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[CITE: 16USC460pp]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
               SUBCHAPTER CI--MOUNT BAKER RECREATION AREA
 
Sec. 460pp. Establishment


(a) In general

    In order to assure the conservation and protection of certain 
natural, scenic, historic, pastoral, and fish and wildlife values and to 
provide for the enhancement of the recreational values associated 
therewith, the Mount Baker National Recreation Area located in the Mount 
Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, is hereby established.

(b) Acreage

    The Mount Baker National Recreation Area (hereafter referred to as 
the ``recreation area'') shall comprise approximately eight thousand six 
hundred acres as generally depicted on the map entitled ``Mount Baker 
National Recreation Area--Proposed'', dated March 1984, which shall be 
on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief, 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.

(c) Map and legal description

    The Secretary of Agriculture shall, as soon as practicable after 
July 3, 1984, file a map and a legal description of the recreation area 
with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States 
Senate, and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of 
Representatives, and each such map and legal description shall have the 
same force and effect as if included in this subchapter: Provided, That 
correction of clerical and typographical errors in such legal 
description and map may be made. The map and legal description shall be 
on file and available for public inspection in the office of the Chief 
of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.

(d) Administration

    The Secretary shall administer the recreation area in accordance 
with the laws, rules and regulations applicable to the national forests 
in such manner as will best provide for (1) public outdoor recreation 
(including but not limited to snowmobile use); (2) conservation of 
scenic, natural, historic, and other values contributing to public 
enjoyment; and (3) such management, utilization, and disposal of natural 
resources on federally owned lands within the recreation area which are 
compatible with and which do not significantly impair the purposes for 
which the recreation area is established.

(Pub. L. 98-339, Sec. 7, July 3, 1984, 98 Stat. 304.)

                       References in Text

    This subchapter, referred to in subsec. (c), was in the original 
``this Act'', meaning Pub. L. 98-339, July 3, 1984, 98 Stat. 299, known 
as the Washington State Wilderness Act of 1984, which enacted this 
subchapter and provisions listed in a table of Wilderness Areas set out 
under section 1132 of this title. For complete classification of this 
Act to the Code, see Tables.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of 
Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One 
Hundred Third Congress. Committee on Natural Resources of House of 
Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Resources of House 
of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note 
preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress.
