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<br />SPECIAL PROVISIONS
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<br />(d) The following speeial provisions are hereby made:
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<br />(1) Within wilderness areas designated by this Act the use of
<br />aircraft or motorboats, where these uses have already become
<br />established, may be permitted to continue subject to such
<br />restrictions as the Secretary of Agriculture deems desirable.
<br />In addition, such measures may be taken as may be necessary in
<br />the control of fire, insects, and diseases, subject to such
<br />conditions as the Secretary deems desirable.
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<br />(2) Nothing in this Act shall prevent within national forest
<br />wilderness areas any activity, including prospecting, for the
<br />purpose of gathering information about mineral or other resources,
<br />if such activity is carried on in a manner compatible with the
<br />preservation of the wilderness environment. Furthermore, in
<br />accordance with such program as the Secretary of the Interior
<br />shall develop and conduct in consultation with the Secretary of
<br />Agriculture, such areas shall be surveyed on a planned, recurring
<br />basis consistent with the concept of wilderness preservation by
<br />the Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines to determine the
<br />mineral values, if any, that may be present; and the results of
<br />such surveys shall be made available. to the public and submitted
<br />to the President and Congress.
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<br />(3) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, until midnight
<br />December 31, 1983, the United States mining laws and all laws pertain-
<br />ing to mineral leasing shall, to the same extent as applicable prior
<br />to the effective date of this Act, extend to those national forest
<br />lands designated by this Act as "wilderness areas"; subject, however,
<br />to such reasonable regulations governing ingress and egress as may
<br />be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture consistent with the
<br />use of the land for mineral location and development and exploration,
<br />drilling, and production, and use of land for transmission lines,
<br />waterlines, telephone lines, or facilities necessary in exploring,
<br />drilling, producing, mining, and processing operations, including
<br />where essential the use of mechanized ground or air equipment and
<br />restoration as near as practicable of the surface of the land dis-
<br />turbed in performing prospecting, location, and, in oil and gas
<br />leasing, discovery work, exploration, drilling, and production, as
<br />soon as they have served their purpose. Mining locations lying
<br />within the boundaries of said wilderness areas shall be held and
<br />used solely for mining or processing operations and uses reasonably
<br />incident thereto; and hereafter, subject to valid existing rights,
<br />all patents issued under the mining laws of the United States
<br />affecting national forest lands designated by this Act as wilderness
<br />areas shall convey title to the mineral deposits within the claim,
<br />together with the right to cut and use so much of the mature
<br />timber therefrom as may be needed in the extraction, removal,
<br />and beneficiation of the mineral deposits, if needed timber is not
<br />otherwise reasonably available, and if the timber is c~t under
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