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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1986

100 STAT. 3322

PUBLIC LAW 99-584—OCT. 29, 1986

Public Law 99-584 99th Congress An Act Oct. 29, 1986 [H.R. 4685] Texas Wilderness Act Amendments of 1986.

To adjust the boundaries of areas of the National Wilderness Preservation System in the State of Texas.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act shall be known as the "Texas Wilderness Act Amendments of 1986". SEC. 2. BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.

16 USC 1132 note. National Forest System.

(a) BOUNDARIES.—The boundaries of the wilderness areas designated by the Texas Wilderness Act are modified as shown on the maps entitled "Texas Wilderness Boundary Changes", numbered 1-5, dated October 1986. (b) ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS.—Subject to valid existing rights, lands designated as wilderness by subsection (a) shall be included within the national forest system and administered in accordance with the laws and regulations applicable to national forest wilderness areas, including the provisions of the Wilderness Act (16 U.S.C. 1131-1136) and the Texas Wilderness Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-574). In areas added to the national wilderness system by this Act, the grazing of livestock, where established prior to the date of enactment of this Act, shall be permitted to continue subject to such reasonable regulations as are deemed necessary by the Secretary of Agriculture. SEC. 3. MAPS AND BOUNDARIES.

Public information.

As soon as practicable after enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map and legal descriptions of each wilderness area affected by this Act, incorporating the boundary modifications referred to in section 2(a) of this Act, with the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Committee on Agriculture of the United States House of Representatives and with the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the United States Senate.