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 92 STAT. 46 Appropriation authorization.

31 USC 1301 note.

PUBLIC LAW 95-237—FEB. 24, 1978 (h) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated after October 1, 1978, such funds as may be necessary to carry out the comprehensive fish and game research program and the multipurpose resource development plan authorized under this section. Appropriations requests by the President to implement the multipurpose resource development plan shall express in qualitative and quantitative terms the most rapid and judicious manner and methods to achieve the purposes of this Act. Amounts appropriated to carry out this Act shall be expended in accordance with the Budget Eeform and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (88 Stat. 297). ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS AREAS

16 USC 1131 note. Effective date.

16 USC 1133.

SEC. 5. Subject to valid existing rights, each wilderness area designated by this Act shall be administered by the Secretary in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act: Provided, 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: Provided further, That with respect to the Gospel-Hump Wilderness Area designated by section 4(a)(1) of this Act, all references under section 4(d)(3) of the Wilderness Act of 1964 to December 31, 1983, shall be deemed to be December 31, 1988, and any reference to January 1, 1984, shall be deemed to be January 1, 1989: Provided, however, That all activities resulting from the exercise of valid existing mineral rights on patented or unpatented mining claims within the GospelHump Wilderness Area shall be subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary as he deems necessary or desirable for the preservation and management of this area. F I L I N G OF MAPS AND DESCRIPTIONS

SEC. 6. As soon as practicable after enactment of this Act, a map and a legal description of each wilderness area shall be filed with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives, and each such map and description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, That correction of clerical and typographical errors in each such legal description and map may be made. Each such map and legal description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. Approved February 24, 1978.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 95-540 (Comm. on Interior and Insular Affairs) and No. 95-861 (Coram, of eonference). SENATE REPORTS: No. 95-490 (Coram, on Energy and Natural Resources), and No. 95-626 (Coram, of Conference). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD: Vol. 123 (1977): Sept. 12, considered and passed House. Oct. 20, considered and passed Senate, amended. Vol. 124 (1978): Feb. 8, Senate agreed to conference report. Feb. 9, House agreed to conference report. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS: Vol. 14, No. 8 (1978): Feb. 24, Presidential statement.

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