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[82 STAT. 930]
PUBLIC LAW 90-000—MMMM. DD, 1968
[82 STAT. 930]

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49 Stat. 863. Appropriation.

defnes^r^" ^'^ Designation. 16 us^c f m note.

PUBLIC LAW 90-544-OCT. 2, 1968

[82 STAT.

SEC. 504. Within two years from the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall agree on the designation of areas within the park or recreation areas or within national forests adjacent to the park and recreation areas needed for public use facilities and for administrative purposes by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Interior, respectively. The areas so designated shall be administered in a manner that is mutually agreeable to the two Secretaries, and such public use facilities, including interpretive centers, visitor contact stations, lodges, campsites, and ski lifts, shall be constructed according to a plan agreed upon by the two Secretaries. SEC. 505. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to supersede, repeal, modify, or impair the jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission under the Federal Power Act (41 Stat. 1063), as amended (16 U.S.C. 79^^ et scq.), iu the recreation areas. gj,^, ^QQ There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, but not more than $3,500,000 shall be appropriated for the acquisition of lands or interest in lands. TITLE VI—WILDERNESS

^^^' ^^^- (^) ^^ Order to further the purposes of the Wilderness Act, there is hereby designated, subject to valid existing rights, the Pasayten Wilderness within and as a part of the Okanogan National Forest and the Mount Baker National Forest, comprising an area of about five hundred thousand acres lying east of Ross Lake, as generally depicted in the area designated a.s "Pasayten Wilderness" on the map referred to in section 101 of this Act. (b) The previous classification of the North Cascades Primitive Area is hereby abolished. wi^demess^^^ ^^^* ^^* '^^^^ bouudaries of the Glacier Peak Wilderness, an area boundTry^exten- classified as such more than thirty days before the effective date of the sionWilderness Act and being within and a part of the Wenatchee National Forest and the Mount Baker National Forest, subject to valid existing rights, are hereby extended to include portions of the Suiattle River corridor and the White Chuck River corridor on the western side thereof, comprising areas totaling about ten thousand acres, as depicted in the area designated as "Additions to Glacier Peak Wilderness" on the map referred to in section 101 of this Act. de'^cnT^ ^^frl SEC. 603. (a) As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the wirh"ongre's-' '"^ Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map and legal description of the sionai committees. Pasayteu Wildcmess and of the Glacier Peak Wilderness, as hereby modified, with the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, and such descriptions shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, however, That correction of clerical or typographical errors in such legal descriptions and maps may be made. (b) Upon the filing of the legal descriptions and maps as provided for in subsection (a) of this section the Pasavten Wilderness and the additions to the Glacier Peak Wilderness shaft be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act and thereafter shall be subject to the provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness areas, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this Act.