WSPC05430

• File Number: 7630.475
• Description: Wild and Scenic - RARE II
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 1/1/1977
• Author: Unknown
• Title: RARE II - Resource Conflict Study
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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sound principles of forest management as defined by the national
forest rules and regulations, but each such patent shall reserve
to the United States all title in or to the surface of the lands
and products thereof, and no use of the surface of the claim or
the resources therefrom not reasonably required for carrying on
mining or prospecting shall be allowed except as otherwise ex-
pressly provided in this Act: Provided, That, unless hereafter
specifically authorized, no patent within wilderness areas des-
ignated by this Act shall issue after December 31, 1983, except
for the valid claims existing on or before December 31, 1983.
Mining claims located after the effective date of this Act
within the boundaries of wilderness areas designated by this Act
shall create no rights in excess of those rights which may be
patented under the provisions of this subsection. Mineral leases,
permits, and licenses covering lands within national forest
wilderness areas designated by this Act shall contain such
reasonable stipulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of
Agriculture for the protection of the wilderness charaeter of the
land consistent with the use of the land for the purposes for
whieh they are leased, permitted, or 1ieensed. Subject to valid
rights then existing,'effeetive January 1, 1984, the minerals in
lands designated by this Act as wilderness areas are withdrawn
from all forms of appropriation under the mining laws and from
disposition under all laws pertaining to mineral leasing and all
amendments thereto.

(4) Within wilderness areas in the national forests designated by
this Aet, (1) the President may, within a speeifie area'and in
accordance with sueh regulations as he may deem desirable, authorize
prospecting for water resourees, the establishment and maintenance of
reservoirs, water-eonservation works, power projects, transmission
lines, and other faei1ities needed in the public interest, including
the road construetionand maintenance essential to deve10pment,and
use thereof, upon his determination that such use or uses in the'
speeific area will better serve the interests of the United States
and the people thereof than will its denial; and (2) the grazing
of livestock, where established prior to the effeetive date of
this Act, shall be permitted to continue subjeet to such reasonable
regulations as are deemed necessary by the Secretary of Agriculture.

(5) Other provisions of this Act to the contrary notwithstanding, 'the
management of the Boundary Waters Canoe 'Area; formerly designated as
the Superior, Little Indian Sioux, and Caribou Road1ess Areas, in the
Superior National Forest, Minnesota, shall be in accordance with
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regulations established by the Secretary of Agrieu1ture in aceordance
with the general purpose of maintaining, without unnecessary restrietions
on other uses, including that of timber, the primitive' charaeter of the
area, particularly in the vicinity of lakes, streams, and portages:
Provided, That nothing in this Act sha11'pree1ude the continuance
within the area of any already established use of motorboats.