PUBLIC LAW 98-585—OCT. 30, 1984
98 STAT. 3103
tion in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. EFFECT OF RARE II
SEC. 8. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) the Department of Agriculture has completed the second Conservation, roadless area review and evaluation program (RARE II); and (2) the Congress has made its own review and examination of National Forest System roadless areas in the State of Pennsylvania, 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 System lands in States other than Pennsylvania, such statement shall not be subject to judicial review with respect to National Forest System lands in the State of Pennsylvania; (2) with respect to the National Forest System lands in the State of Pennsylvania 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, prior to such time, the Secretary of Agriculture finds that conditions in a unit have significantly changed; (3) areas in the State of Pennsylvania reviewed in such final environmental statement or referenced in subsection (d) and not designated as wilderness or for special management under section 6 of this Act upon enactment of this Act shall be managed for multiple use in accordance with land management plans pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976: Provided, That such areas need 16 USC 1604. not be managed for the purpose of protecting their suitability for wilderness designation prior to or during revision of the initial land management plans; and (4) in the event that revised land management plans in the State of Pennsylvania are implemented pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, and other applicable law, areas not recommended for wilderness designation need not be managed for the purpose of protecting their suitability for wilderness designation prior to or during revision of such plans, and areas recommended for wilderness designation shall be managed for the purpose of protecting their suitability for wilderness designation as may be
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