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Petrified Forest.

PUBLIC LAW 91-505-OCT. 23, 1970

[84 STAT.

"Wilderness Plan, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho", numbered 131-91,000 and dated March 1970, which shall be known as the "Craters of the Moon National Wilderness Area"; (b) certain lands in the Petrified Forest National Park, which comprise about fifty thousand two hundred and sixty acres and which are depicted on a map entitled "Kecommended Wilderness, Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona", numbered N P - P F 3320-O and dated November 1967, which shall be known as the "Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area". DESIGNATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS WITHIN NATIONAL, FORESTS

Mount Baldy.

Maps and descriptions, filing with congressional committees.

Administration. 78 Stat. 890. 16 USC 1131 note.

SEC. 3. I n accordance with section 3(b) of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890; 16 U.S.C. 1132(b)), the following lands are hereby designated as wilderness: the area classified as the Mount Baldy Primitive Area with the proposed additions thereto and deletions therefrom, as generally depicted on a map entitled "Proposed Mount Baldy Wilderness", dated April 1, 1966, comprising an area of approximately seven thousand acres, within and as a part of the Apache National Forest, in the State of Arizona. SEC. 4. As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, a map and a legal description of each wilderness area shall be filed 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. 5. Wilderness areas designated by or pursuant to this Act shall be administered 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 any reference to the Secretary of Agriculture shall be deemed to be a reference to the Secretary who has administrative jurisdiction over the area. Approved October 23, 1970.

Public Law 91-505 AN ACT October 23, 1970 [H.R. 15405] To render the assertion of land claims by the United States based upon accretion or avulsion subject to legal and equitable defenses to which private persons asserting such claims would be subject. Riverside County land tract, Calif. Equitable settlement between U.S. and private parties.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the United States shall be subject to all legal and equitable defenses which are available against a private party litigant under the laws of the State in which the subject real property is located on the date of enactment of this Act in any case wherein the United States seeks to establish title to land or seeks to obtain relief dependent on ownership of such lands and (1) such title or ownership is claimed on the basis of accretion or avulsion, (2) the lands to which the United States seeks title or ownership are not necessary to provide riparian frontage to other contiguous lands owned by the United States, (3) the facts upon which the United

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