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 PUBLIC LAW 97-407—JAN. 3, 1983

96 STAT. 2033

Public Law 97-407 -m 97th Congress An Act To designate certain lands in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri, which comprise approximately six thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight acres, and which are generally depicted on a map entitled "Paddy Creek Wilderness Area", as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be known as the Paddy Creek Wilderness Act of 1981. SEC. 2. In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890) and the Act of January 3, 1975 (88 Stat. 2096), the following area as generally depicted on a map appropriately referenced, dated December 1981, is hereby designated as wilderness and, therefore, as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System; certain lands in the Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri, which comprise about six thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight acres, are generally depicted on a map entitled "Paddy Creek Wilderness Area", dated December 1981, and shall be known as the Paddy Creek Wilderness Area. SEC. 3. As soon as practicable after this Act takes effect, the Secretary of Agriculture shall file a map and legal description of the Paddy Creek Wilderness Area with the Energy and Natural Resources Committee of the Senate and the Committees on Agriculture and Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives, and such map and legal description shall have the same force and effect as if included in this Act: Provided, however. That correction of clerical and typographiceil errors in such legal description and map may be made. SEC. 4. The area designated as wilderness by this Act shall be administered in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Wilderness Act (78 Stat. 890) and the Act of January 3, 1975 (88 Stat. 2096), except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of such Acts shall be deemed to be a reference to the effective date of this Act. SEC. 5. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) the Department of Agriculture has completed the second roadless area review and evaluation program (RARE II); and (2) the Congress has made its own review and examination of National Forest System roadless areas in the State of Missouri and of the environmental impacts associated with alternative 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 lands in States other than Missouri such statement shall not be subject to judicial review with respect to National Forest System lands in the State of Missouri;

Jan. 3, 1983 [S. 1965]

Paddy Creek Wilderness Act of 1981. 16 USC 1132 note. 16 USC 1131 note.

Map and legal description, filing with congressional committees.

Effective date. 16 USC 1131 note.

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