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 101 STAT. 1276

PUBLIC LAW 100-184—DEC. 8, 1987

of 1964 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. RARE II REVIEW

^ SEC. 6. (a) The Congress finds that— { (1) the Department of Agriculture has completed the second roadless area review and evaluation program (RARE II); and Environmental (2) the Congress has made its own review and examination of protection. National Forest System roadless areas in the State of Michigan ''A and of the environmental impacts associated with alternative a allocations of such areas. - (b) 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 National Forest System -i lands in the State of Michigan; such statement shall not be Bf subject to judicial review with respect to National Forest System lands in the State of Michigan; •gi (2) with respect to the National Forest System lands in the State of Michigan which were reviewed by the Department of Agriculture in the second roadless area review and evaluation 'dt (RARE II) and those lands referred to in subsection (d), that review and evaluation or reference shall be deemed for the ii purposes of the initial land management plans required for such lands by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Plan-r ning Act of 1974, as amended by the National Forest Manage3f ment 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 ft, 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 the State of Michigan reviewed in such final environmental statement or referenced in subsection (d) and not designated wilderness upon enactment of this Act shall be managed for multiple use in accordance with land management plans pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976: Provided, That such "!p areas need not be managed for the purpose of protecting their suitability for wilderness designation prior to or during revision of the initial land management plans; ri r (4) in the event that revised land management plans in the State of Michigan are implemented pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, and other applicable law, areas not recommended for f':' wilderness designation need not be managed for the purpose of
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