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PUBLIC LAW 100-000—MMMM. DD, 1988

PUBLIC LAW 100-668—NOV. 16, 1988

102 STAT. 3967

have been acquired, shall thereby be designated sis wilderness and managed accordingly. (3) Congress does not intend that wilderness areas designated under this Act lead to the creation of protective perimeters or buffer zones around such wilderness areas. The fact that nonwilderness activities or uses can be seen or heard from areas within the wilderness shall not, of itself, preclude such activities or uses up to the boundary of the wilderness area. (b) MAP AND DESCRIPTION.—(1) As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior shall file maps of the wilderness areas and legal descriptions of its boundaries with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate, and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States House of Representatives. Such maps and legal descriptions shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act, except that correction of clerical and typographical errors in the maps and legal descriptions may be made. Such maps and Public legal descriptions of the boundaries shall be on file and available for information. public inspection in the office of the Director of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, and in the office of the appropriate Superintendent. (2) Boundaries adjacent to paved and unpaved roads shall be drawn as narrowly as is practicable to allow for necessary maintenance and repairs to existing roads. Such boundaries should not, in general, exceed two hundred feet from the centerline of paved roads and one hundred feet from the centerline of unpaved roads: Provided, however, That larger boundaries may be drawn only as the Secretary deems necessary to exclude from the wilderness existing developments, improvements, and structures adjacent to existing roads, as well as areas needed to maintain and repair existing roads: Provided further. That to the extent practicable, undeveloped areas adjacent to all roads shall be managed as if designated as wilderness.

TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SEC. 501. WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS.

Section 3(a), paragraph (60), of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, which designates the Klickitat River in the State of Washington as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, is amended to add the following sentence at the end of the pars^raph: "The boundaries of the designated portions of the Klickitat River shall be as generally depicted on a map dated November, 1987, and entitled 'Klickitat National Recreation River, River Management Area: Final Boundary', which is on file in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Washington, District of Columbia.".

16 USC 1274. District of Columbia. 16 USC 1274.