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 PUBLIC LAW 98-141—OCT. 31, 1983 97 STAT. 913 fifty-nine acres and depicted as areas 1-8 on the maps referred to in subsection (a), are hereby added to the respective national forests and shall be administered in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the national forest system. (c) All national forest system lands that, by reason of the bound- ary modification described in subsection (a), no longer fall within the boundaries of the San Juan National Forest, comprising about thirty-one thousand six hundred and seven acres and depicted as areas 9-11 on the maps referred to in such section, are hereby removed from the national forest system and transferred to the Secretary of the Interior to be administered in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the public lands as defined in section 103(e) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2746; 43 U.S.C. 1702(e)). (d) Notwithstanding subsection (a) or any other law, the Secretary of the Interior shall retain jurisdiction over all lands administered by the Bureau of Reclamation that, by reason of the boundary modification described in the first section of this Act, fall within the boundary of the San Juan National Forest, until such time as the Secretary of the Interior, by agreement with the Secretary of Agri- culture, transfers such jurisdiction to the Secretary of Agriculture. Upon such transfer, the land involved shall be added to the San Juan National Forest and shall be administered in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the national forest system. (e) For the purpose of section 7 of the Land and Water Conserva- tion Fund Act of 1965 (78 Stat. 903, as amended; 16 U.S.C. 4601-9) the boundaries of the San Juan and San Isabel National Forests, as modified by subsection (a), shall be treated as if they were the boundaries of those forests on January 1, 1965. (f) Nothing in this section shall affect valid existing rights, or interests in existing land use authorization, except that any such right or authorization shall be administered by the agency having jurisdiction over the land after the enactment of this Act in accord- ance with subsections (b) and (c) and other applicable law. Reis- suance of any such authorization shall be in accordance with applicable law and the regulations of the agency having jurisdiction, except that the change of administrative jurisdiction shall not in itself constitute a ground to deny the renewal or reissuance of any such authorization. (g) Those parts of the areas which on December 15, 1981, were designated as Bureau of Land Management Wilderness Study Areas (Needle Creek, CO-030 -229B; West Needles contiguous, CO-030- 229A; Whitehead Gulch, CO-030 -230B; and Weminuche contiguous, CO-030-238B) contained within area 3 and that are made a part of the national forest system by this section shall be studied in con- junction with the West Needles Wilderness Study Area in accord- ance with the provisions of section 105 of the Colorado Wilderness Act of 1980, including the requirement that the Secretary of Agri- culture review the suitability or unsuitability of such lands for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System and report to Congress by December 31, 1983. All portions of such areas which are not included within the national forest system by this section shall be reviewed as to their suitability or nonsuitability for preservation as wilderness, and recommendations thereon shall be submitted to the Congress, in the same manner as with respect to those areas required to be reviewed pursuant to section 603 of the Jurisdiction. 16 USC 460Z-9. Right or authorization. Reissuance. Report to Congress. 94 Stat. 3268. Review. Recommendations to Congress.

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