Sec. 102. Management of Conservation Area
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The Secretary shall allow only such uses of the Conservation Area as the Secretary determines would further the purposes of the Conservation Area. Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall develop a comprehensive management plan for the long-term protection and management of the Conservation Area. The Management Plan shall— describe the appropriate uses and management of the Conservation Area; be developed with extensive public input; and take into consideration any information developed in studies of the land within the Conservation Area.
Commercial services (including authorized outfitting and guide activities) within the Conservation Area may be authorized to the extent necessary for activities that fulfill the recreational or other purposes of the Conservation Area. Except as needed for emergency response or administrative purposes, the use of motorized vehicles in the Conservation Area shall be permitted only on roads and motorized routes designated in the Management Plan for the use of motorized vehicles.
No additional roads or motorized vehicle routes shall be built within the Conservation Area after the date of enactment of this Act. The grazing of livestock in the Conservation Area, if established before the date of enactment of this Act, shall be allowed to continue, subject to such reasonable regulations, policies, and practices as the Secretary considers to be necessary in accordance with— applicable law (including regulations); the guidelines set forth in Appendix A of the report of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives accompanying H.R. 2570 of the 101st Congress (House Report 101–405); and the purposes of the Conservation Area.
Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary, in collaboration with any affected grazing permittee, shall— carry out an inventory of facilities and improvements associated with grazing activities in the Conservation Area; and incorporate into the Management Plan a list of any facilities and improvements inventoried under subparagraph (A). The Secretary shall manage the Conservation Area in a manner that ensures the preservation of Cold War sites, including the Morrison Knudson tunnels, various Department of Defense projects sites, and hundreds of historical uranium mine sites in the Conservation Area.
In this subsection, the term casual collection means the collection of common invertebrate and plant paleontological resources or rocks and minerals— by— surface collection; or the use of nonpowered hand tools; for noncommercial personal use of a reasonable quantity, as determined by the Secretary; and that results in negligible disturbance, as determined by the Secretary, of— the surface of the Earth; and other resources. The term casual collection includes the hobby collecting of rocks, subject to the discretion of the Secretary.
The Secretary may allow casual collection in the Conservation Area if the casual collection is consistent with— the recreational or other purposes of the Conservation Area, as determined by the Secretary; and the Management Plan. Nothing in this section prohibits the Secretary, in cooperation with other Federal, State, and local agencies, as appropriate, from conducting wildland fire operations in the Conservation Area, consistent with the purposes of the Conservation Area. Any land or interest in land located within the boundary of the Conservation Area that is acquired by the United States after the date of enactment of this Act shall— become part of the Conservation Area; and be managed as provided in this section.
Subject to valid existing rights, all public land within the Conservation Area, including any land or interest in land that is acquired by the United States within the Conservation Area after the date of enactment of this Act, is withdrawn from— entry, appropriation or disposal under the public land laws; location, entry, and patent under the mining laws; and operation of the mineral leasing, mineral materials, and geothermal leasing laws. Nothing in this Act— diminishes the authority of the Secretary under Public Law 92–195 (commonly known as the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act ) ( 16 U.S.C. 1331 et seq.); or alters, diminishes, or influences the settlement agreement entered into on January 13, 2017, in the case in the United States District Court for the District of Utah styled Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, et al. v.
U.S. Department of the Interior, et al. and numbered 2:12–cv–257 DAK.
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