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<br />OOu8H <br /> <br />PU8L1C Lt1.'\N 94-579 <br />Oct. 21, 1976 90 Stat. 2785 <br />Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Study <br /> <br />Sec. 603. (a) Within fifteen years titter the dale or approval ollhis Act, <br />the Secretary shall review those road less areas of live thousand acres <br />or more and roadless ISl.Jnds at the pubhc lands. identified durrn'g the <br />inventory required by section 201(<'1) at this Act JS haVing wilderness <br />charactenstics described In the Wilderness Ac! of SeplemtJer 3. 1964 <br />(78 Slat. 890: 16 U.S C. 1131 et seq.) and shall from time to lime report <br />10 the President hiS recommendation as to the sudabdlly or nonsuil,Jb.l. <br />Ity 01 each such area or island lor preservation as wilderness: PlOvided, <br />ThaI prior to any recommendations lor the deSignation or an area as <br />wilderness the Secrelary shall cause mInerai surveys to ce conducted <br />by fhe Geologic<J1 Survey and the Bureau at Mines to cerermine the <br />mineral values, II any, th.Jt may be present In such areas. PrOVIded <br />further. "That the Secretary shaH report to the PreSident b'l July 1. 1980. <br />his recommendations en those areas which the Secretary has rmor 10 <br />November I. 1975. formally IdentIfied as natural or pnmi!lve are.:JS. The <br />review required by ThiS subsection shall be conducted In accordance <br />wllh the procedure speCIfied In section 3(d) 01 the Wilderness Act <br />(b) "The PfeSldent shall ad\llsc \he Presidenl 01 tt'.e Senate and lhc. <br />Speaker 01 the House of RepresenWtives 01 his fecommendat~ons with <br />respect to deSignation as wilderness of each area, together w:th.J map <br />thereof and a dellnition 01 its boundaries Such Jdvice by the PreSldenl <br />shall be given within two years 01 the re.celpt 01 each repert from the _ <br />Secretary A fecommendullon ot Ihe Pres\def'l\ for des\gnal:on as wil. <br />derness stlall become erlectlve only II so prOVided by an Act 01 Con. <br />gress. <br />(c) During fhe period of review of such areas and 'Jnlir ConGress has <br />determined otherwise, the Secret<lry shall continue to manage such <br />lands accofdlng to his aul!"',of\t'l under ~his ACI and other aprJhcable law <br />in a manner so as nof 10 impair the SUitability 01 such are<l5 lor p~eserva. <br />fion as wrlderness, sUblect, however, fa the con!lnuallon of eXisting <br />mining and grazing uses .1nd mineral leaSing in ,roe manner .1nd degree <br />in which the same was beHlg conducted on the da!e of acproval 01 this <br />Acl: PrOVIded, "Thai. in managing Ihe pub:ic lands the Secre\;:lry shall by <br />regulation or olherwlse take (Jny action reqUired to prevent unneces- <br />sary or undue degradation o/Ole l<'Inds and their resources or 10 allord <br />environmental prOlectlon. Unless prevIously w;thdrc;\'m from :Jppropria- <br />lion under Ihe mining laws. such lands Shall conllnue to be subject to <br />such aJ:'propriation during the period 01 review un~ess wilhdrawn by lhe <br />Secretary under the procedures of scctJon 204 of thiS Act lor reasons <br />other than preservallon of Ihelr wilderness character. Once an area has <br />been designated for preservation as wilderness. thp. prov1s;ons of the <br />Wilderness ~.cl which apply to national lorest wilderness areas shall <br />apply with respecl to the administrallOn and use 01 such deslgnaled <br />area. including minerai surveys reqUired by sectIOn 4(d) (2) of the WII- <br />demess Act. and minerai development. access, exchange 01 lands. <br />and ingress and egress lor mining claimanrs and occupants. <br /> <br />ReView; report 10 <br />PreSident. <br />43 use 1782. <br /> <br />Report to President. <br /> <br />Rccornmef'dalions <br />to President of the <br />SenBle and Speaker <br />of the House. <br /> <br />Regulalion. <br /> <br />Anle. p. 2751. <br /> <br />16 use 1131 nole. <br /> <br />16 use 1133. <br /> <br />Figure 3 <br />