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 100 STAT. 1236

Public information.

PUBLIC LAW 99-490—OCT. 16, 1986

Each such map and description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act, except that correction of clerical and typographical errors in each such map and description may be made by the Secretary. Each such map and description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. SEC. 4. ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS.

16 USC 1131 note.

(a) IN GENERAL.—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 governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 5. EFFECT OF RARE II.

Conservation.

16 USC 1600 note.

(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— (1) the Department of Agriculture has completed the second roadless area review and evaluation program (RARE II); and (2) the Congress has made its own review and examination of National Forest System roadless area in Johnson, Carter, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington, Greene, Cocke, and McMinn Counties, Tennessee, and of the environmental impacts associated with alternative allocations of such areas. (b) REVIEW AND RELEASE.—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 the National Forest System lands other than in Johnson, Carter, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington, Greene, Cocke, and McMinn Counties, Tennessee, such statement shall not be subject to judicial review with respect to National Forest lands in Johnson, Carter, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington, Greene, Monroe, Polk, McMinn, and Cocke Counties, Tennessee; (2) with respect to the National Forest System lands in Johnson, Carter, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington, Greene, Cocke, and McMinn Counties, Tennessee, 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), except those lands designated for wilderness study upon enactment of this Act, 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 suitability of such lands for inclusion in the National Wilderness 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 Johnson, Carter, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington, Greene, Monroe, Polk, McMinn, and Cocke Counties, Tennessee,

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