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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1980

94 STAT. 3268

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PUBLIC LAW 96-560—DEC. 22, 1980

Wilderness Additions—Proposed", dated October 1979, and which are hereby incorporated in and shall be deemed to be a part of the Weminuche Wilderness as designated by Public Law 93-632; and (20) certain lands in the Gunnison National Forest, Colorado, which comprise approximately one hundred and thirty-three thousand acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "West Elk Wilderness Additions—Proposed", dated November 1980, and which are hereby incorporated in and shall be deemed to be a part of the West Elk Wilderness as designated by Public Law 88-577. 0)) The previous classifications of the Uncompahgre Primitive Area and the Wilson Mountains Primitive Area are hereby abolished. SEC. 103. In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act, the following lands are hereby designated as wilderness and, therefore, as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: certain lands in the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota, which comprise approximately ten thousand seven hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Black Elk Wilderness—Proposed", dated October 1979, and shall be known as the Black Elk Wilderness: Provided, That the provisions of the Act establishing the Custer State Park Sanctuary (41 Stat. 986) and the later named Norbeck Wildlife Preserve (63 Stat. 708) shall also apply to the Black Elk Wilderness to ^j^g extent they are not inconsistent with the provisions of the Wilderness Act. SEC. 104. (a) As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the Secretary of Agriculture shall file the maps referred to in this title and legal descriptions of each wilderness area designated by this title with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, and each such map and legal 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 descriptions and maps may be made. Each such map and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, (b) Subject to valid existing rights, each wilderness area designated by this title shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 892) governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness areas, except that, with respect to any area designated in this Act, any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act of 1964 shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this Act. SEC. 105. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall review and within three years after the date of enactment of this Act, shall report to the President and the Congress in accordance with subsections 3(c) and 3(d) of the Wilderness Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 892), his recommendations on the suitability or unsuitability for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System of the following lands: (1) the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness Study Area, consisting of approximately fifty-six thousand nine hundred acres in the San Isabel National Forest, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Buffalo Peaks Wilderness Study Area Proposal", dated June 1980; (2) the Fossil Ridge Wilderness Study Area, consisting of approximately fifty-four thousand seven hundred acres in the Gunnison National Forest, as generally depicted on a map