PUBLIC LAW 100-225—DEC. 31, 1987
101 STAT. 1543
long as such regulations, policies, and practices fully conform with and implement the intent of Congress regarding grazing in such areeis as such intent is expressed in the Wilderness Act and section 108 of Public Law 96-560 (16 U.S.C. 1133 note). TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS MANAGEMENT PLANS
SEC. 501. (a) Within three full fiscal years following the fiscal year National of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall develop and transmit to Wilderness the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States Preservation System. House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natu- 16 USC ral Resources of the United States Senate, separate general manage- 460UU-41. ment plans for the monument and the conservation area which shall describe the appropriate uses and development of the monument and the conservation area consistent with the purposes of this Act. The plans shall include but not be limited to each of the following: (1) implementation plans for a continuing program of interpretation and public education about the resources and values of the monument and the conservation area; (2) proposals for public facilities to be developed for the conservation area or the monument, including a visitors center in the vicinity of Bandera Crater and a multiagency orientation center, to be located in or near Grants, New Mexico, and adjacent to Interstate 40, to accommodate visitors to western New Mexico; (3) natural and cultural resources management plans for the monument and the conservation area, with a particular emphasis on the preservation and long-term scientific use of archeological resources, giving high priority to the enforcement of the provisions of the Archeological Resources Protection Act of 1979 and the National Historic Preservation Act within the monument and the conservation area. The natural and cultural Indians. resources management plans shall be prepared in close consultation with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Office, and the local Indian people and their traditional cultural and religious authorities; and such plans shall provide for long-term scientific use of archaeological resources in the monument and the conservation area, including the wilderness areas designated by this Act; and (4) wildlife resources management plans for the monument Wildlife. and the conservation area prepared in close consultation with appropriate departments of the State of New Mexico and using previous studies of the area. (b)(1) The general management plan for the conservation area shall review and recommend the suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as wilderness of those lands comprising approximately 17,468 acres, identified as "Wilderness Study Area" (hereafter in this title referred to as the "WSA") on the map referenced in section 101. (2) Pending submission of a recommendation and until otherwise directed by an Act of Congress, the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, shall manage the
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