PUBLIC LAW 96-476—OCT. 19, 1980
94 STAT. 2271
Public Law 96-476 96th Congress An Act To establish the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area and Wilderness in the State of Montana.
Oct. 19, 1980 [S. 3072]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may be Rattlesnake cited as the "Rattlesnake National Recreation Area and Wilderness National Area Recreation Act of 1980". and Wilderness STATEMENT OF FINDINGS AND POLICY
SECTION 1.
(a) The Congress finds that— (1) certain lands on the Lolo National Forest in Montana have high value for watershed, water storage, wildlife habitat, primitive recreation, historical, scientific, ecological, and educational purposes. This national forest area has long been used as a wilderness by Montanans and by people throughout the Nation who value it as a source of solitude, wildlife, clean, free-flowing waters stored and used for municipal purposes for over a century, and primitive recreation, to include such activities as hiking, camping, backpacking, hunting, fishing, horse riding, and bicycling; and (2) certain other lands on the Lolo National Forest, while not predominantly of wilderness quality, have high value for municipal watershed, recreation, wildlife habitat, and ecological and educational purposes. 03) Therefore, it is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress that, to further the purposes of the Wilderness Act of 1964 (16 U.S.C. 1131) and the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 1600), the people of the Nation and Montana would best be served by national recreation area designation of the Rattlesnake area to include the permanent preservation of certain of these lands under established statutory designation as wilderness, and to promote the watershed, recreational, wildlife, and educational values of the remainder of these lands.
Act of 1980. 16 USC 460/Z note. 16 USC 460ZZ.
DESIGNATION AND MANAGEMENT OF RATTLESNAKE WILDERNESS AREA
SEC. 2. (a) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890; 16 U.S.C. 1131), certain lands within the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area as designated by this Act, which comprise approximately 33,000 acres as generally depicted as the "Rattlesnake Wilderness" on a map entitled "Rattlesnake National Recreation Area and Wilderness—Proposed", and dated October 1, 1980, are hereby designated as wilderness and shall be known as the Rattlesnake Wilderness. (b) Subject to valid existing rights, the Rattlesnake Wilderness as designated by this Act shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture, hereafter referred to as the Secretary, in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas designated
79-194 O—81—pt. 2
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16 USC 460//-1, 1132 note.
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