PUBLIC LAW 96-550—DEC. 19, 1980
94 STAT. 3223
(b) The previous classifications of the Black Range Primitive Area, the Blue Range Primitive Area in the State of New Mexico, and the Gila Primitive Area are hereby abolished. (c) As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the Secretary of Agriculture shall file the maps referred to in this Act and legal descriptions of each wilderness area designated by this Act with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, United States House of Representatives, and each such map and legal 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 legal descriptions and maps may be made. Each such map and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. (d) Subject to valid existing rights, each wilderness area designated by this Act shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 892) governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness areas, except that, with respect to any area designated in this Act, any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act of 1964 shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this Act. SEC. 103. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall review the following lands, in conjunction with the requirements of the National Forest Management Act of 1976 and in furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act, as to their suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as wilderness, and shall submit his report and findings to the President, and the President shall submit his recommendations to the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives no later than January 1, 1986: (1) Certain lands in the Coronado National Forest, New Mexico, which comprise approximately fifteen thousand one hundred and ten acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Bunk Robinson Wilderness Study Area—Proposed", dated November 1980, and which shall be known as the Bunk Robinson Wilderness Study Area. (2) Certain lands in the Carson National Forest, New Mexico, which comprise approximately forty-six thousand acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Columbine Hondo Wilderness Study Area—Proposed", dated November 1980, and which shall be known as the Columbine Hondo Wilderness Study Area. (3) Certain lands in the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico, which comprise approximately twenty-one thousand acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Guadalupe Escarpment Wilderness Study Area—Proposed", dated November 1980, and which shall be known as the Guadalupe Escarpment Wilderness Study Area. (4) Certain lands in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico, which comprise approximately eighteen thousand eight hundred and sixty acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Hell Hole Wilderness Study Area—Proposed", dated November 1980, and which shall be known as the Hell Hole Wilderness Study Area. (5) Certain lands in the Apache and Gila National Forests, New Mexico, which comprise approximately eight thousand eight hundred acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Lower San Francisco Wilderness Study Area—Proposed", dated
Maps and legal descriptions, filing with congressional committees.
16 USC 1131 note.
Lands review, report to President and Presidential recommendations to Congress. 16 USC 1132 note. 16 USC 1600 note, 1131 note.
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