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 98 STAT. 3052

Public availability.

PUBLIC LAW 98-574—OCT. 30, 1984

typographical errors in each such map and description may be made by the Secretary. Each such map and description shall be on file and available for public inspection in the Office of the Chief of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. ADMINISTRATION OF WILDERNESS

16 USC 1131 note.

Contracts with U.S.

SEC. 4. (a) Subject to valid existing rights, each wilderness area designated by this Act shall be administered by the Secretary of 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 Act. (b) The Congress finds that the Indian Mounds and Upland Island Wilderness areas designated by this Act contain significant amounts of intermingled lands owned by the Temple-Eastex Incorporated and that in order to manage the wilderness in an efficient and effective manner it is in the public interest that these lands be owned by the Federal Government. Accordingly, the Secretary is encouraged to expeditiously acquire by exchange the intermingled lands owned by Temple-Eastex Incorporated. The lands acquired by the United States under the provisions of this section shall become parts of the Sabine and Angelina National Forests, respectively, and shall be administered in accordance with the laws, rules, and regulations applicable to the National Forest System and the National Wilderness Preservation System, as appropriate. (c) Any purchaser under an existing timber sale contract wholly or partially within the boundaries of the Indian Mounds, Upland Islands, or Little Lake Creek Wilderness areas designated by this Act shall be entitled, for a period of ninety days following the date of enactment of this Act, to enter into an agreement with the Secretary to mutually cancel the timber sale contract without payment of damages by either party if the contract is not in breach and if the purchaser has completed its contractual obligations to logical stopping points as determined by the Secretary after consultation with the purchaser: Provided, That upon satisfaction of all such contract requirements, moneys held by the Forest Service for payment of timber to be cut under the contract shall be returned to the purchaser with interest payable from the date the moneys were deposited with the Forest Service at the rate published for use under section 12 of the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 (41 U.S.C. 611). EFFECT OF RARE II

Conservation.

Congress.

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 Texas, 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

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