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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · H.R. 996 (Introduced in House) — To designate certain National Forest System lands and certain public lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of... · Sec. 109

Sec. 109. Administration

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Subject to valid existing rights, land designated as wilderness by this title shall be administered in accordance with the Wilderness Act ( 16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq. ) by the Secretary concerned, except that— any reference in the Wilderness Act to the effective date of the Wilderness Act or any similar reference shall be deemed to be a reference to the date of the enactment of this Act; any reference in the Wilderness Act to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be considered to be a reference to Secretary concerned; and the Secretaries shall, to the greatest extent possible, coordinate the management of those wilderness areas containing land administered by more than one Federal land management agency.
As soon as practicable after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary concerned shall file a map and legal description of the land designated as wilderness by this title with— the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate; and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives. Each map and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act, except that the Secretary concerned may correct clerical and typographical errors in the maps and legal descriptions.
Each map and legal description filed under subsection
(a)shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, the Office of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, or the Office of the Director of the National Park Service, as appropriate.
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