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[88 STAT. 2155]
PUBLIC LAW 93-000—MMMM. DD, 1975
[88 STAT. 2155]

88 STAT.

!155

PUBLIC LAW 93-632-JAN. 3, 1975

mately one hundred and six thousand nine hundred and ten acres, is generally depicted on a map entitled "Emigrant Wilderness— Proposed, 1970" on file in the Office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, and shall be known as the Emigrant Wilderness. The area commonly called the Cherry Creek exclusion, depicted on such map as Exclusion 2 and comprising approximately six thousand and forty-two acres, shall, in accordance with the provisions of subsection 3(d) of the Wilderness Act, be reviewed by the Secretary of Agriculture as to its suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as wilderness in conjunction with his review of the potential addition to the Hoover Wilderness in Toiyabe National Forest. The recommendations of the President to the Congress on the potential addition to the Hoover Wilderness shall be accompanied by the President's recommendations on the Cherry Creek exclusion. The previous classification of the Emigrant Basin Primitive Area is hereby abolished with the exception of said Exclusion 2. (c) The area classified as the San Juan and Upper Eio Grande Primitive Areas, with the proposed additions thereto and deletions therefrom, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Weminuche Wilderness—Proposed", dated December 1974, which is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, is hereby designated as the Weminuche Wilderness within and as part of the Eio Grande and San Juan National Forests comprising an area of approximately four hundred five thousand thirty-one acres. (d) The area in the Flathead National Forest in Montana classified as the Mission Mountains Primitive Area, with an addition thereto, which area comprises approximately seventy-five thousand five hundred and eighty-eight acres, is depicted on a map entitled "Mission Mountains Wilderness Area—Proposed", dated July 1974, and shall be known as the Mission Mountains Wilderness. ADMINISTRATIVE

Cherry Creek exclusion, review.

16 USC 1132.

Recommendations to C o n g r e s s,

Weminuche,

Mission Mountains,

PROVISIONS

SEC. 3. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, all primitive area classifications of areas herein designated wilderness are hereby abolished. SEC. 4. As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, a map and a legal description of each wilderness area shall be filed with the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, and such description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, however, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal description and map may be made. SEC. 5. Wilderness areas designated by this Act shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness areas, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this Act, and any references to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be deemed to be a reference to the Secretary Avho has administrative jurisdiction over the area. Approved January 3, 1975.

Certain primitive area c l a s s i f i cations, abolishment. Maps and des c r i p t i o n s, filing with c o n g r e s s i o n a l committees.

Administration,

16 USC 1131 note.