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PUBLIC LAW 94-000—MMMM. DD, 1976

90 STAT. 870

PUBLIC LAW 94-352—JULY 12, 1976

Public Law 94-352 94th Congress An Act July 12, 1976 [S. 268] Eagles Nest Wilderness, Colo. Designation. 16 USC 1132 note.

Map and description, filing with congressional committees. 16 USC 1132 note. Administration. 16 USC 1132 note. 16 USC 1131 note. 16 USC 1132 note.

To designate the Eagles Nest Wilderness, Arapaho and White River National Forests, in the State of Colorado.

Be it enacted ty the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of ATuerica in Congress assembled, That, in accordance with subsection 3(b) of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 891; 16 U.S.C. 1132(b)), the area classified as the Gore Range-Eagles Nest Primitive Area, with the proposed additions thereto and deletions therefrom, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Eagles Nest Wilderness—Proposed", dated June 1976, which is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, is hereby designated as the "Eagles Nest Wilderness" within and as part of the Arapaho and White River National Forests comprising an area of approximately one hundred thirty-three thousand nine hundred ten acres. SEC. 2. As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description of the Eagles Nest Wilderness with the Committees on Interior and Insular Affairs of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, and such map and description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, however, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in such map and description may be made. SEC. 3. The Eagles Nest Wilderness shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness areas, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this Act. SEC. 4. The previous classification of the Gore Range-Eagles Nest Primitive Area is hereby abolished. Approved July 12, 1976.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 94-939 accompanying H.R. 3863 (Gomm. on Interior and Insular Affairs) and No. 94-1308 (Comm. of eonference). SENATE REPORT No. 94-172 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 121 (1975): June 5, considered and passed Senate. Vol. 122 (1976): Apr. 6, considered and passed House, amended, in lieu of H.R. 3863.

... June 29, House agreed to conference report. , June 30, Senate agreed to conference report.