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 90 STAT. 370

PUBLIC LAW 94-268—APR. 16, 1976

Public Law 94-268 94th Congress An Act Apr. 16, 1976 [S. 2308]

Bristol Cliffs Wilderness Area, Vt. Boundaries modification. 16 USC 1132 note. 16 USC 1131 note.

To provide for the modification of the boundaries of the Bristol Cliffs Wilderness Area.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of modifying the boundaries of the Bristol Cliffs Wilderness, section 3 of the Act of January 3, 1975 (88 Stat. 2097), is amended as follows: (a) Paragraph (10) of section 3(a) is deleted and paragraphs (11) through (15) of section 3(a) are respectively renumbered as paragraphs (10) through (14). (b) Section 3(b) is revised to read: "(b) In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act, the following lands are hereby designated as wilderness and, therefore, as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: " (1) certain lands in the Chattahoochee and Cherokee National Forests, Georgia and Tennessee, which comprise about thirty-four thousand five hundred acres, are generally depicted on a map dated April 1973, entitled 'Cohutta Wilderness Area—Proposed', and shall be known as the Cohutta Wilderness. "(2) certain lands in the Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont, which comprise about three thousand seven hundred and seventy-five acres, are generally depicted on a map dated October 1975, entitled 'Bristol Cliffs Wilderness Area—Revised', and shall be known as the Bristol Cliffs Wilderness.". SEC. 2. Upon enactment of this Act, the provisions of the Act of January 3, 1975 (88 Stat. 2096) and the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890) shall not be applicable to any lands previously designated as the Bristol Cliffs Wilderness that are not contained within the boundaries of the Bristol Cliffs Wilderness as depicted on the map described in section 1(b) of this Act. Approved April 16, 1976.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 94-984 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs). SENATE REPORT No. 94-414 (Comm. on Agriculture arid Forestry). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 121 (1975): Oct. 8, considered and passed Senate. Vol. 122 (1976): Apr. 5, considered and passed House.

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