PUBLIC LAW 101-401—SEPT. 28, 1990 104 STAT. 863 Public Law 101-401 101st Congress An Act To designate certain lands in the State of Maine as wilderness. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the "Maine Wilderness Act of 1990". SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS. In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131-1136), certain lands in the White Mountain National Forest, in the State of Maine— (1) which comprise approximately twelve thousand acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Caribou-Speckled Mountain Wilderness—Proposed", dated January 1987; and (2) which shall be known as the Caribou-Speckled Mountain Wilderness, are hereby designated wilderness, and, therefore, as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System. SEC. 3. MAPS AND DESCRIPTIONS. As soon as practicable after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description of the wilderness area designated by this Act with the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture of the United States House of Representatives and with the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the United States Senate. The map and description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act, except that correction of clerical and typographical errors in such map and description may be made by the Secretary. The map and description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS. Subject to valid existing rights, the wilderness area designated by this Act shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness, except that any ref- erence in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 5. WILDERNESS REVIEW CONCERNS. (a) FINDINGS. —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 Maine section of Sept. 28, 1990 [S. 2205] Maine Wilderness Act of 1990. Environmental protection. National Wilderness Preservation System. National Forest System. 16 USC 1132 note. 49-139 O - 90 (401) 39-194O-91-29:QL3Part
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