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 PUBLIC LAW 98-322—JUNE 19, 1984

98 STAT. 255

Agriculture in accordance with the provisions of the Wilderness Act governing areas designated by that Act as wilderness, except that any reference in such provisions to the effective date of the Wilderness Act shall be deemed to be a reference to the date of enactment of this title. (b) As provided in section 4(d)(8) of the Wilderness Act, nothing in this title shall be construed as affecting the jurisdiction or responsibilities of the State of Vermont with respect to wildlife and fish in the national forest in the State of Vermont. (c) Notwithstanding any provision of the Wilderness Act or any other provision of law, the Appalachian Trail and related structures, the Long Trail and related structures, and the associated trails of the Appalachian Trail and the Long Trail in Vermont may be maintained.

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SEC. 105. (a) Congress finds that— (1) the Department of Agriculture has completed the second roadless area review and evaluation program (RARE II); and (2) Congress has made its own review and examination of If n National Forest System roadless areas in the State of Vermont ^ and of the environmental impacts associated with alternative allocations of such areas, (b) On the basis of such review. 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 Vermont, such statement shall not be subject to judicial review with respect to National Forest System lands in the State of Vermont; (2) with respect to the National Forest System lands in the State of Vermont which were reviewed by the Department of Agriculture in the second roadless area review and evaluation (RARE II) and those lands referred to in subsection (d), that review and evaluation or reference shall be deemed for the purposes of the initial land management plans required for such lands by the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976, to be an adequate consideration of the suitability of such lands for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System and the Department of Agriculture shall not be required to review the wilderness option prior to the revisions of the plans, but shall review the wilderness option when the plans are revised, which revisions will ordinarily occur on a ten-year cycle, or at least every fifteen years, unless, prior to such time, the Secretary of Agriculture finds that conditions in a unit have significantly changed; (3) areas in the State of Vermont reviewed in such final environmental statement or referenced in subsection (d) and not designated as wilderness or for special management pursuant to section 204 of this Act upon enactment of this Act shall be managed for multiple use in accordance with land management plans pursuant to section 6 of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended by the National Forest Management Act of 1976: Provided, That such areas need not be managed for the purpose of protecting their

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