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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

PUBLIC LAW 98-428—SEPT. 28, 1984

98 STAT. 1659

Wilderness—Proposed", dated June 1984, and which shall be known as the Deseret Peak Wilderness. (b) The previous classifications are hereby abolished: the Mount Timpanogos Scenic Area and the High Uintas Primitive Area. SEC. 103. (a) As soon as practicable after the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall file the maps referred to in this Act and a legal description of each wilderness area designated by this Act with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives, and each such map and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, however, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal descriptions and maps may be made. Each such map and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. (b) Subject to valid existing rights, each wilderness area designated by this Act shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 892) governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness areas, except that, with respect to any area designated in this Act, any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act of 1964 shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this Act.

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16 USC 1131 note.

TITLE II—RELEASE OF LANDS FOR NONWILDERNESS USES SEC. 201. (a) The Congress finds that— Conservation. (1) the Department of Agriculture has completed the second roadless area review and evaluation program (RARE II); (2) the Congress has made its own review and examination of national forest system roadless areas in Utah and of 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 II final environmental statement (dated January 1979) with respect to national forest lands in States other than Utah, such statement shall not be subject to judicial review with respect to national forest system lands in the State of Utah; (2) with respect to the national forest system lands in the State of Utah which were reviewed by the Department of Agriculture in the second roadless area review and evaluation (RARE II) and those lands referred to in subsection (d), that review and evaluation or reference 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 of 1974, as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, to be an adequate consideration of the 16 USC 1600 suitability of such lands for inclusion in the National Wilder- note. ness Preservation System and the Department of Agriculture shall not be required to review the wilderness option prior to the revisions of the plans, but shall review the wilderness option when the plans are revised, which revisions will ordinarily occur on a ten-year cycle, or at least every fifteen years, unless,