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<br />0019-17 <br /> <br />SPECIAL PROVISIONS <br /> <br />(d) The following speeial provisions are hereby made: <br /> <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. <br /> <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. <br /> <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 <br />