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PUBLIC LAW 96-000—MMMM. DD, 1980

94 STAT. 3270

16 USC 1132 ^°^16 USC 1132.

16 USC 1131 note.

PUBLIC LAW 96-560—DEC. 22, 1980

including timber harvest, tourism, grazing, energy, water, mineral, and other commercial activities; (5) the need for additional mineral exploration in such area; and (6) the suitability and desirability of permanent or temporary road or other mechanized access into the study area, with special attention to access by the elderly and the handicapped. (c) Subject to valid existing rights, the study areas designated by subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall, until Congress determines otherwise, be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture so as to maintain their presently existing wilderness character and potential for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System: Provided, That with respect to grazing of livestock and oil, gas, or mineral • exploration and development activities, such study areas shall be administered according to the laws generally applicable to the National Forest System. SEC. 106. (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 area: (1) the Oh-Be-Joyful Wilderness Study Area, consisting of approximately five thousand five hundred acres in the Gunnison National Forest, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Oh-BeJoyful Wilderness Study Area—Proposed", dated November 1980. (b) Subject to valid existing rights, the Oh-Be-Joyful Wilderness Study Area shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture so as to maintain its presently existing wilderness character and potential for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System: Provided, That such management requirement shall not extend beyond a period of two years from the date of submission to Congress of the President's recommendation that such area be designated as wilderness, or beyond the date of submission to Congress of the President's recommendation that such area not be designated as wilderness: Provided further. That, with respect to oil, gas and mineral exploration and development operations in such study area, the terms of the Wilderness Act of 1964 shall apply. SEC. 107. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) the Department of Agriculture has completed the second Roadless Area Review and Evaluation program (RARE II); and (2) the Congress has made its own review and examination of National Forest System roadless areas in the State of Colorado and of the environmental impacts associated with alternative allocations of such areas. (b) On the basis of such review, the Congress hereby determines and directs that— (1) without passing on the question of the legal and factual sufficiency of the RARE II Final Environmental Statement (dated January 1979) with respect to National Forest System lands in States other than Colorado, such statement shall not be subject to judicial review with respect to National Forest System lands in the State of Colorado; (2) with respect to the National Forest System lands in the State of Colorado which were reviewed by the Department of Agriculture in the second Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE II), except those lands remaining in further planning