Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 107 Part 1.djvu/785

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PUBLIC LAW 103-77 —AUG. 13, 1993 107 STAT. 759 ral Resources of the United States House of Representatives. Each map and description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act, except that the appropriate Secretary is authorized to correct clerical and typographical errors in such boundary descriptions and maps. Such maps and boundary descriptions shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, and the Office of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, as appropriate. SEC. 3. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS. (a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Subject to valid existing rights, lands designated as wilderness by this Act shall be managed by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior, as appropriate, in accordance with the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) and this Act, except that, with respect to any wilderness areas designated by this Act, any reference in the Wilderness Act to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the date of enactment of this Act. (2) Administrative jurisdiction over those lands designated as wilderness pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (10) of section 2(a) of this Act, and which, as of the date of enactment of this Act, are administered by the Bureau of Land Management, is hereby transferred to the Forest Service and such lands are hereby added to the appropriate National Forest. (b) GRAZING. —Grazing of livestock in wilderness areas designated by this Act shall be administered in accordance with the provisions of section 4(d)(4) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(4)), as further interpreted by section 108 of Public Law 96-560, and, as regards wilderness managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the guidelines set forth in Appendix A of House Report 101-405 of the 101st Congress. (c) STATE JURISDICTION.— AS provided in section 4(d)(7) of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1133(d)(7)), nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting the jurisdiction or responsibilities of the State of Colorado with respect to wildlife and fish in Colorado. (d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.— Section 2(e) of the Endangered American Wilderness Act of 1978 (92 Stat. 41) is amended by 16 USC 1132 striking "Subject to" and all that follows through "System.". °^- (e) BUFFER ZoNES.Uongress does not intend that the designation by this Act of wilderness areas in the State of Colorado creates or implies the creation of protective perimeters or buffer zones around any wilderness area. The fact that nonwildemess activities or uses can be seen or heard from within a wilderness area shall not, of itself, preclude such activities or uses up to the boundary of the wilderness area. (0 WILDERNESS NAME CHANGE. — The wilderness area des- 16 USC 1132 ignated as "Big Blue Wilderness" by section 102(a)(1) of Public I^w 96-560, and the additions thereto made by paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 2(a) of this Act, shall hereafter be Known as the Uncompahgre Wilderness. Any reference to the Big Blue Wilderness in any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United States shall be considered to be a reference to the Uncompahgre Wilderness. (g) BOUNDARIES AND AUTHORIZATIONS TO USE LANDS.—(1) For the purpose of section 7 of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 (16 U.S.C. 4601-9), the boundaries of affected note.