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16 U.S.C. § 539i — Fossil Ridge Recreation Management Area
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**(a) Establishment**
(1) In order to conserve, protect, and enhance the scenic, wildlife, recreational, and other natural resource values of the Fossil Ridge area, there is hereby established the Fossil Ridge Recreation Management Area (hereinafter referred to as the “recreation management area”).
(2) The recreation management area shall consist of certain lands in the Gunnison National Forest, Colorado, which comprise approximately 43,900 acres, as generally depicted as “Area A” on a map entitled “Fossil Ridge Wilderness Proposal”, dated January, 1993.
**(b) Administration** The Secretary of Agriculture shall administer the recreation management area in accordance with this section and the laws and regulations generally applicable to the National Forest System.
**(c) Withdrawal** Subject to valid existing rights, all lands within the recreation management area are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and from disposition under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, including all amendments thereto.
**(d) Timber harvesting** No timber harvesting shall be allowed within the recreation management area except to the extent that would be permitted in wilderness under [section 1133(d)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1133/d/1&num=0&edition=prelim) for necessary control of fire, insects, and diseases, and for public safety.
**(e) Livestock grazing** The designation of the recreation management area shall not be construed to prohibit, or change the administration of, the grazing of livestock within the recreation management area.
**(f) Development** No developed campgrounds shall be constructe
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**(a) Establishment**
(1) In order to conserve, protect, and enhance the scenic, wildlife, recreational, and other natural resource values of the Fossil Ridge area, there is hereby established the Fossil Ridge Recreation Management Area (hereinafter referred to as the “recreation management area”).
(2) The recreation management area shall consist of certain lands in the Gunnison National Forest, Colorado, which comprise approximately 43,900 acres, as generally depicted as “Area A” on a map entitled “Fossil Ridge Wilderness Proposal”, dated January, 1993.
**(b) Administration** The Secretary of Agriculture shall administer the recreation management area in accordance with this section and the laws and regulations generally applicable to the National Forest System.
**(c) Withdrawal** Subject to valid existing rights, all lands within the recreation management area are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and from disposition under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, including all amendments thereto.
**(d) Timber harvesting** No timber harvesting shall be allowed within the recreation management area except to the extent that would be permitted in wilderness under [section 1133(d)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1133/d/1&num=0&edition=prelim) for necessary control of fire, insects, and diseases, and for public safety.
**(e) Livestock grazing** The designation of the recreation management area shall not be construed to prohibit, or change the administration of, the grazing of livestock within the recreation management area.
**(f) Development** No developed campgrounds shall be constructed within the recreation management area. After August 13, 1993, no new roads or trails may be constructed within the recreation management area.
**(g) Off-road recreation** Motorized travel shall be permitted within the recreation management area only on those established trails and routes existing as of July 1, 1991, on which such travel was permitted as of such date, except that other trails and routes may be used where necessary for administrative purposes or to respond to an emergency. No later than one year after August 13, 1993, the Secretary shall identify such routes and trails and shall prepare and make available to the public a map showing such routes and trails. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as precluding the Secretary from closing any trail or route from use for purposes of resource protection or public safety.
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**(a) Establishment**
(1) There is hereby established in the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado, the Bowen Gulch Protection Area (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the “protection area”).
(2) The protection area shall consist of certain lands in the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado, which comprise approximately 11,600 acres, as generally depicted as “Area A” on a map entitled “Bowen Gulch Additions to Never Summer Wilderness Proposal”, dated January, 1993.
**(b) Administration** The Secretary shall administer the protection area in accordance with this section and the laws and regulations generally applicable to the National Forest System.
**(c) Withdrawal** Subject to valid existing rights, all lands within the protection area are hereby withdrawn from all forms of entry, appropriation, or disposal under the public land laws, from location, entry, and patent under the mining laws, and from disposition under the mineral and geothermal leasing laws, including all amendments thereto.
**(d) Development** No developed campgrounds shall be constructed within the protection area. After August 13, 1993, no new roads or trails may be constructed within the protection area.
**(e) Timber harvesting** No timber harvesting shall be allowed within the protection area except to the extent that would be permitted in wilderness under [section 1133(d)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1133/d/1&num=0&edition=prelim) for necessary control of fire, insects, and diseases, and for public safety.
**(f) Motorized travel** Motorized travel shall be permitted within the protection area only on those designated trails and routes existing as of July 1, 1991, and only during periods of adequate snow cover. At all other times, m
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**(a) Designation of wilderness areas; filing of maps and descriptions with Congressional committees; correction of errors; public records; availability of records in regional offices** All areas within the national forests classified at least 30 days before September 3, 1964 by the Secretary of Agriculture or the Chief of the Forest Service as “wilderness”, “wild”, or “canoe” are hereby designated as wilderness areas. The Secretary of Agriculture shall—
(1) Within one year after September 3, 1964, file a map and legal description of each wilderness area with the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, and such descriptions shall have the same force and effect as if included in this chapter: Provided, however, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal descriptions and maps may be made.
(2) Maintain, available to the public, records pertaining to said wilderness areas, including maps and legal descriptions, copies of regulations governing them, copies of public notices of, and reports submitted to Congress regarding pending additions, eliminations, or modifications. Maps, legal descriptions, and regulations pertaining to wilderness areas within their respective jurisdictions also shall be available to the public in the offices of regional foresters, national forest supervisors, and forest rangers.
**(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** The Secretary of Agriculture shall, within ten years after September 3, 1964, review, as to its suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as wilderness, each area in th
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**(a) Establishment of Great Sand Dunes National Preserve**
(1) There is hereby established the Great Sand Dunes National Preserve in the State of Colorado, as generally depicted on the map, as a unit of the National Park System.
(2) Administrative jurisdiction of lands and interests therein administered by the Secretary of Agriculture within the boundaries of the preserve is transferred to the Secretary of the Interior, to be administered as part of the preserve. The Secretary of Agriculture shall modify the boundaries of the Rio Grande National Forest to exclude the transferred lands from the forest boundaries.
(3) Any lands within the preserve boundaries which were designated as wilderness prior to November 22, 2000, shall remain subject to the Wilderness Act ([16 U.S.C. 1131](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1131&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) and the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1993 (Public Law 103–767; [16 U.S.C. 539i](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section539i&num=0&edition=prelim) note).
**(b) Map and legal description**
(1) As soon as practicable after the establishment of the national park and the preserve, the Secretary shall file maps and a legal description of the national park and the preserve with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Resources of the House of Representatives.
(2) The map and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this subchapter, except that the Secretary may correct clerical and typographical errors in the legal description and maps.
(3) The map and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the appropriate offices of the National Park Service.
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**(a) In general** The Secretary shall administer the national park and the preserve in accordance with—
(1) this subchapter; and
(2) all laws generally applicable to units of the National Park System, including—
(A) the Act entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes”, approved August 25, 1916 ([16 U.S.C. 1](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1&num=0&edition=prelim), 2–4); 11 See References in Text note below. and
(B) the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the preservation of historic American sites, buildings, objects, and antiquities of national significance, and for other purposes”, approved August 21, 1935 ([16 U.S.C. 461](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section461&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.).1
**(b) Grazing**
(1) **Acquired State or private land** — With respect to former State or private land on which grazing is authorized to occur on November 22, 2000, and which is acquired for the national monument, or the national park and preserve, or the wildlife refuge, the Secretary, in consultation with the lessee, may permit the continuation of grazing on the land by the lessee at the time of acquisition, subject to applicable law (including regulations).
(2) **Federal land** — Where grazing is permitted on land that is Federal land as of November 22, 2000, and that is located within the boundaries of the national monument or the national park and preserve, the Secretary is authorized to permit the continuation of such grazing activities unless the Secretary determines that grazing would harm the resources or values of the national park or the preserve.
(3) **Termination of leases** — Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit the Secretary from
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 539j
entitled ‘Dennig Tract’, dated November 5, 1991 (herein-
after referred to as ‘the map’). The map, together with
a legal description of such lands, shall be on file and
available for public inspection in the offices of the For-
est Service, Department of Agriculture. The boundaries
of the Mark Twain National Forest are hereby modified
to include the area denoted ‘Dennig Property Outside
of National Forest Boundary’ on the map. Such map
and legal description shall have the same force and ef-
fect as if included in this Act, except that the correc-
tion of clerical and typographical errors in such map
and legal description may be made by the Secretary.
‘‘(b) Such modified boundaries shall be considered as
the boundaries in existence as of January 1, 1965, for
the purposes of section 100506 of title 54, United States
Code.
‘‘SEC. 3. ELEVEN POINT WILD AND SCENIC RIVER.
‘‘The Secretary shall manage the lands, waters, and
interests therein within the area referred to on the map
as ‘The Eleven Point Wild and Scenic Corridor’ (herein-
after referred to as ‘the corridor’), pursuant to the pro-
visions of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C.
1271–1287). Lands acquired pursuant to section 2 of this
Act within the corridor shall not be counted against
the average one-hundred-acre-per-mile fee limitation of
Section 6(a)(1) of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act [16
U.S.C. 1277(a)(1)], nor shall such lands outside the cor-
ridor be subject to the provisions of Section 6(a)(2) of
the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
‘‘SEC. 5. APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such
sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of
this Act.’’
[Pub. L. 113–287, § 5(d)(13), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3265,
which dire
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