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<br />_. ~...-. ~.~._. <br /> <br />.... ,r <br /> <br />'1"--( .p" . r <br /> <br />OC':;794 <br /> <br />with agency decisions and has upheld the intent of these <br />citizen requests. <br /> <br />PL 94-557, an omnibus Wilderness Act, added 16 <br />wildlife refuge areas and 3 national forest areas to the <br />National Wilderness Preservation System. One of these latter <br />was a noninventoried road less area and one a nonseJected <br />road less area. Within. national forest boundaries, the act also <br />designated 8 new wilderness study areas, 4 of which were <br />noninventoried, 2 and part of a third of which were non- <br />selected road less areas. <br /> <br />PL 94-567, an omnibus Wilderness Act, added 13 <br />national park areas to the National Wilderness Preservation <br />System, revised boundaries of 3 existing wilderness areas, <br />and created 1 wilderness study area from Forest Service <br />non inventoried and nonselected roadless areas. <br /> <br />S 393, the Montana Wilderness Study Areas Bill, which <br />passed only the Senate in the 94th Congress, designated 10 <br />new wilderness study areas on national forests. With the <br />exception of portions of 3 of them, the study areas were <br />nonselected road less areas. (See Senate Report 94-1027.) <br />This bill has been reintroduced to the 95th Congress under <br />the same number. <br /> <br />S 3630, the proposed Endangered American Wilderness <br />Bill, introduced in the Senate late in the 94th Congress, <br />called for 9 "instant" wilderness areas and 6 wilderness <br />study areas, all or part of each of the 15 areas being Forest <br />Service noninventoried or nonselected roadless areas. A <br />nearly identical "Endangered Bill" was introduced in the <br />House by Congressman Udall (H 14S24), but did not pass. <br />A revised version of H 14524 has been reintroduced in the <br />95th Congress as HR 3454. <br /> <br />S 1384, the Oregon Omnibus Wilderness Areas Bill, <br />called for "instant" wilderness classification of 14 areas, <br />4 of them Forest Service nonseJected road less areas. This <br />bill has been reintroduced to the 95th Congress but has <br />been revised to focus entirely on nonselected roadless areas. <br /> <br />7 While I have strongly supported wilderness and wild <br />river additions, I'm equally proud of my support for across- <br />the-board improvements in resource management - the <br /> <br />16 <br />