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PUBLIC LAW 91-82-OCT. 10, 1969

(3) Missouri River Basin project, Upper Republican division, Armel unit, on the South Fork of the Republican River in the vicinity of Hale, Colorado; (4) Shoshone project, Buffalo Bill Dam modifications, the Shoshone River, about five miles west of Cody, Wyoming; (5) Missouri River Basin project, James DivisioUj Sioux Falls unit, in the Big Sioux River Basin in the vicinity of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; (6) Amargosa project, in the Amargosa River Basin in the vicinity of Beatty, Nevada, and Death Vallev Junction, California; (7) Willamette River project, Calapooia division, in the Calapooia River Basin in Linn County, Oregon; and (8) Willamette River project. South Yamhill division, on the South Yamhill and Willamette Rivers in Yamhill and Polk Counties, Oregon. Approved October 8, 1969.

Public Law 91-82 AN ACT

October 10, 1969

To designate the Desolation Wilderness, Eldorado National Forest, in the State of California.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in accordance wi°de^mess°" with subsection 3(b) of the Wilderness Act of September 3, 1964 (78 Eidorado National Stat. 891), the area classified as the Desolation Valley Primitive Area, Forest, Calif. Designation. with the proposed additions thereto and deletions therefrom as gen- 16 USC 1132. erally depicted on a map entitled "Desolation Wilderness—Proposed," dated April 26, 1967, 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 Desolation Wilderness within and as part of the Eldorado National Forest, comprising an area of approximately sixty-three thousand five hundred acres. Filing of map, SEC. 2. As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the Secre- etc. tary of Agriculture shall file a map and a legal description of the Desolation Wilderness with the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Senate and the House of Representatives, and such 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 description and map may be made. SEC. 3. The Desolation Wilderness shall be administered by the Administration. 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, and except that the owners and operators of existing federally licensed hydroelectric facilities shall have the right of reasonable access to the areas for purposes of operating and maintaining such facilities in a manner that is consistent with past practices without prior approval of the Secretary. SEC. 4. The previous classification of the Desolation Valley Primitive Area is hereby abolished. Approved October 10, 1969.

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