br /> <br />17 <br />