Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 16
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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Chapter 23 - Notes
Sec.
1131. National Wilderness Preservation System.
(a) Establishment; Congressional declaration of
policy; wilderness areas; administration for
public use and enjoyment, protection,
preservation, and gathering and dissemination
of information; provisions for designation as
wilderness areas.
(b) Management of area included in System;
appropriations.
(c) "Wilderness" defined.
1132. Extent of System.
(a) Designation of wilderness areas; filing of maps
and descriptions with Congressional
committees; correction of errors; public
records; availability of records in regional
offices.
(b) Review by Secretary of Agriculture of
classifications as primitive areas;
Presidential recommendations to Congress;
approval of Congress; size of primitive areas;
Gore Range-Eagles Nest Primitive Area,
Colorado.
(c) Review by Secretary of the Interior of roadless
areas of national park system and national
wildlife refuges and game ranges and
suitability of areas for preservation as
wilderness; authority of Secretary of the
Interior to maintain roadless areas in
national park system unaffected.
(d) Conditions precedent to administrative
recommendations of suitability of areas for
preservation as wilderness; publication in
Federal Register; public hearings; views of
State, county, and Federal officials;
submission of views to Congress.
(e) Modification or adjustment of boundaries;
public notice and hearings; administrative and
executive recommendations to Congress;
approval of Congress.
1133. Use of wilderness areas.
(a) Purposes of national forest, national park
system, and national wildlife refuge system;
other provisions applicable to national
forests, Superior National Forest, and
national park system.
(b) Agency responsibility for preservation and
administration to preserve wilderness
character; public purposes of wilderness
areas.
(c) Prohibition provisions: commercial enterprise,
permanent or temporary roads, mechanical
transports, and structures or installations;
exceptions: area administration and personal
health and safety emergencies.
(d) Special provisions.
1134. State and private lands within wilderness areas.
(a) Access; exchange of lands; mineral interests
restriction.
(b) Customary means for ingress and egress to
wilderness areas subject to mining claims or
other occupancies.
(c) Acquisition of lands.
1135. Gifts, bequests, and contributions.
(a) Acceptance by Secretary of Agriculture of land
for preservation as wilderness; regulations.
(b) Authorization to accept private contributions
and gifts.
1136. Annual reports to Congress.
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CHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This chapter is referred to in sections 90e, 90e-2, 273d, 410aaa,
410aaa-21, 410aaa-41, 410aaa-75, 410aaa-82, 410fff-2, 410fff-6,
410hhh-3, 410hhh-5, 460aa-1, 460dd-8, 460gg-1, 460ll, 460ll-1,
460oo, 460uu-31, 460uu-32, 460uu-47, 460vv-1, 460vv-3, 460bbb-3,
460ggg, 460mmm-4, 460nnn-25, 460nnn-62, 460nnn-72, 460ppp-6,
539m-2, 539m-3, 545b, 1281, 3102, 3150, 3199, 3203 of this title;
title 42 section 12207; title 43 sections 1782, 1784, 2302.
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