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 PUBLIC LAW 98-140—OCT. 31, 1983 97 STAT. 903 16 USC 1132 note. (2) The lands covered by subsection (c)(1) of this section are as Wilderness follows: study areas. (A) certain lands administered by the Bureau of Land Man- agement in the Powder River Resource Area, Montana, identi- fied as area numbered 736, Tongue River Breaks Contiguity, comprising approximately two thousand acres as described in the "Final Decision Montana Wilderness Inventory" published November 1980 by the Bureau of Land Management; (B) certain lands administered by the Bureau of Land Man- agement in the Dillon Resource Area, Montana, identified as area numbered MT-076 -079 "Madison Tack-Ons" comprising approximately one thousand five hundred acres, as described in the "Final Decision Montana Overthrust Belt Wilderness Inven- tory" published by the Bureau of Land Management, not other- wise designated as wilderness by this Act; and (C) certain lands administered by the Bureau of Land Man- agement known as "Bear Trap Canyon Study Area", Madison County, Montana, as described in "Draft Suitability and Envi- ronmental Impact Statement for Wilderness Designation of Bear Trap Canyon Instant Study Area" published April 1980 by the Bureau of Land Management, not otherwise designated as wilderness by this Act. (d) The boundary of the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, Mon- tana, as designated by Public Law 95-249, is hereby modified to exclude from the wilderness approximately forty acres in the West Fork of Mill Creek and approximately twenty-seven acres in the Passage Creek drainage as depicted on a map entitled "Absaroka- Beartooth Wilderness-West Fork Mill Creek and Passage Creek Deletions", dated August 1983. (e) The boundary of the UL Bend Wilderness, Montana, as desig- nated by Public Law 94-557 is hereby modified to exclude from the wilderness approximately twenty-eight acres as depicted on a map entitled "UL Bend Wilderness Deletion", dated July 1983. (f) To provide for more efficient administration of lands designated by this Act as wilderness: (1) the exterior boundaries of the Beaverhead and Gallatin National Forests in the State of Montana are hereby modified to exclude all lands within the Bear Trap Canyon portion of the Lee Metcalf Wilderness and the said national forest boundaries shall hereafter be the same as the wilderness boundaries depicted on the maps referred to in section 2(a) of this Act. All national forest lands within the Bear Trap Canyon portion of the Lee Metcalf Wilderness are transferred to the administra- tion of the Secretary of the Interior to be managed as public lands in accordance with this Act, the Wilderness Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, as amended (90 Stat. 2743); (2) the public lands in section 12, township 10 south, range 1 east, Montana principal meridian, administered by the Secre- tary of the Interior are hereby transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture to be hereafter administered in accordance with this Act the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the national forest system; (3) for purposes of section 7 of the Land and Water Conserva- tion Fund Act of 1965 (78 Stat. 903, as amended), the boundaries 16 USC 460Z-9. of the Beaverhead and Gallatin National Forests, as modified by 16 USC 1132 note. Administration of designated lands. 16 USC 1131 note. 43 USC 1701 note.

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