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 PUBLIC LAW 99-197—DEC. 23, 1985

99 STAT. 1351

Public Law 99-197 99th Congress An Act To designate certain national forest system lands in the State of Kentucky for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System, to release other forest lands for multiple use management, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Kentucky Wilderness Act of 1985". SEC. 2. In furtherance of the purposes of the Wilderness Act of 1964 (16 U.S.C. 1131 et seq.) certain National Forest System lands located within the Daniel Boone National Forest, Kentucky, which comprise approximately thirteen thousand three hundred acres as generally depicted on a map entitled "Clifty Wilderness—Proposed", dated January 1985, are hereby designated as wilderness, and shall be known as the Clifty Wilderness. SEC. 3. Subject to valid existing rights, the Clifty Wilderness shall be administered by the Secretary of Agriculture as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System 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 effective date of this Act. SEC. 4. (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 Kentucky 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 Kentucky, such statement shall not be subject to judicial review with respect to National Forest System lands in the State of Kentucky; (2) with respect to the National Forest System lands in the State of Kentucky 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), except those lands remaining in further planning upon enactment of this Act, that review and evaluation or reference shall be deemed for the purposes of the initial land management plans required for such lands by 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

Dec. 23, 1985 [H.R. 1627]

Kentucky Wilderness Act of 1985. 16 USC 1132 note.

16 USC 1131 note. Conservation.

Congress.

16 USC 1600 note. 16 USC 1600 note.

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