96 STAT. 1942
PUBLIC LAW 97-384—DEC. 22, 1982
Public Law 97-384 97th Congress
An Act Dec. 22, 1982 [S. 2710]
To establish the Charles C. Deam Wilderness in the Hoosier National Forest, Indiana
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Charles C. Deam United States of America in Congress assembled, That in furtherWilderness, ance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890; 16 U.S.C. Hoosier 1131), certain lands within the Hoosier National Forest, Indiana, National which comprise approximately twelve thousand nine hundred and Forest, Ind. Establishment. fifty-three acres as generally depicted on a map entitled "Charles C. 16 USC 1132 Deam Wilderness—Proposed", dated April 30, 1982, are hereby note. des^ated as wilderness, and therefore as a component of the national wilderness system, and shall be known as the Charles C. Deam Wilderness. SEC. 2. Subject to valid existing rights, the Charles C. Deam Wilderness as 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 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. Access to land. SEC. 3. Nothing in tlus Act shall affect the right of public access to cemeteries located within the Charles C. Desim Wilderness, including the Terril Cemetery. The right of access to privately-owned land completely surrounded by national forest lands within the area, designated by this Act as wilderness and to valid occupancies wholly within the area designated by this Act as wilderness shall be protected in accordance with the provisions of section 5 of the 16 USC 1134. Wilderness Act. Review. SEC. 4. (a) 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 roadless areas in Indiana and the environmental impacts associated with alternative allocations of such areas. (b) On the basis of such review, the Congress hereby determines and directs that— (1) without passing on the question of the legal and factual sufficiency of the RARE 11 final environmental statement (dated January 1979) with respect to national forest lands in States other than Indiana, such statement shall not be subject to judicial review with respect to national forest system lands in the State of Indiana; (2) with respect to the national forest lands in the State of Indiana which were reviewed by the Department of Agriculture in the second roadless area review and evaluation (RARE II), that review and evaluation shall be deemed for the purposes of the initial land management plans required for such lands by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act 16 USC 1600 of 1974 as amended by the National Forest Management Act of
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