WSPC03469

• File Number: 7630.285
• Description: Wild and Scenic - General
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 2/27/1978
• Author: BLM
• Title: Bureau of Land Management Proposed Wilderness Policy and Review Procedure - Draft
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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President, and each must be accompanied by a suitability or nonsuitability
rec01lllllendation;

3. Lands having wilderness character are to be managed so as not

to impair their suitability for preservation as wilderness until Congress

makes a determination; except that existing mining and grazing uses, and

mineral leasing will be permitted to continue in the manner and degree in

which the same were being conducted on October 21, 1976;

4. A survey to determine mineral values of an area determined to

be suitable must be conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey (GS) and the

Bureau of Mines (BM) prior to any recommendation for the designation of

an area as wilderness;

5; Within the California DesertConservation Area, resource inv~-

tories including wilderness must be completed by September 1, 1978; also,

a multiple-use plan, including wilderness, is to be completed by

September 1, 1980;and

6. The BLM role in the wilderness review procedure is to rec01lllllend

to the Secretary of the Interior--President--Congress those public lands

which are.suitableor nonsuit able for wilderness preservation. (Congress

makes the final decision on what areas will or will not be included iu

the. National Wilderness Pr.eservation System. 1

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B. Location of Public Lands.

The FLPMA requires the BLM to study the public lands and report

back to Congress, through the Office of the President, on those. areas

containing wilderness characteristics. The BLM i's responsiBle for 44]

million acres, mostly in the 11 Western States and Alaska, However, ~

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