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<br />000820 <br /> <br />. property, it is my opinion that any legal oplnlon is best given after <br />.app1ying each separate factual situation to th~ criteria of section 603. <br /> <br />V,. GENCRI\L [Freer Or SEerJCl'l 603 (c) <br /> <br />.- . <br /> <br />It should be em9hasized that section 603(c) does not limit mining and <br />grazing activities to the precise level at which they were occurring <br />on October 21, 1976. It allows for an e~ansion or curtailment of <br />these type~ of activities so long as the ~ilderness characteristics <br />of the land under review are not impaired. <br /> <br />It should also be reer.rohasized that section 603' s restrictions are <br />interim only, until a road1ess area has been determined not to have <br />wilderness characteristics, or until Congress has provided otherwise. <br /> <br />In s~ary. Congress inten~ed mining and grazing activities to continue <br />on BL~~aQ~inistered lanJs included in a section 603 review, but subject <br />(except for existing mining and grazing activities conducted in the <br />same manner. and degree as were occurring on the date of the passage of <br />FLP/1A) to regulation so that they would not im?air an area's wilderness <br />characteristics. <br /> <br />FREDERICK N. FERGUSON <br />Frederick N. Ferguson <br /> <br />.12 <br /> <br />.. .... ~.. :.'~ . <br />